JOHOR BAHARU: Pakistan Junior hockey team has won 2-match Test series against Malaysia by 1-0 on Monday.Pakistan beat Malaysia by 7-1 in second hockey Test match played in Johor Baharu city on Monday.Pakistan junior hockey team secured 5-0 lead in first half of the match and succeeded to score two more goals in second half to bag match/series to its name while Malaysian team could only manage to score one goal in second half of the match.Muhammad Attiq was among the leading goal scorers who struck two goals from Pakistan side while Wasif, Muhammad Taufeeq, Abdul Hasseb Khan, Muhammad Rizwan and Shahbaz scored one goal each.First hockey Test match ended in draw by 3-3 goals on Sunday.Pakistan junior hockey team will play four nation hockey tournament starting from March 11.
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RawalpindiAround 250 Eid Milad-un-Nabi (peace be upon him) processions would be taken out from different parts of the city today (Tuesday).The
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KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday issued a notification here taking tougher measures to monitor money laundering system and to discourage money transaction relating to terrorism.According to notification, Central bank issued local banks special directives to be watchful of identity of clients before depositing and transecting money from their accounts.Banks must ask for details over purpose of utilization of money for transaction over Rs.10,00,000 and for opening a proprietorship account, it added.This is a stepping up measure against money laundering and issues relating to terrorism.
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ISLAMABAD: The trade deficit for the first eight months of the current fiscal year stood at $11.62 billion, registering a decrease of around 6.86 per
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The BBC’s Barbara Plett reports on the fragile peace in Pakistan’s Bajaur and Mohmand tribal areas.
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Pakistan’s shaky government threatened the opposition leader with sedition charges on Monday after he called for protests against the president, raising the stakes in a political crisis that threatens to weaken the country’s fight against al-Qaida and Taliban.
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Pakistan’s interior ministry chief has warned opposition leader Nawaz Sharif that his recent anti-government speeches have come close to treason.
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The Pakistan government Monday threatened ex-premier and main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif with charges of sedition for inciting people to rebellion after a court barred him from public office.
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March 9 (Bloomberg) — A man suspected of masterminding the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan last week fled before police raided his home in Punjab today, The Times of London reported.
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Sri Lanka on Monday rejected reports that neighbouring India may have been involved in the militant attack against the island’s national cricket team in Pakistan.
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