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Belgian Philippe Gilbert of the Omega Pharma team won an incident-filled first stage of the Tour de France here on Saturday and took the...

Farmers staged a demonstration in front of the press club here against the levy of Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) on agriculture tools, pesticides...

Belgian Thomas De Gendt held off the pressure of Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck in the final climb of the day to claim victory in the...

Colombian Juan Mauricio Soler got to savour former days of glory when he claimed an impressive win on stage two of the Tour of...

Legislators from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) staged a walkout from National Assembly proceedings on Thursday over delay in a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)...

Young cricketers who play and practice at Baba Ground staged a demonstration to draw the attention of the authorities towards the occupation of their...

PESHAWAR - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) central leader Sajid Gumrani said on Wednesday that around 0.2 million workers would participate in two days sit-in on 23rd and 24th in the province. Speaking at the Peshawar press club, he said all prerequisite arrangements were being made for the sit-in as 2, 000 workers would guard it.
He said the PTI sit-in against US-drone attacks proved that the masses showed great anger and resentment over the US-predator incursion in Pakistani

LAHORE - As a follow up to the talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani, India has decided, in principle, to resume bilateral cricket ties with Pakistan, the Press trust of India news agency reported.
Government sources said the time of the visit, the venues of the matches and other logistical issues would be decided. Sources said if everything goes according to the plans, the Indian cricket team will visit Pakistan first and the

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa will stage the richest single tournament in the sport when it launches a new World Golf Championship event next year, Sunshine Tour commissioner Gareth Tindall said on Tuesday. The $10 million Tournament of Hope is to be held from 2012 to 2016. A precise date and a venue have yet to be decided. "The awarding of this WGC event, which has the biggest prize money in professional golf, shows the rest of the world believe we have good stock and a good product

ISLAMABAD - Besakhi - the colorful festival of Sikh minority is all set to be celebrated from Tuesday (April 12) with participation of around 13000 Sikh Yatrees from home and abroad, mainly India.
The joyful festival lift up spirits of Sikh community and add colors to their lives showing their dedication for the religion. The Sikh new year begins with the festival of Besakhi which also marks the founding of Khalsa Panth as the Sikh Yatrees will perform centuries old Besakhi

LAHORE - The Government College University Dramatics Club (GCUDC) will stage Mumtaz Mufti's 'Nizam Saqqa' as its annual play from April 8 to 10 at the varsity's Bokhari Auditorium.
The play centers on the legend of Nazam, an ordinary peasant, who was made the king for a day by the Mughal Emperor Hamayun. Nazam proves to be an able king even in the short duration. He is able to convince all and sundry that there is no difference between a pauper and a prince. Nizam, as king,

ISLAMABAD - Showing rare unity, senators from all parties on Saturday staged a token walkout from the Upper House against the absence of ministers from the proceeding of the House. No minister was present in the House to answer questions raised by members, who wanted to grill them on issues like the hike in petroleum prices and power outages in Balochistan's 16 districts for the past 22 days. "We want to speak on issues like the 22-day power outage in 16 districts of Balochistan, hike

KASUR - The local WAPDA employees observed a comlete strike and took a rally against the police for not arresting the accused involved in the attack on their office. Reportedly, the powerloom workers and local residents protested against the Wapda over unscheduled loadshedding in Kasur on Monday.
The protesters also set seven motorcycles, vans and the office record on fire. Four LESCO officials, Jehangir Khan, Fayyaz, Shaukat and Nasir Joiya were also injured during a scuffle

KARACHI - Following the four musically diverse episodes and a repeat telecast of Yasir and Jawad's episode based on exceptionally popular demand, Ufone's music platform Uth Records returns this week with their fifth and second to last episode featuring Karachi-based singer Ather Sani.
Through Ufone's Uth Records' televised platform and as illustrated by its artists Jumbo Jutt, Yasir and Jawad, Usman Riaz and Natasha Ejaz, the team has endeavoured to show how talented young

COMMENT - The second leg of the four remaining Champions League round of 16 ties was played last week, and barring the one surprise, all the home sides coasted through. The surprise was Bayern Munich, and not a pleasant one at that. Across two legs, Bayern's away goal lead from their first meeting with Inter Milan at the San Siro lasted a mere five minutes, as Eto'o ran through shortly after kick-off in Munich to slot the ball between Thomas Kraft's legs and into goal.
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LAHORE - Army's Asad Mahmood won the tenth stage of the 16th Tour de Pakistan International Cycle Race on Saturday. Asad covered the 150 kilometre distance between Gujrat and Rawalpindi in 3 hours, 48 minutes and one second. On Saturday morning, 43 cyclists started off for the tenth stage as chief guest Javad Butt, President Chamber of Commerce Gujrat, flagged off the race.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Sports Board took dope tests of four cyclists, including Muhammad Sabir Ali of Wapda,

LAHORE - Two matches were decided in the 13th National Seniors Cricket Cup when Sheikhupura Lions and Amar Cables notched victories in the Central Punjab Zone.
Sheikhupura gave no room to Jhang Lions as they won by by 97 runs. Sheikhupura scored 275 runs, with man of the match Naseer Bhatti scoring 96, Waseem Fazal making 62, Muhammad Yaqoob hitting 50, and Salim Malik adding 22. Nadeem Fazal (2-50), Wazir Ali (2-26), Nasir Bhatti (1-44) were the wicket-takers for Jhang, who