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LAHORE - An accountability court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a reference filed against former WAPDA and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Lieutenant General (r) Zahid Ali Akbar until April 14.
Earlier, Zahid's relatives' counsel sought time to file the reply of two petitions filed by National Accountability Bureau (NAB). A reference has been filed against the former WAPDA chairman accusing him of making illegal assets worth billions of rupees in name of his relatives.

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was requested on Monday to take suo motu notice of the illegal gratification in allotment of residential plots to the then chief justice of Pakistan Sheikh Riaz Ahmed and others by National Police Foundation (NPF), Islamabad in their Housing Scheme in E-11 Sector of the federal capital.
The application for suo motu notice was filed by Dr Muhammad Aslam Khaki, an Islamic jurist and Supreme Court advocate, under article 184 (3) of the constitution,

KARACHI - Former greats and fans Thursday singled out sloppy fielding as the main reason for Pakistan's 29-run loss against bitter rivals India in the high-profile World Cup semi-final in Mohali. Pakistan dropped six catches, four off Indian maestro Sachin Tendulkar, to help their rivals post a challenging 260-9. Tendulkar went on to make 85 and won the man of the match award. Pakistan succumbed to the pressure of the run-chase and were bundled out for 231 in a match watched by

LAHORE - The release of Raymond Davis is just a green light for more killings and assassinations by the US government and the CIA in Pakistan, Robert Anderson, a former CIA operative has said in an interview with Talkhaba.
Anderson, who operated in Vietnam around 60 years ago, talked about undercover work the CIA did back then and the similarities with it now in terms of running operatives like Raymond Davis working in Pakistan. "The pillage and slaughter of Pakistanis will

LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik has congratulated Pakstan team for winning the World Cup quarter-final match against the West Indies and is now looking forward to the next quarter-final match. In a message to the team he said: "Well done Pakistan. Now all eyes of tomorrow's (Thursday's) match." Another former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif congratulated the Pakistan team as well as the entire nation for the win against the West Indies. He also hoped to see Pakistan play

TEL AVIV - Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav was sentenced to seven years in jail for rape on Tuesday in a case that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said showed "that no person is above the law". Katsav had denied charges he twice raped an aide when he was a cabinet minister in the late 1990s, and molested or sexually harassed two other women who worked for him during his 2000-2007 term as president. But a three-judge panel at Tel Aviv District Court said when convicting him in

LAHORE - An accountability court on Friday handed over former Haj director Rao Shakeel Ahmad to NAB on physical remand until April 1. Rao is involved in piling up illegal assets and was arrested on March 17 in Lahore on charges of maintaining various bank accounts, through which he made heavy transactions. During the hearing, counsel for the accused Amjad Pervaiz argued that NAB initiated an inquiry against Rao in 2001 and at the end he had been declared innocent.
In spite of

NEW YORK - A former American ambassador to Pakistan highlighted the importance of the South Asian country for the US amid strains in Islamabad-Washington relations over the Raymond Davis affair that led to calls for a cut-off of US aid.
"Like it or not, Pakistan is our lifeline," Wendy Chamberlin was quoted as saying in the course of a New York Times' dispatch on Sunday, while talking about the activities of the detained Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operator and the adverse

ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani ambassadors called upon the government on Tuesday to hold United States (US) citizen Raymond Davis accountable under the laws of Pakistan and to take appropriate steps, such as the imposition of limits on the size of the US Embassy and consular missions in Pakistan and the thorough scrutiny of visa applications. Twenty former Pakistani envoys including Riaz Khokhar, Amir Usman, Amir Ali Shah, Mushtaq Mehr, Tayyab Siddiqui, Afzal Akbar Khan, Mohammad

Lahore - Khalid Ghurki, former Pakistan People's Party (PPP) member of the National Assembly (MNA) and Federal Environment Minister and PPP Lahore President Samina Khalid Ghurki's husband, passed away at Sheikh Zayed Hospital after a prolonged illness on Tuesday. He was 56. Ghuki had been suffering from kidney problems for a long time and died of kidney failure. He is survived by a widow, two sons and two daughters. The former PPP MNA was a close associate of President Asif Ali

LAHORE - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab on Monday filed a reference in an accountability court against two former deputy commissioners, two former assistant commissioners and a deputy tehsil nazim along with two others over charges of illegal allotment of 1,240 kanal state land. The reference has been filed against former Bahawalnagar deputy commissioner (DC) Saeed Zafar, former Bahawalnagar deputy commissioner Khalid Bashir Tarar, former Fort Abbas assistant

LAHORE - An accountability court adjourned on Friday the hearing of a reference filed against former Water and Power Development Authority and Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Lt General (r) Zahid Ali Akbar till March 11. Earlier, his son Yasir Ali filed an objection petition challenging the court orders regarding the attachment of properties owned by Zahid. The court will record arguments on said application on the next hearing date.
Double Shah case accused: An accountability

Lahore - The Al-Hamd Publications on Tuesday published former Punjab University (PU) Oriental College principal Dr Khawaja Zikria's poetry titled Ashob. Zikria, a big name in Urdu literature and especially criticism, has compiled the work of poet Majeed Amjad.

LAHORE - Directorate of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Training and Research (Inland Revenue) arranged a function, the other day, to bid farewell to its first Director General Abdul Wadood Khan.
Wadood Khan headed the Directorate of Training and Research for over a year and retired on February 02, 2011. He was replaced by another senior FBR officer Shahid Nasim. Speaking on this occasion, Abdul Wadood Khan said that his stay at DOT was immensely pleasant as he got a chance to be

MURIDKE: Former councillor Ejaz alias Jajji Butt and his two gunmen were killed while two others injured over an old enmity that has claimed eight lives so far. Reportedly, Ejaz alias Jajji Butt and his gunmen were going to a local MPA's office by two motorcycles for some personal matter. When they reached near Aziz Industries, a car stopped in front of them and the riders opened fire on them and fled away. A gunman of Jajji Butt Sarfraz died instantly while Ahmed Raza alias Hassan,

NEW DELHI: India's premier civilian investigation agency has estimated that the country's former Telecom minister A Raja could have received as much as 30 billion rupees ($600 million) as bribe in the 2G spectrum scam, local media reported Friday.
According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), he caused loss to the national exchequer by selling the spectrum at undervalued rates at 400 to 500 billion rupees, 'The Times of India' said.
The former minister is currently

LAHORE - Government deficits, lack of both economic vision and political will are major challenges the country is facing on the economic front. Regulators have failed to make a tangible difference as the government has completely overlooked their prescribed role.
These observations were made by the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) former Chairman Khalid Mirza, while addressing the members of Lahore Economic Journalists Association (LEJA) here on Wednesday. He was