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LAHORE - Pakistan's No. 1 tennis player and recepient of President's Award for Pride of Performance Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi returned home Wednesday after participating in year's first grandslam tennis championship, Australian Open.
Aisam played the pre-quarter final of the men's double event together with Rohan Bopanna of India. The duo lost a closely contested match with a score of 6-3, 6-7, 6-7 to the no. 8 seeds Nenad Zimonjic and Michael Llodra. This is the best performance ever

KARACHI - Declaring the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) supply route from Karachi to Kabul for the allied forces in Afghanistan unsafe, the federal government has asked the home departments of Sindh and Balochistan to adopt a foolproof security plan for the itinerary, sources in the Sindh Home Department told Pakistan Today.
They said that the NATO supply route is under attack by unidentified suspects, whereas goods transporters are being uncooperative with the

LOS ANGELES - iPad 2 goes even sleeker with no physical home button. With iOS 4.3 now in the hands of developers, the software's iPad-bound multi-touch adding credentials will see the physical home button removed from the upcoming iPad 2, new reports have suggested. Apple's insatiable desire to produce stunningly attractive, ultra sleek gadgets has seen its portable devices limit the use of physical controls as much as possible with latest reports suggesting that the four and five

LAHORE - Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal is set to return home from the national team's tour of New Zealand after the death of his father, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Tuesday.
Ajmal is currently part of Pakistan's 15-man squad for the Test series against New Zealand and is certain to miss the first Test, which starts on Friday, January 1, at Hamilton. "The PCB is making necessary arrangements to facilitate Saeed Ajmal's early return to the country from New Zealand,"

LONDON - The British government has stepped in to stop Beatles legend Ringo Starr's birthplace from being bulldozed. Housing Minister Grant Shapps has written to Liverpool City Council urging a temporary reprieve for 9 Madryn Street, in the Dingle district, which is scheduled for demolition.
The childhood homes of bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney are popular tourist attractions in the northwest English city, run by the National Trust, which looks after many of Britain's

JERUSALEM - Israel's defence ministry has accused a London-based Palestinian centre of "terror-affiliated activities" and being the organisational arm of the militant Islamic Hamas movement in Europe. Hamas,
which controls the Gaza Strip and advocates violent opposition to the Jewish state, is designated by the European Union as a terrorist organisation. An Israeli defence ministry statement issued on Tuesday said that the Palestinian Return Centre organises conferences in

"Pakistan is our home - we shall live and die on our land," so said Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed in a crowded press conference at London's Heathrow Airport on 13 January, 1984. She had reached there after a long imprisonment in Pakistan for the operation of her ears.
BB Shaheed's historic words continue to echo in Pakistan even today. Her prophetic statement rang true on the fateful day of 27 December, 2007 when she was brutally martyred at Liaquat Bagh. Today is BB's third

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board on Saturday made it clear the security situation in the country has forced it to organise matches at neutral venues.
An official of the board said that Pakistan would play more major home series at neutral venues because of the refusal of teams to play in Pakistan.
The official said the England and Wales Cricket Board had confirmed a full series of three Tests, five one-day internationals and a T20 match against Pakistan in early 2012

MELBOURNE: England opener Alastair Cook Tuesday played down a growing row over Australia's move to change pitches for the vital Melbourne Ashes Test, saying they were simply exploiting "home advantage". Cook shrugged "you'd expect everyone to do it" after news that the Melbourne Cricket Ground was preparing a green pitch that will favour Australia's pace attack and offer little turn for England spinner Graeme Swann. "That is the beauty of home conditions, isn't it?" Cook told

Noor Muhammad, 88 years of age, shifted to Lahore from Bengal. Before partition, he worked at the Calcutta Harbour.
Upon arrival, he was allotted a house, demolished without compensation when the Mughulpura bridge was constructed. Today he is without home and without an NIC card.
His only source of income is this clothes stall outside Amritsar Park.

LAHORE: The Punjab University (PU) administration on Tuesday identified three Islami Jamiat-e-Talba (IJT) activists involved in attacking a varsity teacher's house and interestingly all three of them are Hafiz-e-Quran and one of them is IJT nazim, Pakistan Today has learnt. Muslim Town Police have not registered a first information report (FIR) against the students while PU faculty was concerned about their security. The three people involved in attacking PU Hostel number 15

NEW YORK: 'Take That' star Mark Owen is selling his marital home after admitting cheating on his wife earlier this year, according to a report. The singer stunned fans in March by confessing to 10 affairs behind his partner Emma's back, as well as revealing he has been nursing a secret drinking problem for over a decade.
Now Owen has placed the couple's home in Wandsworth, south London on the market in a bid for a fresh start with Emma and their two children, Elwood, four, and

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Families began trickling back to Pakistan's South Waziristan on Saturday nearly 14 months after being displaced by fighting between al Qaeda-linked Taliban militants and the military.
The government is eager to re-settle people in volatile areas like South Waziristan along the Afghan border in the northwest to show military offensives are stabilising the country, a strategic US ally. People like electrician Musa Khan, 45, are highly sceptical.
"I don't want

LAHORE: The Pakistan cricket team reached back home in the wee hours of Friday after a month long home tour against South Africa in the United Arab Emirates. Pakistan played two T20s, five ODIs and two Test matches during their stay in UAE. On arrival at the Lahore airport, Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam expressed satisfaction over the team's efforts, saying that it did well in the nerve-wrecking tour.
He praised Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq for his leading role in the

LAHORE: The victorious Pakistan women cricket team members returned home to a rousing welcome at the Allama Iqbal International Airport on Sunday Morning.
Amidst showers of rose petals, Pakistani captain Sana Mir along with her team members were warmly received by Pakistan Cricket Board's women wing chairperson Bushra Aitzaz accompanied by excited officials, family members and various fans.
Pakistan women team beat Bangladesh in the final by 10 wickets to win the Asian

GUANGZHOU: Five-time World Open champion Nicol David clinched a third Asian Games title on Sunday with compatriot Mohamad Azlan Iskander completing a Malaysian double with the men's gold.
Top seed David carved out a 11-8, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7 win over Hong Kong's Annie Au. The victory follows the Malaysian star's Asiad gold triumphs in Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and Doha four years ago. David, who has been world number one for a record 56 consecutive months, arrived in Guangzhou having

DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday to clear demonstrators trying to prevent authorities from evicting the leader of the opposition from a home she has occupied since 1982.
At least 50 people were injured and more than 20 demonstrators detained in the capital Dhaka, police said. Police and witnesses said up to 4,000 protesters armed with sticks and stones set fire to vehicles and attacked officers near the headquarters of former prime