Saturday, March 26, 2011
HSC Part II Humanities (Karachi) Supplementary Result Announced
Karachi - The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on 26 march, Saturday at 2:00 PM will announce the results of the HSC part-II supplementary examinations 2010 of the Arts regular and private.javascript:void(0)
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Pakistan vs West Indies Highlights Match - Video Cricket World Cup 2011 1st quarter final
Pakistan vs West Indies Highlights Match Video Cricket World Cup 2011 1st quarter final Pakistan vs West Indies Highlights Video Youtube Match Cricket World Cup 2011 1st quarter final PAK vs WI Highlights PAK vs WI Highlights Video
PAK v WI
Mirpur,23 March, 2011
Pakistan vs West Indies Highlights Match
PAK
29/0
2.4 Overs
R.R:10.88
WI
112/10
43.3 Overs
R.R:2.57
PAK v WI
Mirpur,23 March, 2011
Pakistan vs West Indies Highlights Match
PAK
29/0
2.4 Overs
R.R:10.88
WI
112/10
43.3 Overs
R.R:2.57
Mohammad Hafeez 61 runs 2 Wickets Video highlights vs West Indies Cricket World Cup, 1st Quarter-Final
Mohammad Hafeez 61 runs on 64 Balls and 2 Wkts Video highlights vs West Indies Cricket World Cup 2011 First Quarter-Final Mohammad Hafeez Man of the Match West Indies vs pakistan Cricket World Cup 1st Quarter-Final
Mohammad Hafeez Born October 17, 1980, Sargodha, Punjab
his Current age 30 years 157 days
Major teams Pakistan, Faisalabad, Faisalabad Wolves, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sargodha, Sui Gas Corporation of Pakistan
Playing role Allrounder
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
India vs Australia Live Streaming, 2nd Quarter Final ICC World Cup 2011 Live Online Video
ICC world cup 2011 2nd Quarter Final Match,ICC world cup 2011 Quarter Final Match live, India vs Australia,India vs Australia live,India vs Australia live stream,India vs Australia live streaming,watch India vs Australia live, Australia vs India ,Australia vs India live,watch Australia vs India live
India : Dhoni, SRT, Yuvraj, Raina, Kohli, Yusuf, Harbhajan, Sreesanth, Zaheer, Nehra, Munaf, Ashwin and Piyush,Sehwag, Gambhir
Australia:BJ Haddin†, SR Watson, RT Ponting*, MJ Clarke, CL White, MEK Hussey, SPD Smith, MG Johnson, B Lee, JJ Krejza, SW Tait
Experimental Pakistan Team spin their way into semi Final
DHAKA: Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi led from the front again to inspire his team to a 10-wicket victory over West Indies in the first World Cup quarter-final on Wednesday.
Afridi took four for 30 as West Indies collapsed to 112 all out from 43.3 overs to take his total to 21 for the tournament and overhaul Imran Khan’s Pakistan record at a single World Cup.
Man-of-the-match Mohammad Hafeez, who had taken two cheap wickets with his off-spin, then scored his maiden World Cup half-century with 61 not out as Pakistan reached their victory target from only 20.5 overs.
They will face the winners of Thursday’s match between defending champions Australia and co-hosts India in the second semi-final in Mohali on March 30.
Nothing went in West Indies’ favour who, after a pathetic batting display, were also poor in the field with Kieron Pollard dropping Kamran Akmal on six before wicketkeeper Devon Thomas grassed Hafeez on 17. Kemar Roach was the unlucky bowler on both occasions.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul was the only batsman to defy the Pakistan attack, scoring an unbeaten 44 from 106 balls.
West Indies, the 1975 and 1979 champions, never recovered after losing their first three wickets with only 16 on the board.
After Darren Sammy had won the toss and elected to bat, Chris Gayle (8) struck Umar Gul straight to Afridi at mid-off.
Devon Smith (7) and Darren Bravo (0) both fell lbw in the space of four balls to Hafeez, who had shared the new ball.
The experienced Guyana pair of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Chanderpaul took the total to 58 before Sarwan was caught by Umar Akmal off Afridi for 24.
Afridi then dismissed Pollard (one) and Devon Thomas off consecutive balls Sammy was dropped by Younis Khan at slip off Saeed Ajmal on one but lasted only one more ball before he was lbw to the off-spinner. Two balls later, Ajmal bowled Devendra Bishoo for a duck.
Facebook Blocked Geo news Banned In Pakistan Zain khokhar
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed all concerned operators in Pakistan to block website www.facebook.com till further order. These directions have been issued in compliance with the directions issued by Ministry of IT & Telecom (MoIT) in view of decision of the Honorable Lahore High Court (LHC). Earlier on May 18, PTA has issued instructions to all concerned to block the objectionable link/URL on facebook which were immediately blocked. PTAâ??s helpline toll free number 0800-55055 and email Email is hidden can be used to notify all similar URLs where such objectionable material is found.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Special Day Celebartion | 23rd MARCH 2011 Pakistan Resolution Day
Lahore - 23rd MARCH Pakistan Resolution Day:March 23, 1940 The Lahore Resolution "The people of Pakistan held on March 23 1940 of each year with great zeal and enthusiasm, to celebrate the remarkable achievement of the Muslims of South Asia which has adopted the historic resolution today....
