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BANGALORE - Brett Lee may be the oldest member of Australia's fast-bowling attack at the World Cup but for the 34-year-old speedster the sheer thrill of doing what he does best remains undimmed. "I'm still out to bowl fast," he told reporters at Bangalore's Chinnaswamy Stadium where Australia face Group A makeweights Kenya on Sunday. "I said about six months ago that if I couldn't hit that 150 kph (93 mph) mark I wouldn't want to be playing cricket, which is the truth. "I do thrive on

LAHORE - One way to ensure Pakistan's families are better off and fewer people are living in poverty is by meeting the reproductive health needs. Women are the primary caretakers of their children and families, but also make an important contribution to the household as well as the national economy, making up one third of the labour force.
Gross national income (GNI) per person increased considerably from 380 USD to 2300 USD per person in 2005, for example. However while the

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif told party workers at his Model Town residence on Monday that the PML-N would launch another long march with the country's revolutionary youth if circumstances required.
He said President Asif Ali Zardari had asked him to "support former president Pervez Musharraf's unconstitutional measures." Pakistan was losing wealth as a result of corruption and instead of relying on the country's resources, the government was

KARACHI - It is essential to set up quality assurance cells at universities so that the standard of education could be improved, said Dow University Quality Enhancement Cell Director Dr Abdul Wahid Usmani during a function at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) on Monday.
Dr Usmani said that quality assurance cells would help foster research and also check academic standards. He said that for the progress of a university, it is necessary that its

COLOMBO - If Sri Lanka are to have any chance of becoming the only Asian team to win two World Cups in the sub-continent, they need their two chief weapons, Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan, to find their form -- fast. The co-hosts were one of the pre-tournament favourites to win the showpiece but Saturday's 11-run defeat by Pakistan exposed some glaring weaknesses in their bowling armoury.
Muralitharan should have been trapping rival batsmen with his mystifying powers of

GUJRANWALA - Pakistan People's Party will play an active and effective role of opposition in the Punjab after the decision of PML-N to part ways with the party. This was stated by PPP Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich while talking to media on his arrival in the city.
He regretted that PML-N was going to form a new Punjab government with the help of 47 turncoats. He said now PPP would see how PML-N succeeded in decreasing the prices of chicken, eggs and vegetables etc.

KARACHI - Inadvertent lacunae in compliance to interventional cardiology protocols enhance the urgency for mandatory certification of the professionals concerned by the relevant medical bodies, said Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) Vice Chancellor Prof Masood Hameed.
He said this while addressing interventional cardiologists at the ongoing second interventional workshop titled 'Percutaneous Intervention in the Third World' jointly organised by National Institute of

ISLAMABAD - The government on Thursday decided that Pakistani artists and other visitors travelling to India would have to obtain a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Interior Ministry prior to their visit. An inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Interior Minister Rehman Malik decided to regulate foreign visits of public servants, artists and journalists, in the interest of Pakistan's security and to safeguard country's prestige, an official statement said, adding that the

LAHORE - A consultation workshop to develop a gender strategy for police organizations in the country was held on Tuesday at the Avari Hotel with the involvement of senior management officials in the Punjab Police.
Approximately 30 police officers participated from all parts of Punjab of which 13 were women.
The consultation was facilitated by the Gender Responsive Policing Project (GRPP) - a joint venture of the National Police Bureau (NPB) and German Agency for

ISLAMABAD - The legislators in the lower house Tuesday underlined the need to take immediate steps to ensure food security by providing various incentives to the farming community.
MNA Nighat Parveen Mir moved a motion and asked the house to discuss the steps being taken by the government to improve agriculture in the country. She stressed the need to adopt a more encompassing approach in finding solutions to the problems being faced by farmers. She suggested that small farmers

LAHORE - Urging the Pakistani team to rely heavily on the spinners, former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik said spin bowlers would play a decisive role in the upcoming World Cup. "Already we have seen in the warm-up match between Australia and India how important a role spinners can play in this tournament," Malik, who was a shock omission from Pakistan World Cup squad, told reporters.
Malik also pointed out that since the tournament is being held in February-March, the weather at

DHAKA - Pakistan must clinch the World Cup if they are to win back their fans, Shoaib Akhtar said on Sunday as his team try to emerge from the damaging spot-fixing scandal. Pakistan have endured a troubled build-up to the tournament after former captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif were banned on charges of corruption during the Lord's Test against England last year.
"Obviously we are very hurt inside by whatever has happened to us," Akhtar, 35, told

LAHORE - Pakistan needs comprehensive cancer centres for provision of cancer treatment facilities to all and sundry under one roof considering the rising incidence of the fatal disease across the globe, participants at a conference on cancer surgery marking the world cancer day said on Friday.
February 4 is celebrated as the World Cancer Day across the globe, commemorating and verbalizing the oath to fight against the second biggest killer of people: Cancer. Department of

MUMBAI - Kumar Sangakkara or Mahela Jayawardene should drop down and bolster a concerning middle order if Sri Lanka are to be successful at this month's World Cup, former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga told Reuters.
Ranatunga, the burly left-handed batsman who led Sri Lanka to the title the last time it was played in the subcontinent in 1996, believes the island nation are the favourites, besides India, to win the World Cup for a second time.

NEW DELHI - Sachin Tendulkar has been winning matches for India with his amazing batting exploits for more than two decades, and it's time his team clinched the World Cup for him. Tendulkar, who turns 38 in April, makes his sixth and probably the last appearance in the showpiece event with one notable omission from his eye-catching CV - a World Cup.
The 'Little Genius' may have amassed a record 17,629 runs in 444 one-dayers with 46 centuries - the highest by any batsman - but

LAHORE - Saima, 24, says that she is not one of those people who would opt to go to a police station to report a crime. "Muggings are increasing in Lahore it seems, because I keep hearing of near relatives and friends who have been affected in various areas by this. But if for instance it ever happened to me, I would probably not report it myself. I would send my brother," she says.
This is not just one woman's sentiment. It is reflected in many women of all ages and the general

KARACHI - A new social and political contract between the State and provinces is the need of the hour and the only way out of the myriad of societal problems that afflict the country today, claimed political leaders, intellectuals and civil society representatives at a seminar organised by the Indus People's Forum on Sunday titled 'Survival of the State: Ideology, Economy and Governance'.
"Religious extremism is being patronised within Pakistan," said National Party leader