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Ajmal backs lethal teammates Irfan Junaid Khan to bamboozle opposition after Akrams coaching

Pakistani spin star Saeed Ajmal praised fellow pace bowlers Mohammad Irfan and Junaid Khan, saying that the bowlers will be more destructive than before during the ICC Champions Trophy after pace legend Wasim Akram's coaching. Stating that Irfan and Khan will be Pakistan's strike bowlers in the Champions Trophy, Ajmal said that Akram had worked closely with the duo during the recent training ...
Pak team management players calling for retirement of nothing left to offer Afridi

The Pakistan team management and some players of the national team have said that former captain Shahid Afridi should retire from international cricket as he is 'finished' and has 'nothing left to offer anymore'. Afridi was handed an Rs. 360,000 monthly contract by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) despite being overlooked for the ICC Champions Trophy that takes place in England and Wales next ...
Case against Musharraf in judges detention withdrawn

The lawyer who had filed a petition in the judges' detention case has withdrawn his complaint against former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf. The decision was taken by Advocate Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Ghumman a day before the hearing of the case on Saturday by the Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court. According to Dawn News, the case was to be heard at General Musharraf's Chak Shahzad farmhouse, ...
Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf says no enmity with Taliban

The coming provincial government was ready to hold talks with the outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) senior leader has said. Pervez Khattak, who is soon-to-be Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said that they have no enmity with the Taliban. The PTI central Secretary General said the Taliban were also Pakistanis and requested the ...
Chinese man held in PoK over Koran desecration

A Chinese man has been taken into protective custody in Pakistan administered Kashmir after he was accused of desecrating the Koran. The man, named only as Mr. Lee, works for a Chinese consortium that is building a dam in Kashmir. A police official was quoted by the BBC, as saying that Mr.Lee was held to prevent him from being lynched by an angry mob. Allegations of blasphemy are taken very ...

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English officials to purely oversee anticipated India-Pak fixture at Champions Trophy

The anticipated India vs Pakistan fixture of the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy, to take place at Edgbaston on June 15, is set to be purely overseen by English match officials, according to the International Cricketing Council (ICC). A list released by the ICC has seen former England wicket-keeper Ian Gould and Richard Kettleborough appointed as the on-field umpires with Nigel Llong monitoring ...
12 killed 25 injured as in twin mosque blasts in Pakistan

At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured when twin blasts hit two mosques in Malakand town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Friday afternoon, reported Xinhua citing local media. Both blasts took place almost simultaneously at about 2 p.m. local time in Bazdara Bala area of Malakand. Local paramilitary troops confirmed that the first blast happened before Friday prayer and ...
Kabul looking for tripartite mechanism with India and Pakistan

Afghanistan's Ambassador to India Shaida M. Abdali has said his copuntry is keen on creating a tripartite mechanism with India and Pakistan that would enhance cooperation between the three nations in the short and long term. Speaking ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit to India next week, Abdali said the proposed mechanism could also include a tripartite no-war pact. President ...
UK police launches investigation into Pak MQM chiefs separating Karachi comments

The London police are investigating complaints against UK-based Pakistani politician, Altaf Hussain, to see if he has violated UK law. Hussain, leader of the MQM party that controls Karachi, addressed supporters from London last Sunday after Pakistan's general elections. In response to accusations of electoral fraud, he is alleged to have threatened his accusers with violence, reports the ...
Pakistani PM to free 51 Indian fishermen as goodwill gesture

Islamabad, May 17 (Xinhua-ANI): Pakistan interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has decided to release 51 Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds in a goodwill gesture, the prime minister's office said Friday. These prisoners have already served their sentences, the office said in a statement. The prime minister expressed the hope that the Indian government will reciprocate the gesture ...

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Rajapaksa pledges to continue fighting 'external elements' for peace in Sri Lanka

Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday renewed his pledge to fight all "external elements" seeking to "disrupt" the country's peace at the fourth anniversary celebration of winning the three-decade war.

He was alluding to foreign countries, led by the United States, who have been critical of Sri Lanka's human rights record and called for an independent investigation into the alleged war crimes committed during the last stage of the war in the country.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa insisted that these were attempts to undermine the peace that has been won and the reconciliation that is already taking place.

"When the war ended, we freed most of the top officials of the LTTE with very minor punishments despite the many atrocities their organization committed. We rehabilitated over 11000 carders, resettled thousands of displaced people and demined vast tracts of land," he said.

Addressing the nation during the celebration, Rajapaksa also harshly criticized the Tamil diaspora, whom he saw as "aiding and abetting" the international community to criticize Sri Lanka.

"The Tamil people don't need enemies as long as these people are there," he added, clearly alluding to the pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora organizations such as the Global Tamil Forum that have been lobbying internationally on allegations of war crimes committed in Sri Lanka during the last phase of the war. ...