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LAHORE - Okara Whites joined Kasur in the quarter-finals of the 8th NBP Okara Cricket Cup 2011 after defeating Okara Red by six wickets. Okara Red scored 185, with Muhammad Aslam scoring 55, Akram Ameer scoring 53, and Ghulam Fareed adding 39. Mian Nabeel and Muhammad Asif took three wickets for Okara white. In reply, Okara White reached the target for the loss of four wickets. Meanwhile, Okara District Cricket Association announced the draws for the rest of the matches of the

LAHORE - Kinnaird College and Okara College reached the final of the Inter-collegiate Lahore Board Cricket Tournament here on Thursday. The final will be played today at the Kinnaird College Ground. Islamia College Cooper Road and Samanabad College will play the playoff for third place. In the first semi-final, KC beat Samanabad College by 10 wickets.
The Samnabad were restricted to 32 runs in the allotted 15 overs. Amna was the top scorer with just six runs. KC's Hafza and Saba

OKARA - A man allegedly killed his newborn daughter here the other day. The tragic incident took place in the Chokhak Police jurisdiction. Police said the infant, Komal, died when her father dashed her to the ground in a fit of rage. Tasleem Bibi, the mother of the infant, said her husband Muhammad Sharif was not happy over the birth of the baby girl Komal.
Tasleem said she was breast-feeding Komal when her husband came home with three related women Khurshid Bibi, Maqsood Bibi

LAHORE - Lahore and Okara have reached the final of the PBCC National Blind Cricket T20 Cup, which will be played today at the New Campus Cricket Ground, Punjab University. On Thursday, the semifinal games were played in which Lahore beat Gujranwala while Okara moved past Sheikhupura.
In the first semifinal, Lahore defeated Gujranwala by nine wickets. Gujranwala lost all their wickets in 12.1 overs for just 74 runs. Muhammad Akram was the top scorer with 32 runs. Lahore's Shariq

LAHORE - As many as two matches of the PBCC National Blind Cricket T20 Cup were played Tuesday at cricket ground of Punjab University. Lahore won by nine wickets and Okara by 10 wickets.
The first match was played between Lahore and Multan. Multan won the toss and decided to bat first. Multan lost all their wickets for 50 runs in 16.5 overs. Salman took 2 wickets while Abdul Shakoor and Shariq Yaseen shared a wicket each. Lahore, in reply, reached home in just 5.1 overs for the

LAHORE - The second phase of the Chief Minister's Cup entered an interesting phase as competitions were held at Rawalpindi, Sahiwal, Kasur, Okara and Muzafargarh.
At Kasur, boys competition in athletics, football, volleyball and girls competitions in volleyball and badminton were held.
S Ali won the 100m race while Ghulam Rasool and Mobeen Yasir got second and positions. The 800m race winner was Muhammad Azam. Mohammad Irfan from tehsil Pattoki and Mohammad Sajid from

OKARA - Torture incidents seem to be ever increasing in the suburban Okara for the last few months. Seven people, namely Muhammad Mansha, Javed Iqbal, Imtiaz Ahmad, Mukhtiar and Nasir along with their 2 unknown accomplices, armed with sticks barged in the house of Ejaz Bibi, wife of Maqbool Hussain, resident of 24/GD, and tortured her and her daughter Robina Kausar.
In another incident, seven people; Muhammad Siddiq, Muhammad Hanif, Muhammad Tariq and Javed along with their

OKARA: District Police Officer (DPO) Azeem Arshad Gujjar and SP Investigations have deployed police jawans for 608 majlises during Muharram.
The officers armed with modern equipments, it has been reported, are trained to provide for 502 majlises for male and 106 for females, the district police officer said.
He called upon the religious scholars to maintain peaceful content in their sermons. The Vigilance Squad of the District Peace Committee, comprising of 16 members, along