ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik has said it will take 48 hours more to confirm whether the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Chief Baitullah Mehsud has been killed or not.
Talking to Geo News on Saturday he said, all the reports received so far from the area say the Taliban commander has been killed.
More: continued here
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has accepted the resignations of two Supreme Court judges Faqeer Muhammad Khokhar and Javed Buttar who had taken oath under PCO.
Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar Saturday said the President signed the summary forwarded by the Prime Minister seeking approval of the President.
Both the judges will be entitled to the rights of pension and other benefits.
More: continued here
ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar told the National Assembly on Friday that the PIA received Rs 2 billion government assistance in the last tw
More: continued here
SWAT: Search and clearance operations are continuing in Swat and Malakand with the support of local Lashkars.
According to ISPR, 3 terrorists voluntarily surrendered to security forces along with weapons at Arambagh in Swat.
Nine terrorists were apprehended from Sambat near Matta, Shangwatai and Bodigram during search operation while 4 suspects were arrested from Chankulai Churlak Sar along with 2 rifles.
Security forces conducted search operation at Sar China near Charbagh and recovered stolen gold Jewellery from the house of terrorist commander Khatmula.
Security forces apprehended 2 terrorists from Bodigram near Matta and Bar Bamakhela.
Dr. Muhammad Rasul Khan a government employee at Batkhela Hospital (a facilitator and harbourer of terrorist) including an Afghan national was also apprehended.
More: continued here
NEW DELHI: The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has revised the schedule of the Hockey World Cup to be held in India next year.
Media manager of the FIH Arian Mayor told Geo News that the 12-nation tournament will now be played in New Delhi from February 28-March 13 “to get an even better worldwide promotion of the showcase event”.
The World Cup was originally scheduled to be held from March 7-20, overlapping for at least six days with the third edition of the IPL Twenty20 competition.
The IPL, featuring the world’’s top players, is tentatively due to begin across cricket-mad India on March 14, although the exact dates have not been finalised.
Canada, Korea, South Africa and India have qualified for the Hockey World Cup whereas remaining eight teams will make place in the event as the qualifying round will complete by December.
More: continued here
Pakistan News
Islamabad
The panacea of all our ills is to revert to Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah?s vision of faith, unity and discipline, said a prominen
More: continued here
Rawalpindi
The ex-mill rate of 20-kg bag of ?atta? has been reduced by Rs30 (from Rs550 to Rs530) in Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Friday by the
More: continued here
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Armed clash is reported to have occurred between two groups of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during meeting to appoint successor of Baitullah Mehsud, Geo TV reported Saturday.
A Taliban commander has reportedly been killed in the incident, sources said.
More: continued here
ISLAMABAD: The reported death of dreaded militant commander Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone attack will deal a major blow to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliba
More: continued here
COLOMBO: Umar Akmal smashed an unbeaten 102 off 72 balls as Pakistan won the fourth one-dayer by 146 runs on Friday to record their first win on a dismal tour of Sri Lanka.
Umar’’s maiden international century and a dogged 89 from skipper Younus Khan lifted Pakistan to 321-5 after the tourists elected to bat in the day-night match at the Premadasa stadium.
Seamer Rao Iftikhar then grabbed 5-30 as Sri Lanka were shot out for 175 in 36.1 overs, handing Pakistan a badly-needed win after they were beaten 2-0 in the Test series and lost the first three one-dayers.
The fifth and final match will be played at the same venue on Sunday.
Umar, 19, younger brother of the team’’s wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal, pounded four sixes and five boundaries in only his third international and was declared the man of the match.
Younus stayed rock-solid at the other end as Umar punished the wayward Sri Lankan attack during a fifth-wicket partnership of 176 runs after Pakistan slipped to 130-4.
Sri Lanka appeared to make light of the daunting target when they moved to 101-1 in the 16th over, before losing their last nine wickets for 74 runs.
Left-handed opener Upul Tharanga top-scored with 80 off 89 balls and skipper Kumar Sangakkara made 39, but none of the other top order batsmen delivered.
Spinners Shahid Afridi and Saeed Ajmal supported Iftikhar with two wickets each.
“It’’s a relief to win finally,” said Younus at the presentation ceremony. “We are normally slow starters, but we have been too slow on this tour.
“Hats off to Umar and Iftikhar. They really made us proud today.”
Sangakkara said a target of 321 could not be chased without big partnerships, which Sri Lanka did not have.
“I don”t think complacency was the problem,” he said. “The problem was we gave them 320. We have got to make sure we bowl a lot better to our fields.
“Umar finished things off very well for Pakistan. But we need to keep our chins up and come back strongly in the next match.”
Earlier, Pakistan made a sound start as Imran Nazir, playing for the first time in the series, hit 23 in a first-wicket stand of 61 with Kamran Akmal by the 10th over.
Kamran then put on 45 for the second wicket with Younus to lift Pakistan to 106-1, before another middle-order collapse saw three wickets fall for 24 runs.
Leg-spinner Malinga Bandara, himself making his first appearance in the series, bowled Kamran and trapped Misbah-ul-Haq leg-before to finish with two for 44 in 10 overs.
Lasith Malinga went for 79 runs in his 10 wicketless overs, while fellow paceman Thilan Thushara took two wickets for 74 runs.
Sri Lanka rested three frontline bowlers, Muttiah Muralitharan, Nuwan Kulasekara and Dilhara Fernando, and replaced them with Ajantha Mendis, Bandara and Malinga.
Pakistan were forced to leave out the injured duo of Umar Gul and Abdul Razzaq and also dropped Nasir Jamshed and Fawad Alam.
They were replaced by Nazir, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah and Iftikhar.
More: continued here