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LAHORE - Pakistan star all-rounder Abdul RAzzaq, who is yet to make an appearance in the Indian Premier League, feels disappointed over the exclusion of the Pakistan players from the tournament.
The IPL auction for the IV edition is to take place today without the inclusion of the Pakistan players. Although many Pakistan players played in the inaugural edition but Razzaq is yet to try his luck in the cash-rich tournament as he was associated with the unofficial Indian Cricket

LAHORE - Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) has termed the reversal of increase in the petroleum products as insufficient and urged the government to make at least 50 percent decrease in diesel prices. The board also demanded that prices of all inputs including fertilisers, electricity and pesticides should also be reduced by half to support the dying agricultural economy. KBP President Sardar Zafar Hussein and General Secretary Malik Muhammad Ramzan Rohari while reacting to the withdrawal of

KARACHI - Despite the passage of more than two weeks since four lions were seized at the Karachi airport and shifted to the Karachi zoo, the provincial wildlife authority has still not made the final decision on the fate of these animals.
Osaka Traders owner Irfan Ahmed, who imported these lions from South Africa, claims that the Karachi zoo authorities have stopped feeding the animals, as they do not have sufficient funds.
"The four lions eat around 50 kg meat everyday

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warriach has expressed concern over the investigation being carried out into the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer.
He was talking to reporters at Taseer's Qul at the Governor's House on Thursday.
Warraich said he was not satisfied with the investigations, as the Punjab government was responsible for his security, which was overlooked.
He said Taseer's assassination was politically

LAHORE - Former Punjab chief minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid's (PML-Q) senior leader Parvez Elahi has said that his party will not let the present system derail and continue to strive for the national solidarity, good governance, strong democratic values and elimination of poverty.
He said this in a meeting held at his residence in Islamabad with the party leaders from Rawalpindi, Jehlum and Attock on thursday.
He added that the party had always upheld national

Lahore - The Lahore High Court on Thursday held that appointment of government officers is a policy matter of the government and they had no privilege to get posted at stations of their liking. Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed made these observations while reserving judgment on a petition challenging the appointment of Rafiq Wahla as director sports of Government College University, Faislabad. The petition was filed by a teacher of same institution, Imtiaz Ahmad, pleading that Wahla's

NEW DELHI - The Indian cricket board has ruled out using the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) and also rejected an offer to travel to Australia and watch its Ashes application.
The clamour to use the technology aimed at reducing umpiring errors has been growing but India have opposed UDRS as they are adamant the ball-tracking tool is not accurate enough.
"We don't accept this technology. We are not going to use it in any bilateral series," Srinivasan told Reuters over

COBHAM - Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti admits he is lucky not to have been sacked after his side's dismal run. Just seven months after leading Chelsea to their first Premier League and FA Cup double, Ancelotti knows he is in danger of becoming the latest high-profile boss to perish at the hands of Roman Abramovich's axe.
Blues owner Abramovich sacked Jose Mourinho, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Avram Grant after far less disappointing results than Ancelotti's current miserable

SYDNEy - Acting Australia captain Michael Clarke flatly rejected claims that teammate Phillip Hughes attempted to cheat England's Alastair Cook out of his third century of the series at the final Sydney Ashes Test on Wednesday.
English Test great Ian Botham, commentating on television, called close-in fielder Hughes a cheat for claiming a catch that was subsequently proved to have hit the ground just in front of his hands when Cook was on 99.
Cook, who went on to make 189

Lahore - The emergency entrance of the Services Hospital has not yet been broadened despite Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaaz Sharif's approval. Many critical patients continue to suffer and often die in the ambulances, owing to the choked service lane.
Almost a year has passed that the CM granted the amendment of the slip lane adjacent to Services Hospital, but the city administration has failed to implement CM's orders. Patients continue to face difficulty in receiving first

TEHRAN - Iran is to open its atomic sites to some world powers, officials announced on Tuesday, as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted the West was wrong to confront Tehran over its nuclear programme.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in Tehran that invitations to visit Iran's nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak have been sent to ambassadors of some of the nations represented in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Diplomatic sources at

KARACHI - A number of projects for the promotion of national exports, announced by the Ministry of Commerce, have been jeopardised due the non-release of over Rs 4.0 billion earmarked for Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) under the Export Development Fund (EDF).
The non- release of funds allocated under the Strategic Trade Policy 2009-12 for new trade initiatives has come at a time when the authority is apparently unable to bear the expenditure of many of the

KARACHI - The MQM on Sunday said all issues of contention with the government pertained to the federal level, therefore the party would not be leaving the Sindh government.
Addressing a press briefing outside the party headquarters, MQM spokesman Faisal Sabzwari said, "The Rabita Committee did not discuss tabling a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. We will not leave the coalition partnership in Sindh, because all issues we have relate to the federal

KARACHI - Clerics on Saturday declared that they did not trust statements by the government's ministers, demanding that the government take concrete steps to assure the people that it did not intend to amend blasphemy laws.
In a joint statement issued by Binoria University International after a meeting of religious scholars and teachers presided by Mufti Naeem, they said the countrywide strike on Friday had proven that the people stood united to protect sanctity of Prophet

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of ANP senators met Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday, asking him to tell his ministers that senators were not someone to be trifled with.
"We have told the prime minister that his ministers do not give us due respect and do not take the business of the Upper House seriously. They do not consider the Senate worth-while," Haji Adeel told Pakistan Today after the meeting.
Adeel said the delegation asked Gilani to announce a development

ISLAMABAD - Privatization Minister Waqar Ahmed Khan said on Friday that the government had no plans to dispose of loss-making state owned enterprises (SoEs) Pakistan Steel Mills,
Pakistan Railways and Pakistan Post. Talking to a group of journalists, he said the government intended to turnaround the SoEs and the official endeavour was only limited to make value addition in these entities for getting optimal production from them.

PERTH - Former world No.1 Justine Henin admits she is probably six months away from recapturing her best form, as she prepares for her second Antipodean comeback in as many years.
The seven-times Grand Slam winner took almost two years off from tennis to grapple with her personal life before coming back at this year's Australian Open in January, amazingly reaching the final, where she was beaten by Serena Williams in three sets.
Just under 12 months on and this time Henin is