Ke Jo Tum Main Hai Dum, Wo Kisi May Nahi
Pakistan team proved the saying after beating" keh jo hay Pakistan team may dum, woh kisi main nahin". No other team have beaten Australia in the world cup since 1999, and it was Pakistan team in 1999 as well. As a Pakistani cricket fan, I would like to say that Pakistan have won this world cup 2011 for me after beating Australia today. May God bless Pakistan and our Pakistani cricket team for the best performance ahead, Aameen.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Nine more killed as Karachi city violence continues
KARACHI: Nine people, including three political workers and a policeman, were shot dead as violence in the city continued unabated on Sunday.
Armed men opened fire injuring six people near Disco Bakery in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, out of which two died in hospital while four others were in critical condition.
Two MQM workers were gunned down in Agra Taj Colony and Gulbahar. Another political worker who got injured earlier in Gulastan-e-Jauhur succumbed to his injures.
In another incident, a policeman named Arshad Kundi was murdered in Sohrab Goth and a tent-house owner was shot dead on Burns Road.
Two people were also shot dead in Surjani Town and Mehmoodabad. Last night two people were also killed in Musa Lane and Kulri.
world cup 2011 Quarter Final schedule
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Quarter Final Schedule (Timetable) Fixtures. ICC Cricket World inal(s)/knockout Schedule and Team vs Team Estimations or Clashes.,,Here is the schedule or timetable.
March 23: Pakistan v West Indies at Dhaka, ICC Cricket World Cup, 1st Quarter-Final
March 24: India v Australia at Ahmedabad, ICC Cricket World Cup, 2nd Quarter-Final
March 25: New Zealand v South Africa at Dhaka, ICC Cricket World Cup, 3rd Quarter-Final
March 26: Sri Lanka v England at Colombo (RPS), ICC Cricket World Cup, 4th Quarter-FInal [Rajesh]
India beat West Indies by 80 runs
CHENNAI, India (AFP) – India defeated West Indies by 80 runs in a World Cup Group B match on Sunday.
The result means India will face defending champions Australia in the quarter-finals while West Indies will tackle Pakistan.
Brief scores
India 268 (Yuvraj Singh 113, Virat Kohli 59; Ravi Rampaul 5-51) v West Indies 188 (Devon Smith 81)
India will play Australia in the quarter-finals on Thursday in Ahmedabad.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
World Cup Pakistan Beat Australia’s to touch top position in their Group A
Paki punch Australia by four(4) wickets and completed their score in just 41 overs. Pakistanies who started very good in their fielding in the ground, continued with brilliant bowling and then were equally supported by their batsmen like Asad shafiq,umar akmal,seniour betsman man younis khan who took the battle away from the Aussies and won with 9 over to chase.
The Captain Pakistan team shaid afridi , The Coach and The Team all deserve pat on their back for this extra ordinary performance. It has not only boosted self-assurance in this team but given them a top location in Group A Points Table.
Pakistan then took four crucial wickets in the space of just 30 score to decrease the Australians to 147/7, counting wickets of Clarke and Michael Hussey for 12 runs.
Umer Gul removed Krejza and Brett Lee cheaply to wrap the Australian innings for their sixth lowest World Cup total.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
HSC Part II Pre-Engineering & Science General (Karachi) Supplementary Result Announced
Controller of Examinations, Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK), Prof.. Agha Akber Mirza, on Thursday announced the results of Supplementary Examinations 2010 Pre-Engineering and Science General Group.
According to the gazette issued here, 5,246 male candidates registered for the Pre-Engineering Supplementary Exams and 5,056 appeared. Meanwhile, 2,526 students were declared pass and overall pass percentage was 49.96.
The gazette shows that 1,574 female candidates registered and 1,509 appeared while 627 students passed the supplementary exams. The overall pass percentage was 41.55. At least two unfair means cases were reported during and after the examinations, Mirza said.
Furthermore, five male candidates got A-1 grade while 22 male students and six female students got A-grade in the supplementary examinations. Moreover, 102 male candidates and 37 female got B-grade whereas 634 male and 252 female students passed their exams with C-grade, he said.
In addition, 1,637 male students and 326 female candidates were declared pass in the D grade and 123 male and six female students got E grade while three male candidates passed without any grade, he added.
On the other hand, 460 male candidates were registered and 445 appeared in the Science General Group supplementary examinations whereas 228 students managed to pass their exams. The overall pass percentage was 51.24, Mirza declared.
At least 247 female students were registered of which 236 appeared and 83 managed to pass their exams. The overall pass percentage was 35.17, he said.
Not a single candidate got A-1 or A grade in the supplementary exams of the science general group. While 17 male and eight female students got B grade whereas 77 male and 53 female students got C grade in the exams, he said.
Meanwhile, 125 male and 22 female students got D grade and nine male students got E grade, he further said.
The marks sheets would be issued after two weeks from their respective institutions. The candidates should not visit the BIEK to collect their mark sheets because the board would not entertain them in this regard. The scrutiny of answer book(s) could be done on payment of prescribed fee along with application within 40 days of the declaration of the result, Mirza added.
According to the gazette issued here, 5,246 male candidates registered for the Pre-Engineering Supplementary Exams and 5,056 appeared. Meanwhile, 2,526 students were declared pass and overall pass percentage was 49.96.
The gazette shows that 1,574 female candidates registered and 1,509 appeared while 627 students passed the supplementary exams. The overall pass percentage was 41.55. At least two unfair means cases were reported during and after the examinations, Mirza said.
