Tag: Defend

While the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) on Saturday defended the restoration of the...

Pakistan’s cricket chief has vowed to safeguard his country’s rights after proposed constitutional changes by the game’s world governing body, which meets in Hong...

Cristie Kerr returns to defend her State Farm Classic title this week, taking on a star-studded field that includes LPGA Player of the Year...

Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmed said there are numerous contributions by Shahid Afridi but we are duty-bound to maintain discipline at...

SANAA - Yemeni soldiers who have sided with anti-regime protesters intervened on Monday to prevent police from taking on thousands of demonstrators camped at a square in central Sanaa, an AFP correspondent said.

SANAA - Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed to defend his people on Friday as he hailed a massive show of support on the streets of Sanaa, in a brief address to crowds outside his palace.
"I pledge... to sacrifice myself for the people, with my blood and with everything I hold dear," Saleh said, thanking his supporters inside and outside Yemen in the face of two months of escalating protests calling for his ouster.

Bosses at movie company Fox Searchlight have issued a statement to address the growing criticisms of Natalie Portman's Oscar-winning role in 'Black Swan.' The star scooped the Best Actress Academy Award for her turn as unstable dancer Nina in the film last month, but has since faced claims a body double was used for most of the complicated ballet dancing scenes.
The stand-in - American Ballet Theatre dancer Sarah Lane - has fuelled the speculation by telling, "Of the full body

LAHORE - Muslims should actively defend Islam instead of passing resolutions against the US and the West, Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufit Munibur Rehman said on Saturday. He was addressing a seminar titled, "Integrity of Pakistan and our responsibilities" at the Jamia Naeemia. Munib said that lawlessness is reigning supreme and rulers are present everywhere but government is nowhere. "In such circumstances, who can give the assurance of the integrity of the country," he asked.

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday vowed to defend the country against terrorists. Addressing a ceremony held at the police lines for paying tributes to the martyrs of Islamabad Police, the interior minister said that the terrorists were trying to destabilize the country. "We are the best... we will continue to be the best and the government would also continue its efforts for safeguarding the country," Malik said while addressing the heirs of the martyrs of

KARACHI - No teaching activities will take place in any educational institution in Sindh, while college-based teachers' associations of Balochistan, Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa will observe a black day and hoist black flags on college buildings to protest the brutality meted out to college teachers in Sindh, announced Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) representatives during a press conference on Tuesday.
The boycott of all teaching activities follows the

PUIGPUNYENT - Tour de France champion Alberto Contador plans to appeal against the provisional one-year ban handed down to him by the Spanish cycling federation (RFEC) for failing a doping test.
"I do not agree with the (RFEC's preliminary) resolution at all," an emotional Contador told a news conference on Friday, adding that he had no plans to retire from cycling as he had threatened to do if he was punished. "You have to remember this is just a proposal and I will work as hard

BRISBANE - American Andy Roddick will put behind him a season dogged by illness to launch the new year with the defence of his Brisbane International title starting on Sunday. Roddick, 28, believes he is finally his old self again after fighting a bout of mononucleosis, an infectious viral illness, which restricted him to just two titles in 2010.
The 2003 US Open champion and three-time Wimbledon finalist flew into Brisbane four days before the other tournament top seeds to

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Thursday said it would fight a US lawsuit against the ISI as well as its present and past directors general.
"The government of Pakistan has taken a firm decision to strongly contest the suit filed against the ISI, its present and past directors general," Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said. "The government of Pakistan and its embassy in Washington shall defend the legal suit on behalf of the ISI and its directors general fully and properly."