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LAHORE - Pakistan chief coach Waqar Younis wants the PCB to hunt for someone else after Javed Miandad's refusal to join the team as the batting coach job.
Talking to journalists here after the last session of the training camp ahead of the West Indies tour, Waqar said the PCB should find someone else for the batting coach position. Miandad refused to accept the batting coach offer on personal grounds, the all-time leading run-scorer for Pakistan in Test matches gave tips to

LAHORE - The security situation in the country continues to hit Pakistan cricket badly, with plans to launch a premier league and invite Sri Lanka to play in a series later this year being put on hold. Officials in the PCB have confirmed that in recent meetings in Sri Lanka, other boards had made it clear that their players were reluctant to travel to the crisis-torn country for the Pakistan Premier League (PPL) Twenty20 competition because of security fears.
"Sri Lankan

KARACHI - The students of Karachi must not allow themselves to be misguided on issue of Higher Education Commission's (HEC) devolution, PPP Sindh General Secretary Taj Haider said on Tuesday. He pointed out that all political parties in the Parliamentary Committee for reforming the Constitution had jointly brought about the landmark 18th Amendment, as a result of which education is now a provincial subject and the HEC is being devolved to the provinces.
"Dictators and their

LONDON - Arsenal supporters who own shares in the club are being told not to sell to American billionaire Stan Kroenke, who this week agreed a takeover deal. "The AST (Arsenal Supporters Trust) and Arsenal Fanshare scheme will not be selling the shares it owns and urges all supporters to reject this offer," said the AST in a statement.
"Arsenal is too important to be owned by any one person. The AST wants to work with Stan Kroenke to keep Arsenal supporters involved in the club's

ISLAMABAD - It is seems that Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar is completely out of touch with the affairs of his ministry, as he thinks that mere enhancement of fuel supplies alone would not resolve the generation woes of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO). Talking to the media at the conclusion of Pakistan Energy Conference 2011 in Islamabad on Tuesday, he warned that the electricity demand would shoot up in summer, resulting in increased load shedding. When

MONTE CARLO - Rafael Nadal began laying the groundwork Monday on his bid for an unprecedented seventh straight title at the Monte Carlos Masters by damping down the growing belief that he is all but untouchable on clay.
"I may have more options on clay," said the world number one Spaniard who stands 34-1 at the venue with his only loss coming in the third round in his first appearance in 2003.
Since then he's reeled off 32 straight match wins and is the only player in the

KARACHI - After a year of unemployment and wondering if his family would be better off if he died, Pakistani textile worker Murad Ali has got the spring back in his step. One of thousands laid off by textile bosses last year, the father of four is now back at work and one of those to benefit from a surge in Pakistani exports in the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30.
Experts say rising global commodity prices, a government decision to prioritise power supply to industry

KARACHI - After a year of unemployment and wondering if his family would be better off if he died, Pakistani textile worker Murad Ali has got the spring back in his step.
One of thousands laid off by textile bosses last year, the father of four is now back at work and one of those to benefit from a surge in Pakistani exports in the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30.
Experts say rising global commodity prices, a government decision to prioritise power supply to

LAHORE - Main Boulevard Defence, a thoroughfare leading to the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), continues to irk people because of a dilapidated condition of its service lanes over the last four years. The situation worsened after the service lanes were dug up to lay a new drainage system and this project has been in the doldrums for more than six months now.
The service roads, stretching over more than 1.5 km with width between 25 feet and 30 feet, are splattered with heaps of

WASHINGTON - Leon Panetta is happy as CIA director and has not been asked by President Barack Obama to consider changing jobs, the agency said on Thursday, as speculation swirled over changes in top US security posts.
Robert Gates has made clear he plans to step down as defense secretary this year and the military's top officer is expected to retire, prompting speculation about who will move where in Obama's impending reshuffle of military and intelligence chiefs. One scenario

KARACHI - While showing extraordinary consensus in passing resolutions, the Sindh Assembly could not show the same spirit in carrying out legislation during the past three years - ostensibly due to disagreements between the two major partners in the coalition government, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), reveal official figures released by Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Thursday.
Briefing journalists about the Sindh Assembly's three-year

A spokeswoman for Madonna said on Tuesday that neither the singer nor a charity she backs in Malawi is being investigated by the FBI. Some recent media reports have said that an international education charity the singer backs, Success for Kids, is being investigated by FBI agents in Los Angeles for alleged irregularities and suspicious activity.
The reports follow news last month that another charity backed by Madonna, Raising Malawi, had scrapped a plan to build a school for

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari who is also co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) told his party's provincial lawmakers (MPAs) from Punjab on Wednesday night that the government had made significant inroads in the investigation into the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, but the details would be made public only when the party was not in power.
A source told Pakistan Today that President Zardari said the government could not share the exclusive

NEW YORK - A spokeswoman for Madonna said on Tuesday that neither the singer nor a charity she backs in Malawi is being investigated by the FBI.
Some recent unsourced media reports have said that an international education charity the singer backs, Success for Kids, is being investigated by FBI agents in Los Angeles for alleged irregularities and suspicious activity.

TRIPOLI - Libya's government said on Tuesday it was ready to negotiate reforms provided embattled leader Moammer Gaddafi was not forced out, as loyalists troops pushed rebel fighters back from the key oil port of Brega and the US military withdrew its fighter jets from the international air campaign in Libya.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)-led air strikes had destroyed 30 percent of the regime's military capacity since the United Nations (UN)-backed bombing campaign

KARACHI - In a move to pressure the Sindh government into allowing a four-rupee raise in public transport fares, city transporters have threatened to initiate a wheel-jam strike from Monday, April 11, till such time that all their demands are met.
The KTI would soon forward a summary seeking an increase of at least Rs 4 per seat by Sunday, transporters decided at a meeting on Monday of the larger transporters' organization - Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) - at its head-office.

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry while hearing the petition filed by the PCS officers to seek cancellation of the case against them, regretted that today the people of every class have make it a routine to take law into their hand and hold protest on any issue.
The Chief Justice also appeared not happy with the strike, boycott and the step taken by the petitioners which amount to taking the law into their hand. The Court remarked those who take