Rejecting foreign media reports that Taliban supreme commander Mullah Omar and the central council of the terrorist organisation were present in Balochistan, Frontier Corps Balochistan Inspector General Major General Saleem Nawaz has said that they are not functioning from Quetta.
The Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) has demanded an apology from the Karnataka police for arresting two of its leading cricketers who were in Bangalore to partake in the domestic CK Nayudu cricket tournament.
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist arrested in the capital was sent to 14 days judicial custody by a Delhi court on Wednesday.
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The former president called up his family in Rameswaram on Sunday to ask about his elder brother's health
Pakistan cricket plunged into fresh crisis on Monday with chief selector Abdul Qadir resigning in mysterious circumstances. The announcement of his resignation came out of the blue and a day after Pakistan was trounced by England in the ICC World Twenty20. PCB chairman Ejaz Butt wasted no time in accepting the resignation.
Bharatiya Janata Party member of Legislative Assembly Suresh Rana, who was arrested for his alleged role in fanning communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, was booked on Thursday under the National Security Act.
The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Saturday it estimated financial losses of $10.5 million following the International Cricket Council decision to shift the 2011 World Cup matches from the country. 'We lose out on earning the hosting fees of the matches...the ICC pays out the host country $750,000 for each match,' Saleem Altaf, chief operating officer said.
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Veteran cueist Geet Sethi survived a scare against Malta's Simon Zammit, while Pankaj Advani had a field day against Moosa Saleem of Mauritius on the second day of the ONGC-World Snooker Championship in Hyderabad on Monday.
The long-validity all-India Reliance CDMA to Reliance CDMA calling packs are encouraged to increase STD usage from this segment -- which brings down Reliance to Reliance effective calling tariff to 30 paise per minute or even lower. On Rs 2,222 recharge, 500 minutes of free STD/local talktime per month for 12 month would be offered, while Rs 4,444 recharge pack gives 500 minutes of free STD/local talktime per month for lifetime.
The Samajwadi Party's move to join hands with Kalyan Singh, who was the Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babri mosque was demolished 17 years ago, may dent the party's Muslim vote bank in the coming Lok Sabha elections with some of the minority community leaders openly raising a banner of revolt.
General Sharif will meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and other civil as well as military leaders during the day-long trip.
Pakistan awarded new central contracts to 26 players on Tuesday.
Nagori and Mohammad Saleem were shifted to Rewa Jail, while Abdul Razzaq and Akbar Baig were transferred to Shahdol jail, under tight security, official sources said on Monday. Another SIMI activist Sheikh Mumtaz was shifted to Satna jail.
Pakistan has appointed Saleem Raza, a former international banker, as central bank governor.
In its report, the committee is understood to have suggested that the money trail could be probed by an investigating agency like CBI or the Income Tax Department. The 600-page report carries evidence given by witnesses and verbatim transcriptions of sittings as also the 'dissent' notes by BJP's V K Malhotra, Mohd Salim (CPI-M) and Ramgopal Yadav (SP).
The party will also leave two seats for the Apna Dal, and entered into an electoral agreement with the lesser known Jan Adhikar Party.
Pakistan's powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday warned India of a 'befitting response' to alleged provocation along the LoC
Aslam alias Saleem was picked up by the Delhi Police with detonators and five kilograms of RDX. During interrogation it was revealed that he was in India to activate sleeper cells and to undertake recruitments in the country.
Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd will succeed Sunil Gavaskar as chairman of the ICC's Cricket Committee after Pakistan withdrew Majid Khan's nomination for the high-profile post. Sources in the Pakistan Cricket Board said Majid's nomination was withdrawn before the ICC meeting commenced in Dubai.
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During his joint interrogation by Delhi Police and intelligence agencies, expelled Pakistani High Commission staffer Mehmood Akhtar had claimed that 16 other employees of the diplomatic mission were in touch with spies for extracting sensitive information and documents pertaining to army and the Border Security Force deployment, said a senior police officer privy to the probe.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sold its television rights for the next five years to the Dubai-based Ten sports channel for $145.5 million, PCB chief operating officer Saleem Altaf said on Sunday.
The Pakistan Cricket Board on Thursday sacked former Test player Saleem Altaf as Director, Special Projects, on charges of leaking confidential information of the Board. According to sources, the decision came after an exchange of words between Altaf and PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf.
Professor Murthy, who was also the chairman of the Department of Modern English Language at the varsity, had been teaching at the Aligarh Muslim University for the last 28 years.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday sacked coach Geoff Lawson, nearly six months before the completion of his contract.
Sixteen-year-old Ashwini, a student of class ninth at the Aikala High School in Kinnigoli, along with her friend Mahadevi had gone to Maroor near Moodabidri in a bus to meet Saleem, a conductor-cum owner of the bus on Tuesday afternoon. A group of suspected Sangh Parivar activists stopped the bus and took the three to Maroor police station. Police then called Ashwini's parents and handed her over to them.
Saleem Abbasi, the man in question, was on the radar of the Interpol for his alleged involvement in an explosion at Houari Boumediene airport, Algiers, in 1992.
Pakistan on Monday barred its cricketers from playing in the high-profile Indian Premier League. The decision is bound to further strain the sporting ties between the two countries. Saleem Altaf, the chief operating officer of the Pakistan Cricket Board said they received copy of a letter from the Foreign Affairs Ministry sent to the Sports Ministry which declined permission to the players to travel to India for the Twenty20 tournament.
In its chargesheet filed in a special court in Srinagar, the CBI alleged that Abdullah as the association president at that time had connived with the treasurer of JKCA and others for undue siphoning off and misappropriation of funds, a CBI spokesperson said in New Delhi.
Stung by the doping controversies surrounding two of its key bowlers, the Pakistan Cricket Board on Sunday conducted drugs tests of the players named in its preliminary squad for the Champions Trophy. Batsmen Younis Khan, Bazid Khan and all-rounder Yasir Arafat were not tested as they were out of the country, Saleem added.
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The Pakistan vice-captain will join the county as a replacement for New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming.
The West Indies called off their proposed two-Test series against Pakistan next month in Abu Dhabi. The teams will however play three ODIs in the United Arab Emirates city between November 12 and 16.
Dr Ali Khan Pathan and Dr Saleem Honnalli were picked up by the Gujarat police on August 16. However they were released after the Karnataka police confirmed that the two doctors were not involved in the blasts.
A team of the Gujarat police camping in Karnataka picked up two doctors -- Dr Saleem Ali and Dr Pathan -- from Bijapur, a town in northern Karnataka, on Sunday. Although police are yet to ascertain his role behind the two blasts, they say immediate information with them shows Dr Ali had provided logistic support to those who carried out the blasts.
