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A committee would be formed to discuss the row between the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) management and workers and come up with a...

A blazing row has erupted between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and parliament speaker Ali Larijani over the restructuring of ministries, reports said Thursday, in a...

The power-deprived citizens of Karachi were forced to take to the streets on Wednesday as the row between the management of Karachi Electric Supply...

The Pakistan Cricket Board faces yet another controversy over the touring selection committee after it solved its issues with chief selector Mohsin Hassan Khan....

Pakistan cricket authorities on Tuesday settled a row with the head of the Australian board over comments he made in the wake of a...

ST JOHN'S - The West Indies Players' Association has accused the West Indies Cricket Board of failing to be transparent with the selection of teams for the opening matches of Pakistan's tour of the Caribbean, in a media release late on Saturday.
This follows the exclusion of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, and Ramnaresh Sarwan from the West Indies team for the Twenty20 International on Thursday at the Beausejour Cricket Ground, as well as the first two One-day

ST. JOHN'S - The West Indies Players' Association has accused the West Indies Cricket Board of failing to be transparent with the selection of teams for the opening matches of Pakistan's tour of the Caribbean, in a media release late on Saturday.
This follows the exclusion of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, and Ramnaresh Sarwan from the West Indies team for the Twenty20 International on Thursday at the Beausejour Cricket Ground, as well as the first two One-day

SARAJEVO - Bosnia's international peace envoy decreed on Monday a regional parliament representing the Muslim-Croat population can continue to function despite a ruling it was formed illegally. The decision by the international community's High Representative in Bosnia stressed the need for a functioning government in the Balkan nation still beset by divisions 15 years after Europe's deadliest fighting since World War Two.
The dispute concerns the parliament for the Muslim-Croat

NEW DELHI - New Zealand's Kyle Mills and Daniel Vettori and South African Faf du Plessis have been heavily fined for an altercation during Friday's World Cup quarter-final in Dhaka, the ICC said on Saturday.
Mills has been fined 120 percent of his match fee for "inappropriate and deliberate physical contact between players" and for conduct that is "contrary to the spirit of the game".
His captain Vettori has been fined 90 percent match fee for the deliberate physical contact

LONDON - Dirk Kuyt scored a controversial penalty as Liverpool bounced back from their Europa League exit with a 2-0 win at 10-man Sunderland on Sunday. Liverpool were beaten at Sunderland in dubious circumstances last season when Darren Bent scored with a goal that deflected in off a beachball which had been thrown onto the pitch.
But Kenny Dalglish's side enjoyed their own moment of good fortune at the Stadium of Light this time as Kuyt netted a first half penalty awarded for a

PESHAWAR - At least 36 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in Adezai village on the Peshawar-Kohat Road on Wednesday. The attack was the second in the country in as many days, following Tuesday's car bombing near the office of the Inter-Services Intelligence in Faisalabad. Police said that the explosion took place when around 300 people were preparing to offer funeral prayers for a relative of an active member of the Adezai

TOKYO - Japan's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara announced his resignation on Sunday over donations received from a foreign resident in violation of the country's laws. Maehara -- who had been seen as a likely successor to embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan -- said he would step down after admitting he received several hundred dollars from a restaurant owner of Korean ethnicity.
"I apologise to the Japanese people for stepping down after only six months and provoking distrust over

KARACHI - The row between the University of Karachi (KU) administration and its teachers over the varsity syndicate's two controversial meetings has taken a sectarian colour, it has been learnt. A high-ranked KU official in an interview with Pakistan Today on Saturday alleged that a group of teachers belonging to a sect has started campaigning against the university's high-ups to tarnish their image.
"A particular group of teachers had started blackmailing the KU administration

SEOUL - South Korea's leader warned troops on Friday to guard against North Korea's "reckless" provocations as a new dispute erupted over four defectors from the communist state. President Lee Myung-Bak stressed the need for separate branches of the military to work together to counter the threat from the North's special warfare forces, which Seoul says number 200,000.
"Through reckless military provocations, they (the North) are continuing to threaten peace," he told a

KARACHI - The intermittent protest by hundreds of dock workers at Port Qasim is feared to result in a serious blow to the country's exports which the economic managers expect would fetch over $22 billion this year, thus helping Pakistan balance its external accounts.
The analysts believe that after achieving a $26 million current account surplus during July-December 2010-11, the terrorism and floods-hit Pakistan is expected to see its external accounts widening by $4 billion or

TUNIS - Tunisia has accused Rome of infringing on its sovereignty after an Italian minister suggested sending police to the north African country to stem the tide of illegal migrants trying to reach Italy. More than 4,000 migrants have crossed the sea from Tunisia to the small Italian island of Lampedusa in the past week, underscoring the lingering instability in Tunisia since protests ousted its president a month ago.
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief,

KARACHI - Over a week-long row between PIA and the Pakistan Airline Pilots Association (PALPA) deepened on Monday when the Ministry of Defence suspended six pilots, including PALPA President Sohail Baloch.
Following the orders, several PIA crew members went on leave to show their resentment against the suspensions and the proposed agreement between PIA and Turkish Airlines. The protesting pilots had threatened to go on strike from today (Tuesday). Those who went on leave included