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NEW YORK - Seth Rogen is set to hit the road with Barbra Streisand in a big way. Following his debut as the Green Hornet, the 28-year-old funnyman will reportedly join Striesand in the road-trip comedy My Mother's Curse and play her son, according to sources.
The comedic flick, which stars Rogen as an inventor who takes his mother along on a cross country journey to sell an invention, was recently greenlit by Paramount Pictures after being in the works for about two years. The

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) parliamentarians on Thursday demanded that the government remove Zafar Ahmed Qureshi, head of the FIA team investigating the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam.
A day after the FIA sought arrest warrants for PML-Q's Moonis Elahi, two female parliamentarians, Shahnaz Sheikh and Attiya Inayatullah, came to the Chaudhrys' rescue during Thursday's session. Speaking on a point of order, Shahnaz Sheikh said, "Zafar

LAHORE - The training camp of the Pakistan's Fed Cup team concluded here on Wednesday with the country's top player Usnha Suhail winning all her trial-cum-fitness test matches under the supervision of former Davis Cupper Rashid Malik and non playing captain Nausheen Ehtisham.
Pakistan team comprising Ushna, Sara Mahboob, Saba Aziz and Sara Mansoor will feature in the Fed Cup in Bangkok from January 31 to February 5. Pakistan is participating the event after a gap of 12 years.

LAHORE - The Sports Board Punjab picked a 17-member boxing team after week-
long trials here on Tuesday. The boxers have been selected from SBP competitions. After the U-14 boxing trials, the training camps have been
established to prepare the boxers.
The players are Muhammad Din (36Kg), Mudassar Khan (38KG), Tariq Khan (40KG), Hamza Mujeeb (42KG), Shan Hanif (44KG), Mehboob Khan(46KG), Salman Usman (48KG), Abdullah Ibrahim(50KG) and Danial Khan(54KG) from Lahore,

LAHORE - A broad-based committee mandated by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to draw up proposals for economic turnaround has urged the government to focus more on privatisation, deregulation, tax reforms, education, agriculture sector and improving infrastructure.
It has recommended a decrease in the interest rates and that the oil, gas, water, coal and power departments should be brought under one ministry. The recommendations have been prepared by a committee headed by a

LAHORE - A committee formed by Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani to probe into 15-year-old Qasim Siddique's death, who tried to escape to Dubai, UAE by hiding in an airplane's wheels but died after falling from the plane, and issue of his missing friend Ali Jamshaid has completed its initial inquiry, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to details, a couple of days ago, Gilani had constituted a committee consisting of Civil Aviation Joint Secretary Arshad Farooq, Air

LAHORE - The trial match to assess the fitness of Pakistan's top tennis player Ushna Suhail started here at the Bagh-i-Jinnah tennis courts on Saturday. Ushna was a bit rusty after her injury lay off but was able to win in straight sets against Asusha Aslam 6-2, 6-1.
She will play another two fitness trial matches before the Pakistan team is finalized for the Fed Cup on Tuesday. Pakistan will face Bangkok in the Fed Cup from January 31 to February 5. According to camp leader

LAHORE - The Pakistan ski team that won gold, silver and bronze medals in the various events of first South Asian Winter Games held in India Friday, met Chief of the Air Staff Pakistan Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, who is the Patron-in-Chief of the Ski Federation of Pakistan (SFP).
He awarded Rs 500,000 each to the medal winners.
Miss Ifrah Wali won gold in Giant Slalom, Miss Amina Wali grabbed two silvers in Slalom and Giant Slalom and Mir Nawaz Jnr

LAHORE - The Patron-in-Chief of the Pakistan Skiing Federation Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman congratulated the ski team on winning one gold, three silver and a bronze medal in the Alpine and Cross-country Skiing Championship. "They put up a good display at the Winter Games and need to be encouraged," he said. "Winning medals from among all the SAARC nations is in itself a great achievement," he added. The national ski team arrived back after a successful stint at the 1st South

LAHORE - The Pakistan Today cricket team was on Wednesday awarded the Khayaban-i-Amin Media Cup trophy by the Chief Editor of the newspaper Mr Arif Nizami in a simple but impressive ceremony here at the Lahore Press Club's Nisar Usmani Auditorium.
In the ceremony, rich tributes were paid to veteran journalist late Minhaj Burni for his contribution to journalism.
Pakistan Today's stand-in captain Nadeem Ijaz received the trophy and cash award of Rs 50,000 for winning the

LAHORE - Chairman PCB Ijaz Butt has congratulated the Pakistan Team on their victory in the Test series against New Zealand. Pakistan secured their first Test series win after four years when the second Test match at Wellington ended in a draw. The team had won the first test at Hamilton by ten wickets.

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) team probing Haj scam returned disappointed from Saudi Arabia on Thursday as it failed to grill the main accused of the scandal, Ahmad Faiz owing to the Saudi government's refusal to record the statements of Saudi nationals.
Interpol had issued red notice for Ahmad Faiz who had allegedly embezzled 18.32 million Saudi riyals in collaboration with the agents and officials of the Haj directorate in Makkah, a source said.
It

LAHORE - For the first time in the Punjab University's (PU) history, two rival groups having completely different ideologies - the Academic Group, consisting of pro-Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and pro-Islami Jamiat-e-Talba (IJT) teachers - and the Academic Forum, consisting of leftist teachers, defeated the Teachers Front (TF), a group consisting of neutral teachers and those supported by the VC, in the Academic Staff Association (ASA) elections held at the varsity.
It was quite

ISLAMABAD - Senator Ishaq Dar, head of the four-member PML-N committee formed by chief Nawaz Sharif to facilitate the government in implementing its 10-point agenda, is likely to meet Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani alone or with his team in a day or two to brief the prime minister on the feasibility of the plan.
A source in the PML-N told Pakistan Today that the party officially handed over the 10-point agenda to Gilani on Tuesday. The document was in the form of a letter from

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team probing the Haj scam has recorded Interior Minister Rehman Malik's statement regarding the removal of former Haj director general (DG) Rao Shakeel's name from the exit-control list (ECL).
FIA DG Waseem Ahmad said the FIA team had recorded Malik's statement of Rehman Malik during which the minister explained his position on the removal of Shakeel's name from the ECL.
"Rehman Malik directed the interior secretary to

KARACHI - Dr Ziauddin Hospital of Karachi and the Global Hospitals of India have agreed to join hands for heart and liver transplants and other services and they would sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for this purpose soon.
"Global Hospitals India has reached this agreement with Dr Ziauddin Hospital to provide state-of-the-art medical facilities to the people of Pakistan," Khalid Rasheed, group vice president of International Business, Global Hospitals, India, told

HONG KONG - Venus Williams crashed in Hong Kong Friday as her preparations for the Australian Open were marred by a second straight-sets defeat in as many days.
Chinese ace Li Na dominated the seven-time Grand Slam winner in every department for the 6-3, 7-6 victory, helping Asia-Pacific to draw level with the Americas in the silver final of Hong Kong's World Team Challenge Friday. "I enjoy playing here, I love the fans her supporting me. I'm looking forward to coming back next