LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) - Three Pakistan Test cricketers suspended over allegations of spot-fixing left Tuesday for Qatar to appear at an international tribunal that could ban them from the game.
An International Cricket Council (ICC) anti-corruption tribunal headed by Michael Beloff QC will hear the case in Doha from January 6-11.
The two other members of the tribunal are Albie Sachs of [...]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) - The Palestinian national football side is to tour Pakistan next month, an official said, as the hosts ramp up efforts to bring back international sport to a country plagued by terrorism.
"Palestine's national football team is due to tour Pakistan and will play a two-match series and this series will help us revive international sport," Pakistan Football Federation pre [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The foreign minister of Pakistan said Monday that Iran had no justification to pursue nuclear weapons and urged the neighboring country to embrace overtures from the United States.
In some of Pakistan's strongest statements on Iran's controversial nuclear program, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that he wanted to avoid "another major crisis in the region."
"In my [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Osama bin Laden has expressed concern about global climate change and flooding in Pakistan, in an audiotape aired on the Internet, his first public remarks since March, a monitoring group said Friday.
"The number of victims caused by climate change is very big... bigger than the victims of wars," said the voice, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified and made availab [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Officials in Iran, the United States and Islamabad on Sunday all denied reports that Iranian security forces had seized seven American troops near the Islamic republic's border with Pakistan.
The denials came after hardline news website Javanonline.ir, which is close to the elite Revolutionary Guards, reported that seven US soldiers had been seized in Iran's Kuhak area near the b [...]
The domestic plane crash of Air Blue airlines in Pakistan on Margala Hills was the worst day in the life of the Pakistani people. There were no survivors and the 152 passengers on board found instant death to be their destiny. These incidents are unpredictable and they sure turn out to be the deadliest ones which end up destroying the lives of families involved. The heavy smoke and fog didn†[...]
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Pakistan has always been under the main target and focus of Washington, not for maintaining any sort of friendship, but making sure that it doesn't establish to be a strong Muslim state. This is very revolting and offending for many citizens of Pakistan which is making them take strategic and stirred decisions against this discrimination of the US and its partiality towards India. Th [...]
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BANGALORE: She's India's tennis ace. He's a high-profile Pakistani cricketer. And they're all set to get married in Hyderabad early next month.
Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik are planning a small, private ceremony in Hyderabad, but their match will inevitably generate huge interest in their respective countries.
The couple will be based in Dubai, though Sania will continue to play tennis a [...]
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Passengers jump out of plane in India after bad landing
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