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LAHORE - The second Chief Minister's Sports Competitions (intermediate level) will roll into action from February 4. The event will be inaugurated by Director General Sports Punjab Salman Ijaz at the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore, at 11am. The nine divisional teams from all over the province will participate in the girls athletics, badminton, volleyball and hockey competitions while boys will take part in athletics, badminton, volleyball, cricket, football and hockey events.
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LAHORE - The teams for the Faysal Bank-sponsored Pentangular Cup First Class Tournament have been announced. Teams from Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber PK and Federal Areas will participate in the tournament. The tournament venues and schedule will be announced at a later date.
Teams: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Yasir Hameed, Riffatullah Mohmand, Muhammad Fayyaz, Sajjad Ahmad, Akbar Badshah, Wajid Ali, Aftab Alam, Yasir Shah (Captain), Muhammad Junaid Khan, Riaz Afridi, Ahmad Said,

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Former cricketer Rameez Raja said though Pakistan may not go into the World Cup as one of the favourites but the other teams cannot afford to write them off.
"Pakistan has a fairly settled and a very good one-day side. They know the art of playing one-day cricket. They have struggled in Test cricket because some of the players simply don't have the temperament to graft out long innings but the 50-overs cricket format suits them," he said.
"I don't think Pakistan

LAHORE - The members of the Technical Study Group (TSG) will help Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) develop strong national as well as age group teams for the future international assignments.
They will select 50 upcoming players from the 32-matches of ongoing PFF-KESC Lyari U-14 Football League that commenced at Karachi's Peoples Sports Complex on January 8. As many as seven matches are being completed in 17-day event so far whose final is scheduled for same venue on January

ISLAMABAD - Despite resistance from his economic managers and cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday decided to revert the recently-announced increase in petrol prices, calling it a political decision.
A source who attended the prime minister's meeting with parliamentary party heads told Pakistan Today that Federal Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in his one-hour long briefing to participants defended the hike in POL prices, saying it was almost

LAHORE - The Chief Minister Cup phase-II competitions at inter tehsil level have reached the semi-finals stage. Teams from Sargodha, Bhalwal, Silanwali, Mianwali, Khushab, Rawalpindi and Bhakkar performed well. In Sargodha, the final girls volleyball match was held among tehsil Sargodha, Silanwali and Bhalwal.
Bhalwal and Sargodha got the second position. In Mianwali, the girls final athletics matches were held in which Munawar Kanwal from Model Girls High School Mianwali won the

LAHORE - MCB Bank Limited (MCB) has initiated a new remittance service to Pakistan from United Arab Emirates (UAE) and in this regard an agreement has been signed today between MCB Bank Limited and UAE based Emirates India International Exchange (EIIE) - a leading exchange house in the region.
This service further strengthens the legal means of remittances to Pakistan and EIIE's money transfer services across its 16-branch network in the UAE would be available for MCB's

LAHORE - Hamid Shinwari, Chief Executive Officer of the Afghan Cricket Board (ACB) reacted angrily over allegations of match-fixing in his team's Asian Games win over Pakistan.
Afghanistan beat Pakistan in the Asian Games semi-final in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. He said that I was only a bid to undermine the phenomenal progress made by the Afghan team lately.
"I strongly deny the allegations. Afghan national cricket team's performance was outstanding throughout the

LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board's Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmed said Sunday that the International Cricket Council's Future Tour programme was troublesome for Pakistan.
He said because of lack of slots, it was difficult to bring international teams to Pakistan. He, however, said that plans to invite junior teams from Bangladesh and Zimbabwe were under consideration for 2011
Meanwhile, he said Pakistan-Afghanistan match in XVI Asian Games held in Guangzhou (China) in

LAHORE: Pakistan Hockey Federation President Qasim Zia has termed the success of the hockey team as one of the biggest wins of recent times. Talking to journalists after participating in the victory celebrations observed by Olympians here at the National Hockey Stadium, Qasim Zia said the win was made possible due to the positive steps taken by the PHF. He also praised the contributions of the senior players in the win.
"Salman Akbar, Rehan Butt and Sohail Abbas have proved that

GUANGZHOU: Former Pakistan great Javed Miandad has pleaded with foreign teams to tour the troubled Asian nation, saying cricket there is suffering because of the absence of top-level competition.
Pakistan have been forced to play home series overseas because of security fears in the country, where thousands have been killed in suicide attacks and bombings blamed on homegrown Taliban and other Islamist extremist networks.
No foreign side has toured Pakistan since an attack by

MUMBAI: After working with senior Indian film actors like Sanjay Dutt and Aamir Khan, Rajkumar Hirani wants to work with the legendary Amitabh Bachchan.
Raju feels that the Big B is immensely talented and can not wait to collaborate with the senior Bachchan on a project. In fact, the feeling was mutual as Amitabh, too, thinks that the filmmaker is a power house of talent.
However, as luck would have it, none of the scripts that Rajkumar worked on appealed to Amitabh. Now,