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LAHORE - Fawad Alam, with a fine century, and Khalid Latif, displaying equally brilliant batting brought Sindh to a winning position against Federal Areas on day two of the fifth round match of the Pentangular Cup 2010-2011, here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday.
Sindh made 359 runs for the loss of eight wickets in their second innings by the close of play, while Federal Areas team gathered 240 runs after Sindh made 202 runs in their first innings. Meanwhile at LCCA, Khyber

LAHORE - Master Paints' relentless progress towards the final of the Bank Alfalah National Polo Championship for the Quaid-e-Azam Gold Cup 2011 continued as they regained the top slot in the points table. Defending champions Colony Sugar were placed second at the close of the matches on Thursday. Master Paints hammered 14 goals in response to Army/Askari Bank's 8. It was Gaston Moore who banged nine goals, some of them solo. His team-mates Hissam Ali Hyder and Sufi Muhammad Haris came

LAHORE - Army/Askari Bank ousted Master Paints as the points table leaders with a close win over Al Khan/Ciro's Pomodoro here in the Bank Alfalah National Polo Championship for the Quaid-e-Azam Gold Cup 2011 Tuesday. However, it was Army/Askari Bank's fifth match of the event, while Master Paints secured eight points after winning their fourth match. Colony Sugar, with their fourth win in five games, also kept their hopes alive. Julio Nevillo Astrada responded timely to the call of

LOS ANGELES - Johnny Depp's "Rango," an animated tale about a chameleon who becomes sheriff to clean up the town of Dirt, earned $38 million to top North America's weekend box office, industry data showed Monday.
"Rango," hailed by critics as clever and eccentric, proved in its debut weekend to be another successful pairing of Depp with director Gore Verbinski, who helmed the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.
Matt Damon's thriller "The Adjustment Bureau" debuted at

PARIS - Lille gained a potentially priceless 2-1 win over Marseille at the Velodrome on Sunday evening to stay top of the league on goal difference. In a high octane encounter young Belgian star Eden Hazard celebrated signing a new contract extension on Friday by firing the ball from 30m out past Marseille keeper Steve Mandanda to give Lille a 10th minute lead. Senegelese striker Moussa Sow almost doubled up for Lille shortly after but his close range angled shot from the left went

ISLAMABAD - Almost all of the top officials in the Law Ministry continue to work on a contractual basis in blatant violation of Supreme Court orders telling the government not to hire any retirees on contract. "Law Secretary Masood Chishti is working on contract and so is the case with five senior joint secretaries Attaullah Bangash, Syed Rafique Shah, Baqir Ali Rana, Dr Riaz and Manzoor Mirza. They are all working on a contractual basis," an informed source told Pakistan Today on

MUMBAI - Pakistan are flying in the World Cup after three straight wins but they still have problems right from the top which New Zealand will aim to exploit when the two meet in their Group A match in Kandy on Tuesday. Shahid Afridi's team have notched victories against Kenya, Sri Lanka and Canada but not without a few hiccups which have mainly come from their top order. Openers Mohammad Hafeez and Ahmed Shehzad have failed to provide the required stability which has increased the

LAHORE - Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa won the National Cadet U16 Boys Karate Championship after securing 85 points, with two golds, two silvers and one bronze medal. The KP team was really excited as the were declared the champions for the first time. In the Girls championship, Balochistan won by securing 100 points with three golds, two silvers and one bronze medal. Shahida from Balochistan bagged three gold medals in 54 kg, individual Kata and team Kumite. Fourteen teams from all over

KOHAT - The security forces killed at least two most wanted terrorists in a clash at Kamal Khel, a suburb of Kohat, on Friday. The terrorists opened indiscriminate fire when the security forces were conducting a search operation in the locality. They were stated to be involved in various bombings in Kohat and attacks on the security forces.
In another incident, tribesmen captured eight persons allegedly linked with the extremists. Meanwhile, a traffic police Inspector Qaiser

OUAGADOUGOU - Africa's biggest film festival hands out its top award today after a week of viewing works tackling some of the continents pressing issues against the backdrop of the Arab world uprisings. The inclusion of two films from Egypt, among 18 standing for the Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) grand prize, has new relevance after President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in the pro-democracy revolt. Entries from Algeria and Morocco, touched by the uprisings, are also

MOHALI - In no mood to brook any Dutch mischief, title aspirants South Africa steamrolled the Netherlands by 231 runs in Thursday's World Cup match to top Group B. If Ireland's shock victory against England on Wednesday had rekindled Dutch hopes of pulling off a similar upset, Graeme Smith and his men ruthlessly snuffed them out. To begin with, South Africa rode the marathon 221-run third wicket stand between Hashim Amla (113) and AB de Villiers (134) and JP Duminy's (40) subsequent

KARACHI - Pakistan and Central Asian States (CAs), especially Tajikistan, will open a new chapter of trade relations by implementing various proposed options to boost bilateral trade. Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon, with other related ministries/officials, will visit Pakistan on March 10, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Visit of the Tajik president was followed by visits of both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to Dushanbe in the last two years.

LAHORE - Dr Farooq Ahmad, a well-known personality for his contributions in Geology-related satellite technology and climate change around the world, is the only academic with a post-doctorate in Punjab and most qualified person in the subject of Geography in South Asia.
But the internationally-recognised researcher has no money to purchase milk for his little children and threatened to commit suicide because of the cruelty shown by the Punjab University (PU)'s Geography

KARACHI - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has chalked out a strategy with an aim that some 2000 companies file their tax returns. The FBR said steps would be taken by April 15 to ensure that top 1000 corporate non-filers and top 1000 short-filers of the sales tax submitted their returns for the period July-December 2010. The decision was made at a meeting of the FBR's Board-in-Council convened under the directive of Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in Islamabad on

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has bagged the 20th spot among the top 100 businesses of the Muslim world, published in the seventh Annual Dinar Standard survey. "It is an honour for our company to be ranked amongst the top 100 companies in the Muslim world and the honour has only added to expectations of continuing with the remarkable performance in future," company's MD Irfan Qureshi said.
Dinar Standard is a specialised research, advisory and business media firm

NEW DELHI - India's Supreme Court took the unusual step on Wednesday of freeing three gang-rapists who had served just a third of their sentences after they worked out a financial settlement with their victim. A lower court had sentenced the rapists to ten years in prison -- the minimum for gang rape under India law -- for the crime, committed in 1997.
But the men said that they had since agreed to pay the victim 50,000 rupees, the Press Trust of India reported. Lawyers for the

LAHORE - The Punjab government has started the process of abolishing top revenue posts in districts and tehsils across the province, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to details, there are a total of 36 executive district officers (EDO) revenue and DO (R) posts in all districts, while nearly 140 deputy district officers (DDO) (R) are working across all tehsils of Punjab.
The provincial government has already initiated the "downsizing" drive and slashed various posts in grades