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LAHORE - Grade five and eight students and their parents expressed displeasure over the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC)'s inability to communicate the annual result.
Parents claimed that PEC did not issue a press release or a gazette to notify the students of the result. They said PEC's attitude was 'unfriendly' and was unlike Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore's, which properly communicated the result. Schools' administrations were also annoyed at

PARACHINAR - Militants ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying members of an anti-Taliban tribe on the Afghan border on Friday, killing eight and wounding five, tribesmen and government officials said.
The militants also kidnapped nearly 40 people after the attack on the convoy near Bagan, a militant stronghold in the tribal region of Kurram, where Pakistani troops have killed several hundred insurgents in fighting in the past few years.
"It was the convoy of five buses that

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Barrister Masood Kausar awarded civil awards to eight prominent personalities of the province for their valuable contribution in various fields on the eve of Pakistan Day at Governor's House Peshawar on Wednesday. A special ceremony held at Jirga Hall was attended by the provincial minsiters, parliamentarians, high ranking government officials and notables. The governor formally gave away pride of performance awards to Dr Shafqat Karim for

COMMENT - The second leg of the four remaining Champions League round of 16 ties was played last week, and barring the one surprise, all the home sides coasted through. The surprise was Bayern Munich, and not a pleasant one at that. Across two legs, Bayern's away goal lead from their first meeting with Inter Milan at the San Siro lasted a mere five minutes, as Eto'o ran through shortly after kick-off in Munich to slot the ball between Thomas Kraft's legs and into goal.
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MOHALI - Grizzled veteran Ramnaresh Sarwan, who knows the difference between a new West Indies golden age and another false dawn, is refusing to ponder a World Cup quarter-final spot just yet. The 30-year-old, with 162 ODIs under his belt as well as more than 5,000 runs, believes the West Indies cannot take anything for granted despite being in touching distance of the last eight.
Victory over Ireland on Friday would virtually assure qualification but Sarwan is wary of the

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has advised the president to appoint eight members of the Council of Islamic Ideology. Those recommended include Maulana Allama Zubair Ahmed Zaheer; Sahabzada Pir Khalid Sultan Al-Qadri; Justice (r) Mian Nazir Akhtar; Syed Iftikhar Hussain Naqvi; Mufti Muhammad Iqbal Hussain Shah Faizi; Maulana M Farooq Khan Saeedi, Justice (r) Mushtaq A Memon and Qari Muhammad Hanif Jallandhari.

KARACHI - A special banking court on Friday acquitted eight accused in the Khanani and Kalia money laundering case, after the prosecution failed to prove its case against them. The special court's judge, Mir Muhammad Sheikh exonerated four suspects of the Khanani and Kalia group and four bank officers. The court passed the verdict after examining the evidence and recording final arguments from both sides.
The accused, Hanif Kalia, Abdul Munaf Kalia, Javed Khanani and Aatif Polani

MIANWALI/SHEIKHUPURA - Family disputes claimed eight lives in two separate incidents in Mianwali and Sheikhupura on the night between Friday and Saturday. In the hilly area of Wandah Kara in Mianwali, a man killed his five of his in-laws, including four women. The accused, Asmatullah, had been married to the daughter of his uncle Matiullah.
The coupled had developed severe differences, resulting in regulars quarrels. Asmatullah with the help of two accomplices, Muzaffar Khan and

JALALABAD - Eight people were killed and 56 others wounded, including police chiefs, Saturday in an attack claimed by the Taliban on a bank in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan. Police officers who were collecting their salaries were among the dead and Alishah Paktyamwal, police chief of Nangarhar province where Jalalabad is located, plus his deputy were among those wounded in the attack.
The incident is the latest in a string targeting police in Afghanistan, who alongside the army

BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament approved eight new ministers on Sunday, filling some crucial posts in the premier's new cabinet but still leaving three sensitive security portfolios and the planning ministry vacant. Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who began a second four-year term in December after striking a power-sharing deal with rival Sunni and Kurdish blocs following a March inconclusive election, appeared before parliament with a list of three cabinet ministers and five state

KABUL - A suicide attack on a supermarket popular with foreigners killed eight people in the embassy district of the Afghan capital on Friday, the first major attack by the Taliban on civilians in Kabul in nearly a year.
Three foreign women were among the dead, and six people were wounded, Kabul Police Chief Ayub Salangi said. A Reuters reporter saw the body of a child taken away from the gutted supermarket. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast and said they were

DOHA - Iran qualified for the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup after a well-taken goal from Karim Ansari Fard gave them a 1-0 win over a dour North Korea side at the Qatar Sports Club on Saturday.
Ansari Fard flicked home the winner after 63 minutes of a largely uninspired game, riddled with mistakes from both sides, who largely cancelled each other out in a tedious midfield war of attrition.
Iran, who have now won both their matches and are seeking a first Asian Cup title

KARACHI - Eight people, including three ANP activists and two MQM activists, were killed in separate incidents of violence in Karachi on Wednesday.
The three ANP activists were gunned down after a clash with the Muttahida Organising Committee, a sister wing of the MQM, in Bhittaiabad. Khayal Wazir was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near the ANP Ward in Bhittaiabad.
Within 10 minutes of the incident, another ANP activist, identified as Saleem Durrani, was shot dead while

ORLANDO - Three-time LPGA winner Brittany Lincicome missed the cut after shooting a two-over 74 in the first round of a Hooters Tour tournament on Tuesday. Playing her first event on the men's Hooters Tours Winter Series, the 25-year-old Lincicome finished in a tie for 72nd out of 113, 10 strokes back of leader American Brad Klapprott.
Lincicome, who is considered one of the longest hitters on the women's LPGA Tour, finished with one birdie, three bogeys and 14 pars on the Deer

PESHAWAR - At least eight suspected militants were killed and several others injured in two separate US drone attacks in North Waziristan on Friday.
The first attack destroyed a vehicle in Data Khel area close to the Pak-Afghan border in the morning. The drone fired four missiles at the vehicle killing all six on board.
In the second attack, a motorcycle was hit by two missiles in Boya tehsil's Ghalmani village. Both the riders were killed.
Though identity of the

MADRID - Real Madrid, cushioned by an 8-0 first leg lead, secured their place in the Spanish Cup quarter-finals on Thursday despite a 2-0 defeat in the return match at Levante.
Levante's two second-half goals by Xisco Nadal and Sergio Gonzalez were not enough to overturn Real's huge advantage secured over the Valencia-based side last month and the Spanish giants pushed through 8-2 on aggregate. Last season's runners-up Atletico Madrid, who took a 1-0 lead to Espanyol, made it

ISLAMABAD - Five small dams having a power generation capacity of 225 MW would be completed during next eight months to help mitigate power shortage in the country. The projects to be completed during the period include Sattpara dam, Gomal zam and Jinnah Hydel Power projects, Chairman Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Shakeel Durrani said while addressing the two-day seminar on `Land Acquisition and Resettlement of Mega Hydropower Projects in Pakistan, on Friday.