Furthermore, five male candidates got A-1 grade while 22 male students and six female students got A-grade in the supplementary examinations. Moreover, 102 male candidates and 37 female got B-grade whereas 634 male and 252 female students passed their exams with C-grade, he said.
In addition, 1,637 male students and 326 female candidates were declared pass in the D grade and 123 male and six female students got E grade while three male candidates passed without any grade, he added.
On the other hand, 460 male candidates were registered and 445 appeared in the Science General Group supplementary examinations whereas 228 students managed to pass their exams. The overall pass percentage was 51.24, Mirza declared.
At least 247 female students were registered of which 236 appeared and 83 managed to pass their exams. The overall pass percentage was 35.17, he said.
Not a single candidate got A-1 or A grade in the supplementary exams of the science general group. While 17 male and eight female students got B grade whereas 77 male and 53 female students got C grade in the exams, he said.
Meanwhile, 125 male and 22 female students got D grade and nine male students got E grade, he further said.
The marks sheets would be issued after two weeks from their respective institutions. The candidates should not visit the BIEK to collect their mark sheets because the board would not entertain them in this regard. The scrutiny of answer book(s) could be done on payment of prescribed fee along with application within 40 days of the declaration of the result, Mirza added.
Americans support for war dips to new low
WASHINGTON – American support for the war in Afghanistan has ebbed to new low, with nearly two-thirds of people saying the war no longer worth fighting, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The finding signals a growing challenge for President Barack Obama as he decides how quickly to…
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Canadians charged with terrorism
OTTAWA (AFP) – Police on Tuesday laid terrorism charges in absentia against two missing Canadians accused of travelling to Pakistan to join the Afghan insurgency and train militants.
Maiwand Yar, 27, a former mechanical engineering student at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, is wanted on charges of conspiring and…
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Only non-combat US troops to pull out of Afghanistan in July
NEW YORK – The United States military will begin the process of withdrawal from Afghanistan in July, as planned, starting with several thousand non-combat troops, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The move will fulfil a pledge President Barack Obama made when he committed 30,000 more service members to the…
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No Pakistani casualty in Japan: FO
ISLAMABAD – Foreign Office has said that no Pakistani casualty has been reported so far as a result of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the North Eastern Japan on March 11.
It said on Tuesday that around two hundred Pakistanis reportedly lived in Sendai, Iwate and Fukushima…
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UK govt under criticism for increasing aid to Pakistan
LONDON – The leader of Roman Catholic Church in Scotland on Tuesday accused the British Government of pursuing an ‘anti-Christian’ foreign policy by increasing its overseas aid to Pakistan.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien said the government had planned to double the aid to more than £445 million without requiring any commitment…
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Cardinal Keith O’Brien said the government had planned to double the aid to more than £445 million without requiring any commitment…
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Internet is world’s "greatest spying machine" |Assange
LONDON: Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Tuesday warned that the Internet was the “greatest spying machine the world has ever seen” and an obstacle to free speech.
Speaking to students at Britain’s prestigious Cambridge University, the former computer hacker claimed that the Internet, particularly social networking sites such as Facebook, gave governments greater scope for snooping.
“There was actually a Facebook revolt in Cairo three or four years ago,” Assange explained.
“It was very small… After it, Facebook was used to round up all the principal participants and they were then beaten, interrogated and incarcerated.
“So while the Internet has in some ways an ability to let us know to an unprecedented level what government is doing… it is also the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen,” he added.
The rise of technology was helping tyrannical regimes, said the 39-year-old Australian, who is currently fighting extradition to Sweden over allegations of sex offences.
“It is not a technology that favours freedom of speech,” he claimed.
“It is not a technology that favours human rights.
“Rather it is a technology that can be used to set up a totalitarian spying regime, the likes of which we have never seen.”But the activist restated his belief that his website had helped trigger the ongoing Arab uprising.
He also said that the release of official US diplomatic documents had “changed part of the dynamics” in Tunisia, resulting in eventual regime change.
Assange sympathised with imprisoned US soldier Bradley Manning, who is suspected of having leaked the cables.
“Our support for his plight cannot be stated too loudly,” he said.
Pitches in India are more balanced, says Sangakkara
MUMBAI: Pitches in India are more balanced than Sri Lanka and do not provide undue advantage to the side batting first in the World Cup, said Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara.
The islanders will play their final Group A match against New Zealand at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on Friday —their first away from home in the showpiece event.
Six out of eight completed matches in Sri Lanka have been won by teams batting first in the tournament with the match between the co-hosts and Australia being washed out.
“I personally feel that pitches in India are more balanced as the condition of the wicket more or less remains the same throughout the game,” Sangakkara told reporters on Thursday.
“On the other hand, in Sri Lanka teams batting first always have an advantage since the pitch invariably slows down as the match progresses.”
Sangakarra said he will miss the fanatic supporters back home who help them raise their game with their vocal support.
“Sometimes, not having a huge crowd and their expectations, may make things a bit easier,” Sangakkara said.
“But we love playing in front of our crowd. Their support really lifts us… We will miss them but at the same time, we know that if we win on Friday, we can gift something special to them.”
Memorial services for Bob Woolmer on Friday 18 March
KARACHI: The memorial services to mark the 4th death anniversary of Pakistan cricket team coach Bob Woolmer will be held at St.Patrick’s Church, Khudadad Colony on Friday at 6.00 p.m.
A service will also be held at Essa Nagri and other churches of the city, according to a press release by the Bob Woolmer Cricket Club.
