Tag: Tells

DURBAN - The International Cricket Council should take responsibility for implementing the umpire review system itself and remove the right of Test teams to opt out, South Africa captain Graeme Smith said on Wednesday.
Smith and his team were frustrated by a number of decisions the captain called unlucky as India beat them by 87 runs to square the three-match series 1-1.
The Umpire Decision Review System, designed to eradicate clear umpiring mistakes, is not in use in the

LAHORE - A full bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab director general (DG) to review the investigation into the forex-cum-property scam of Rs 1.38 billion and arrest the real culprits, including five bigwigs who were earlier spared by NAB.
The bench was hearing the bail matter of one Mohsin Ayub, a forex-cum-property dealer who is in jail for a property fraud.

ISLAMABAD: In what seems to be a pre-emptive attempt to block the possible alliance of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) for overthrowing the Balochistan government, a threatened and perturbed Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani on Tuesday rushed to meet JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman.
Fazl, however, assured Raisani that he had no such plans and did not want to form a coalition with the PML-Q in Balochistan. "Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has issued stern directives to the national team and team management to refrain from making comments on the scandalous issue of match-fixing.
It has been learnt the PCB clearly directed team manager Intikhab ALam, coach Waqar Younis and captain Shahid Afridi not to talk on the issue and if there was a question posed before them they should avoid commenting on the subject. Pakistan has been at the centre of attention in the cricketing world

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the National Assembly on Monday that there was an alleged corruption of over Rs 36 million (1.6 million riyals) in Haj arrangements this year.
He was responding to opposition's complains that the government was not apprising the House about the details of the Haj scam.
Malik told the House that on the directives of the Interior Ministry, several accused, including former Haj DG Rao Shakeel, had been arrested and investigations

ISLAMABAD: In another political manoeuvre, President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday again engaged Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif by responding to his letter written last month, in an attempt to mend fences with the PML-N at a time when the government's coalition partners are up in arms.
The timing of the response suggests that Zardari's move is more of a damage-control attempt after the Fazlur Rehman-led JUI-F's departure from the coalition government.

ISLAMABAD: Assuring the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) that its grievances would be addressed, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday barred Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza from issuing statements in the future on contentious issues pertaining to coalition partners.
After meeting an MQM delegation, Gilani telephoned Mirza to ask him about the statement in which he had accused the MQM of being involved in assassinations in Karachi.
The Sindh home minister told the

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday directed Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh to form a wing or a cell to expedite resolution of issues regarding release of allocations to the ministries or departments concerned and the provincial governments.
Chairing a meeting with the government's financial team, Gilani stressed the need for an efficient functioning of all the ministries and departments involved in restructuring public sector enterprises to speed up the

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the lawyer for intelligence agencies to arrange a meeting of the 11 missing prisoners of the Adiala Jail - who were now in their custody - with their families.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a petition against the mysterious disappearance of the Adiala jail inmates facing terrorism charges after their acquittal by a trial court.

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa government is firm on its resolve to establish Islamic Nizam-i-Adal (Islamic judicial system) in Malakand division and appointment of qazis (judges) are in progress in Swat and other districts.
Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar said while speaking in the provincial assembly on Friday. Barrister Javed Abbassi PML (N) MPA from Abbottabad had questioned about posting and appointment of judges in according to 2009 Nizam-i-Adal

BEIJING/SEOUL: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday warned US President Barack Obama that tensions on the Korean peninsula could spiral out of control if not dealt with properly, their first discussion on the issue since the North shelled the South nearly two weeks ago.
Analysts said Hu's comments showed a greater sense of urgency in the Chinese leadership over the mounting tension and also an attempt to avoid to the perception that Beijing is siding with its ally Pyongyang to

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has demanded the US to take stern action against American officials involved in the leakage of diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, with a warning that the disclosures could heighten the prevailing anti-US sentiments across the country.
"We have conveyed our concerns to the Obama administration on the WikiLeaks disclosures and also made a demand that stern action be taken against the officials in Washington found involved in the leakage of sensitive cables," a

ISLAMABAD: The government has directed ministries to stop unauthorised use of official vehicles by ministers, secretaries and departmental heads. A letter issued by the Cabinet Division last week directed the ministries to take immediate steps to stop unauthorised use of official vehicles, as recommended by the PAC.
The letter said the ministers, secretaries and departmental heads could use one official vehicle each. The ministries were requested to submit surplus vehicles in the

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Advocate General Khawaja Haris Ahmad on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that police was neither in the control of provincial government nor did it act on its advice.
He appeared before a three-member SC bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, which was hearing a suo motu case pertaining to a clashes taken place between police and lawyers at Aiwan-e-Adl on Oct 1.
The court

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday received a reply from President Asif Ali Zardari to a letter he wrote to the PPP co-chairman on November 10.
According to the contents of the letter distributed to the media by PML-N media managers, President Zardari appreciated suggestions forwarded by Nawaz.
The letter says, "Dear Nawaz Sharif Sb, Thank you for your letter dated November 10, 2010, regarding issues that the nation is facing today. Your letter

KARACHI: Taking serious note of the deportation of 106 Pakistanis, 54 from Punjab and 52 from Balochistan, at the Taftan Check Post, Interior Minister Rehman Malik ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general on Sunday to ensure that every last man involved in human trafficking is put behind bars.
He issued this order while presiding over a high-level meeting held at the National Crisis Management Cell in Karachi to review the grave issue of human trafficking,

ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the talk of US security agency Blackwater's presence in Pakistan, Federal Minister for Interior Affairs Rehman Malik said on Wednesday that 483 foreigners were living in the capital and all of them were civilians.
Responding to a query during question-hour in the National Assembly, the minister said none of the foreigners living in the capital were from Blackwater or any other foreign agency. He told the house that the Ministry of Finance had provided Rs