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PALLEKELE - Skipper Daniel Vettori said Monday that New Zealand would focus on their own game and not worry about formidable Pakistan in their World Cup match on Tuesday. Pakistan, inspired by captain Shahid Afridi, who has taken a tournament-best 14 wickets with his leg-spin, have won all three matches and top Group A with six points. New Zealand, who beat Kenya and Zimbabwe by ten wickets apiece but lost to Australia by seven wickets, have four points from three matches.
"The

GENEVA - The government on Thursday called on other countries not to link Wednesday's killing of its only Christian government minister, Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, to the wider issue of blasphemy. Bhatti, who had called for changes to the blasphemy laws, was shot in broad daylight in Islamabad.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan said they had assassinated him as a punishment for blasphemy. "We believe it would not be helpful to link the highly regrettable killing squarely in

NEW YORK - Today's lesson: be happy, live longer. Now science seems to back the glass half-full approach. A review of more than 160 studies on the connection between a positive state of mind and overall health and longevity has found "clear and compelling evidence" that happier people enjoy better health and longer lives. In fact, evidence linking an upbeat outlook and enjoyment of life to better health and longer life was stronger even than that linking obesity to reduced longevity,

'American Idol' judge Jennifer Lopez will premiere the music video for new single 'On the Floor' during the singing talent show March 3. The tune, which features Cuban-American rapper Pitbull, debuted this week at No. 40 on Billboard's Pop Songs chart and at No. 26 on the Dance/Club Play Songs chart. The RedOne-produced track is the lead single from Lopez's upcoming seventh album, 'Love?,' due to be released on March 29.
The 'Idol' stage is no stranger to song and/or video

ISLAMABAD - Reacting to the outburst by Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani advised him to observe party discipline and be loyal to the party rather than "playing to the galleries". Addressing the new cabinet members, Gilani said, "Our doors are open to anyone who believes in the party policy and discipline. It is Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto's party, of which we are proud members. The party has made us what we are today. Let's be guided by

It's been Steven Tyler's season so far on "American Idol" - the facial expressions, the outfits, the basic gifts of decency and wisdom. Sometimes it's been tough to remember that the show's other new judge, Jennifer Lopez, was meant to be the bigger draw. Frank Micelotta/Fox Jennifer Lopez during an American Idol session in January.
A multimedia star with a far higher profile than Mr Tyler, Ms Lopez is a radiant presence. But while her hair and wardrobe budget must be 10 times

DHAKA - Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi on Saturday warned World Cup rivals not to underestimate his team, saying the players had turned a new leaf after the match-fixing scandal. Afridi admitted Pakistan had been blown away by the scandal, which saw former captain Salman Butt and two leading pacemen, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer, punished for their alleged involvement.
All three were banned for a minimum of five years by the International Cricket Council, which ruled them out

In a statement, which threw Karan Johar almost off his chair, Devgn looked into Karan's eye and said that Bebo and Saif should not tie the knot. The story goes that Karan was in his favourite 'Rapid Fire Round', when Devgn blurted out that Saif and Kareena should not marry.
What exactly happened? "Well, Karan asked Ajay to render some piece of marital advice to Saif and Kareena. Without batting an eyelid, Ajay said, 'Don't get married'. If it wasn't a 'Rapid Fire Round' Karan

LAHORE - Former captain and director-general of Pakistan Cricket Board Javed Miandad has urged Pakistani cricketers to learn from the achievements of Indian batting maestro, Sachin Tendulkar.
Rather than letting their on-field performance speak for them, Miandad said that the players are happy to brag about their performance in media. "We keep on reading and hearing about some of the players making claims about how they will deliver, but on field that is not happening and it is a

LAHORE - Amicus Curie Abid Hassan Manto informed a Lahore High Court (LHC) full bench on Thursday that rules applying to a government servant do not apply to the president and the constitution does not bar the head of state from being a member of a political party. He told the bench that the president, being a symbol of the federation, should not indulge in political activities.
After hearing arguments, the full bench headed by LHC Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry and

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was reprimanded and told off by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Health on Tuesday, who called for cancellation of probe into the locally produced interferon injections and condemned the Ministry of Science and Technology for referring the case to FIA in the first place.
The committee members warned the ministry of science that if any action is taken by FIA against Riazuddin Sheikh, the scientist who had achieved a

LAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation will take disciplinary action against the players who speak against the federation, says PHF Secretary Asif Bajwa. Talking to journalists here at the National Hockey Stadium, Bajwa said that all the players are bound to observe PHF's code of conduct and any player violating the law would face action.
He further stated that the grant announced by the Prime Minister will hopefully be released after procedural within a month.
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KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari has said that lawmakers and ministers of the Pakistan People's Party should refrain from issuing hostile statements against coalition partners, and expressed hope that misunderstandings between the partners would soon be resolved.
During his meeting with the ministers, advisers and the lawmakers at the Bilawal House, and later talking to Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, President Zardari said reservations expressed by the MQM were being

LAHORE: We don't share our plates with Christians," says Aasma. She sits on a charpoy, next to her sister Aafia. Their old mother is with them. Together they are waiting for the local cleric who is to meet them in their small home in the village.
The two, in their twenties, are the women who accused Aasia Bibi of making blasphemous remarks against the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), when a group of women was out in the fields picking purple falsa berries for the season. Visually the

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is not worried about the close ties between the US and India but opposes India's bid for a permanent UNSC membership, as it would have a negative impact on peace and stability and balance of power in South Asia, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Friday.
Qureshi told reporters Pakistan was not opposing India's bid just for the sake of opposition but it had reasons for it. "The expansion and reform of the UN Security Council is a long-drawn and

ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar on Friday attempted to mislead the National Assembly on the amount of losses incurred by the state-run PIA, saying the national carrier suffered losses worth Rs 10.9 million in the first nine months of the current year, while PIA's third financial quarter report said the losses for the period were to the tune of Rs 11.7 billion.
The Pakistan International Airline report, uploaded on its website, contradicts the minister's claim, as it

ISLAMABAD: Former Azad Jammu Kashmir prime minister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has urged US President Barack Obama not to support India in its bid for permanent membership of the UN Security Council unless the dispute of Kashmir was resolved.
"India has not a moral justification to become a permanent member of UNSC as its leaders are not ready to implement resolutions passed by the UNSC 60 years ago, on Kashmir issue," he said while addressing a press conference here on Tuesday.