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LAHORE - Akhter Abdul Rehman Club have moved into the final of the 26th M Yaseen Akhter Memorial Cricket Tournament after beating P&T Gym by 37 runs in the second semi-final played at Township ground.
Scores: Akhter Abdul Rehman Club 150-9 in 20 overs. Imran Butt 32, Saleem Malik 45, Hafiz Aamir 25, M Shehzad 30. Asif Mehmood 4-27,Waqas 2-29, Imran Nazir (sr) 1-29, Imran Nazir (jr) 1-22.
P&T Gym 113-9 in 20 overs. Imran Nazir (sr) 12, Khakan Arsal 13, M Waqas 17, Imran Nazir

LONDON/TRIPOLI - International powers meeting in London on Tuesday edged closer to an exile plan for embattled Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, as France said it was ready to discuss military aid for rebels.
More than 40 countries and organisations including the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) agreed to create a contact group to map out a future for Libya and to meet again as soon as possible in Qatar.
Meanwhile, Gaddafi's better-armed and

LAHORE - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has eliminated the tax refund system for textile sector earlier imposed in the previous tax regime making the sector more productive and competent. All Pakistan Textile Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz briefed textile sector stakeholders on Tuesday about the changes introduced by the FBR. According to the changes, there will be no tax on units, which produces material for exports and units producing for domestic consumption would be asked

LAHORE - Mughalpura Institute have moved into the quarter-final of the East Zone Cricket Championship after defeating Mughalpura Whites by 9 wickets at Wahdat Colony ground on Wednesday. The match saw fine batting performances by Ghulam Farid and Zaheer Butt. Both players added 104 runs in the unbeaten second wicket partnership.
Jallo Gymkhana have also qualified for the quarter-finals after outplaying Service Club by six wickets at Model Town Green ground on Thursday. Brilliant

LAHORE - Garhi Shahu FC and Flying Horse FC secured their places in the pre-quarterfinals of the All Punjab Raiders Football Cup 2011 at Raiders Football Club Ground, Faisal Town.
They join Walton, Shaheen Wahdat, Bata FC, Afshan FC, Young Shooter, Jabbar Friends, Pency, Raiders FC , Pak Fighters, Model Town, Muneer Shaheed (Okara), Usmania FC, Muslim FC (Sheikhpura), Fatima Memorial in the last 16 round. Both the teams won 3-0 against Publican FC and St. Michael FC in the first

LAHORE - Punjab Club moved into the third round of the East Zone Cricket Championship after beating Gulberg Eaglets by 16 runs at Wahdat Colony ground on Monday. A fine century by Ali Raza and equally good bowling by Afzal Shehzad were the highlights of the match.
Meanwhile, the Tournament Committee has announced the dates for the next five matches.
Scores: Punjab Club 250/8. Afzal Shehzad 73, Umer Farooq 41, Sheraz Butt 18, Yousuf Ali 17, Asif Ashfaq 13, Mohsin Saleh 10,

ORLANDO - Former world number one Tiger Woods is moving into a new home in Jupiter, Florida, that features a custom-built practice facility, the 14-time major champion said Monday on his website. In the first blog posting on his website since just before the one-year anniversary of a sex scandal that led to divorce and the loss of millions of dollars in endorsement deals, Woods revealed his upcoming move from Orlando. "Pretty soon, I'll be moving into my new home in Jupiter, Fla,"

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Saturday extended a conditional support to Shahbaz Sharif in the case of a 'no-confidence motion' against him in the provincial assembly. Under the 'revised reconciliation policy', Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz announced that they would not vote against the chief minister if the turncoats were not embraced.
Talking to the media men outside the Punjab Assembly, Riaz said they were ready to let the PML-N rule in the

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Q parliamentary leader in Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Zaheeruddin has said that his opposition party will not move a no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, as they did not have the required number of legislators to do so.
Addressing a news conference at the Muslim League House on Friday, Zaheer said that the PML-Q was not in a position to present any such move in the House, however, he pledged to continue exposing the "other" face

QATAR - Qatar Airways, the national airline of the State of Qatar, is set to make its debut in Canada with the launch of scheduled flights to Montreal, effective June 29. Canada's second largest city will be served with three-flights-a-week on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays using the airline's flagship Boeing 777-200 Long Range aircraft. The non-stop journey from the airline's hub in Doha to Montreal's Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport will take a total flying time of 13

LAHORE - In response to the PML-N's decision to part ways with the PPP in Punjab, PPP leaders on Friday renewed their pledge to continue politics of reconciliation in the province. However, other political forces called the move "a start of a new power game in Punjab".
Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower Khurshid Shah said the PPP would play the opposition's role in Punjab, adding however, that it would continue its policy of reconciliation. He said PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif

ISLAMABAD - The US may approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the settlement of a row with Pakistan over the fate of a detained US citizen, Raymond Davis. The Obama administration says Davis is a diplomat who enjoys immunity from being tried in a Pakistani court.
Contrary to Pakistan's stance that Davis, who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore on January 27, is not a diplomat, the US authorities insist that he is a member of staff of the US embassy in Islamabad,

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) announced on Wednesday that it would move the Supreme Court of Pakistan against a parliamentary committee's decision whereby the proposal for extension of two Sindh High Court (SHC) judges was rejected.
The SHCBA took the decision at a meeting chaired by SHCBA President Anwar Mansoor Khan and attended by SHCBA office-bearers and senior lawyers. The participants of the meeting condemned the parliamentary committee's decision

JERUSALEM - Israel on Tuesday urged world powers to respond "firmly" after two Iran warships began sailing through the Suez Canal en route to the Mediterranean, in what the Jewish state says is a provocation. The two ships entered the canal shortly after dawn and were expected to emerge into the southeastern Mediterranean in the early evening, some 12-14 hours later, a canal official said.
"We are talking about an unprecedented Iranian military presence in the Mediterranean, and

KARACHI - Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) has written an official letter to Bangladesh Shipping Corporation to revive the shipping protocol signed between both countries around 33 years ago in order to boost trade volume. Chairman PNSC Brigadier (r) Rashid Siddiqi while speaking to Pakistan Today said this letter was written in the wake of expanding business links between both countries while the Shipping Protocol has been disrupted since 1997.
However, PNSC and

LAHORE - A movement like Tunisia and Egypt could emerge in Pakistan if traditional politicians belonging to the feudal system tried to obstruct the MQM's call for a revolution, party senior leader Dr Farooq Sattar said on Saturday.
Flanked by former minister Babar Ghauri, Sindh IT minister Raza Haroon, MQM central coordination committee member Saif Yar Khan and other office bearers from Punjab, Sattar told reporters in a press conference arranged at the Lahore Press Club that

ISLAMABAD - The FIA will move the Lahore High Court today (Tuesday) to get Moonis Elahi declared a proclaimed offender (PO) for his alleged involvement in the multi-billion rupee NICL scam. The FIA issued the arrest warrants for Moonis on January 29 after he failed to appear before the investigation team.
The deadline in this regard ends today, a senior FIA official said. He said the agency had also sent a request to Interpol and law enforcement authorities in the United Kingdom