NEW DELHI: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has said the time and current situation was not right for the Indian cricket team to tour Pakistan.India are due to tour Pakistan in January next year for a series consisting of three Test matches, one Twenty20 international and five one-day international, but the tour appears to be all but ruled out after the Indian government has found an alleged Pakistan connection, but not proven, in the recent terror attacks in Mumbai.”It is not right for me to say but I feel the tour is not on. Things are not right now for India to tour Pakistan,” Ganguly said on Wednesday.Ganguly also said one should not draw parallels to England returning to India after the Mumbai attacks to play out the Test series, and suggested India should go to Pakistan if the Pakistan government can promise security. He said, “England will not face a similar security situation in India as we would face when we go to Pakistan. So it will be really tough for India to tour Pakistan.The Indian sports minister MS Gill recently said he was not in favour of the team touring Pakistan for a cricket series. That statement all but confirms that the Indian team will not be traveling across the border to play cricket.
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PESHAWAR: Four people were killed and three injured when a roof of a house collapsed on Thursday. According to sources, the roof of a house of a man identified as Saifullah caved- in because of the gas leakage in the house. The incident took place in Dawoodzai area in Tehkal. Three daughters of Saifullah were killed and three others injured in the incident. The injured were shifted to hospital.
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CARLISLE: The United States” “war on terror” will continue for many years to come, President George W. Bush said Wednesday in a speech on his national security legacy. Bush, who leaves office on January 20, compared the fight against terror to the Cold War of the post-World War II years. “Like the struggle against Communism during the Cold War, the struggle against terror will be a generational conflict,” Bush told military officers at the US Army War College.That struggle is “one that will continue long beyond my presidency,” Bush said. Bush said his administration is leaving behind “the institutions and tools our country needs to prevail in the long struggle ahead. “We”ll leave behind a vastly upgraded network of homeland defenses. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers are working together more closely than ever before. The number of Border Patrol agents has doubled since 2001,” Bush said. Bush focused on successes achieved since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States. “Around the world, we”re driving the terrorists from their safe havens. We are choking off their financing. We are severely disrupting their operations,” Bush said.”Together with our allies, we”ve killed or captured hundreds of Al-Qaeda leaders and operatives, including the architect of the September the 11th attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.” Bush also justified the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. After the September 11 attacks US officials “reexamined the danger posed by Iraq, a country that combined support for terror, the development and use of weapons of mass destruction, aggression against its neighbors, routine attacks on American forces (and) systemic violations of UN resolutions,” Bush said. US officials “concluded that the world could not tolerate such a destabilizing and dangerous force in the heart of the Middle East,” he said.
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PESHAWAR: Four people have been killed and three injured when a roof of a house has been collapsed on Thursday. The incident took place in Dawoodzai area in Tehkal.
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Karachi A Governor House employee, Ghulam Haider, was clubbed to death by his neighbour over a dispute within the premises of Sindh Governor H
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Karachi Hundreds of people were evacuated on Wednesday evening from a congested Karachi neighborhood in Korangi when a massive crude oil spill
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LAHOREP the Pygmy: How do you compare the present Punjab government with that of Ch. Pervaiz Elahi?Fair Square: Not much difference
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ISLAMABAD: Punjab, the largest province, contribution in the overall GDP growth of the country increased to over 50 per cent, in which the share of ag
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ISLAMABAD: A special audit ordered by the present provincial government into the accounts of Punjab local councils shows that a whopping amount of pub
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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Ports and Shipping Nabeel Gabol told the National Assembly on Wednesday that the Gwadar Port was fully functional and six ship
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