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LAHORE - Pakistan cricket team has become richer by more than one million dollars due to their good show in the World Cup where they lost the semi-final to India. The World Cup also provided a financial boost to the Pakistan Cricket Board which lost the hosting rights in 2009, shortly after militants attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.
According to reports, the Pakistani team scooped up net prize money of USD one million and fifty thousand. The prize money includes

SANAA - Yemen's president has made a new offer to protesters demanding his ouster, proposing he stays in office until elections are held but transferring his powers to a caretaker government, an opposition source said on Wednesday.
Ali Abdullah Saleh made his offer at a meeting on Tuesday night with Mohammed al-Yadoumi, head of the Islamist Islah party. It was the first time Saleh had dealt with Islah, once a partner in his government, an opposition spokesmen said. "The

LAHORE - Zahida Kazmi, hailed as Pakistan's first female taxi driver, has driven from the crowded markets of Islamabad to the remote tribal country in the north, reports the BBC. In 1992 at the age of 33, newly-widowed Zahida decided to take her fate in her own hands and become a taxi driver, although she was born into a conservative and patriarchal family but had six children to support.
She took advantage of a government scheme to buy a yellow cab on easy instalments and drove

KASUR - People are suffering because of suspension of train service in Kasur. As per details, Pakistan Railways administration had suspended the services of four trains namely 321up, 322 down, 257 up and 258 down due to non availability of diesel. Many passengers had been waiting for their desired trains for many hours because they were not informed about the suspension of the service. This step would severely affect the passengers from those areas which lie around the railway track

LAHORE - Bhogiwal Road, an important artery of Northern Lahore falling in the NA-123 constituency, a citadel of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has been under construction for the last two years making residents' life miserable. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif laid the foundation stone of the road on September 9, 2008, but failed to follow up on its pace of construction. The 3.4-km-long Bhogiwal Road, located in Baghbanpura near Shalamar Garden, a main approach-road linking

KARACHI - Almost every new polio case in Sindh so far has appeared in those places where people have refused oral polio vaccine (OPV) being administered to children under five, Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI) Sindh Manager Dr Mazhar Khamisani said.
One-year-old Ayaz Muhammad Hayat is the third victim of the crippling virus in the province, bringing the total number of cases in the country this year to 15. Tando Muhammad Khan's Hayat had absolutely no history of

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) and Lahore Police's proposed crackdown against gambling has yet to show any result, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The Lahore Police has made some progress, as it arrested around three dozen gamblers and bookies who were making the most of the ongoing World Cup. According to details, as soon as the mega event began on February 19, gamblers and bookies prepared themselves for earning huge money from the sporting festival. Gamblers, who

COLOMBO - Some almost comical fielding not to mention hilarious batting mix-ups could not disguise the very serious threat Pakistan are starting to pose at the World Cup after silencing a Sri Lankan crowd on Saturday.
In their skipper Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan attack has a potent weapon which proved just as deadly to Sri Lanka's classy batting line-up as it did to the less gifted Kenyans.
This time the leg spinner grabbed four valuable wickets (4-34) to stop Sri Lanka in

KARACHI - Banned batsman Salman Butt said he was delighted to "renew his ties with cricket" after he made his debut as a television pundit for Pakistan's opening World Cup match against Kenya on Wednesday. Last week the sport's governing body (ICC) said it was unhappy Butt has been hired by a local channel and was checking whether he had breached the terms of his punishment after being found guilty of corruption.
However, Butt was glad to be involved in the sport again -- albeit

FAISALABAD - An old problem with the rules and regulations is that they are always framed in good faith but it is their out-of-context implementation that reverses the very logic behind them, producing chaotic results.
The much-publicised weekly holiday for Punjab police announced by Inspector General Punjab Police Javed Iqbal, soon after taking the charge of his office, turned out to be a useless exercise as a majority of police personnel think they are better off without

LAHORE - Swine influenza seems on the loose again, as right after detecting a swine flu case in Karachi, 20 patients have appeared to be infected with influenza A in Lahore, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources at CMH revealed that the hospital has been sending two to three blood samples of Influenza A patients everyday to Mayo Hospital for a week. CMH doctors have confirmed that most of the patients are retired army personnel, and are said to be residing in Lahore or the city

LAHORE - Instead of finding actual culprits in meter theft case, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) has registered a case against a private contractor in Hanjarwal. Some of the company's officials are aware of the importance of case but they are overlooking actual culprits, the sources in SNGPL told Pakistan Today on Thursday.
The meter went missing from SNGPL Gulberg office about three weeks back.
A private contractor Muhammad Amir is being held responsible for installing

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has approved independent building regulations for katchi abadies, project of improvement and rehabilitation work of Ferozepur Road and installation of warning signs displaying height restriction messages at underpasses at Canal Bank Road from Dharampura underpass to Tokhar Niaz Baig.
This decision was taken during a meeting of the LDA governing body, chaired by District Coordination Officer and LDA Chairman Ahad Khan Cheema. The

KARACHI - Taking a U-turn on its earlier stance, the Sindh government claimed that the Rangers' action in Orangi Town was never an "operation" to start with and that is why there was no point in seeking formal permission from the provincial authorities for this purpose.
"Reports about the Rangers' operation in Karachi were wrong and baseless because no operation was carried out and therefore it was pointless to seek permission for the action," said Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali

LAHORE - The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has adopted another technical way of fleecing customers by sending deflated bills for January, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to sources, LESCO sent inflated bills in December to increase its collections and in January sent bills with fewer readings so that it could charge more units in next month's bills and earn good collections. A large number of customers have received bills amounting less than 50 units or less than Rs 150

LAHORE - Private-sector print and electronic media were barred from entering the Women Entrepreneur Furniture Exhibition at the Pearl Continental Hotel on Sunday, as First Lady Fauzia Gilani attended the exhibition's last day at the hotel's Shahi Khema Hall.
The general public and journalists criticised the extraordinary protocol given to the PM's wife and termed it a disrespect. Journalists, already present in the hall, were forced to leave the spot until Fauzia was present in

LAHORE - The Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) closed in green with a decline in the volume on Tuesday. The LSE 25-shares added 15.17 points to close at 3,780.15 against its opening at 3,766.54 levels. Out of 128 active scrips, 27 went up, 37 went down and 64 closed without any change in their opening values. The volume of the market remained 6.05 million shares, which was 7.04 million shares less than Monday's turnover of 13.09 million shares.
Silk Bank remained the volume leader