Tag: Friendly

Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has urged the federal government to announce a business and public-friendly budget besides curbing the menace of...

LAHORE - Sports Journalists Association of Lahore beat Sports Writers Association of Punjab by three wickets in an exhibition match held here at the LCCA ground on Wednesday. SWAP captain Musa Bilal, who made 40, won the toss and opted to bat. They scored 169 runs in 20 overs. Faraz 36 Javed 27, Imran 10 and Farukh Butt 18 were the main scorers. Ijaz Bakhari and Aftab Tabi had one wicket each. In reply, SJAL achieved the score losing seven wickets.
SWAP president Shahid Sheikh,

LONDON - Blackburn are preparing to spread the English Premier League gospel in India as part of an Asian tour later this year, manager Steve Kean confirmed Tuesday. Blackburn, who are owned by Indian poultry giants Venky's, are in talks to play a friendly against Brazilian outfit Flamengo in India before moving on to Hong Kong to play in the Premier League Asia Trophy.
Kean confirmed the plans after holding talks with Rovers owners in late March.
"It was a very good

PESHAWAR - Friendly fire killed the 13 Pakistani soldiers whose deaths were initially blamed on Islamist militants in the Taliban-infested tribal belt on the Afghan border, a commander said Tuesday.
Security officials at first had said that 14 soldiers were killed during fighting on Monday in the Shindhand area of Khyber Agency. But northwest military commander Lieutenant General Asif Yasin Malik told reporters on Tuesday that 13 soldiers died due to mortar fire called in by the

PESHAWAR - Thirteen members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps, including a colonel, were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident in a northwestern region infested with al Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants, a top military commander said.
The deaths occurred late on Monday during an anti-militant operation by the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Khyber, an ethnic Pashtun tribal region near the Afghan border.
Lieutenant-General Asif Yasin Malik, the seniormost officer in the

LAHORE - The second match of the friendly series between Pakistan and Palestine will be played on Friday at Karachi's Peoples Sports Complex.
The match will be the fourth clash between the two teams. Karachi's football followers will get a chance to witness a FIFA-recognized international game after a lapse of more than five years.
The last time Karachi hosted an international match was on March 1, 2006, when Pakistan faced UAE in the 14th Asian Cup Qualifiers. Palestine

PESHAWAR - PML-Likeminded chief Senator Salim Saifullah Khan has said smooth and friendly relations with all the neighbouring countries could enable the country to meet economic and political challenges. Addressing a press conference at his residence on Sunday afternoon, Salim Saif Ullah Khan observed cordial relations with the neighbouring countries could pave the way for investment and trade links with the rest of the world.
He said poverty, unemployment and backwardness were

NEW DELHI - Asking Pakistan to fulfill its assurances of disbanding the terror infrastructure on its soil, India Tuesday said it was willing to go "more than half the way" to hold peace talks with the neighbour but terrorism could "not be shoved" under the carpet. External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, during an interaction with visiting journalists from eastern European countries, said India was "looking forward" to Pakistan addressing its core concern regarding terrorism and

LAHORE - A meeting of representatives of trade unions organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has deplored the lack of regard for labour rights and international conventions while adopting new labour laws, following the transfer of the subject to the provinces under the 18th Amendment.
The labour representatives took exception to the provision of the 18th Amendment that abolished the system of labour legislation at the national level, a provision they have

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Ch Shujaat Hussain and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday agreed to extend their friendly relations in the larger interest of the country.
PML-Q chief visited Khan on Saturday for a meeting that lasted for more than two hours. Talking to reporters after the meeting Shujaat said the PML-Q could form an alliance with the PTI on issues of national interests. Praising the PTI chairman, Shujaat said even Khan's

KARACHI: The opposition is shedding its tag of being 'friendly' and is getting set to give a tough time to the government.
Addressing a gathering near Khairpur on Tuesday, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said his party had tried to be patient and tolerant with the government's decisions, but will now oppose them with 'full force.'
Nawaz said he would go against all such steps that increase corruption and stoke prices to new heights. He said the public