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ISLAMABAD - Without specifying and disclosing Raymond Davis' position, the US embassy on Saturday demanded his immediate release, declaring him a diplomat three days after he killed two people in Lahore.
Interestingly, the detained American was on Thursday described by the US State Department as an American civilian working for the US consulate in Lahore after he was held by the police on double murder charges over the deaths of two motorcyclists.
More intriguing is the

LAHORE - Ali Garh Club will face Mehboob Park in the 8th M Siddiq Memorial Cricket Tournament on January 29 at Iqbal Park Ground. The T20 match will start at 12:30 Pm and Rifat Zaheer and Kalim Asghar will supervise the match.
Township Whites, Apollo Sports and Mughalpura Whites have reached the semi-final while Shalimar Gymkhana moved to the quarter-final.

MUMBAI - Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra were suspected to have "evaded income tax" on earnings from advertisements, foreign assignments and "guest appearances". The raids began on Monday morning and continued on Tuesday. Kaif and Chopra are among the highest-paid actresses in Bollywood. Some 30 tax inspectors were reported to have begun the raids on Monday which continued till late in the evening.
The office of a leading Bollywood photographer, Atul Kasbekar, was also raided,

LAHORE - The final of the 3rd Tray Hockey Championship will be played between PHF Academy and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on January 23 at the Faisalabad Hockey Stadium. The final will start at 2pm.
In the semi-final, Pakistan Air Force beat Punjab while PHF Academy defeated Customs.
Results:
1st Semi Final: Pakistan Air Force beat
Punjab 3-2 (Full Time) 1-1 (Half Time)
Punjab: 26th Minute Rana Asad (FG) & 48th Minute Dilber (PC).
Pakistan Air Force: 18th

TORONTO - Canada's 15-man squad for the World Cup has included three Pakistan-born players who are still awaiting visa clearance to enter India where the team plays four of their six games.
The visa wrangle concerns vice-captain Rizwan Cheema, Khurram Chohan and back-up wicketkeeper Hamza Tariq.
"(We have been) waiting to have visas processed for several months now," Ranjit Saini, the Cricket Canada president, told Pakistan media recently. "Canada took a pre-World Cup

LAHORE - Jinnah Islamia College of Commerce and Govt Gulberg College qualified for the final of the Punjab University Lahore Zone Inter-collegtiate Cricket Championship here on Thursday.
Jinnah Islamia College beat Islamia College, Civil Lines by 41 runs, while Govt Gulberg College defeated Hailey College by two wickets. The final of the championship will be played today.

MELBOURNE - Indian tennis star Sania Mirza will face former World No.1 Justine Henin in her first round match of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Monday.
Despite the tough opponent, the 24-year-old is confident that she will be able to put in a good show.
"I couldn't have imagined a tougher opponent than Justine in the main draw," Sania said."She is a great player, has huge experience, she is one of the greats of the game. I have nothing to lose. I'll go out there and

SYDNEY - Two-time champion Kim Clijsters will play China's Li Na in the final of the Sydney International after a marathon three-set victory on Thursday. Clijsters struggled early before storming home in a final set tiebreaker to overcome unseeded Russian Alisa Kleybanova, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/1) in 2hr 39min. The Belgian third seed will now take on Li, who earlier wore down Serbian qualifier Bojana Jovanovski 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 in 1hr 40min. Clijsters, 27, who won here in 2003 and 2007, will

ISLAMABAD - The penalty of Rs 1 million on two private TV channels, Waqt and Samaa, was imposed after giving them ample opportunity to show cause and explain their positions, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) said in a press release on Tuesday.
These channels had projected terrorists and had aired scenes of blood while covering the incident of assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer besides repeatedly airing the interview of the assassin in

LONDON - Londoners face more transport disruption after a 24-hour strike was called on part of the underground train system in support of two sacked drivers. The strike will take place from the evening of January 14 and will affect the Bakerloo and Northern lines, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union said on Monday.
Workers walked out on a similar 24-hour strike last month. Commuters have already had to endure severe disruption across the network in a separate dispute between

CAIRO - Egyptian rights groups said on Tuesday the government's mishandling of sectarian rifts in the country created an environment that allowed attacks such as the New Year's Day church bombing.
The attack, in which a suicide bomber apparently detonated his explosives outside a church killing 21 people, led to three days of rioting and clashes between Copts and police.
It came after two years of mounting sectarian tensions that began with the January 2009 killing of six

SYDNEY - Spot coking coal prices have risen around 10 percent in a month and look set to move sharply higher as Asia's steel mills scour the globe for new suppliers to cover production lost to Australian floods.
More than two months of torrential rains in Australia's Queensland state, the world's largest exporter of coal for steel-making, have left collieries underwater, rail lines inoperable and coal ports running at a trickle - if at all.
Spot prices for coking coal are at

DUBAI - Canadian nationals will have to pay as much as $1,000 in visa fees to travel to the United Arab Emirates from next month, the latest development in a diplomatic row over landing rights.
Tensions have risen between the two countries since Canada denied expanded landing rights for UAE airlines flying to Canada. That triggered a UAE government decision to end access to a military base used by the Canadian military to support troops in Afghanistan.
The UAE embassy in

ISLAMABAD - Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) hearing committee has closed cases of fifteen lawmakers who are accused of having fake degrees.
This decision was taken on Tuesday by the ECP hearing committee, which has been conducting hearings of fake degree holders for the last almost five months.
A senior official of ECP wishing not to be named said that during the first week of January, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) would refer the cases of those lawmakers to DPOs

BUCHAREST: Romania's opposition filed a no-confidence motion over the government's IMF-backed wage reform on Wednesday, a move with only slim chances of success, just two months after a similar bid failed. The government of Prime Minister Emil Boc survived two no-confidence votes by the leftist opposition this year and its wider margin on the second occasion in October suggests it can remain in power and pass outstanding International Monetary Fund-mandated reforms.