Woolmer, who was considered one of the best coaches in the world, died under mysterious circumstances at Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica following Pakistan’s stunning defeat against Ireland in the World Cup on March 17, 2007.
The defeat sent Inzamam-ul-Haq’s Pakistan team crashing out of the mega event in the first round.
A statement by the Bob Woolmer Cricket Club also said that a match will be staged in memory of the late coach after ongoing Pentangular Cup.
HSC suppl exams results
The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Tuesday announced the results of the HSC part-II supplementary examinations 2010 of the science pre-medical group.
A total of 1,010 male candidates appeared in the examinations and 441 of them were declared successful with a pass percentage of 43pc. A total of 3,175 female candidates appeared in the examinations and 1,007 of them were declared successful and the pass percentage was 31.72pc.
A total of 1,010 male candidates appeared in the examinations and 441 of them were declared successful with a pass percentage of 43pc. A total of 3,175 female candidates appeared in the examinations and 1,007 of them were declared successful and the pass percentage was 31.72pc.
Shoaib Akhtar to retire after World Cup 2011
Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar will retire from international cricket after the ICC Cricket World Cup.
He will end a tempestuous career that was marred by several controversies, including a dope scandal.
The 35-year-old reportedly broke the news to his teammates and manager on Thursday morning.
With an injury-ravaged body finding it tough to withstand the rigours of international cricket, Akhtar was looking at the World Cup as his final shot at glory.
He was impressive in the opening match against Sri Lanka but form began to desert to him as the event progressed prompting the team management to drop him for the last match against Zimbabwe.
Akhtar, who took 178 wickets in 46 Tests and 247 in 163 ODIs, made his international debut in 1997, against the West Indies.
The express bowler, however, was always at the center of controversies over his action and disciplinary issues.
He was handed a two-year ban in 2006 for testing positive for banned steroid nandrolone. The pacer missed out competing in the Champions Trophy that year but the verdict was overturned by a three-man tribunal a month later.
He had his differences with the Pakistan Cricket Board as well and was even fined for openly speaking against the PCB.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Pakistan Court frees CIA contractor accused of murder: Rana Sanaullah
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan court on Wednesday freed CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who was accused of murdering two men in Lahore, after blood money was paid in accordance with sharia law, the Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said.
“The family members of the slain men appeared in the court and independently verified they had pardoned him (Davis),” provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah told a private television.
“He has been released from jail. Now it is up to him. He can go wherever he wants,” he added.
The lawyer representing the victims said he was not allowed to appear for the hearing. The lawyer alleged that Davis possibly escaped from the prison with the consent of the authorities, DawnNews reported.
PML-N spokesman Pervez Rasheed the Punjab government was not involved in the release of Davis, DawnNews reported.
The January shooting sparked a diplomatic row with the United States, who persistently claimed Davis was an embassy employee and enjoyed diplomatic immunity, particularly after it emerged he was working for the CIA.
“The family members of the slain men appeared in the court and independently verified they had pardoned him (Davis),” provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah told a private television.
“He has been released from jail. Now it is up to him. He can go wherever he wants,” he added.
The lawyer representing the victims said he was not allowed to appear for the hearing. The lawyer alleged that Davis possibly escaped from the prison with the consent of the authorities, DawnNews reported.
PML-N spokesman Pervez Rasheed the Punjab government was not involved in the release of Davis, DawnNews reported.
The January shooting sparked a diplomatic row with the United States, who persistently claimed Davis was an embassy employee and enjoyed diplomatic immunity, particularly after it emerged he was working for the CIA.
Monday, March 14, 2011
MQM delegation to meet President Zardari today
A delegation of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) will meet Presiden Asif Ali Zardari at Bilawal House Karachi today. A delegation of MQM leaders was scheduled to meet with the President at Bilawal House in Karachi yesterday but the meeting was put off due to President’s engagements. A meeting of the…
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PPP may seek Ebadas removal if Mirza ghouse
KARACHI – Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has not yet decided about the fate of its coalition with the ruling PPP. The crucial meeting of MQM Rabita Committee with President Asif Ali Zardari, which was scheduled for Sunday but was postponed due to some unknown reasons, is now expected today (Monday)…
President Asif Ali Zardari biggest threat to democracy
ISLAMABAD – Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday declared President Asif Ali Zardari a great threat to the democratic dispensation.
Addressing a press conference in the Punjab House, Chauhdry Nisar criticised President Zardari for “crossing all the limits and using the…
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Addressing a press conference in the Punjab House, Chauhdry Nisar criticised President Zardari for “crossing all the limits and using the…
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Govt respects court verdicts, says Gilani
MULTAN – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said that all those who are talking of a revolution in the country should stop dreaming.
“They should not forget that the majority still supports the PPP.” The PM said this while addressing a public meeting at Sports Stadium…
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ISI official provided content for BB murder press conference: Cheema
ISLAMABAD: Former Interior Ministry’s spokesman Brigadier (retired) Javed Iqbal Cheema had revealed in the documents obtained by DawnNews that material for the press conference which was held on December 28, 2007 after the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was provided to him by a high ranking Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official.
DawnNews has obtained from the Interior Ministry and FIA sources the statements of Cheema and former director general of Military Intelligence (MI) Ijaz Shah.
The statements revealed that Cheema had confessed before the Joint Investigation team that Maj. General Nusrat Naeem, the then director general of Counter Intelligence wing of ISI, had provided him the content for the press conference.
