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KARACHI - Another devastating landslide on the pattern of Attabad is on the offing in Hunza Valley, while Balochistan may suffer from moderate to severe drought in coming years. Similarly, there is a visible earthquake fault line passing through the Chaman town of Balochistan but no building codes or other precautionary measures are being adopted to mitigate the effects in case of a jolt in future.
These revelations were made during the course of discussion at the 5th meeting of

LAHORE - Things have further worsened on the Punjab's governance arena, as the provincial management service (PMS) officers and the district management group (DMG) officers stick to their guns after the civil court granted bail to 73 provincial officers on Saturday. As a show of strength, hundreds of provincial service officers from the districts and the civil secretariat gathered at the city courts to receive their colleagues arrested from within the premises of the civil secretariat

LONDON - Three Pakistan cricketers accused of spot-fixing in a Test match against England last year were on Thursday ordered to stand trial in a British court on May 20. Former captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir appeared at the court of the City of Westminster Magistrates for the first time since they were charged with conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments.
District Judge Howard Riddle said the allegations

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Tuesday submitted a privilege motion in the Sindh Assembly (SA) against the management of a media group for publishing an irresponsible report in its two newspapers.
Admitting the motion, SA Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro sent it to the house committee on rules of procedure and privileges, directing it for submitting its report during the next session. The motion was regarding a news item appearing in both English and Urdu-language

CHITTAGONG - Rattled Bangladesh tackle resurgent England in a make-or-break Group B match on Friday where defeat will almost certainly end their World Cup campaign before the quarter-finals. The Tigers have just one win in three games and failure at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury will mean they'll have just a slim chance of advancing to the last eight from a group that includes India, South Africa and the West Indies. England, who resurrected their campaign with a six-run win over South

LAHORE - Visiting Malaysian football team coach Ong Kim Swee believes that Pakistan's discipline is the most potent threat to his team in the Olympics Qualifying second leg match, that will be played today (Wednesday) at 8 pm here at the Punjab Stadium. Pakistan lag behind by two goals, and even a draw would send Malaysia into the next round. Pakistan require a 3-0 win to acquire a place in the next stage. Pakistan lost the first leg match in Malaysia 2-0.
Although aware of the

NEW DELHI - New Zealand's brittle top order will have to toil for every run against Zimbabwe's nagging spin attack in Friday's World Cup Group A match in Ahmedabad. Australia cruelly exposed New Zealand's vulnerability against raw pace last Friday, skittling them in 45-odd overs for 206, a target they overwhelmed in 34 overs for a ridiculously easy seven-wicket victory.
Zimbabwe, however, will bank on their army of miserly tweakers to straitjacket a New Zealand team grappling

KARACHI - After a confident start against Kenya, Pakistan will be facing the sternest test in their World Cup campaign as they take on hosts and favorites Sri Lanka in their second match at Colombo on Saturday. The outcome of the match will set the trend in the group, according to former Pakistan Test left-arm spinner Iqbal Qasim.
"Pakistan have made a positive start. How they fare against Sri Lanka in the next game will be interesting to watch" he noted. He added that Sri Lanka

THE REALITY CHECK - The trans-Tasman rivalry will be reignited in the Group A clash between Australia and New Zealand in Nagpur today. Defending champions Australia were far from convincing in their 91-run victory over Zimbabwe in the first game. In the end it was Australia's fast bowlers who tormented Zimbabwe batsmen on a slow wicket.
Australian batsmen found it hard to deal with Zimbabwe spinners and against New Zealand they will have to deal with superior spinners in Daniel

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza and PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi's son Moonis Elahi met at the home minister's house on Wednesday where the two decided that if the PML-N expelled PPP ministers from Punjab, the PPP and PML-Q would form a joint opposition, sources said.
Mirza's private secretary and other department officers, along with police and Rangers personnel provided complete protocol to Moonis when he arrived at the Karachi airport from abroad. Moonis was

DHAKA - Ireland open their World Cup campaign against Bangladesh on Friday determined to clinch a hat-trick of victories over the Tigers in major events. Ireland defeated Bangladesh by 74 runs in the now-scrapped Super Eights round in the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean and then won by six wickets in the World Twenty20 in England in 2009. Bangladesh cannot afford another defeat, having lost their opening match against India by 87 runs last Saturday, setting the stage for a keenly

LAHORE - Chinese Taipei booked berth in the AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers on Sunday and will now face with Pakistan on March 25. They played 1-1 draw with Laos in the second-leg of their pre-qualifying playoff and sealed a 6-3 aggregate win. Pakistan are in Group B and their other matches will be against India (March 23) and Turkmenistan (March 21).
All three matches will be held at Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.Laos had tough task following their 5-2 first-leg defeat in

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday suspended the recommendations of the parliamentary committee (PC) that rejected a one year extension in the service of four additional judges of the Lahore High Court and restrained respondents from issuing any notification in pursuance of the committee's recommendations.
A two-member bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui and Justice Jawwad S Khawaja was hearing a joint constitutional petition filed by Munir Hussain Bhatti and

KARACHI - Thousands of employees of the Pakistan Railways (PR) might go on a strike to protest the PR's move to stop providing medicines to them. The PR administration has stopped providing medicines to its employees and their families visiting OPDs of its seven major hospitals and over 40 dispensaries all over the country.
Sources said that the PR has gone ahead with this move despite suspending operations of dozens of passenger trains and increasing fares by 30 percent. Through

KARACHI - The government is set to face another corruption scandal involving federal government officials and their relatives in a case involving fraudulently refunding billions of rupees on exports that never happened.
The allegations are carried in a letter sent to top government officials as well as the Prime Minister's House written by a concerned citizen, Muhammad Khalid Usman. He stated that the export companies involved in the case are registered under the name of Atif

SYDNEY - Jarmila Groth marked her first Fed Cup appearance for Australia with a shock win against French Open champion Francesca Schiavone as holders Italy shared the opening singles in their first round tie in Hobart on Saturday.
Groth, who represented Slovakia before taking Australian citizenship in 2009 by marriage, beat the world number four 6-7 6-3 6-3 to give Australia a great start before Samantha Stosur, runner-up to Schiavone in Paris last year, lost a titanic struggle

MELBOURNE - Britain's Andy Murray put a brave face on his devastating Australian Open defeat to Novak Djokovic Sunday after seeing his best chance yet to win a major slip away in straight sets.
The out-of-sorts Murray said the 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 loss was easier to swallow than last year's reverse against Roger Federer, when he broke down in tears at the presentation ceremony and took months to recover his form.