LAHORE: While digging for the construction of a plaza at Liberty Market here, five workers in a mishap were buried beneath a landslide, which killed one and injured three.The digging of for basement of the Plaza was underway late a night, when suddenly a landslide occurred burying five workers, of whom, Arif, 34 passed away, while his three associates Muhammad Rafique, Sultan Shah and Nazir Ahmad were wounded. Workers said that the deceased were the natives of Sialkot and the contractor had hired them late at night at Rs300 each for digging the basement. The relief team taking timely action rescued the workers from the debris. Police said that the facts would be known after investigations.
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LAHORE: Veteran Sportsmen Welfare Association of Pakistan (VSWAP) has condoled the death of former international cyclist Major (retd) Tanvir Ahmed who died of cancer here recently. A meeting of VSWAP was held here on Friday under the chairmanship of the body, Mouhammad Saleem Butt. Late Tanvir, a staunch promoter of cycling represented the country in Tehran Asian Games in 1974 besides serving as coach of Pakistan Army and Secretary of tour-e-Pakistan cycle race, said Farrukh Wazir, Secretary, VSWAP. He said the meeting attended by a former international cyclists, including Muhammad Ashiq, Shah Rukh, Shakil MAhmed and others hailed the services of late Tanvir and prayed to Allah Almighty that the departed soul may rest in eternal peace and grant courage to the family members to bear this loss with fortitude.
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KARACHI: Pakistan bowler Mohammad Asif’’s lawyer on Friday accused the Indian Premier League’’s drugs inquiry tribunal of unnecessarily delaying the hearing into the pacer dope violation case. Asif was due to appear before the drugs inquiry tribunal to plead his case after both his ”A” and ”B” samples tested positive for a banned substance. The tribunal had earlier given a date in August for the hearing but Asif could not attend that time due to shortage of time to complete travel formalities. “I can”t understand why they are delaying the hearing. At one time they (tribunal) was keen on having a hearing as soon as possible but now we are not getting a new date from them,” Asif’’s lawyer Shahid Karim said. Asif’’s first test came positive during the IPL semi-finals, while his ”B” sample test was carried out in an accredited laboratory of the World Anti-Doping Agency in Geneva last month. However, the quantity of the banned substance in both tests differed, prompting the pacer and his lawyer to say they could win the case on technical grounds. Karim said he had completed all documentation for the case.
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KARACHI: In a change of heart, senior batsman Younis Khan on Friday said he will be available for the National Twenty20 championship and the four-nation tournament in Toronto before joining South Australia for the Sheffield Shield. Younis will miss South Australia’’s first Sheffield Shield match on October 12 but would be available for them for the remaining season unless required for national duty. He will leave for Australia from Toronto where Pakistan play Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Canada in a four nation tournament from October 10-14. The Pakistan Cricket Board has made it clear that only those players would be considered for the tournament in Toronto who played in the domestic championship to be played in Lahore from October 4 to 8. “I think the domestic T20 competition is an important event for us as is the one in Toronto so I have decided to play them before going to Australia,” Younis said. A board official said Younis” name was not released by his region after he had informed them he would not be available, but Peshawar team officials has now informed the board that he is playing for them in the National Twenty20 tournament. “But now they have told us he is playing and his name should be included in the Peshawar team,” the official said.
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ISLAMABAD: The PPP government on Friday unveiled the Economic Stabilisation Programme under which, tax authorities will be assigned to collect additio
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LAHOREAS the month of Ramazan nears its last 10 days, millions of faithful prepare to start observing Aitkaf from Sunday evening (tomorrow) in
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LAHORETHE family of a victim, who was kidnapped last month, has appealed to the Punjab chief minister to take stern action against the SHO of
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LAHORETHE Provincial Transport Authority (PTA) has fined at least 700 public transport vehicles on various City routes in a bid to check overc
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown voiced opposition on Friday to the US strikes against militants in Pakistan but said the two sides were cl
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PESHAWAR: Right-arm medium fast bowler Hameed Gul’’s five wickets haul steered Afghanistan to upset Islamia Cricket Academy (ICA) by 3 runs in their third match of the Tour being played here at Arbab Niaz Cricket Stadium on Friday.Hameed Gul grabbed five wickets for 42 runs in his 6.4 overs spell and played a key role in the success of his team against strong ICA led by Test cricketer Yasir Hameed and World Cup opener Wajahatullah Wasti. Afghanistan skipper Nawros Mangalzai won the toss and elected to bat first by setting up 230 runs for the all out after playing 38.2 overs. The Afghanistan top order also fumbled against tight bowling attack by the ICA bowlers. Only the middle order of Asghar Ali and Raees Ahmadzai contributed a vital 103 runs partnership for the fifth wickets with Asghar made 53 runs off 44 balls with four boundaries and two sixes and Raees made 50 runs off 40 balls with seven boundaries and one six. Ahmad Shah (34) off 50 balls with four boundaries, Noor Ali (25) off 35 balls with five boundaries, Shafiq Ahmad (17) and Noroz Khan and Muhammad Nabi 12 runs each were the other leading runs contributors. For ICA, which is recently established by Test cricketer Arshad Khan, Muhammad Shafiq took three wickets for 43 runs in his eight overs spell, Jan Nisar and Muhammad Shah took two wickets each while Wali Khan and Fahad Riaz took one wicket each. The ICA team took a brilliant start when the two openers Yasir Hameed and Wajahatullah Wasti provided a solid stand of 167 runs opening wicket stand. Yasir smashed 67 runs off 60 balls with 11 boundaries and Wajahatullah Wasti while staying for 140 minute on the wicket made 100 runs off 92 balls with 15 boundaries and a six. After the departure of the two openers, the other batsmen were failed to stand in front of excellent bowling by the Afghans bowlers. Jan Nisar (12), Ramiz (11) were the only high runs contributors and none of the other batsmen could cross the double figures. Thus ICA bowled out for 227 runs after playing 39.4 overs after a close contest.
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