Tevta trains 4,000 seminary students
LAHORETHE Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) has imparted technical skills to about 4,000 students of 28 selected D
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Faisal heartbroken after PCB snub
KARACHI: Discarded Pakistan batsman Faisal Iqbal on Tuesday expressed his frustration over the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) decision to overlook him f
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13 militants killed, five foreigners held in Mohmand
GHALLANAI: Security forces on Tuesday claimed to have killed 13 militants and arrested five foreign combatants in a fierce gunfight near Khapakh check
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U.S. gives Pakistan aid for those fleeing Swat Valley (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The United States on Tuesday offered Pakistan $110 million to help people driven from their homes by fighting in the Swat Valley and said it was trying to redress 30 years of “incoherent” U.S. policy toward the nuclear-armed country.
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Pakistan to deal with 2 million refugees (USA Today)
Pakistan was racing Tuesday to help refugees fleeing a military offensive against the Taliban in a northwestern valley, an exodus of about 1.5 million of a speed and size the U.N. said could rival the displacement caused by Rwanda’s genocide.
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One killed, 5 injured in shelling in Pir Baba
PIR BABA: Six people while shifting from Pir Baba came in the way of shelling and one of them was killed and five wounded.One wounded, Rehmanullah told Geo News that they were compelled to shift along with their colleages due to operation going on against the extremists .However, as soon they entered into a vehicle from Pir Baba they came in the way of shelling due to which one man was killed and other colleagues including him were wounded.The wounded were immediately brought to the Mardan Medical Complex while the hospital sources said that in all 15 people were brought to the hospital and two of them are in critical condition.
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McCullum and Hodge give Kolkata rare victory
CENTURION: Australasians Brendon McCullum and Brad Hodge were the heroes as Kolkata Knight Riders shocked Chennai Super Kings on Monday in an Indian P
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RBS Twenty20 Cup in Lahore from May 25
KARACHI: Pakistan’’s England-bound cricketers intend to make full use of the 2009 RBS National Twenty20 Cup starting in Lahore from May 25 ahead of nex
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Bangalore stun Delhi with seven-wicket win
JOHANNESBURG: Royal Challengers Bangalore boosted their chances of winning a place in the semi-finals, winning a crucial game against Delhi Daredevils fairly comfortably at the Wanderers. Jacques Kallis starred in an excellent all-round performance, playing an important role in restricting Delhi to a chaseable score, and shepherding the chase with an assured innings to take his team to fourth place. Chasing 135 to win, Bangalore achieved the target for the loss of only three wickets with one over to spare.Kallis remained not out on 58, scored from 56 balls with two sixes and two fours. He added 70 runs for the second wicket with Rahul Dravid (38) and then 31 with Ross Taylor, who smashed 25 off just 12 balls with three sixes.For Delhi, Yogesh Nagar got two wickets for 20 and Ashish Nehra took one wicket.Earlier, Delhi Daredevils scored 134 in the allotted 20 overs. Opting to bat first, they made a disastrous start in the first over as Praveen Kumar removed two batsmen, including captain Virender Sehwag.Bangalore never allowed the Daredevils to recover with Dinesh Karthik’’s 31 being the top score followed by opener Gautam Gambhir who scored 27. Praveen Kumar took three while skipper Anil Kumble picked two wickets.Delhi rested Dirk Nannes, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Amit Mishra. Andrew McDonald, Yogesh Nagar and Daniel Vettori brought into team.
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Labourer killed as ammonia gas cylinder explodes in ice factory
RawalpindiA labourer was killed and five others, including three minors, were shifted to the hospital in critical condition when an ammonia ga
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