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KARACHI - The future of 7,187 contractual teachers remains in the balance despite Sindh Education and Literacy Minister Pir Mazharul Haq announcing in the Sindh Assembly session on Tuesday that no individual will be dismissed from service.
Responding to a point of order raised by Pakistan Muslim League-Functional's (PML-F) Nusrat Saher Abbasi, Haq assured all members his department was reviewing the cases of these employees. He claimed that the tack record of the PPP government

LAHORE - Former security manager of Pakistan cricket team Major (retd) Khawaja Javed Najam revealed on Sunday how Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal had violated the regulations to entertain bookmaker Mazhar Majeed in their hotel room during the tour of England last summer.
As the six-day hearing of the ICC's anti-corruption tribunal entered its fourth day, Najam, in his statement to the tribunal in Doha, said that some players went out of their way to maintain links with the Majeed

LAHORE: Discarded Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal said Tuesday he will also sue Mazher Majeed for branding him as a spot-fixer. Akmal joins three other players, brother Umar, Wahab Riaz and Imran Farhat in deciding to file a case against Majeed. In a video leaked last week, Majeed was seen naming the four as being on his pay roll and involved in spot-fixing. Majeed had earlier also said Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammed Amir helped him fix matches.
"Majeed was just my

LAHORE: Pakistan opener Imran Farhat has decided to serve legal notice on bookmaker Mazhar Majeed, who has named four more players as being involved in spot-fixing in a video footage released by a private news television channel.
Farhat, one of the four named, said he was appalled by the bookmaker's claims. "I just don't know what to say. Neither is he my agent nor have I ever been involved in such things," Farhat said.
The left-handed opener was named along with Umar Akmal,