Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi lashed out at former Pakistan captain-turned-politician Imran Khan following Tuesday's terror attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore, saying teams should stop visiting Pakistan to play cricket. Imran had accused India of double standards after it decided not to tour Pakistan last year on security grounds but continued with the home series against England despite the terror attacks in Mumbai.
HI Secretary General Bhola Nath Singh suggested that if the Pakistan hockey team can come to India, then the Men in Blue should also tour their neighbouring country.
At least three young girls were killed and dozens more injured in a stampede after a concert by singer Atif Aslam at an arts complex in Lahore on Monday, officials said.
When I was leaving Pakistan and going abroad I had no feeling of happiness but today I am happy, Sharif said.
Devoid of any international cricket since the 2009 terror attack on the Sri Lankan team, the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Sethi is hopeful of an international series in Lahore later this year.
Succumbing to the demands of a radical Islamist party, the Pakistan government has agreed to try blasphemy suspects under terrorism charges in addition to the other sections of the country's penal code.
Barring 2004 and 2009 when Navjot Singh Sidhu won the Amritsar seat as a BJP MP and 1998 when Daya Singh Sodhi from BJP was elected as the MP, it has essentially a Congress bastion.
Had it not been for Pankaj Tripathi, who must have worked hard to get those Vajpayee intonations and mannerisms so perfectly well, Ravi Jadhav's flattering portrait of Vajpayee would have been more vacuous than what we get to see, observes Prasanna Zore.
The attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan have shown that athletes could be a target anywhere in the world, the International Cricket Council chief executive said on Sunday. Haroon Lorgat also said the attack by a small group of heavily armed men on the convoy taking the Sri Lankan team to the ground in Lahore last week has changed the sporting landscape for good.
Mohammad Nabi's game changing 65 off 32 balls came to nothing as Sri Lanka pulled off a thrilling two-run win over an audacious Afghanistan.
In unprecedented scenes, supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday stormed the Pakistan Army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and the Corps Commander's residence in Lahore after his dramatic arrest in a corruption case.
The three main political parties in Pakistan on Sunday intensified their efforts for the formation of a coalition government after it became clear that the coup-prone country faced a hung Parliament after general elections marred by allegations of rigging.
Chasing 147 for victory, Delhi Giants survived initial hiccups to reach the target with still nine balls to spare, in the 20th match of the ICL Twenty20 Championship at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Gurgaon on Sunday night.
Pakistan, co-hosts of the Asia Cup, will take on Nepal in the tournament opener in Multan on Wednesday and will be in high spirits after their whitewash of Afghanistan.
Pakistan's security establishment is in a bind over evidence suggesting the Lashkar-e-Tayiba was behind the Mumbai attacks and the assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore as it had assured Western powers after the 2001 strike on Indian Parliament that it would keep a lid on the banned group's activities.
With former prime minister Imran Khan in jail, Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is tipped to emerge as the single largest party in the elections.
Last month, Pakistani authorities released 198 Indian fishermen, languishing in a prison in Karachi after arresting them for allegedly fishing illegally in the country's waters.
The 73-year-old leader castigated the judges for legitimising military dictators.
At least eight people were killed and 20 others injured in a blast caused by a gas cylinder in a scrap market in Lahore on Thursday. The police said a gas cylinder blew up in a godown at the market in Misri Shah area shortly before 3 pm local time, causing widespread damage to the building.
Khan took strong exception to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) allegations against him and said the spokesperson of the army's military wing was not even born when he represented Pakistan in the world.
Lakshmipathy Balaji turned out to be the cynosure of all eyes during the Indian cricket team's tour of Pakistan in 2004.
Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, on Friday led Eid prayers at the famous Gaddafi stadium in Lahore, hours after Jamat-ud-Dawah chief tweeted that "time is near when those oppressed in Kashmir, Palestine and Burma will celebrate Eid in the air of Freedom".
'...It is important for you to take a stand.' 'It is a sin to remain silent when the basic structure of the Constitution is being attacked.'
The lawmakers expressed concerns about "pre- and post-poll rigging in Pakistan's recent parliamentary elections" and urged the US Congress to "withhold recognition of a new government in Pakistan until a thorough, transparent, and credible investigation of election interference has been conducted".
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday appeared before the Lahore high court which granted him protective bail in a case linked to violent protests outside the election commission, amidst high drama inside the court premises where hundreds of his supporters converged to show solidarity with him.
Haris Rauf bowled a couple of hostile spells, while Imam-ul-Haq struck a silken 78 as Pakistan secured a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh in a Super Four clash of the Asia Cup, in Lahore on Wednesday.
The PTF chief said there was a deadline for the AITA to send final arrival confirmation and if they didn't travel to Pakistan the International Tennis Federation (ITF) would consider the Davis Cup tie as forfeited, awarding full points to the hosts.
The bus, which carried nine passengers, crossed the Radcliffe point at 10:40 am.
The UN team to visit Islamabad for an assessment of Pakistan's compliance with the world body's sanctions regime.
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan, who was arrested by paramilitary Rangers on Tuesday, is facing 121 cases across the country, including for committing treason and blasphemy and inciting violence and terrorism.
Heavy rain washed out the Champions League T20 match between Chennai Super Kings and Lahore Lions without a ball being bowled at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Thursday.
PCB was caught in a deadlock with the ACC for demanding additional compensation on organising chartered flights between Pakistan and Sri Lanka during the Asia Cup.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has taken close to 60 per cent of the appearance money earned by the Lahore Lions team during the recently concluded Champions League T20 in India paying Muhammad Hafeez and Co only $100,000 out of the $500,000 for their hardwork.
Babar Azam is set to return as Pakistan skipper for their home series against New Zealand, starting April 14.
He is only the agent that can bring them that change for they are quite aware that he has articulated no vision on how to set Pakistan back on the rails, notes Lieutenant General Gautam Moorthy (retd).
The courts in Pakistan have been flooded with petitions as candidates, mostly backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), challenged the results of Thursday's general elections, alleging rigging.
The Lahore police closed the main road leading to the Zaman Park residence of Khan by placing containers. Riot police and water cannons are currently present near Khan's residence.