Naeem who works in Behria Town Rawalpindi after his retirement could be included in the investigations, said sources.
Murders dent US’ Davis rescue: NYT
NEW YORK – Raymond Davis’ fatal shooting of two Pakistanis has ‘complicated’ US attempts to portray him ‘as a paper-shuffling diplomat’ and confirmed suspicions among many in Pakistan that US has deployed a secret army of spies and contractors inside the country, a leading US newspaper conceded Sunday.
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Crowley quits as State Department spokesman
WASHINGTON – Philip Crowley is out as chief spokesman at the State Department after he publicly criticised the Defence Department’s handling of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, a senior administration official said Sunday.
The resignation came under pressure from the White House, where officials were furious about his suggestion that the…
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Genetics is”Top of the Pops” in science research
LONDON: Genetics is still the hottest area of scientific research, a decade on from the mapping of the human genome, despite slow progress in translating discoveries into new medical treatments.
A Thomson Reuters Science Watch survey found seven of the top 13 researchers in 2010 worked in genetics, with Eric Lander of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT the world’s “hottest” researcher.
Lander’s work covered genetic mapping and human disease, including lung cancer.
The annual survey, released on Thursday, looks at research across different scientific disciplines and uses the Web of Science database to see which papers published in the last two years are cited the most by other scientists.
Ten years after the first full sequence of the human genome was published, early expectations of rapid breakthroughs in fighting disease have proved misplaced.
But academic interest has not slackened, and scientists remain hopeful that the tsunami of information unlocked by genomics, or the study of genetic sequences, will eventually yield big dividends.
One early success, in fact, came just on Wednesday, with US approval for Human Genome Sciences Inc’s lupus drug Benlysta, the first drug derived from genomics to win marketing clearance.
It has been a long haul, however. Human Genome’s partner on Benlysta, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, first invested in the US biotech company way back in 1993.
For some drug companies progress has simply been too slow.
Three of the hottest researchers in the latest Science Watch survey came from Iceland’s Decode Genetics, which pioneered deeper understanding of the relationships between genes and common diseases, but filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009 before re-emerging as a private business last year.
Outside the field of genetics, Andre Geim at the University of Manchester made a third consecutive appearance on Science Watch hot list, this time in his capacity as a Nobel Laureate.
Geim shared the Nobel physics prize with his colleague Konstantin Novoselov last October for their work on graphene, a form of carbon just one atom thick that is 100 times stronger than steel.
Another materials scientist, Yang Yang of the University of California, Los Angeles, also made the hot list for research on polymer solar cells. -Dawn
A Thomson Reuters Science Watch survey found seven of the top 13 researchers in 2010 worked in genetics, with Eric Lander of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT the world’s “hottest” researcher.
Lander’s work covered genetic mapping and human disease, including lung cancer.
The annual survey, released on Thursday, looks at research across different scientific disciplines and uses the Web of Science database to see which papers published in the last two years are cited the most by other scientists.
Ten years after the first full sequence of the human genome was published, early expectations of rapid breakthroughs in fighting disease have proved misplaced.
But academic interest has not slackened, and scientists remain hopeful that the tsunami of information unlocked by genomics, or the study of genetic sequences, will eventually yield big dividends.
One early success, in fact, came just on Wednesday, with US approval for Human Genome Sciences Inc’s lupus drug Benlysta, the first drug derived from genomics to win marketing clearance.
It has been a long haul, however. Human Genome’s partner on Benlysta, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, first invested in the US biotech company way back in 1993.
For some drug companies progress has simply been too slow.
Three of the hottest researchers in the latest Science Watch survey came from Iceland’s Decode Genetics, which pioneered deeper understanding of the relationships between genes and common diseases, but filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009 before re-emerging as a private business last year.
Outside the field of genetics, Andre Geim at the University of Manchester made a third consecutive appearance on Science Watch hot list, this time in his capacity as a Nobel Laureate.
Geim shared the Nobel physics prize with his colleague Konstantin Novoselov last October for their work on graphene, a form of carbon just one atom thick that is 100 times stronger than steel.
Another materials scientist, Yang Yang of the University of California, Los Angeles, also made the hot list for research on polymer solar cells. -Dawn
Sunday, March 13, 2011
2,400 student volunteers trained at SIUT [
The public-private partnership helps expand and improve healthcare facilities, head of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) Dr Adib Rizvi has said.
He was speaking on the occasion of a spring festival organised by the student-volunteer service of the SIUT here on Sunday.
Dr Rizvi said that the SIUT had performed more than 3,000 kidney transplantations for free since its establishment.
He was of the view that the role of the student-volunteer service was very important in provision of quality and free medical treatment to patients.
He said that so far 2,400 student-volunteers had been trained at the SIUT.
He said that the SIUT was committed to providing medical facilities without any discrimination.
He said that the civil society and the concerned organisations should contribute to help promote and improve public health facilities.
He was speaking on the occasion of a spring festival organised by the student-volunteer service of the SIUT here on Sunday.
Dr Rizvi said that the SIUT had performed more than 3,000 kidney transplantations for free since its establishment.
He was of the view that the role of the student-volunteer service was very important in provision of quality and free medical treatment to patients.
He said that so far 2,400 student-volunteers had been trained at the SIUT.
He said that the SIUT was committed to providing medical facilities without any discrimination.
He said that the civil society and the concerned organisations should contribute to help promote and improve public health facilities.
