ISLAMABAD: Fourth South Asian Shooting Championship has kicked off with a glorious inauguration ceremony at Gun Shooting Club here in Islamabad on Friday.Federal Minister for Sports Aftab Shah Jilani was the chief guest who, earlier, officially inaugurated the championship.On the occasion Aftab Jilani said, this shooting championship and more of its kind, would help enhance sporty ties among countries in sub-continent which he termed a good sign to bring the neighboring countries closer.As many as 120 shooters representing India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, would be participating in the championship which would feature two events of Short Gun, three of Pistol and five of Rifle.
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NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Friday voiced his concern over the cross-border attacks by the U.S. military on the tribal areas of Pakistan in the wake of Thursday’’s missile strike in Bannu.”The secretary-general is concerned,” his spokesperson Michele Montas said, when asked to clarify media reports in Pakistan that quoted her as saying that the latest attack was a bilateral issue.Montas said when what she had said on Thursday when her attention was drawn to the strike deep inside Pakistani territory was that she would not comment as Pakistan had taken up the matter with the US bilaterally. She did not say that the attack was a bilateral issue.
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LAHORETHE Environment Protection Department (EPD), Punjab, is going to start the registration of all big and small hospitals, medical centers,
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LAHOREOPPOSITION and journalists staged a walkout during Punjab Assembly proceeding on Friday to protest against the deputy medical officer of
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LAHORETHE School Education Department has fired six heads of schools showing extremely poor results in recent matriculation examinations.
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LAHORETHE Punjab IGP has informed the Lahore High Court that an FIR has been registered against the accused who tortured and humiliated a preg
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KarachiHardly a day had passed since three unfortunate mothers had taken back their children they had earlier abandoned at the Edhi Home due t
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LAHORETHE Punjab Health Department said on Friday that during the last 24 hours, 21 dengue patients had been discharged after recovery whereas
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Seven people were killed and 17 others injured in a blast during the funeral of a cleric near the bus stand here on Friday morning.
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KARACHI: If Shoaib Akhtar was looking for a shot in the arm in his bid for a successful Test return, he has received it in the form of new chief selec
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