Tag: Wants

BERLIN - Formula One world champion and Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel should be a future target for Mercedes, fellow German and seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher said on Monday. Vettel became Formula One's youngest world champion when the 23-year-old clinched the title at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in November.
"Very hypothetically speaking it would be absolutely unreasonable if Mercedes did not try to find out if Sebastian would like to drive for us in

ISLAMABAD - Hearing a petition against the Railways land scam, allegedly worth more than Rs 25 billion, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the remaining respondents to furnish their replies within three days.
A four-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday said its short order that "as far as the remaining respondents who have not submitted replies are concerned, ordinarily the

ISLAMABAD - The US on Sunday reiterated its demand for the immediate release of Raymond Davis, currently detained in Lahore for killing two Pakistani citizens who attacked him, saying he was a member of the US embassy's technical and administrative staff, which made him entitled to diplomatic immunity.
The US Embassy once again demanded Davis's release in a statement that purportedly contained facts about diplomatic immunity and the American diplomat detained in Lahore. It said,

MUMBAI - Over the last two decades, there is very little missing from Sachin Tendulkar's list of achievements as a batsman but the absence of a World Cup in his trophy cabinet continues to rankle the Indian run-machine.
The 37-year old, with more than 32,000 runs and 97 centuries in international cricket, came closest to ending that quest when he was the highest scorer in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, where Australia beat India in the final. The Feb. 19-April 2 World Cup

TORONTO - Canada have pleaded with the International Cricket Council to help their three Pakistan-born players obtain visas to enter India for the World Cup which gets underway on February 19. Vice-captain Rizwan Cheema, Khurram Chohan and Hamza Tariq are all still waiting for their India visas.
The delay has prompted Cricket Canada to demand that the schedule, which has the team playing four of their six group games in India, be altered so that matches are switched to co-hosts

SAN DIEGO - Life has been a dizzying whirlwind for Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas since his astonishing breakthrough on the US PGA Tour but his overriding goal remains in sharp focus. The 26-year-old became the first rookie to win the Bob Hope Classic in more than a half-century with a playoff victory on Sunday, an achievement that sparked jubilant celebration in his soccer-mad homeland.
Although Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has frequently disparaged golf as an elitist sport

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

GUJRANWALA - Punjab University Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that at least 4 per cent of the GDP should be spent on the education sector for the development of the country.
Addressing the second convocation of GIFT University Gujranwala, he said education had never been on the priority of any government and this attitude should change to maintain Pakistan's status of solo nuclear power of the Muslim world. Board of Governors President Muhammad Anwar Dar and

ISLAMABAD - Deferring the decision on the import of reconditioned vehicles, the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet (ECC) on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Petroleum to re-invite tenders for the short-term import of 2.75 million tons of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and also in principle decided to allow import of urea.
An official source said that the decision was made after the Ministry of Law again refused to approve the tender finalized by the Ministry of

SEOUL - South Korea made a fresh call on Tuesday for the United Nations Security Council to debate North Korea's uranium enrichment programme, which according to experts could produce more nuclear weapons.
The issue of UN referral will be discussed intensively when US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg visits Seoul on Wednesday, said Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan. He said it would also be raised when Alexei Borodavkin, Russia's chief negotiator to stalled six-party talks

ISLAMABAD - The Cabinet, which is scheduled to meet on Wednesday (January 26), will approve negotiations for agreement on an extradition treaty between Pakistan and Ukraine, Pakistan Today has learnt reliably.
After the signing of this treaty, each country's prisoners will be returned to their country of origin. Pakistan has been working on signing extradition treaties with different countries all over the world. According to data recently provided to the National Assembly, more

KARACHI - The law and order situation in Karachi could be improved if martial law-like steps are taken in the city, spiritual leader of the Hurs and PML-F chief Pir Pagara said on Saturday.
"Impose martial law-like steps in Karachi and the situation will improve. The civil administration has failed [in maintaining law and order], and when this happens, the army comes in," he said in his customary style while talking to journalists after meeting with a PML-Q delegation at his

LAHORE - Pakistan's coach Waqar Younis has become the latest to join the growing list of people who have expressed their surprise over Pakistan Cricket Board's decision to delay naming of the captain for the 2011 World Cup while announcing the 15-member squad.
"This is also surprising to me. I don't know what reasons the board could have for delaying naming the captain but personally I feel it would have been better to announce the captain along with the World Cup team," Waqar

LAHORE - The Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa has stressed on burying the 'past politics of vendetta and hatred', as all political parties have equal stakes in the country.
He said that the Governor's House is not anybody's personal inheritance and being a public property, is open to all and sundry.
He was talking to the media after visiting the mausoleum of Allama Iqbal, where he also laid a wreath of flowers, offered Fetha, and penned his views.
The governor said

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza on Wednesday reiterated the need for engaging parliamentarians from the East and the West into interfaith dialogues to create better understanding between nations and religions.
According to a press release issued here on Wednesday, while addressing the 2nd Extraordinary Session of the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Countries (PUIC) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, she said that for a peaceful world, peaceful co-existence among the nations

SEOUL - South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Saturday that North Korea's new enriched uranium program should be dealt with by the United Nations Security Council, his spokeswoman said.
"The issue of North Korea's uranium enrichment program should be referred to the United Nations Security Council," Lee was quoted as saying when he met with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara.
South Korea's foreign minister Kim Sung-Hwan said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency

KARACHI - Members of the All-Pakistan National Lady Health Worker (LHW) Employees Association, which is part of the women's wing of the Pakistan Paramedical Staff Association, protested on Saturday outside the Karachi Press Club against delays in the issuance of salaries and petrol allowance.
The association's provincial president, Khairunnisa Ehsan, demanded that the workers' salaries be released immediately. "If the government has money to cover non-essential expenses, why does