Karachi

City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) had extended unconditional support to the present local

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SOCHI: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she had a clear preference for Magna?s Russian-backed bid to buy control in General Motors? stru

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COLOMBO: Pakistan A are moving close to victory over Sri Lanka A in the second unofficial Test here at the Premadasa Stadium on Saturday.

Pakistan A need just 54 runs more to win the match with their all ten wickets intact.

Sri Lanka resumed their incomplete first innings at 155-6 on third day of the match and they were collapsed for 180.

Mohammad Talha captured five and Wahab Riaz claimed four wickets.

After being followed on, Sri Lanka batted well and succeeded in avoiding the innings defeat but they were again all out for 229, setting an easy target of 68 runs for Pakistan A.

Muthumudalige Pushpakumara made 95 while captain Kaushal Silva remained not out on 79.

For Pakistan A, spinners Abdul Rehman and Wahab Riaz bagged five for 82 and three for 52, respectively while Fahad Masood got two wickets.

Pakistan were 14 for no loss at stumps and they require further 54 runs to win the match.

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LONDON: British doctors hit out at the decision on Thursday to allow women?s boxing at the London 2012 Olympics, saying it was a dangerous sport that

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Islamabad

In order to infuse the spirit of patriotism in the youth, Preston University organised a Mehfil-e-Mushaira on Thursday evening, which

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ISLAMABAD: US Special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Ambassador Richard Holbrooke has said that widening the distance from Nawaz Sharif will hamper the interests of US as he is the popular leader in Pakistan and added that it is not the job of United States to tell Pakistan to launch operation in Waziristan as it is up to the Pakistani leadership to decide when and what it wants to do about it.

Talking to reporters on board the plane, before landing at Islamabad Airport, Holbrooke said his meetings with Pakistani leadership would be focused on how to overcome the power shortage in the country.

Holbrooke said that a task force led by Marry Bethman had been set up to find ways to help resolve the issue of electricity shortage in Pakistan…?people of Pakistan are suffering because of power loadshedding and we got to help them,? he added.

He said Pakistan was neglected as compared to Afghanistan after 9/11 incident by the international community and whatever needed was not done in the power sector in Pakistan. ?And now, since we have a little breathing space as far as security situation is concerned, it is time for us to focus on other important issues like power crisis,? he added.

?I cannot tell whether the Taliban were destroyed or dispersed as a result of this operation until I go myself over there and talk to the people on ground but one thing was quite obvious that security forces regained Swat and Buner from Taliban which itself was very significant,? he added.

He said that the political situation here had improved significantly, as on March 15 the PML-N was at odds with the government when it held long march. He that Nawaz Sharif had come out with strong statements against Taliban. ?Nawaz Sharif is a popular leader and his party is ruling the largest province of Punjab that?s why I believe that distancing from Nawaz will not be in the interest of the US.?

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Karachi

Despite high a security alert in the city, miscreants were able to resort of aerial firing unhindered from Thursday night onwards. Mean

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RAWALPINDI: The leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) Ejaz-ul-Haq has alleged government of hatching conspiracy to avoid trial of former president Pervez Musharraf under article 6 of constitution, saying that the ruling coalition is non-serious to prosecute Musharraf.

To a press conference here, he said even the government seems non-serious to book Musharraf under article 6 of constitution but the action must be taken against him according to the laws enshrined in the constitution of Pakistan.

He hinted at forging coalition with PML-N, divulging his meeting with Quaid PML-N Mina Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was held for the same purpose.

?Though the era of former president General retired Zia-ul-Haq was purely unconstitutional but today, the situation left out by former president Musharraf and, which the people of Pakistan are bound to confront seem even worse than that of Zia?, he claimed.

?The culprits who conspired murder attempts on Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz had been hanged till death but still the conspirators of the martyrdoms of Liaquat Ali Khan and Benazir Bhutto are still at large?, he concluded.

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Pakistan has been shifting its forces by historic proportions from its Indian border to the Afghan frontier, gaining ground against militants and giving the United States room to focus more on economic problems threatening the nuclear-armed state, Washington’s envoy said. Richard Holbrooke, President Barack Obama’s special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, told reporters traveling …

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ISLAMABAD: Industries and Production Minister Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo claimed that mills owned by Mian Nawaz Sharif and Humayun Akhtar were involved in s

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