Tag: Friday

LAHORE - The final of the 24th Khawaja Shaujauddin Memorial League Cricket Tournament will be played between Pioneer Club and City Gymkhana at the PCSIR Ground on Friday. Ex-MPA Sohail Zia Butt, Dr Saeed Elahee MPA and former international umpire Rub Nawaz will be the guests of honour in the tournament's final.

LOS ANGELES - Teen YouTube sensation Rebecca Black sings gleefully about the weekend in her Web video hit "Friday," -- and now the 13 year-old has something even more exciting to crow about.
"Friday" has been viewed online more than Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" and Justin Bieber's "Pray," Visible Measures, a company that tracks performance of Web videos said on Monday.
Black's low-budget video, which the California teen made with a boutique record label, has generated

Moviegoers finally embraced the world's most under-appreciated superhero, the Easter Bunny, as Hop surpassed industry expectations and grossed $11.4 million on Friday, according to early estimates. Universal's $63 million family comedy, about the Easter Bunny's rebellious teenage son, is on pace for a $38 million opening weekend, which would give it the fifth best April debut ever.
The PG movie was produced by Illumination Entertainment, whose first film, last summer's Despicable

LAHORE - The Pakistan Blind Cricket team leaves for Australia in the wee hours of Friday to play a series against their South Australian counterparts. The team will leave for Melbourne via Bangkok from Quaid-e-Azam International Airport Karachi. The Pakistan team will play three T20s and three ODIs in Australia.

LOS ANGELES - The race is on between Paramount's Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and Sony's Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy Just Go With It. In an impressive start, Never Say Never opened to an estimated $12.4 million from 3,105 theaters on Friday to beat Just Go With It, which grossed an estimated $9.7 million from 3,548 theaters.
Both movies should crack the $30 million mark for the full weekend. Heading into the frame, most box office observers expected Just Go

ISLAMABAD - The government on Monday gave a nod to a private members' bill in the Senate suggesting that Friday be a weekly holiday instead of Sunday. The bill led to a heated debate on rules of procedure and parliamentary traditions with the Awami National Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement opposing the bill, and religious elements supporting it.
In the absence of Law Minister Babar Awan, Arbab Alamgir Khan, when asked by the chair, did not oppose the bill introduced by

LAHORE - The three-day trials to select Faisalabad's PMC Athletico's U13 football team for the upcoming 13th National U13 Festival will be held on three venues.
Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) will stage the event in February and players born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible for the trial as well as the competition. PMC Athletico Faisalabad is one of the foremost football clubs in Pakistan and will appear for the fourth time in Pakistan Premier League later this year.

LAHORE - The Tehreek-e-Namoos-e-Risalat (TNR) would observe Friday, January 14, as a black day against Pope Benedict's statement for repeal of blasphemy laws. Maulana Amjad Khan, Amirul Azeem, Malik Bashir, Ramzan Manzoor and Maulana Azizur Rehman said that by asking the federal government to repeal blasphemy laws, the Pope had actually interfered in our religious and internal affairs.
"It is very much clear now that who is steering the people who are trying to change the

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will hold formal talks on Friday, covering wide ranging topics of bilateral interest to expand decade-old relationship, with focus on their growing economic partnership.
The talks at the Prime Minister House will be followed by signing of about 20 agreements and memorandums of understandings (MoUs) in areas of economy, energy and communication. Prime Minister Wen will arrive here on Friday