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LAHORE - The U-19 Junior National Hockey Championship will be played at Bahawalpur Hockey Stadium, Bahawalpur, from February 26 to March 13. The event will be organised by the Punjab Hockey Association on behalf of the PHF.
For the smooth conduct of the Championship, the PHF has detailed following panel of technical officials: Tournament Director: Malik Muhammad Shafqat, ATDs: M/s. Shahbaz Junior, Anjum Saeed & Sabir Farhat, Tournament Officers are M/s. M. Shafique Bhatti, Waqas

LAHORE - Kashif Raza with his five-wicket haul led WAPDA to a comprehensive win over Multan Tigers in the National One-day Cricket Cup Division I match here at the LCCA Ground on Sunday.
Multan put Wapda to bat first and saw them scoring 224 runs. Multan batsmen fell to Kashif and Zulfiqar Babar, who took three wickets apiece. They were bowled out for 147 runs in 36.2 overs. From Wapda, Shoaib Maqsood 77 and Bilal Khilji 33 were the main scorers while Multan had the score

LAHORE - Every attempt of the federal and Punjab government to protect the US national involved in killing three Pakistanis will be foiled, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hassan said on Saturday. He was talking to journalists after visiting the residences of three people killed by two US nationals a couple of days ago.
The JI chief said that if four people hiding at the US Consulate and the vehicle involved in killing Ibadur Rehman were not taken in custody within the next

LAHORE - Multan and National Bank registered wins in their respective matches of the Faysal Bank One-Day National Cup (Division-I) at the LCCA and Gaddafi Stadium on Friday. At LCCA Ground, Lahore, Multan put ATBL attack to sword by making 325 for seven with Zain Abbas making 96 and Imranullah 61. Imran Nazir and Raza Hasan got three and two wickets respectively.
In reply, ZTBL was bowled out for 159 in 34.1 overs. Imran Nazir and Shahid Yousuf reached half centuries while the

LAHORE - Civil society activists and intellectuals on Friday condemned killing of three Pakistani citizens by an American national on Thursday. Political analyst Orya Maqbool Jan said that the incident is shameful and challenges Pakistan's sovereignty and independence.
"They don't even behave in this manner in places they have occupied," Jan said while referring to Americans and their occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. He said that this sort of behaviour is seen in jails managed

LAHORE - Lahore Eagles won the One-Day National Cup 2010-11 (Division-II) title beating Khan Research Laboratories in the final at the National Stadium Karachi on Thursday. In a high-scoring thriller, Lahore achieved the target on the last ball of the match in which Hamza Paracha played key lead role with his century. He pocketed Rs 25000 after he was declared the player of the final.
KRL, after choosing to bat, hammered 281 runs. Major contribution of 65 runs came from Bazid

LAHORE - Terrorism will have to be rooted-out in the national interest, as anti-nation forces are bent upon destroying peace and law and order and there is a need for unity to foil their nefarious designs, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Thursday.
He was chairing a meeting to review various aspects of the Urdu Bazaar bomb blast and pace of investigation into the matter. Shahbaz said that nothing could be more important than maintenance of peace in the existing

JEDDAH - Former president Pervez Musharraf has said that a national government should be formed in Pakistan in the country's best interest, adding that he will definitely return.
"I will definitely go to Pakistan. I am only waiting for my political party to gain ground after which I will go and face the court cases," Musharraf said in an interview with Arabian language newspaper Al-Sharq AlAusat, adding "I left Pakistan because the judges are political and my life was in

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board in partnership with Faysal Bank Limited is holding the National One-day Cup (Division-I) tournament. The tournament will commence from January 26 with the final to be held on February 8 at the Gaddafi Stadium Lahore.
The 12 teams that will participate in the tournament are the same sides that participated in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Division I. The teams have been divided into two pools. Karachi Dolphins, Islamabad Leopards, SNGPL, Rawalpindi

LAHORE - The 7th National Ju-Jitsu Championship 2011 concluded here at the WAPDA Sports Complex on Saturday with hosts WAPDA winning the title with 77 points. Police secured the second place with 39 points while Punjab got the third place with 28 points.
Sindh, with two gold and seven bronze medals, were placed fourth. The championship, which started on January 20, concluded here, with Lt Gen Arif Hasan, President Pakistan Olympics Association as the chief guest. Speaking on the

CAIRO - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Saturday that a deadly church attack in Alexandria on New Year's Eve targetted the whole country and not just its Coptic Christians.
The bombing outside the church that killed 21 people emerging from mass was "directed at Egypt and Egyptian unity and to weaken the national fabric," Abul Gheit said after talks with visiting French counterpart Michele Alliot-Marie. "The Egyptian people, Christians and Muslims, had the

LAHORE - The final of the Inter-Region U-19 One Day Tournament will be played on January 23 between Rawalpindi Region and Karachi Region (B) at National Stadium Karachi. Umpires for the match will be Aftab Gillani and Nadeem Iqbal while Masood Anwaar is the referee and Salman Hussain scorer.
The prize distribution ceremony will be held after the completion of final match. Director General PCB Javed Miandad will be the chief guest. The winner team will be given Rs 200,000 while

ISLAMABAD - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Salman Siddique submitted in the SC on Thursday a list of 58 officials who from January 01,2007 to December 24,2010, caused a whopping loss of Rs 19 to Rs 37 billion to the national exchequer over the last four years because of pilferage of containers which entered Pakistani territory in the garb of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT).
The list sent to the registrar's office through FBR's counsel Raja Irshad includes the names of former

LAHORE - The 3rd Tray Hockey Championship is in progress at the Faisalabad Hockey Stadium. To spot the talented probable players, the PHF has constituted a Committee comprising Rana Mujahid Ali, Khawaja Muhammad Junaid, Khalid Bashir & Ajmal Khan Lodhi. The Committee will observe the performance of the players during the Championship and forward its recommendations to PHF, soon after conclusion of the Championship.

LAHORE - Lahore Eagles defeated PTV by seven wickets improving their chances of reaching the semi-final of the One-Day National Cup (Division -II here at the LCCA Ground, on Tuesday.
Lahore will play their next match against KRL and in case they win, they will be the first to move to the semi-finals. The performance of the Lahore team improved since Abdul Rashid took charge of the team as manager.
Put into bat, PTV fell to Saad Nasim's accurate line and length who grabbed

KARACHI - The Sindh National Front (SNF) will back the demands of the Hazarewal for a separate province for their people, SNF chief Mumtaz Bhutto said on Saturday after a meeting with a delegation representing the Hazara Qaumi Jirga.
Members of the delegation apprised Bhutto about their movement as well as alleged injustices against the Hazarewal people. Any group with a distinct language, culture and shared history is a 'nation' that deserves a separate province, the SNF chief

KARACHI - National Party (NP) Senior Vice President Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo appealed to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday to support the thousands of missing persons of Balochistan.
Bizenjo was leading an NP delegation that held a meeting with MQM Rabita Committee Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar at the Khursheed Memorial Hall.
He hoped that the MQM would support the Balochistan cause as it had in the past.
The NP leader said that the people of Balochistan