Tag: Leaves

Indian coach Birbal Wadhera has left of his home country after completing month long training camps at Islamabad and Lahore and found the youngsters....

The US space shuttle Endeavour was on its way back to Earth on Monday after undocking from the International Space Station on its final...

The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has attached new strings to the controversy-ridden LDA housing plots with new eligibility criterion for its employees to participate...

LAHORE - The Pakistan cricket team left for the West Indies on Thursday after completing its two-day the training camp. The team would play a T-20 and a series of five one-day international matches under the captaincy of Shahid Afridi, while two test matches under the captaincy of Misbah-Ul-Haq. The team will start the tour of West Indies with a practice match. The practice match between Pakistan and West Indies will begin on April 18. The tour would formally start from April 21 with

LAHORE - The Pakistan cricket team departed on Thursday for their tour to the West Indies Team. Manager Intikhab Alam said that he was hopeful that the young players included in the squad would prove their merit during this tour.
Shahid Afridi will captain Pakistan in the limited over format while Misbah-Ul-Haq will lead the test squad. Pakistan will play a warm-up match on April 18, while the tour formally starts from the April 21.
Meanwhile, West Indian selectors also

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka Cricket said Monday it is saddled with a $23-million-dollar debt after cost overruns and hefty bills incurred building stadiums for the recent World Cup.
"We spent a lot of money to host the World Cup, to build two stadiums and rebuild one stadium. The World Cup left us a 2.5 billion rupee ($22.6 million) deficit," Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage told reporters.
Sri Lanka, which lost the final to India by six wickets, hosted 12 matches during the

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) on Sunday lost 50 megawatts (MW) electricity supply from rental power plants installed at the SITE Gas Turbine Station and West Wharf. With the closure of these units, fears abound of at least 14 hours of power load shedding from Monday since the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) is also set to reduce gas supply on account of repairs in Bhit Shah gas field.
The 50MW were being generated by a Dubai-based company, M/S EGRICO; the

ISLAMABAD - Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha will leave for Washington today (Monday) to iron out ISI's differences with the CIA. Sources told Online that the purpose of Pasha's visit was to remove some misunderstandings between ISI and CIA which arose over the issue of Raymond Davis.
Sources said General Pasha would also raise the issue of drone attacks in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The ISI director general has been invited by CIA

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday left here for London on a four-day private visit. The Prime Minister is visiting London to see his ailing son who is likely to undergo surgery.

LAHORE - A small caravan of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) workers left for Larkana on Saturday from the railway station to attend PPP founder and former PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's (ZAB) 32nd death anniversary. The workers were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of ZAB. No PPP Punjab leader was present to see the workers off. Party activists chanted slogans including "Jiye Bhutto" and "Zinda Hai BB Zinda Hai". PPP Lahore Women Wing President Faiza Malik,

KABUL - Continued militancy and skirmishes have claimed the lives of more than 100 soldiers with NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the first quarter of the current year.
Since the beginning 2011, according to iCasalties, a website tracking the casualties of NATO-led forces in war on terror in Afghanistan, 103 soldiers with majority of them Americans have been killed in the post-Taliban country, a Chinese news agency reported.
The fatalities of

KARACHI - Pakistan's central bank decided to leave its key policy rate unchanged at 14 percent for the subsequent two months, the State Bank of Pakistan said in a statement on Saturday.
The central bank also left the rate unchanged on Jan. 29.

LAHORE - Thousands of train passengers were left stranded at the city and cantonment railway stations after several trains were cancelled owing to diesel shortages on Friday. Subsequently, railway authorities were unable to issue a new schedule for the suspended trains. The Railway Station Information Office (117) informed passengers that all trains on Lahore-Faisalabad and Lahore-Narowal sections have been suspended while 117-Up/118-Down Moosa Pak Express, 38-Up Express, 327-Up

LAHORE - A Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) delegation, led by President Asma Jahangir, will leave for India today (Wednesday) at the invitation of the Indian Supreme Court Bar Association.
The delegation, consisting of 150 lawyers, will attend a seminar at Jaipur on March 19 and 20. Former SCBA president Ali Ahmed Kurd will also accompany the delegation, which will cross that Wagah Border at 10:30am today. The Delhi High Court Bar Association and the Indian Supreme Court Bar

TRIPOLI - At least 18 people, including a baby, were killed in the fighting in the Libyan town of Misrata on Sunday, a doctor in the embattled country said. "We have 18 martyrs but the figure is not final. We also have many people wounded, I cannot even count them," said the doctor, who worked at Misrata main hospital, adding that the dead included rebels and civilians. Troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, meanwhile, launched counter-offensives against rebel-held towns, increasing fears

NEW DELHI - A key regional party from south India said Saturday it had withdrawn from the ruling national coalition, dealing a new blow to the embattled government but still leaving it with a sturdy majority. The Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) said it had been unable to come to an agreement with the Congress party for elections in the state of Tamil Nadu, leading it to withdraw from the embattled federal coalition and offer issue-based support.
The move is the latest challenge

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Inter-Provincial Cooperation Mian Raza Rabbani on Monday had to face embarrassment after getting into an argument with former Balochistan governor Abdul Qadir Baloch for 'not resigning against the army operation by Musharraf regime'.
Soon after Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani delivered a policy statement on Balochistan, Lt Gen (r) Abdul Qadir Baloch, on a point of order, said the statement had no relevance with the ground realities of the troubled