Tag: Fresh

LAHORE - Pakistan coach Waqar Younis and team manager Intikhab Alam called Tuesday for a fresh start for the national side after three key players were handed lengthy bans on corruption charges. "It is important that it's finished now and we can start afresh," Waqar told reporters at Lahore airport.
"We can now make a fresh start after a lot of controversies affected Pakistan cricket and I am happy that it's over now." Waqar was coach during England tour where the scandal

PHNOM PENH - Fresh clashes broke out along the Thai-Cambodian border Sunday near a disputed temple, armies from both countries said, ending a ceasefire agreed after fighting left at least five people dead. "We are fighting now, they started firing at us first," a Cambodian military commander told AFP, referring to Thai troops across the border.
Thai army spokesman Colonel Sunsern Kaewkumnerd confirmed the renewed unrest, but accused the Cambodian side of reigniting the violence

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a report on illegal appointments in Port Qasim Authority (PQA) and directed the Ministry of Ports and Shipping to refurnish a "complete record" of the appointments made by former minister Babar Khan Ghauri.
A four-member bench comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, was hearing the petition challenging the appointment of Mehmood Zameer Farooqi,

KARACHI - The Ministry of Law has pointed certain objections in the Margin Trading System's (MTS) draft and has sent it back to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), thus putting fate of the long-awaited leverage product in abeyance.
Unconfirmed reports, however, reveal that the law ministry has approved and referred the MTS draft to the apex regulator, which is to be launched in the first week of next month. Market sources told Pakistan Today that the

LONDON - Thousands of angry travellers forced to sleep in airports and train stations across Europe faced more misery on Tuesday as fresh snowfalls paralysed transport systems just days before Christmas.
London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, was only operating about a third of its normal schedule during a fourth day of disruption, while Frankfurt halted all flights after a new blanketing of snow.
For a third day, queues stretched for hours outside the London terminal

LAHORE: A large number of candidates submitted their applications at the Emergency Services Academy Lahore and the divisional headquarters for various vacant posts in Punjab. Initial medical screening of the candidates for Hepatitis B, C, HIV and physical screening has been conducted. A written test will be held at 10 a.m. at the Emergency Services Academy Shama Chowk (former LOS) Ferozepur Road Lahore.
The written test from BS-12 to BS-18 will be conducted on December 28, BS-11

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.