Schumacher?s 1994 race car set to make millions
BERLIN: The Formula One racing car in which Michael Schumacher captured his first World Driver?s Championship (WDC) title in 1994, is set to be auctio
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ICC open to regular Test ?final?
MUMBAI: Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, has said it is open to an annual or biennial Test final to make the longer form of the game more excit
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Pakistan News
Pakistan out to avenge ?shameful? Kiwi loss
DUBAI: Shahid Afridi described Pakistan?s defeat in the one-day series as ?shameful? but was hopeful his players could lift their performance for the
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PPP?s Wazir Shakil wins LA-9 Skardu 3
SKARDU: PPP?s candidate Wazir Shakil has won the seat of LA-9 Skardu 3 with 6,423 votes in Gilgit-Baltistan elections, according to an unofficial result.
PML-N’’s Haji Fida Muhammad Nashad stands second with 2,592 votes.
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MQM?s Raja Azam Khan wins LA-12 Skardu 6
SKARDU: MQM?s Raja Azam Khan has emerged successful on LA-12 Skardu 6 with 9316 votes, leaving behind PPP?s Imran Nadeem who bagged 7,125 votes in Gilgit-Baltistan elections, according to unofficial results.
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SC rejects Justice Dogar?s petitions
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the petitions, filed by Justice (retd) Abdul Hameed Dogar, challenging the executive order restorin
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Unofficial results of LA-2, 6, 18
GILGIT: Independent candidate Deedar Ali wins LA-2 Gilgit 2 by bagging 4,535 votes in the Gilgit-Baltistan elections, according to unofficial results.
PPP?s Jamil Ahmed received 2,774 votes and remained second.
PPP?s Wazir Baig emerges victorious on LA-6 Gilgit 6 with 3,571 votes, leaving MQM?s Kamil Jan behind who bagged 2,240 votes.
JUI(F)?s Gulbar Khan received 2797 and won LA-18 Diamir 4. Independent candidate Malik Muhammad Miskeen is runner up with 1,535 votes.
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Pakistan set New Zealand 162 target in T20
DUBAI: Opener Imran Nazir’’s 58 was the cornerstone of Pakistan’’s 161 for eight against New Zealand in the first Twenty20 international at Dubai Stadium here on Thursday.
The 27-year-old right-handed batsman hit five boundaries and four towering sixes off 38-balls before New Zealand, who put Pakistan into bat, hit back by taking last six wickets in the space of 69 runs.
Nazir and Kamran Akmal (13) took Pakistan to 34 as Nazir hit two successive sixes off Ian Butler’’s fifth over of the innings.
Nazir added a quickfire 36 with captain Shahid Afridi (24), also completing his second Twenty20 half-century off just 34 balls. Paceman Shane Bond had Nazir caught in the outfield in the 12th over to put brakes on the innings.
Aaron Redmond, bowling occasional leg-break for the first time in a limited overs match, added further trouble by dismissing Afridi for 24 and Shoaib Malik (six) to finish with 2-24, before walking off the field with a groin injury.
Abdul Razzaq hit a 15-ball 26 with three boundaries and a six to give final touches to the innings.
New Zealand started the match on the wrong foot as regular captain Daniel Vettori had to sit out after being advised to take a CT scan following vomiting in the afternoon.
Vettori, who also had shoulder problem, was hit on the grille of his helmet during the second one-day international at Abu Dhabi on Friday and began to feel unwell.
Brendon McCullum led the team, which was also missing pacemen Kyle Mills (shoulder) and James Franklin (back).
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Elahi blames Punjab govt for sugar crisis
LAHORE: PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has held policies of Punjab government responsible for sugar crisis in the province.
Pervaiz Elahi said that the shopkeepers have stopped selling sugar because of Punjab government?s policy. He said that Punjab police is not as pro-active against opium sellers as it is against the retailers of sugar.
Elahi shared his views during a sitting with a delegation of traders at his residence in Lahore.
The traders discussed problems and their issues in this meeting. Pervaiz Elahi said that PML-N bigwigs have been included in the sugar policy so that they can make money with both the hands once again like they benefited during wheat flour and fertilizer industry.
Elahi said that Punjab government is using batons on sugar seeking consumers today after killing people by creating wheat flour crisis previously.
Sugar crisis can be resolved in Punjab if the government heads bring sugar in the market from their own mills, Pervaiz Elahi suggested.
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Petraeus Says Pakistan Anti-Terror Fight ‘Heartening But Tough’ (Bloomberg)
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan’s fight against terrorists is “heartening but tough,” and the country deserves a “sustained” international commitment, General David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, said.
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