KU announces admissions for PhD
The registrar of the University of Karachi (KU) on Sunday said that applications will be accepted for admissions in MS, PhD, MS/Surgery and MD (Medicine) and admission forms would available from Monday, March 14 to 22. The prospectus and entry test form could be downloaded from www.uok.edu.pk, the official website of the university, whereas admission forms could be submitted with Rs1000 in favour of the concerned department till March 22, he said.
Pak committee proposes monument in memory of Shahbaz Bhatti
Pakistan's National Assembly Standing Committee on Minority Affairs has proposed the construction of an 'interfaith harmony monument' at the site where Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated on March 2.
The committee meeting was held at the Parliament House, where it adopted a resolution condemning Bhatti's assassination and urged the government to conduct a judicial inquiry into the incident, expose the murderers and give them exemplary punishment.
The committee meeting was held at the Parliament House, where it adopted a resolution condemning Bhatti's assassination and urged the government to conduct a judicial inquiry into the incident, expose the murderers and give them exemplary punishment.
After US more countries will get iPad from March 25
NEW YORK: The new iPad went on sale on Friday as Apple fans lined up outside stores around the United States to be the first to snap up the sleek touchscreen tablet computer.
Apple began selling the iPad 2, which was unveiled by chief executive Steve Jobs last week, online overnight and in its 236 US stores starting at 5:00 pm (2200 GMT).
The iPad 2 will be available on March 25 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
The queues did not appear to be as long as those for the iPhone 4 released in June but thousands of people lined up outside Apple stores in San Francisco, New York, Washington and other cities to get their hands on the device, which is one-third thinner, 15 per cent lighter and faster than the previous model.
Hundreds of people formed a line around the block outside Apple’s flagship 5th Avenue store in New York, including some who camped out overnight swathed in rain gear and equipped with chairs and big umbrellas.
First in line was Hazem Sayed, an applications developer who bought his coveted spot from Amanda Foote, an entrepreneurial 20-year-old from Florida who staked her claim on Wednesday then auctioned the place on Craigslist.
“It went from $150 to $600 in about 10 minutes,” she said. Finally Sayed came in with the winning bid: $900.
Sayed said he’d be immediately taking his new iPad 2 to a business meeting in Dubai. “I’m going to buy two iPads. If I could I’d buy four,” he said.
Many others in the crowd were foreigners seeking to take advantage of an opportunity they won’t have in their own country for a while. The iPad 2 will go on sale in around two dozen other countries in late March.
Mingda Zhong, 18, a student from Nanjing, said that even the original iPad is rare at home. “You cannot buy the iPad 1 very easily,” he said. “Most Chinese do not have it.”Some 300 people formed a line outside the Apple store in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, many of them killing time by playing with their iPads.
In San Francisco, a queue of about 150 people wrapped around the block housing the Apple store in Union Square.
Many were holding places in line to buy iPads for others.
Joshua Leavitt, the first in line, said he was with an online service called TaskRabbit, where people perform services for others for a fee. He said he was buying an iPad for someone who is flying home to Singapore later Friday.
“He’s probably going to have the first iPad 2 in Singapore,” Leavitt said.
James Almeida, 24, a product design student at San Jose State University, was next, waiting to buy an iPad for myself.
“Josh was next to me in line so I asked about TaskRabbit,” Almeida said.
“So now I’m getting one for a guy in Malaysia.”Besides the size and weight, the other major improvement to the touchscreen tablet computer is the addition of front- and rear-facing cameras that allow users to take still pictures and video and hold video conversations.
Apple sold 15 million iPads last year, bringing in $10 billion in new revenue and creating an entirely new category of consumer electronics devices.
Dozens of other companies have been scrambling since then to bring their own tablets to market, most of them relying on Google’s Android software, and Apple is hoping the iPad 2 will keep it a step ahead of its rivals.
But with the exception of the Galaxy Tab from South Korea’s Samsung, rival tablet-makers have enjoyed little success.
Technology research firm Gartner is forecasting sales of 55 million tablet computers worldwide this year and another research firm, Forrester, said Apple has little to worry about for now.
“Competing tablets to the iPad are poised to fail, which is why we’re forecasting that Apple will have at least 80 per cent share of the US consumer tablet market in 2011,” Forrester said.
More than 65,000 applications have been created for the iPad, while there are currently only about 100 crafted for tablets running Android.
The iPad 2 is selling at the same prices as the original iPad, ranging from $499 for the 16-gigabyte version to $829 for the top-of-the-line 64-GB model.
Hangu: Eight killed, seven injured in attack on bus
Militants opened fire on a passenger van in a lawless northwestern town on Sunday, killing at least eight Shia Muslims and wounding seven others, police said. The incident took place in Hangu district, 150 kilometres southwest of Peshawar. “Militants intercepted a passenger van at Mamoo Khwar village in Hangu district…
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US drone misses target in S.Waziristan
A US drone strike in South Waziristan on Sunday missed its target — a suspected militant vehicle– allowing rebels to flee, local security officials said. The missile strike took place in Azam Warsak town, 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of Wana, the main town of the South Waziristan tribal district.…
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Wind of change starts in Pakistan: Farooq Sattar
MQM leader Farooq Sattar said on Sunday that a wind of change has been started in Pakistan. While addressing a public gathering in Sukkur, Sattar said that the MQM wanted to bring economic revolution in the country that is why few people do not like Altaf Hussain. He said that…
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Pakistani reporter held by Sri Lankan authorities
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan immigration authorities detained a Pakistani journalist with the same name as the man who staged an abortive car bomb attack in New York’s Times Square last year, officials said Sunday.
