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ISLAMABAD - Tajik President Emomali Rahman will arrive here today on a three-day state visit to hold talks with the Pakistani leadership to further strengthen bilateral ties. The Tajik president will meet President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and is likely to discuss cooperation in hydropower, investment, medicine, education, transport and communication, trade, tourism besides ways to jointly combat international terrorism. The two sides would explore the

LAHORE - In a card of 10 races for the day on Sunday (today), the 67th Pakistan Derby has been placed at number six with Quality Road, Moment of Truth and Sarbuland in the run for the top position. The pundit's favourites are Moment of Truth and Sarbuland because the top riders of the Lahore Race Club are riding these horses. Shahid Rehman, who has won six races including four derbies, will lock horns with Aamir Pervaiz, who has seven victories including three derbies. Rehman was the

LAHORE - The Bank Alfalah National Polo Championship for the Quaid-e-Azam Gold Cup 2011 will resume on Sunday (today). The championship was disrupted after two days of matches by rains in the city. With the efforts of the Lahore Polo Club staff and management, the championship will resume on Sunday, provided there are no more rains to hamper the championship.
The championship will resume with four matches. Army will play Askari Bank, Guard Group will take on Diamond Paints,

LAHORE - The Pakistan Rugby Union will hold the second phase of the preparatory camp for the HSBC Asian 5 Nations competition from today. The selection camps have already been held in the north, south and central zones. The first combined training camp starts this Sunday (today) in Garrison Degree College Lahore. Development Officer Jamal Qureshi said: "We are starting early this year, as it is important for us to make sure we are well-prepared."
He added that they will be

PPP's estranged leader and former foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, is scheduled to arrive in Karachi on today in what will be his second visit to Sindh in a week. Qureshi is scheduled to meet with Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) chief and spiritual leader of Hurs, Pir Pagaro, on Sunday. Sources privy to the situation said Qureshi would stay in Karachi for three days, during which he is also expected to meet with some party's senior leaders. Sindh Home Minister Dr

LAHORE The National Cadet Under-16 Boys and Girls Karate Championship will start today (Saturday) at Pakistan Sports Complex, Islamabad. Teams from all the four provinces, Islamabad and FATA are participating in the championship. The championship will be held in different weight categories. In boys' category, contests will be held in below 40 kgs, 45 kgs, 52 kgs, 63 kgs individual Kata and team Kumite. Girls will compete in 40 kgs, 43 kgs, 47 kgs, 54 kgs, individual Kata and team

LAHORE - The league match of 14th Tauseef Trophy Cricket Championship will be played between Muslim Gymkhana and Akhter Abdul Rehman Club on March 5 (today) at Iqbal Park ground. The 40-overs match will start at 9:30 AM under the supervision of Rifat Zaheer and Kaleem Asghar. Akhter Abdul Rehman Club have already won the first league match against Wahdat Eaglets Club and have secured 18 points. The league matches are being played between four teams: Muslim Gymkhana, Akhter Abdul

LAHORE - The Matriculation Annual Examination 2011, to be held under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore, is starting from today.
As many as 461,856 candidates are appearing in the exams for which 624 examination centres in five districts have been established, while special squads and monitoring teams have also been formed. BISE Chairman Prof Dr Akram Kashmiri, addressing a press conference on Friday, said the board had completed all arrangements for

LAHORE - Karachi's Peoples Sports Complex Stadium will host the eagerly-awaited football match between Pakistan and Palestine on Friday (today) at 4 pm.
The stadium, brainchild of former chairman District Municipal Committee (South) Jamshed Ahmed Khan, is situated at Lyari Town, a congested seaside settlement in Karachi. It is the country's only exclusive and properly floodlit football stadium with 40,000 seats.
It is also a regular venue of for the Pakistan Premier

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Capital Territory administration has finalised all arrangements to send the body of slain minister Shahbaz Bhatti to his ancestral village of Khushpur, Faisalabad by ambulance on Friday morning. A special security squad of Islamabad police will escort the ambulance and once it enters Punjab, the provincial government will also provide it extra security.
The federal government has assured Bhatti's family that it would airlift the body in case it rained.

LAHORE - In a testament to the power of charitable giving, a star-studded evening organized by "Quintessentially" on March 4, called "Pakistan Appeal" will see influential members of the UAE and the regional society give their charity and thoughts to the enduring plight of millions of flood victims, who lost everything in the greatest disaster ever to hit Pakistan.
The opening address will be made by the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Sheikh Nahyan Bin

LAHORE - The victorious Pakistan blind cricket team will reach Karachi today after beating Australia. Pakistan completed a clean sweep over Australia in the T20 series by 3-0, and in the ODI series by 3-0. This was the 6th consecutive one-day series triumph by Pakistan blind cricket team.

LAHORE - The trials to select the Punjab basketball team will be held on March 1 and 2, ahead of the All Pakistan Basketball Tournament, to be held from March 14 to 19 at Agriculture University Faisalabad. The trials will be held at Govt College University at 2 pm. All the divisions of Punjab will participate in the trials.
All the four provinces, Islamabad and department teams are participating in the upcoming event. The winners will be awarded Rs 50,000 while the runner-ups

KARACHI - The sacked lower grade employees of the Sindh Education Department, on a hunger strike outside the Karachi Press Club, will march to the Sindh Assembly building today to record their protest.
All Sindh Education Department Lower Staff Association (ASEDLSA) President Darya Khan Jamali told Pakistan Today that the Arbab Rahim-led government had appointed them by allowing a relaxation in age limit on the premise that no appointments were made in the Education Department

KARACHI - The Department of International Relations of the University of Karachi (KU) has organised the third SAARC Simulation Exercise, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation Islamabad, from today (Monday) till March 3.
A KU official said on Sunday that 56 students from various universities of Pakistan would participate in the simulation exercise whose inaugural session is to be held today with KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui as the chief

ISLAMABAD - A four-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) will on Monday hear a set of pleas against the rejection of a year's extension in the service of four additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) and two additional judges of the Sindh High Court (SHC) by the Parliamentary Committee (PC).
At the last hearing, the court had threatened ex-parte proceedings when no representative of the PC showed up to pursue the matter. The court had told Attorney General Anwarul Haq

ISLAMABAD - Various benches of the Supreme Court will hear high profile cases today (Monday) including smuggling through the container meant for supplies to ISAF in Afghanistan, which have been entering Pakistan over the past four years in the name of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) and the pilfering that caused a whopping loss of Rs 19 to Rs 37 billion to the national exchequer.
The cases will be heard by a three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry,