RAWALPINDI: One person was killed and a minor boy injured due to blast caused by gas leakage in Rawalpindi on Thursday.According to Bani Police station, a loud blast occurred due to leakage of gas in a house here, killing one person and injuring a minor boy. Meanwhile, the explosion ignited fire and a wall of the house collapsed.The injured boy was rushed to hospital for medical care where he was said to be critical in condition, sources said.
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KARACHI: Pakistan crashed out of the competition when they went down 0-1 against Nepal Reds, the national team of Nepal, in their last Group B match of the Prime Minister’’s Cup football held at the Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu on Wednesday.After a barren first half Pakistan were unlucky to concede a self goal in the 67th minute when goalie Jaffar Khan punched back a corner-kick from the hosts striker Ju Manu Rai and the defender Muhammad Imran rushed towards it in order to clear it but his miscalculated push went into the net, thus showing the exit door to the visitors.The 1-0 win in favour of Nepal Reds put them in the semifinals with four points from two matches. Arambagh KS from Bangladesh became the second team from Group B to make it to the last four with two points. Pakistan finished their campaign with just a single point. From Group A, Sri Lanka and JW Club from Thailand have already qualified for the semifinals.Unlike their previous 1-1 drawn clash against Bangladesh’’s Arambagh KS the other day the Greenshirts looked in excellent mood against the Nepal national team, keeping tight control on the game throughout. In the first half Pakistan got few open goal scoring opportunities but the poor finishing from the strikers Muhammad Rasool and Muhammad Qasim let the visitors down.In the initial ten minutes after the breather Pakistan dropped few more chances due to bad efforts from their frontline.Assistant coach of Pakistan team Nasir Ismail told ”media” from Kathmandu on Wednesday that Pakistan had totally dominated the oppositions but could not score due to poor finishing.”We produced a handful of good chances in both the sessions of the game but could not score due to poor finishing. It was a real bad luck for us when we conceded a self goal due to defence” blunder,” Nasir, who held a press conference in place of head coach George Kottan after the match, said.”The local referees also harmed Pakistan’’s cause. In such type of competition neutral referees should be at least given the task to supervise the matches. Few decisions especially in the second half went against us and it was quite unfortunate,” he said.
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March 12 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan’s government banned protests and detained opposition activists before a planned rally today, saying it won’t allow the “law of the jungle” to destabilize the nation.
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Rawalpindi Police impounded more than sixty long vehicles coming to Rawalpindi from different parts of the country at Rawat. Police im
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KARACHI: Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam is confident that his charges will put aside the scary memories of this month’’s terrorist attack on Sri Lankan c
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DURBAN: Ashwell Prince has been recalled to replace the injured Graeme Smith as South Africa captain for the third Test against Australia where he wil
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Democratic Senator John Kerry said Wednesday that the United States must do what it can to “sustain the democracy” in Pakistan amid angry public protests against the government.
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DURBAN: Australian captain Ricky Ponting said that clinching a series win in South Africa here on Tuesday was one of the highlights of his career.
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LAHORETHE Punjab government has decided to increase wheat release price from government warehouses after the start of wheat procurement in Sin
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