Faisal Shahzad, an Islamabad-based reporter, was allowed to enter the country to cover the World Cup after spending nearly a day in detention.
“We have spoken to the CID (criminal investigations department of the police) and the matter has now been resolved,” a spokesman for the Pakistan high commission (embassy) in Colombo said.
Shahzad’s name was on a watch list at Colombo airport and the authorities detained him for questioning, his colleagues said. There was no immediate comment from Sri Lankan authorities.
Sri Lanka is co-hosting the cricket World Cup tournament with Bangladesh and India.
Faisal Shahzad, an Islamabad-based reporter, was allowed to enter the country to cover the World Cup after spending nearly a day in detention.
“We have spoken to the CID (criminal investigations department of the police) and the matter has now been resolved,” a spokesman for the Pakistan high commission (embassy) in Colombo said.
Shahzad’s name was on a watch list at Colombo airport and the authorities detained him for questioning, his colleagues said. There was no immediate comment from Sri Lankan authorities.
Sri Lanka is co-hosting the cricket World Cup tournament with Bangladesh and India.
UK rejects Pak application for Musharraf repatriation
The UK government has refused to accept the application of the Pakistan government for the arrest of former president Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. The UK government says Musharraf will not be repatriated because there are no general extradition arrangements between the UK and Pakistan. According to…
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DEARBORN, Michigan: Finishing law school is a challenge for Dewnya Bakri-Bazzi, but being an American and a Muslim can be downright exhausting.
As she crammed before class this week, Bakri-Bazzi caught up on testimony from a congressional hearing on the radicalization of US Muslims. She contends Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican who called it, is ignoring the positive steps Muslims have taken in fighting terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Bakri-Bazzi, president of the Muslim Legal Society at Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Detroit area campus, says she fears Thursday’s hearing will only spark a backlash against innocent members of her community just going about their lives.
“When people look at me walking down the street, they’ll feel like I’m an al-Qaeda radicalist,” said Bakri-Bazzi, who lives in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, home to one of the largest populations of Arabs and Muslims in the US.
As the profile of American Muslims has been heightened by the 9/11 attacks and subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many Muslims say they too have been inspired to protect their communities against terrorism. They are becoming more active in civic and political causes and more regularly reach out to law enforcement officials.
“No community is working more diligently than the Muslim community,” said Sally Howell, an associate professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and author of several books and essays on Arabs and Muslims in Detroit.
“Really, there is nobody in our society that is more concerned about this than the Muslim community. There have been instances of this coming from their community and they don’t want it to happen.”
Emotions were strong in the hearing room in Washington. Framed by photos of the burning World Trade Center and Pentagon, two families argued Islam was responsible for luring young men to become radicals. On the other side, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison – one of two Muslims in Congress – wept while discussing a Muslim paramedic who died in the attacks.
Jim Riches, a former New York City deputy fire chief whose son, Jimmy, was killed at the trade center, said he believes Muslims can do more.
“All people should be treated the same way, but the Muslim community has to step up,” he said. “There are plots being hatched in mosques. It’s a major problem. Muslim terrorists are on our soil.”
A handful of Somali and Muslim community leaders in Minnesota gathered to watch Thursday’s hearing, clapping and nodding their heads in agreement when one witness called the proceedings skewed.
Many said they feared the hearing would demonize Muslims, particularly in the wake of reports that around 20 men left Minnesota in recent years, possibly to join a terror group in Somalia.
“It’s unjust to single out one group from another,” said Hashi Shafi, head of the Somali Action Alliance. “It’s really an emotional time. It’s just too much. . . . We cannot be on the hot spot all the time, every year. Just as we had in 2008, and 2009 and ’10 and now 2011, Somalis are still in another hot spot. It’s unfortunate.”
Zuhur Ahmed, host of a local Somali radio show, said a hearing about radicalism is fair – because certain individuals do pose a threat. But she says it’s wrong to single out the Muslim community. She says a threat to America is a threat to her as well.
Before Friday prayers at the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury, New York, retired physician Dr. Irfan Amin said he felt “betrayed” by King.
“I have contributed to his campaign,” Amin said. “I personally met him at one function and asked him to please come and at least talk to us: ‘You have been in our community so many times. Have you seen anything with your eyes?’ He didn’t give me an answer.”
The hearing also was on the minds of people going about their business Thursday afternoon in Dearborn, where an Arab museum, prominent mosques and scores of Arabic-signed business make it one of the nation’s best known Middle Eastern enclaves.
Even as a college basketball tournament played on the television in his family’s Arabica Cafe, Allen Ghamlouche couldn’t help but reflect on what people elsewhere were watching play out in Washington.
“They’re not trying to find the truth,” Ghamlouche said. “The non-Muslims are looking for the boogeyman.”
Cafe manager Mohamed Kobaissi took a break from preparing plates of falafel, shwarma and other Middle Eastern dishes to defend his loyalty to both his religion and country.
“We’re always under attack by the media,” said Kobaissi, who proudly points out that he served food to former President Bill Clinton and got to shake the leader’s hand in the mid-1990s during a visit to Detroit Metropolitan Airport when he worked for a nearby hotel.
