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LAHORE - Pakistan lost the opening match of the two-match friendly home and away series against Palestine 2-1 here at the Punjab Stadium on Tuesday night. The young Pakistan team fought hard on the field but the visiting team proved to be much superior in ball control, passing and physique, although they, like the Pakistanis, were young players preparing for AFC Cup.
Pakistan went into the match with an attempt on the Palestine goal, only to see mid-fielder Syed Arif Hassan miss

KARACHI - Two men were gunned down in separate violent incidents on Friday.
A hairdresser was shot dead in Gulshan Ghazi, Baldia Town within the limits of Mochko police station.
Mochko police station duty officer said that Mukhtiar, son of Karim Khan, was killed by an unidentified armed man, who entered his hairdressing shop in the Gulshan Ghazi area and fired multiple shots on him. The motive behind his murder was personnel enmity, he added.
The body of the victim was

PARIS - Italian football's Champions League fortunes suffered a further blow on Wednesday as holders Inter Milan could not stem the tide of home defeats as they went down 1-0 at the San Siro to the team they beat in last season's final Bayern Munich.
Mario Gomez' last minute goal saw Inter join city rivals AC Milan and AS Roma in succumbing to home reverses in their Last 16 first leg ties and in real danger of seeing not one representative from Serie A in the last eight in a

KARACHI - A PML-N activist was gunned down by unidentified people in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in the wee hours of Wednesday, police said. Yousuf Baloch, 40, was shot near Rab Medical Centre in Block 13 of Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
He was being taken to the Patel Hospital for treatment but he died on the way. Later, his body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for an autopsy. Police believe that the murder could have been motivated by personal enmity.
In another incident, a

LAHORE - A thirty-seven-year-old woman was gunned down by unidentified robbers in the precincts of the Sattukatla Police Station here on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Gulshan, a resident of Mian Channu. She worked as a labor with a local contractor. Gulshan was returning home after buying groceries from the market when robbers held her at a gunpoint and tried to snatch money. She tried to resist the robbery, at which point robbers opened fire and fled. She was injured and

GUJRANWALA - Two youths were gunned down and one was injured over a divorce issue at Mohallah Bakhtewala while one of the killers was captured and handed over to Sabzi Mandi Police by the residents.
Reportedly, Muhammad Yasin divorced his wife, a sister of Saeed, one of the accused, last month. The father of Saeed died of heart attack during the arbitration dialogues which were being carried out by both the families to resolve the disputes. It intensified tension between the two

LAHORE - Pakistan cricket team coach Waqar Younis said that threats given by Shiv Sena do not affect Pakistan players. They all are fit and have focused all their attention on the game. Speaking to media in Dhaka, Waqar said that the players have worked hard for the World Cup and victory is vital to revive cricket in Pakistan. The Pakistan coach did not termed any team as favourite but he said the team who would play well would win the tournament and he hopes it would be Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) in line with the orders of the Supreme Court has taken serious notice of the airing of ICC World Cup matches by unauthorized and some illegal channels in Pakistan. In its drive these days, PEMRA did not only serve adequate warnings to all TV channels/cable TV operators to abide by the legitimate rights conferred to telecast ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in Pakistan but also raided number of CTV operators disobeying PEMRA

LAHORE - Some close encounters were witnessed in the Raaziq Punjab Cup Polo Tournament 2011, with State Life, Askari Insurance and Guard Group/Diamond Paints staging victories here at the Lahore Polo Club ground on Thursday. Malcom Bowrick hit four goals while Ahmed Ali Tiwana bagged two as State Life edged Fernando Quinto Bourdieu-led Ciro's Pomodoro/Al Khan 6-5.
Shah Shamyl Alam and Fernando shared two goals while Iftikhar Ali Khan Simba scored one for Pomodoro. Master Paints,

KARACHI - Two alleged bandits were shot dead and another injured in an encounter with the police in Rizwan Society on Wednesday. Sachal police said a team of Gizri police station along with the area police conducted a raid at house No R-69, Rizwan Society, Gulshan-e-Iqbal and two alleged robbers were killed while one of their accomplices was injured after a brief shootout.
The bodies of the deceased and the injured were shifted to the hospital, where the deceased were identified

DHAKA - England skipper Andrew Strauss on Sunday blamed fatigue and injury for his side's recent 6-1 one-day series pasting by Australia and declared his team were still capable of winning their first 50-over World Cup. England's mood turned sour after their first successful Ashes test tour in Australia for 24 years in January when the hosts then trounced them at the shorter version of the game.
Strauss, newly arrived in Dhaka ahead of Saturday's World Cup opening in the

ISLAMABAD - Because of ill planning and coordination among the concerned official quarters, Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA) Programme has failed to achieve its objectives of improving the quality of drinking water by building countrywide water treatment facilities and hence millions of rupees earmarked for the project were lost.
This project, started by the Ministry of Environment, was prepared at cost Rs 7871.74 million and was cleared by ECNEC in April 2006. Later the

LAHORE - Chinese Taipei took a big step towards the fourth AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers with an emphatic 5-2 victory over Laos at Taipei in the first-leg of their pre-qualification playoffs. The winner of Chinese Taipei/Laos tie will clash with Pakistan and Turkmenistan in Group B. The group stage will be played between from March 20 to 31. Cambodia and Philippines also won their pre-qualification matches, while the Bhutan-Afghanistan was postponed.
Lin Cheng-yi opened the

LAHORE - Pakistan national women's team and Lahore girls won their respective matches against the visiting Nepal team at the Country Club Muridke on Saturday. Pakistan women team defeated Nepal by 83 runs while Lahore girls won by 73 runs.
Nain Abidi with 53 runs and Sadia Yousuf with three wickets for eight runs were the stars of the win. Javeria made 30 and Bisma 21 for Pakistan. Pakistan ladies made 136 for four in 20 overs and bowled Nepal out for 53. Javeria took two

NAGPUR - New Zealand posted a 32-run win after surviving a scare from a feisty Ireland in their high-scoring World Cup warm-up match on Saturday. Martin Guptill struck a fine 130 off 134 balls as New Zealand racked up 311-6 in the day-night game at the Vidarbha Cricket Association stadium in Nagpur before bowling out Ireland for 279 off 48.2 overs.
Ireland enjoyed a flying start to their chase, with captain and opening batsman William Porterfield hammering a 74-ball 72 containing

LAHORE - Mujahid Squad has launched a special drive against the kite sellers and the gamblers. The squad, on Thursday, arrested three people on charges of kite flying and making and recovered around 200 kites and dozens of kite flying twine spools.
Mujahid Police had also raided on different gambling dens and recovered Rs 15,000 from them that they had put on a gambling. Responding to the police emergency calls, the squad arrested around 121 criminals involved in the different

Bosses at the BBC have defended a radio-friendly version of Rihanna's controversial track S&M - because the special edit of the song was provided by her record company. The Bajan beauty reacted with fury after learning her latest single - which features risque lyrics about sex, whips and chains - was introduced to Radio 1 listeners on Sunday as Come On.
But BBC chiefs have spoken out about the toned-down track, revealing Rihanna's music bosses provided a risk-free radio edit of