Tag: Quits

Former Pakistan cricket team skipper Shahid Afridi announced retirement from international cricket on Monday. According to sources, Afridi’s disagreement with Pakistan Cricket Board...

A southern minister in Sudan’s govt quit office on Tuesday alleging “war crimes” in Abyei, as the UN called for talks after northern troops...

ISLAMABAD - The lawyer requests the court to replace Latif Khosa with Khalid Ranjha in NRO review petition.
Refusing the request of the lawyer, Kamal Azfar, the Supreme Court on Monday directed him to represent the government in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) review petition.
According to a private TV, a 17-member Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, heard the NRO review petition. Azfar sought court's

COLOMBO - Veteran Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene on Wednesday quit as vice-captain, a day after Kumar Sangakkara stepped down as one-day and Twenty20 skipper. "I think it's time to move on, give the reins to someone younger in the team," said Jayawardene.
Jayawardene, 33, was named vice-captain for the 2011 World Cup, where Sri Lanka lost to India by six wickets in the final in Mumbai last week despite his impressive century. Sri Lanka Cricket chairman D. S. de Silva said

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara said on Tuesday he was resigning from the job three days after his team lost to India in the World Cup final. Sangakkara said he told the national selectors that he would quit as one-day and Twenty20 captain with immediate effect, but offered to continue as Test captain on an interim basis if required.
"After careful consideration I have concluded that it is in the best long-term interests of the team that I step down now as

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara said that he was resigning from the job three days after his team lost to India in the World Cup final.
Sangakkara told the national selectors that he would quit as one-day and Twenty20 captain with immediate effect, but has offered to continue as Test captain on an interim basis if required.
"After careful consideration I have concluded that it is in the best long-term interests of the team that I step down now as

PRISTINA - Kosovo's President Behgjet Pacolli resigned on Wednesday after the constitutional court ruled that his election by parliament a month ago was not constitutional, but he would run for the office again, an aide said.
The resignation of Pacolli, who was elected to the largely ceremonial job in a power-sharing deal with Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, might force early parliamentary elections unless ruling and opposition parties cooperate to end the deadlock.
Pacolli's

COLOMBO - England all-rounder Michael Yardy has quit the World Cup suffering from depression just days before the quarter-final against co-hosts Sri Lanka.
The 30-year-old Sussex left-hander, who played in three matches at the tournament, said he felt he had no option but to return home.
"Leaving at this stage of a World Cup campaign was a very difficult decision to make but I felt that it was the only sensible option for me and I wanted to be honest about the reason behind

SANAA - Abdullah Alsaidi, Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned in protest over violence against demonstrators, a Yemeni Foreign Ministry official said on Sunday.
"Mr. Alsaidi has sent his resignation to the president's office and the Foreign Ministry," the official said.
The resignation came after two prominent members of Yemen's ruling party also resigned in protest against the killing of dozens of anti-government protesters during a rally on Friday.

CAIRO - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq unexpectedly resigned on Thursday, sparking celebrations from protesters who demand a purge of the remnants of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime.
The country's military rulers said he would be replaced by Essam Sharaf, a former transport minister who joined the rallies in Cairo's Tahrir Square that led to Mubarak's resignation on February 11. Strongman Mubarak appointed Shafiq in the dying days of his rule in a bid to quell the

NEW DELHI - One of the chief organisers of the inaugural Indian Grand Prix has resigned barely nine months before the country hosts the Formula One race, the promoters said on Monday,
Mark Hughes, a former number two at the Bahrain circuit, who was a key figure in building the Indian facility over the past 12 months, left his post a month ago "due to personal reasons", the promoters said.
"Mark Hughes is no longer working with us. He left due to his own personal reasons,"

BEIRUT - Saudi Arabia on Wednesday abandoned efforts to mediate in Lebanon's political crisis, warning of a "dangerous" situation as all eyes turned to a Turkish-Qatari bid to defuse tensions.
In an interview with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television news channel, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said the Saudi king was "pulling his hand" from Lebanon.
He said the monarch -- whose country is a key ally of Lebanon's embattled caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri --

SYDNEY - Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro won his first match in a year on Monday, coming through a 200-minute test of his fitness with a 6-7 7-6 7-6 victory over Feliciano Lopez at the Sydney International. The 22-year-old Argentine has played only two tournaments since having surgery last May on a wrist injury that hampered his Australian Open campaign last year, losing in the first round in both. One of those defeats was to Lopez in Tokyo but on Monday at the Sydney

SYDNEY - Cameron White was named as skipper of Australia's team on Friday for next week's two Twenty20 internationals with England after the sudden retirement of Michael Clarke.
Clarke announced he was quitting international T20 cricket immediately after Australia's humiliating Ashes series loss to England on Friday, saying he wanted to improve his Test form.
Brad Haddin, Clarke's vice-captain in the Sydney Test, was left out of the T20 team for younger wicketkeeper rival

KARACHI - There will be no objection if the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) quits the government, Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza said on Sunday while talking to the media at Wasan House in Khairpur.
"The MQM had become part of the government of its own free will. If the party now decides to leave the alliance, it will be their own decision and we have no objection over it."
He said he never held any one party responsible for terrorism. "I don't know why whenever I

PRAGUE: Czech Environment Minister Pavel Drobil resigned on Wednesday following allegations that he tried to cover up corruption in his department.
His resignation came as parliament debated the 2011 budget and Prime Minister Petr Necas said he had asked Drobil to stay on for the final vote expected later in the day. Drobil is the first casualty for the centre-right coalition which took power in July after winning an election on promises to narrow the budget deficit and fight

ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F chief Fazlur Rehman announced on Tuesday that his party left the Pakistan People's Party-led coalition government at centre in protest of sacking of Azam Swati from the federal cabinet, a private TV channel reported.
Fazl, who also heads the Kashmir Committee, announced the decision after chairing an emergency meeting of the JUI-F Majlis-e-Shura held here to review the situation emerged after Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilanu sacked two of his