Umar Gul emerged the unlikely batting hero as Pakistan came back from the dead to pull off a nerve-wracking two-wicket victory over South Africa in their opening Super Eights match of the ICC World Twenty20 in Colombo on Friday. Chasing a target of 134, on a difficult Premadasa strip, Gul produced a blistering 17-ball 32 while Umar Akmal scored an unbeaten 43 to guide the team to a thrilling victory with two balls to spare.
Umar Akmal's brilliance as a batsman and Mohammad Aamer's post-tea burst with the ball against Australia in the Melbourne Test suggests that the future of Pakistan cricket is in safe hands notwithstanding the controversies that have afflicted it, feels noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.
The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a Zilla Parishad school teacher from Latur in Maharashtra and registered a case against four persons after it emerged that a racket was being operated to help NEET students willing to pay money to crack the exam, police said on Monday.
Umar Akmal, younger brother of Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal, scored 129 as Pakistan, in reply to New Zealand's 429, were 307 for 8 at close on the third day of the first Test.
Several houseboats were gutted after a massive fire broke out on a houseboat in Dal Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar.
'The wave of terrorism is over in Kashmir. Local people do not support it.'
Senior Central Reserve Police Force officers, Jammu and Kashmir police officers and others paid tribute to the 40 CRPF personnel who were killed this day in a 2019 terror attack at the Lathpora Pulwama war memorial on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.
The 72-year-old retired police officer, who was the local muezzin, was murdered while he was giving the call for azaan.
Lt Gen (Retd) Puri and several other Kargil veterans who had played a decisive role in the 1999 war were felicitated by the Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan in Delhi recently.
All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq was on Tuesday afternoon detained by police outside the Rajbagh headquarters of the conglomerate while on he was on his way to curfew-bound Shopian town in south Kashmir.
The previous highest voter turnout in the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency was witnessed in 1984 at 58.90 percent.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to appoint Muhammad Yousuf and Abdul Razzaq as interim head coach and assistant coach respectively for the home T20 series against New Zealand later this month.
The scenes in Kashmir, as security is put on high alert after the judgment of Article 370 was passed by the Supreme Court on Monday, December 11, 2023.
The fast bowler's brother, Meraj, was arrested with two other men on charges of providing shelter to his uncle, Haji Daly, believed to be an active member of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam
Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was released from house arrest on Friday, September 22, 2023, four years after he was taken into detention.
With speedster Shoaib Akhtar's chances of playing in the Indian Premier League looking dim, Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Sourav Ganguly is banking on another Pakistani pacer, Umar Gul, to deliver the goods in the tournament beginning on April 18. "Umar Gul is in our team. He will serve us well," Ganguly told newspersons in Kolkata when asked about the Rawalpindi Express' absence from his side.
The Election Commission on Monday said the voter turnout in Jammu and Kashmir this time was the highest in a Lok Sabha election in the last 35 years with the Kashmir Valley witnessing a 'massive' 30 percentage point jump in poll participation compared to 2019.
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Umar Akmal has been given the green light to resume playing after suffering a fit while on duty for Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League last month.
'In times to come this will be considered a watershed event, but only if the establishment can see the flag which is up and the straws in the wind which are flying,' says Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
The circular bearing the names of the students carried a noting by the JNU registrar Pramod Kumar.
As winter approaches, the days get shorter and it's the time when the Kashmir Valley turns orange-red.
Pakistani seamer Umar Gul is being sent home after he aggravated a back injury while bowling at the nets.
Pakistan chief selector and interim coach Mohsin Hasan Khan, on Sunday, defended the axing of young batsman Umar Akmal from the Test squad, saying the youngster need to back to domestic cricket and learn playing big innings.
Shaheed Maqbool Sherwani changed the course of Indian history forever, but himself lies forgotten in the town he saved.
The national selection committee on Tuesday, as expected, axed experienced all-rounder Shahid Afridi and batsman Umar Akmal for the ICC Champions Trophy in England in June.
The Kashmir valley is facing a shortage of electricity at the beginning of the long winter.
The JNU panel had in 2016 recommended rustication of Khalid and two other students and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Kumar.
The three civilians were allegedly picked up by the Army for questioning in the wake of the killing of four Army jawans in an ambush by unidentified terrorists in Poonch on December 21.
In a remarkable display of resilience and commitment to democracy, the residents of villages that had long been deprived of polling due to terrorist threats and separatist-sponsored boycott calls turned out in large numbers to cast ballots in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls on Saturday.
The harvesting season for one of the most expensive spices, Saffron, also referred to as 'Red Gold' has begun in Kashmir.
Pakistan named a 16-member Test squad for the high-profile series against India on Saturday.
'The BJP claims they have eight lakh cadres in the Kashmir Valley so why can't they contest elections from Kashmir?'
As the night temperature plummeted to below freezing point in many parts of the Kashmir valley including Srinagar, dense fog engulfed the city and other parts.
The Tricolour is hoisted atop the newly renovated Ghanta Ghar at Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar
In this conspiracy, firearms, petrol bombs, acid bottles and stones were collected at numerous homes, police claimed.
'There was a statement by a minister that 30,000 Kashmiri Pandits have come back to the Kashmir Valley after the abrogation of Article 370, it is all b.......t and a white lie.' 'Nobody has come back.'
In a video uploaded on Facebook on August 15, they claimed the attack on Khalid was supposed to be an 'Independence Day gift' to the citizens.
People had also started gathering at Mukhtar Ansari's residence in Ghazipur and there was a large deployment of security personnel around the house.
Umar Ganie captures stunning scenes of Gulmarg after fresh snowfall.
A massive search operation is underway to flush out the terrorists, who are believed to have recently infiltrated from Pakistan, they said.
