Pakistan's election commission has formed a high-level committee to probe the explosive allegations levelled by a senior bureaucrat that widespread rigging aided by the judiciary and the top election body happened against jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
The fast bowler was included in Pakistan's squad for the triangular series in Sri Lanka.\n\n
'Our endeavour with season two was to be more grand with the weddings and deeper with the characters.' 'So, it is a more nuanced and layered look at the themes that we did in season one.'
Here's looking at pictures from Farhan Akhtar's 40th birthday bash.
Beleaguered pacer Shoaib Akhtar and some non-performing senior players of the national side are expected to get the axe when the Pakistan Cricket Board announces its new central contract later this week.
Akram's agent Arsalan Haider confirmed that the pair would commentate during the fourth ODI in Chennai at the MA Chidambaram Stadium and return to Pakistan on October 23, two days before the Mumbai match.
At least five Chinese nationals were among the six persons killed on Tuesday when an explosive-packed vehicle rammed into their bus in Pakistan's troubled northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, officials said.
"He performs to his ability once a year - and then he has the nerve to compare himself with Glenn McGrath," said the former Pakistan captain.\n\n
A joint team of the NIA and Bihar Police reached Tehseen's house in Maniyarpur village, about 12 km from the district headquarters, and attached the property in the presence of his father Wasim Akhtar and other family members, Officer in-Charge of Maniyarpur Police Station Asgar Imam said.
The Archies is an evergreen thought passed on from generation to generation. But Sukanya Verma wishes it had some of the comic's tee-hee humour and hyuk hyuk too.
Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has set his sights on a coaching career after agreeing to take charge of a top domestic team.
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The Gujarat government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the petitioners who have sought a probe into the alleged fake encounters in the state from 2002 to 2006 need to explain the reasons for their "selective public interest" in raising the issue.
Two ministers who raised the banner of revolt with former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot during the political crisis also find their names in the list.
Controversial Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar will not be considered for the One-Day International series in Sri Lanka on fitness grounds, interim chief selector Wasim Bari said on Saturday. Bari, who left for Sri Lanka to consult with the team management over the composition of the ODI squad, told a television channel that Akhtar would not be considered for the five-match ODI series and a Twenty20 International.
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Troubled Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been ordered to explain himself to his country's cricket board after appearing on a television talk show.
The PML-N, however, rejected the demand and claimed that it was winning Thursday's elections.
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Former Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar heaved a sigh of relief when he was named in the team of his long-time rival Sachin Tendulkar for an inaugural three-match series in the US and said he's done bowling against the Indian batting legend whom he considers a 'brutal force' and the 'greatest player history has ever seen'.
Shoaib Akhtar revealed that he was approached for the Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt's crime-drama movie Gangster, which released in 2005 with the offer to play the lead role.
Controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar made a comeback while senior batsman Mohammad Yousuf and dope-tainted pacer Mohammad Asif were left out of Pakistan's 30-member preliminary squad on Tuesday named for the Champions Trophy.
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Reader Kapil Vyas sent us a picture of Farhan Akhtar.
China Thursday offered to play a 'constructive role' to ease tension between Pakistan and Iran following their missile strikes against each other over the last two days and asked the two countries to 'exercise restraint and calmness and avoid escalation'.
The former Australia captain will hear the Pakistan fast bowler's plea against his one Test and two ODIs ban for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct.
As China's Foreign Minister Sun Weidong visited Pakistan on a mediation mission, a statement from Foreign Ministry on Monday said it is maintaining close contacts with Pakistan and Iran to 'bridge their differences'.
'If Modi is re-elected again, we can forget these things for a long time.'
Preferring to play down the controversy stirred by Shoaib Akhtar's recently released autobiography 'Controversially Yours', in which he has made some tall claims, Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik said, there was no point in giving much importance to the pacer's book.
Preferring to play down the controversy stirred by Shoaib Akhtar's recently released autobiography 'Controversially Yours', in which he has made some tall claims, Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik said, there was no point in giving much importance to the pacer's book.
The highly anticipated trailer of the third installment of Fukrey, starring Richa Chadha, Varun Sharma, Pulkit Samrat, Pankaj Tripathi and Manjot Singh, is out, and its cast can't keep calm.
A medical commission report found his injury during the third and final Test against India "inconclusive".
Former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar, once a nemesis of many a top Indian batsman, is now ready to offer advice to his arch-rivals saying that Mohammad Shami, Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron will be key to India's 2015 World Cup defence.
Temperamental fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has gone on the warpath with the Pakistan Cricket Board insisting he will not respond to any notices sent to him by the PCB over his recent critical statements in the media.
Shoaib Akhtar and Danish Kaneria will appear before a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) disciplinary committee on Tuesday to respond to charges of violating the players' code of conduct. The duo were charged with criticising PCB policies following the board's announcement of the new central contracts in January.
'The world needs Gandhi now more than any other time in history.'
'Yes, there have not been any express fast bowlers that are coming from the MRF Pace Foundation that we used to have back in the years.' 'But that's not going to happen anymore. Now, in the next few years, you are gonna see a lot of really good fast bowlers coming out from the MRF Pace Foundation again.'
Faisal Iqbal, who was included in place of injured skipper Shoaib Malik, rallied behind pacer Shoaib Akhtar, saying his aggression was a plus point for Pakistan.
Shoaib Akhtar's woes were further compounded on Thursday when the banned pacer was served a legal notice by Pakistan cricket Board chairman Nasim Ashraf for making defamatory statements about him and the PCB.
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