A Pakistan court ruled that five Americans arrested on suspicion of terrorism cannot be deported to the U.S. until judges review the case.

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LAHORE: Four more matches have been decided in the 25th National Women Hockey Championship here at the National Hockey Stadium on Monday.

Karachi defeated Quetta Colours 3-0.

In the second match, Railways outclassed Islamabad 15-0. Hina Kanwal scored six while Teehmina Siddiq, Ayesha Bashir and Shahida Raza netted three goals each.

In the third match, Sukkur trounced Quetta Whites 11-0. Karla made four and Naintara scored three goals.

In the fourth match, WAPDA beat Sarhad 8-0. Saba Saeed and Nelma Hasan made two goals each for the victorious team.

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Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari ordered a national action plan to counter terrorism in the country where the army’s offensive to crush pro-Taliban fighters has provoked attacks that have killed about 450 people since October.

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PERTH: A West Indian fast man hitting the WACA surface in the mid-150kph region is a prospect that once upon a time would have given Australian batsme

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Pakistan News

SALTA: New Zealand hockey team defeated Pakistan by 4-2 in the final encounter of Champions Challenge field hockey tournament here on Monday, Geo news reported.

According to details, two teams were going equally balanced later in the second half by 2-2 goals but before five minutes of the end New Zealand attacked thrice on Pakistan goal post, managing successfully to score two more goals while 2 minutes were remaining to the end of the match.

Pakistan were rewarded six penalty corners, mostly which, went in vain as team could only score one goal on them meanwhile Kiwis scored goal on the only penalty corner they succeeded to achieve.

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani military has rejected US demands that Islamabad crack down on the strongest Taliban warrior in Afghanistan, Siraj Haqqani, whose fighters pose the biggest threat to American forces, Pakistani military officials and diplomats told the New York Times.

In a report published on Monday, the paper said the ?demands, first made by senior American officials before President Obama?s Afghanistan speech and repeated many times since, were renewed in a written demarche delivered in recent days by the US embassy to the Pakistan Army chief Ashfaq Kayani?. Gen David Petraeus followed up on Monday during a visit to Islamabad, the paper said.

?The demands have been accompanied by strong suggestions that if the Pakistanis cannot take care of the problem, including dismantling the Taliban leadership based in Quetta, the Americans will by resorting to broader and more frequent drone strikes in Pakistan,? the NYT said.

But the demands have been greeted with official public silence and private anger in Pakistan, illustrating the widening gulf between the allies. Several former Pakistani military officers voice irritation with the American insistence.

?It is really beginning to irk and anger us,? a security official familiar with the deliberations at the senior levels of the Pakistani leadership told the paper.

An analyst said Pakistan was reluctant to act against Haqqani, as it considered ?Haqqani and his control of broad swaths of Afghan territory vital to Pakistan in the jostling for influence that will pit Pakistan, India, Russia, China and Iran in the post-American Afghan arena?.

?If America walks away, Pakistan is very worried that it will have India on its eastern border and India on its western border in Afghanistan,? said Tariq Fatemi, a former Pakistani ambassador to the US who is pro-American in his views.

For that reason, Fatemi told NYT that the Pakistan Army was ?very reluctant? to jettison Haqqani. In his reply to the US, Gen Ashfaq Kayani had urged a short-term argument, according to two Pakistani officials familiar with the response.

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Washington Post

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WASHINGTON: US has said the request for allowance of counselors to arrested US nationals in Pakistan has been accepted, Geo news reported on Monday.

The spokesman to US State Department Ian Kelly said we are discussing the issues pertaining to arrested US nationals in Pakistan with top officials of Pakistan, adding that we have avoided sluggishness to maintain contacts with US citizens.

It is not clear yet that whether or not Washington has formally requested Islamabad for the deportation of US citizens.

State Department spokesman denied commenting over the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict regarding the deportation of them.

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