Source: express cricket
Former skipper Zaheer Abbas has blamed the country’s cricket board for making Pakistan a laughing stock before international fraternity by picking up a squad for now cancelled tour of Bangladesh even before the hosts cleared the fixture.
Zaheer, known as the ‘Asian Bradman’ for his scoring feats, said he was amazed that before the […]

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Source: Asia Times
By M K Bhadrakumar
From all accounts, the new Afghan war strategy of the Barack Obama administration is getting its final touches. The United States Chief of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said, “We’re just about done.” From available indications, the key American objective is two-fold: optimally getting Pakistani help in the fight against terrorism […]

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Source: BBC
Bangladesh has indefinitely postponed a cricket tour by Pakistan because of security concerns, officials say.
The tour was scheduled to begin at the end of this month.
The Bangladesh government says it is still coping with the aftermath of last month’s border guard mutiny and cannot guarantee security for Pakistan’s team.
The decision to cancel all visits […]

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Source: Cric db .com
Pakistan however lost the hosting rights of ICC Champions Trophy (CT) for security concern among several teams in the country, but Pakistan will receive $2.75 million from the International Cricket Council (ICC) as the original host of the event.
The CT however has been shifted to South Africa but as original host, Pakistan […]

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Source: The Australian
After a night of celebrations, Pakistan awoke to a new and uncertain future yesterday as the Government’s stunning backdown over the reinstatement of sacked judges exposed a power vacuum in the nuclear-armed nation and heightened the possibility of early elections.
However, many analysts issued a warning that the lawyers’ movement victory had further weakened […]

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Source: AFP
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a restaurant in Pakistan’s garrison city of Rawalpindi, killing 14 people and wounding 18 others, police said on Tuesday.
Officials said the bomber had probably been targeting a mass protest which was scheduled for Monday in Rawalpindi and the capital Islamabad but was then called off after the […]

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Source: AP
By ZARAR KHAN

Pakistani authorities searched Sunday for the possible wreckage of an American pilotless drone reported to have crashed in a northwestern militant stronghold, the military’s top spokesman said.
The CIA is believed to operate the drones, which have been used in an escalated U.S. campaign of missile strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban targets in […]

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Source: Al Jazera
Pakistani officials have released 12 Taliban prisoners as a goodwill gesture, following a pact signed last month.
The release on Saturday night is a bid by authorities to consolidate a deal with Taliban fighters in the troubled Swat valley, a senior government official said.
It followed talks between North West Frontier Province (NWFP) officials and […]

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Source: NDTV Cricket
Former captain Rameez Raja on Sunday urged the ICC and the cricket playing nations to support Pakistan instead of isolating it in the aftermath of the Lahore terror attacks on Sri Lankan players.
The cricketer-turned-commentator pleaded that Pakistani cricket should not be made to pay for the terror attacks that injured six Lankan players.
“Pakistan […]

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Source: AP
By Riaz Khan
A bomb-laden car exploded Saturday in northwest Pakistan as police tried to pull a body from it, authorities said, killing seven police and a bystander as international fears grow over security and political stability in the nuclear-armed country.
Al-Qaida, Taliban and linked militants have staged numerous attacks against security forces along Pakistan’s northwest […]

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Source: Daily Times
Pakistan on Monday denied allegations by the Indian media about the involvement of its intelligence agencies in last week’s killing of 77 Bangladeshi army officers by Bangladesh Rifles. Responding to the allegations by Times of India, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said, “These reports are obviously baseless and malafide.” “Pakistan and Bangladesh enjoy […]

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Source: Cric info
By Alex Brown
Pakistan cricket is facing a bleak future, with visiting teams certain to boycott tours to the troubled nation for the foreseeable future in the wake of Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Lahore. As international cricket pondered the ramifications, it became almost certain that Pakistan would be stripped of its status as the […]

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Source: AFP
After setting a deadline to pull US forces from Iraq, President Barack Obama is shifting gears quickly to Afghanistan and Pakistan as he lays out a broad, regional approach to fighting extremism.
The Obama administration held three days of talks last week with the foreign ministers of Afghanistan and Pakistan and said it would turn […]

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Source: SindhToday.net
Pakistan’s defence minister has criticised former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for his alleged calls for civil disobedience and charging President Asif Ali Zardari with being a political “dictator”, saying his comments amount to treachery towards the nation.
“The words uttered by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif fall well within the ambit of treason,” […]

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Source: The Age
By Matt Wade
AUSTRALIA will increase economic aid to Pakistan and quadruple the number of Pakistani army officers it trains as the nation battles terrorism and economic crisis.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith announced the measures during a visit to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
He is the first Australian foreign minister to visit the country for 11 […]

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Source: BBC
By Syed Shoaib Hasan
Pakistan’s government has completed its first year in power after defeating parties allied to former President Pervez Musharraf.
The new rulers were hailed as a cure for the country’s problems but have in many cases failed to deliver on the massive expectations.
Economic woes and the growing Taleban insurgency still plague the country.
The […]

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Source: Reuters
An unknown militant group holding hostage an American working for the United Nations in Pakistan said on Monday it had extended a deadline they had set to kill him if their demands were not met.
The group, calling itself the Baluchistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) had said on Friday it would kill John Solecki in […]

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Source: AP
By RIAZ KHAN
Pakistani militants said Monday the government had agreed to impose Islamic law as part of a proposed peace deal in a one-time tourist destination in the northwest where Taliban extremists increasingly hold sway.
The agreement — expected to be announced later Monday — would cover the Swat valley and surrounding regions.
Islamist militants there […]

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Source: Cricket Next
In a bid to prepare its players for the forthcoming home Test series against Sri Lanka, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is organising a conditioning camp where cricketers will undergo “mental therapy” sessions.
This special camp is aimed at preparing players ‘mentally’ for the longer version of the game, as Pakistan has not featured […]

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Source: The Economic Times
India will press the US to sustain pressure on Pakistan to do more to bring the Mumbai terrorists to justice, when US envoy Richard Holbrooke meets Indian officials on Monday. India and the US will also discuss ways of bringing stability to Afghanistan.
Holbrooke, the US special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, arrives […]

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Source: Telegraph
By Matthew Moore
The campaign is titled “I Am The West” and is funded by the Foreign Office.
It is intended to show to young Pakistanis susceptible to extremist doctrines that there is no contradiction between being British and Muslim, according to reports.
The pilot advert stars Sadiq Khan, the communities minister, Moeen Ali, the young Worcestershire […]

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Source: Daily Times
By Sajjad Malik

Pakistan and the US agreed on Tuesday to set up a bipartisan ‘inter-agency team’ to improve coordination in intelligence-sharing, security and other affairs – in a bid to review the policy in the war on terror.
“We today agreed to set up an inter-agency team – including all stakeholders and to […]

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Source: Daily Mail
The ODI cricket series between Pakistan and Australia will be played at two neutral venues in United Arab Emirates from April 24 to May 7, it was officially learnt on Tuesday. The series was earlier scheduled to be played in Pakistan in 2008.
Pakistan has offered to play three Tests, part of the original […]

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Source: AFP
Pakistan on Tuesday condemned the Taliban’s purported killing of a Polish hostage as “absolutely barbaric” but insisted that the government had yet to confirm the death.
“Officially the ministry of interior has to verify that tragic incident but it seems that if that is so, it is a very tragic event,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood […]

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Source: AP
By MUNIR AHMAD
A Pakistan court declared disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan a “free citizen” Friday after years of de facto house arrest because of his alleged role in leaking atomic weapons technology to countries including Iran, North Korea and Libya.
A smiling Khan emerged from his house and addressed reporters face-to-face for the first […]

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