Former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf is expected to announce his future plans at a press conference in Karachi on Wednesday evening. Musharraf returned to Pakistan last Sunday after a self-imposed exile of 4 years despite death threats from the Pakistani Taliban. ...
12:09 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Despite death threats from Taliban, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf returned to his country on Sunday. The coming back of the General, who had once flew into Islamabad to topple the government in a coup, as a candidate for the upcoming general elections is a full circle. ...
10:32 PM, Mar 24, 2013
nding four years of self-exile, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf landed in Karachi on Sunday and said he was not afraid of anyone other than 'Allah' and wanted to bring peace to his country. Despite the possibility of arrest and death threats from Taliban, Musharraf returned to Pakistan and said he was ready to face the security, political and legal challenges that lay ahead. ...
06:36 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Thursday said Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who is taking the helm of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), will "lead the caravan of the nation and democracy". Bilawal "would take up the flame lit by Zulfiqar Bhutto and maintained by his daughter Benazir Bhutto", Geo News quoted Ashraf as saying. ...
08:09 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Pakistan People's Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will make his formal entry into the hurly burly of Pakistani politics at an event to be held on Thursday to mark the fifth death anniversary of his mother Benazir Bhutto. "Bilawal will make his entry into active politics during the meeting to be held at Garhi Khuda Bux (in Sindh) and take over the PPP's campaign for next year's general election," said...
09:05 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Islamabad: Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who is a "proclaimed offender" in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, on Wednesday announced that he will contest the upcoming general elections from Chitral, a constituency in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Musharraf, 69, made the announcement while addressing the elders of Chitral via a video-link from Dubai, the Express Tribune reported. The former president who ruled Pakistan between 1999 and 2008, had formed a...
10:55 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Cricket experts Maninder Singh and Anil Kumble comment on Sachin falling nine runs short of his 100th century. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 23, 2008
Nottingham: An injury replacement who almost scored a hundred and got his maiden five-wicket haul in the second Test win over India, England pacer Tim Bresnan says despite the superb performance he can only hope not to be left out of the third match. I think I definitely grabbed my chance with both hands. And that is pretty much all I can do now, said Bresnan. It's up to the...
06:42 PM, Feb 17, 2008
Adelaide: A legal battle into claims that a law firm wrongly allowed the identity of cricket great Sir Donald Bradman to be exploited as a "brand name like Mickey Mouse" was settled out of court on Wednesday. Bradman's son, John, and two other executors of the late Australian Test captain's estate sued law firm Allens Arthur Robinson alleging it was negligent in assigning the cricketer's name to the Bradman Foundation,...
05:00 PM, Feb 17, 2008
Colombo: Sri Lanka skipper Tillakaratne Dilshan on Tuesday insisted his team would not be taking Australia lightly despite the youthful look to the tourists' squad. The skipper will be without injured opening bowler Lasith Malinga for the two Twenty20 matches against Australia but said he wanted his younger players to take the opportunity to perform for the side. Australian usually play very hard. They may be a bit inexperienced. But...
04:09 PM, Feb 17, 2008
London: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has said the current team was under-prepared and asked the players to put their bodies on the line if they want to turn it around in the remaining two Test matches against England. India followed a 196-run defeat at Lord's with a 319-run loss at Trent Bridge on Monday to go 0-2 down in the series with two Tests to play. Ganguly, who led...
03:32 PM, Feb 17, 2008
Johannesburg: Gerald Majola, the man at the centre of a bonus scandal that has shaken South African cricket, put his own spin on the story on Monday after an audit found no funds missing from Cricket South Africa coffers. "There are no funds missing from CSA's accounts," Majola, the organisation's chief executive, said in a statement. "The annual financial statements that were approved by the board of directors on Saturday...
12:09 PM, Feb 17, 2008
Lahore: Pakistan's former captain Shoaib Malik will know on August 15 whether his international career is over or will be revived. Malik has been told by the Pakistan Cricket Board to appear before its integrity committee on August 15 here along with Test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria. There has been widespread speculation that Malik has been cleared by the integrity committee after he was able to explain how he spent 90,000...
05:46 PM, Feb 16, 2008
Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket on Saturday named a 16-man squad for the Twenty20 games against Australia next month. The teams will play two Twenty20 games on August 6 and 8 at the newly-built Pallakelle International Stadium in the central town of Kandy, which will also host the opening one-dayer and the second Test match. All-rounder Angelo Mathews got the vice-captain job, after being overlooked for the post during the recent...
02:33 PM, Feb 16, 2008
The Indian opener spoke on team plans, DRS and his preparation for the tour that starts with the 1st Test on July 21. ...
03:04 PM, Feb 11, 2008
Perth: England cricket captain Andrew Strauss on Sunday welcomed lengthy bans handed down to three Pakistan players by an anti-corruption tribunal. The International Cricket Council (ICC) banned former Pakistan captain Salman Butt for 10 years, seamer Mohammad Asif for seven years and emerging fast bowler Mohammad Amir for five years on Saturday. Butt has five years of his ban suspended, and Asif two. The trio, the first players to be...
09:25 AM, Dec 10, 2007
"My concern is to have free, fair and transparent elections," says the Prez. ...
01:07 AM, Nov 19, 2007
