Surprising resistance from Pakistan denied Australia the quick kill they wanted.

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Rawalpindi

Two vendors murdered the waiter and wounded the owner of a hotel after the waiter refused to provide them tea quickly in Ganjmandi here

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RAWALPINDI: Federal Law Minister Babar Awan has submitted the acquittal petition before a civil court against a brawl case here on Saturday.

The minister, while personally appearing before Civil Judge Meher Sarfaraz, claimed in the petition that the plaintiff have never come to the court after the submission of the case, while no evidence has been presented against him. He maintained that he should be acquitted on the grounds of above statement.

It may be noted that a case was registered against Babar Awan 10 years ago at New Town police station under sections 365, 398, 389.

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Karachi

Pakistan and India should cut their defence budget by 10 per cent every year and spend it in social sector, former law minister and Co-

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday he hoped that the financial package announced for the NWFP would help overcome problems be

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HOBART: Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf is very upset for poor performance by his batsmen and said that he called for Younis Khan for strengthening team?s batting but selectors did not send him to Australia.

?Younis is a good player for the team and country. I have been saying for ages we need him. I also said that in New Zealand. You can ask the (national) selectors about why they didn?t pick him? Yousuf said here.

Yousuf had urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to rush Younis to Australia after the team?s batting flopped in the opening Test against the Aussies in Melbourne last month. But the national selection committee made it clear that it will only pick Younis once he proves his form on the domestic circuit.

?We don?t need to check him in first-class cricket,? said Yousuf. ?He has an average of 50 in Tests and has been playing well for 10 years. We have to see him here, not there,? he said.

While the Pakistani selectors decided against rushing Younis to Australia for the Sydney and Hobart Tests, they have recalled the former captain for the one-day series that will begin from Jan 22 in Brisbane.

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HOBART: Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf declared on Friday that people should stop expecting his below-par and inexperienced teams to perform miracle

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SYDNEY: Pakistan’’s one-day vice captain Shahid Afridi is hoping that the team will bounce back in their limited-overs series against Australia after losing the Test series.

The flamboyant allrounder said Pakistan have the firepower to give the hosts a run for their money in the five-match ODI contest as well as the tour-ending Twenty20 International in Melbourne on Feb 5.

The one-day series will begin from Jan 22 in Brisbane.

Pakistan is currently trailing 0-2 in the three-match Test series and seems down and out in the third and final Test under progress in Hobart after Australia gained an overall lead of 277 runs in the first innings on the third day.

Afridi, 29, blamed lack of Test experience for Pakistan’’s below-par showing in the series but made it clear that Mohammad Yousuf’’s men are stronger in limited-overs cricket.

“There is no doubt in my mind that we are a very good one-day team. I”m confident that we will do much better in the ODIs and the Twenty20 game.” Afridi said that Pakistan have a solid chance of winning the ODI series to avenge their Test defeats.

“I won”t say that we are going to win the one-day series but our team definitely has the potential to do that. We will definitely be playing good cricket in the series.” But he stressed that the team’’s senior players including himself will have to deliver to lift Pakistan’’s hopes in the one-day series.

Afridi is in Adelaide with South Australia to feature in the Big Bash - Australia’’s domestic Twenty20 tournament. He was an instant success in the popular event and has played an important role in guiding South Australia to the final of the tournament to be held in Adelaide on Jan 23.

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Karachi

In a surprise move, the Sindh government on Friday changed the portfolio of Shazia Marri, Sindh Minister for Information, and she has b

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Islamabad

A courageous woman, Z. Bokhari who protected many other women from being entrapped by a fraudster, is running from pillar to post to get

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