Tag: Rift

China’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday praised Pakistan as a firm partner against terror and religious extremism, playing down the risk that ties could be...

Disappointing speculators who were expecting that the executive would use the parliament to take on the judiciary, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday...

As the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and Capital Development Authority (CDA) play a buck-passing game following their rift over the Simly Dam water, residents...

Anti-regime activists behind street protests in Syria on Tuesday criticised opposition figures who held an unprecedented meeting in Damascus at which they called for...

Pakistan’s cricket coach Waqar Younis has denied any rift with former captain Shahid Afridi and pointed out that he works within his limits. Talking to...

A 21-year-old youth committed suicide at Chak Sajjada near Hafizabad over his parents’ refusal to shift from the village to the city. Reportedly, Naseer...

Fresh tension erupted between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) after several Pakistani media outlets published the alleged name of the...

US troops were led to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by his own deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, because of a simmering internal power struggle,...

ISLAMABAD - With no end in sight to the differences between Pakistan and the US over drone attacks and the scale of CIA operations, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen is rushing to Islamabad this week in a bid to end the days' long row, which is damaging not only bilateral ties but also the US led anti-terrorism campaign. Mullen, who has met with army chief General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani several times in the past, is considered to have more tolerance for the

KARACHI - With the National Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce directing the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) to propose amendments in the ordinance of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) by the end of this month; a rift is likely to surface between the two government bodies over the expected changes.
Though the ministry, sources claimed, is interested to propose amendments in the ordinance while clipping wings of the TDAP and making it more under control of the

COLOMBO - Kenyan skipper Jimmy Kamande Monday brushed aside reports of a rift between the players and their West Indian coach Eldine Baptiste, saying such issues crop up only after defeats. Reports coming from Kenyan capital Nairobi said there were divisions within the squad, with Cricket Kenya chief Samir Inamdar blaming those differences for the team's lacklustre performances.
But Kamande said his team, with two crushing World Cup defeats so far, were united.
"I have read

LAHORE - Rubbishing rumours about groupings in the team, vice-captain Misbah-ul-Haq has said that all players are united, with their focus on the World Cup. "Winning against New Zealand in the Test series and then in the ODI series has helped the team lift its morale before the World Cup," Misbah told reporters on his return from New Zealand.
Pakistan lost the Twenty20 series during New Zealand tour, but bounced back strongly and managed to clinch the Test and ODI series against