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GEPCO Chief Executive Mehboob Ali has suspended Hafizabad Division Executive Engineer Rana Ishtiaq for his failure to decrease line losses and has appointed Muhammad...

The line-up for the eighth Khadam-i-Aala Punjab Dangal was finalized by the organizers on Saturday. The main title bout will be contested between Sher-i-Gujranwala...

Spurious drugs worth millions of rupees are flooding Pakistani markets, right under the nose of health authorities that have been unable to stop the...

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt says that he was waiting for the managers report before taking any action against Shahid Afridi in his...

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ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has slammed the government's three-year performance in its white paper, to be released within the next few days.
The white paper, which is being given final touches and is likely to be issued in the coming week, says the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led coalition government was toeing former president Pervez Musharraf's marks, Pakistan Today has learnt reliably.
It said true democracy was non-prevalent in the country

CHENNAI - England head into their final Group B match against the West Indies on Thursday knowing defeat will send them crashing out of the World Cup. Even victory may not be enough for Andrew Strauss's men to go through to the knockout stages, with England having to rely on other results going their way.
England's preparations suffered a setback when skipper Strauss and lead spinner Graeme Swann both missed training Tuesday through illness while strike fast bowler James Anderson

KARACHI - Decisions made in accordance with the Constitution of Pakistan and the rule of law could strengthen the State and its economic, social and political system, said Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday.
Speaking to the newly elected office-bearers of the Karachi Bar Association (KBA) after administering them oath at the Sindh High Court (SHC), Chaudhry said that if two institutions of the country - Revenue and Police - perform their duties

KARACHI - Foreign funding is sought for the establishment of a transmission line to the Thar coalfields for the distribution of between 2,500 and 3,000 megawatts electricity from the coal projects to the national grid.
Ministry of Water and Power will hold a meeting shortly with all concerned stakeholders to resolve the issue related to the approval of the project from Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in order to ensure that work on the transmission

LONDON - English Premier League side Sunderland are considering taking on former foreign secretary David Miliband as a vice-chairman of the club.
The Black Cats chairman Niall Quinn has confirmed that talks have been held with 45-year-old Miliband, who is the Labour Party MP for the neighbouring constituency of South Shields. Reports suggested that he could be hired to work at the Stadium of Light as a vice-chairman on an annual salary of 50,000 pounds. Miliband has taken a back

MELBOURNE - While the giants of men's tennis flexed their muscles in practice at Melbourne Park on Tuesday, the game's dark horses gathered at the gentile Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in the build-up to next week's Australian Open.
Once a launching pad to grand slam glory for past champions, the invitational Kooyong Classic held in Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs will host a rather more modest lineup when it starts on Wednesday.
Shock Wimbledon finalist and world number six

KARACHI - Salman Butt's fall from grace came just when Pakistan believed the new captain and stylish opener could lead the embattled team for years to come. Handed the captaincy after Shahid Afridi quit following a one-sided defeat against Australia at Lord's in July, the 26-year-old Salman took little time in changing the fortunes of the team.
Pakistan defeated Australia in the very next match by four wickets at Leeds - their first win over Test cricket's best team for 15 years

MELBOURNE - USMAN Khawaja is shaping as a likely Test debutant in Sydney next week, even if Ricky Ponting is fit to lead the side in the final match of the Ashes series.
Australian selectors are not considering substantial changes in the wake of the Melbourne Test. Instead, the only likely changes are a replacement for injured paceman Ryan Harris and also for Ponting if there is a negative report from his surgeon about the fracture in his left little finger.
Spinner Michael

KARACHI: Pakistan has not managed to seal a substantial amount of support from donor agencies or bilateral sources in the two-day Pakistan Development Forum held from November 14 to 15.
The IMF insisted on structural reforms highlighting the reformed General Sales Tax (GST) and electricity as priority areas. Even the long-standing bilateral partners have seconded IMF's opinion of taxing the rich and the untapped segments of the economy.
The event managed to secure $500

BAGHDAD: A string of anti-Christian bombings has cost six more lives in the wake of the Baghdad church bloodbath, sowing panic in Iraq's 2,000-year-old minority on Wednesday, many of whom now want to flee.
"Since Tuesday evening, there have been 13 bombs and two mortar attacks on homes and shops of Christians in which a total of six people were killed and 33 injured," a defence ministry official said. "A church was also damaged."
An interior ministry official earlier gave a