Former Pakistan Cricket Board chief Zaka Ashraf has defended his decision to remove Babar Azam as captain following the team's disappointing ODI World Cup campaign in India.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday carried out searches at the residence of interior designer Zahida Parvez, who has been arrested by the agency in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood.
Pakistani authorities have reportedly imposed restrictions on the movement of Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Maulana Masood Azhar and confined him to his home despite turning down India's demand for handing him over.Azhar, who was freed by Indian authorities along with two other terrorists in exchange for passengers of an Indian Airlines flight hijacked from Kathmandu to Kandahar in 1999, has been confined to his multi-storey building in Model Town area of Bahawalpur.
Afridi added that players in The T20 squad should be given a long run ahead of the World Cup later this year.
In a new turn in the RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, one of the prime accused and alleged contract killer, Irfan, on Thursday told special CBI court in Indore that he wanted to record his confessional statement.
Rajya Sabha member Rasheed Masood, convicted for fraudulently nominating undeserving candidates to MBBS seats in 1990-91, on Tuesday sought benefit of probation in a Delhi court, citing his long service to the nation and health reasons even as the Central Bureau of Investigation demanded nothing less than seven years jail term for him and a hefty fine.
Rajya Sabha member and Congress leader, Rasheed Masood, was sentenced to four years in jail by a Delhi court in a corruption case on Tuesday, becoming the first MP to lose his seat after a recent Supreme Court judgment had removed the immunity for convicted lawmakers.
A Pakistani media baron, the 45-year-old is the 37th full-time chairman of the PCB.
Rajya Sabha Secretary General Yogendra Narain is the returning officer for the vice presidential election.
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India on Friday came down hard on Pakistan for allowing Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, blamed for the 2001 Parliament attack, to "spew venom" against it, saying it was a matter of concern how a globally banned terrorist could address anti-India rallies.
Authorities in Pakistan have frozen bank accounts with more than Rs 400 million of over 5,100 terror suspects, including JeM chief Masood Azhar who is under "protective custody" after the terror attack on the Pathankot air base, officials said.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi also claimed that Azhar is unwell to the extent that he cannot leave his house.
BJP's ally Shiv Sena was not much impressed with the action, saying it is just usual for Pakistan to take such actions for the sake of it following terror incidents in India.
'PAKI' is a contemptuous term for a person from Pakistan or South Asia by birth or descent.
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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is expected to raise the issue of China blocking India's bid to ban Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar by the United Nations with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi,.
The trial of RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case started on Friday at the Special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Indore with the examination of first prosecution witness M R Uikey, an assistant sub-inspector of police who was the first to arrive at the murder site. The trial is being presided over by Judge Anupam Srivastav.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Tuesday remanded three accused, including city-based interior designer Zahida Pervez, to judicial custody till March 26 in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood.
China said it took the decision after it found no objection to the listing proposal by the United States, the United Kingdom and France following a careful study of the revised materials
India has identified Azhar as the mastermind of the Pathankot terror attack on January 2, 2016.
The judicial remand of all the five accused in Right To Information activist Shehla Masood's murder case has been extended to June 11 by the special Central Bureau of Investigation court.
One of the five accused in the Right To Information activist Shehla Masood murder case, Saba Farooqui, on Friday refused to record her statement before a special court for the second time in one month.
The suspense over whether Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will contest the polls from Amethi and Raebareli respectively continued.
A senior Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Madhya Pradesh is being investigated by Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood in which three persons including a woman architect and the alleged contract killer have been arrested.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday arrested three persons, including a woman-architect and the alleged contract killer, in connection with the murder of Madhya Pradesh's RTI activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal and claimed to have cracked the case.
The alleged main conspirator in Right To Information activist Shehla Masood's murder case, Zahida Pervez on Monday accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh of putting pressure on her husband to divorce her.
A crowd of more than 22,000 at his home Sydney Cricket Ground rose for a final ovation as Warner left the field.
India hit out at China for its remarks that there was no consensus over the United States' proposal to ban Pathankot attack mastermind and Jaish-e-Mohammed is chief Masood Azhar at the United Nations
Pakistan's restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province's Governor Masood Kausar on Tuesday survived an assassination attempt as militants fired rockets at the venue of a rally to be addressed by him in a tribal area leaving at least one person dead and seven injured.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday said that the weapon used in the murder of RTI Activist Shehla Masood has been recovered at the instance of Saqib Ali who is accused of hiring contract killers to murder her.
Rediff.com is republishing this column (June 7, 2011) which is relevant even today, by Shehla Masood, the Bhopal-based Right to Information activist who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday.
If China would not have extended the technical hold, Azhar would have automatically been designated under the UN as a terrorist.
Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Dhruv Narayan Singh is among the 18 persons who will be quizzed in connection with the murder of Right to Information activist Shehla Masood, police sources said on Friday.
Contradicting Defence Minister Chaudhary Mukhtar Ahmad, Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik on Wednesday said that Jaish-e-Mohmmad chief Maulana Masood Azhar, one of India's most-wanted terrorists, was not under house arrest and his whereabouts were not known to them."We are looking for him. He is not under house arrest. As far as I know, it (news reports of Azhar's house arrest) is wrong. He is not in Pakistan...We don't know where he is," Malik said.
The special court issued the arrest warrant after weighing the evidence presented by the NIA.
'If this were to happen, it won't exactly be a game changer because Pakistan is known for treating arrested terrorists as 'political prisoners', who are generally given VIP treatment,' says Rajeev Sharma.
A UNSC designation will subject Azhar to an assets freeze, travel ban and an arms embargo.
The report came amid speculation on social media that JeM founder has died.
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