Tag: Continues

SEOUL - South Korean Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-Hwan has signed up with his Australian coach Michael Bohl until the 2012 London Olympics, Park's agency said Tuesday. The 2008 Olympic 400 metres freestyle gold medallist and Bohl have agreed to extend their contract, which expired in November, until the London Games, SK Telecom said.
"I'm glad to continue training with Bohl," Park said in a statement. "I will try my best to stand on the peak once again through the upcoming

LAHORE - PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said his party would never support a corrupt government, warning that if the political mess persisted, the PML-N would launch another long march to free the country from the rule of illegal occupants and the establishment.
Addressing a workers' convention at the 104th foundation day of the Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz said it was ridiculous that those who enjoyed being partners with the corrupt government for three years were also

LAHORE - Thousands of the daily wagers of Punjab have lost their jobs as gas break of industrial units continued on the fourth consecutive day on Thursday in Lahore, Sheikhupura and Sahiwal, a private TV channel reported.
The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has halted several industrial areas gas supply, under the National Energy Saving Campaign, from the evening of December 27 and after completion of the scheduled time it will be restored on Friday (December 31)

LAHORE - Mobilink and Netsol won their matches of the 1st CPL Raaziq T20 cricket League here on Monday.
In the first match, Mobilink beat Ufone by 29 runs. Mobilink scored 154 for 6 wickets in allotted 20 overs. Ijaz Rafiq 69, Saqib Munir 30 and Jawad Tayyab 28 were the main batsmen.
Ahsan Zaidi took two wickets. In reply, Ufone scored 125 all out with Adeel Asghar 41, Sadeem Baig 26 and Aleem Rana 17 runs. Khalid Farooq & Tariq Durani took three wickets each. Ijaz Rafiq

TOKYO: Japan's central bank on Tuesday kept its key rate unchanged and said it would assess the impact of earlier measures to boost the faltering economy amid fears of a looming slowdown. The bank's board made the unanimous decision to keep the key rate between zero and 0.1 percent after a two-day meeting, warning that a fragile recovery from deep recession was "pausing".
"The bank will continue to carefully examine the outlook for economic activity and prices, and take policy

DUBAI - Ryan Lochte continues his world record hunt at the short course world championships here later Saturday after easing to victory in the 100m individual medley heats.
Lochte, who has claimed three golds and two world records so far this week, had pushed the pace until the final few metres, when he literally drifted into the wall to cruise to a time of 52.07.
Brazil's Henrique Rodrigues qualified second with a 52.23 mark and George Bovell from Trinidad qualified in

LAHORE: Former president Pervez Musharraf has warned that the army might have to intervene again in politics, if the country continues to decline.
Speaking exclusively to Sky News from his new home in the UAE, Musharraf said "Pakistan may be forced to take matters into their own hands - which could include working with the Taliban - if it continues to feel alienated by the rest of the world". "There is no bar against me going back to Pakistan. But the conditions have to be

LAHORE: A conman disguised as a traffic warden, who swindled valuables from a truck driver a couple of days ago, looted a cellular phone from another driver in Gujjarpura on Sunday. City Traffic Police's careless attitude in capturing the swindler had enabled the fraudster in carrying out his sixth crime within some days.
Muhammad Rasheed Ahmed, a resident of Hujra Shah Muqeem Area, was the conman's fresh victim. Rasheed was a tractor-trolley driver and working with a

LAHORE: Pakistan Under-18 national tennis champion Ushna Suhail has reached the singles and doubles quarter-finals of the ITF Junior at Rwanda, East Africa, it was learnt on Tuesday. Ushna is seeded fifth in the Grade-IV ITF tournament and won her match in straight sets. In the singles, Ushna defeated Wendy Chen of Kenya in straight sets 6-1, 6-1. Ushna displayed excellent skills in the second round and did not let her opponent take more than a single game in each set.
In the

PARIS: Roger Federer continued his current hot streak as the Swiss claimed a place in the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters as the final lineup for the eight-man year-end championships in London was settled Thursday.
The top seed, who is bidding for a third consecutive trophy after winning Stockholm and Basel, dispatched Radek Stepanek 6-4, 6-3, firing 11 aces, saving two break points and winning his tenth match from 12 against the Czech.
The win was a re-run of a

LAHORE: At a time when the International Cricket Council has offered help to Zulqarnain Haider, the Pakistan Cricket Board has suspended his stipend contract and formed a fact-finding committee.
An official of the PCB said: "He has violated terms and conditions of the contract. "A fact-finding committee has been formulated to establish the truth surrounding the incident of Haider's disappearance from the Team Hotel," he added.
The committee includes Subhan Ahmad (PCB),

GOA
India won the three-match One-Day series 1-0 as the final match was abandoned without a ball being bowled at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Margao, Goa on Sunday (October 24).
Heavy rain on the eve of the game clogged the ground and, though the weather was clear on match day, the outfield was not suitable for play. The opening match in Kochi too was also called off due to rain, while India won the second One-Day international in Visakhapatnam by five wickets.