“Trust me – I’ll be the first guy to defend the US, but at the same time I like to (say) Islam is nothing about terrorism,” Kobaissi said.
Japan quake causes day to get a bit shorter
WASHINGTON: You won’t notice it, but the day just got a tiny bit shorter because of Friday’s giant earthquake off the coast of Japan.
NASA geophysicist Richard Gross calculated that Earth’s rotation sped up by 1.6 microseconds. That is because of the shift in Earth’s mass caused by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
That change in rotation speed is slightly more than the one caused by last year’s larger Chile earthquake. But 2004’s bigger Sumatra earthquake caused a 6.8-microsecond shortening of the day.
NASA geophysicist Richard Gross calculated that Earth’s rotation sped up by 1.6 microseconds. That is because of the shift in Earth’s mass caused by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
That change in rotation speed is slightly more than the one caused by last year’s larger Chile earthquake. But 2004’s bigger Sumatra earthquake caused a 6.8-microsecond shortening of the day.
NZ beat Canada by 97 runs to enter QFs
New Zealand have beaten Canada by 97 runs in their Group A match played at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. Canada were set about a daunting task of chasing 359. Earlier, opener Brendan McCullum posted a well-timed 101 and Ross Taylor bludgeoned 74 from 44 balls as New Zealand reached…
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Japan tries using seawater to cool damaged reactor
Japanese officials continued their battle to control dangerous reactor overheating in the nation’s worst nuclear accident that followed Friday’s earthquake, as they resorted to an unprecedented attempt to cool the reactor with seawater. Japan Chief Government Spokesman Yukio Edano said Sunday that work is continuing on attempts to shut down…
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Rescue arrives as Japan struggles
The quake and tsunami have damaged or closed down key ports. Some airports shut in the immediate aftermath have since reopened, but transport infrastructure has been crippled along parts of the northeastern coast.
Japanese officials were struggling with a growing nuclear crisis and the threat of multiple meltdowns, as more than 170,000 people were evacuated from the quake and tsunami-savaged northeastern coast.
Japanese officials were struggling with a growing nuclear crisis and the threat of multiple meltdowns, as more than 170,000 people were evacuated from the quake and tsunami-savaged northeastern coast.
Int’l workshop on climate change-related issues on Mar 21
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) will hold an international workshop among SAARC member countries on the theme “Science and Technology Issues on Climate Change” on March 21-22.
The workshop will be held at Comstech Secretariat to discuss climate change issues and its impacts on human life as due to increase of global warming, species and their habitats are decreasing while chances for ecosystems to adapt naturally are also diminishing.
The environment experts said that climate change is one of the greatest threats faced by the planet and the recent years show increasing temperatures in various regions and increasing extremities in weather patterns.
The workshop will explore climate change impacts on fast growing science and technology fields and will recommend steps to redress or minimize these effects so that Science and Technology could better serve the humanity in general and people of the area in particular.
The experts from SAARC countries will deliberate upon and share their experiences through their research papers.
In the conference, weather related issues including rise in temperatures, more rain in monsoon and in coastal areas, more unpredictable weather patterns, increasing sea levels, increase in evaporation, less rain in dry season and in dry areas, more frequent cyclones and storm surges.
The water related issues including drought, flooding, ground water stress, melting mountain/glacier snow as well as agricultural related issues; impacts of climate change on crop yield; increased weed and pest challenges; decline in yields and production; saline intrusion and the uses of water in agriculture will also be discussed.
The energy related issues including climate information that supports energy management and seasonal forecasting, infrastructure, energy planning such as biomass and renewable and ecosystems and air quality including wild fire, invasive species, managed ecosystems (e.g., agriculture, forestry), carbon sequestration and air quality related issues will also be part of the deliberations.
Scientists through this workshop would develop regional assessments of climate change that are essential to the local policymakers who will have to make the critical decisions about how to respond.
The workshop will serve as a forum to address progress and future plans for climate research on three decision-support approach; prepare scientific synthesis and assessments on key climate change issues, develop and illustrate adaptive management and planning capabilities and evaluate information and methods to support climate change.
Afridi backs Akmal brothers
Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi said on Sunday that struggling wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal and his younger brother Umar would both will play against Zimbabwe on Monday. There has been confusion over the Akmal brothers ever since the 110-run defeat against New Zealand last week, with elder brother Kamran spilling two crucial…
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At least 15,000 Pakistanis stranded in Libya
Around 15,000 to 20,000 Pakistanis remain stranded in Libya, caught in the turmoil, whereas a Monitoring Committee set up in Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) is monitoring the situation in Libya and coordinating early repatriation of the stranded persons. Talking to a local news agency, Managing Director OPF Habib Ur Rehman…
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Davis case will not to affect Pak-US relations, says Gilani
KARACHI: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that Pak-US relations cannot be held hostage because of the Raymond Davis case.
Speaking to the media, after examining the “Peace 2011” Pak Naval exercises, Gilani said that the US had promised to provide the coalition support fund and will not allow Davis’s case affect Pak-US relations.
“Pakistan is paying a heavy price in the war against terrorism but still wants to maintain good relations with the United States,” said Gilani.
Answering to a question Gilani said that the constitutional role of all institutions was fixed and there will be no conflict between the institutions because they will be adjusted in due time.
Speaking about the Pak naval exercises he said that large number of countries had attended the naval exercises and expressed confidence in its performance.
Answering to another question Gilani said that he also belongs to Karachi but had appointed Interior Minister Rehman Malik for affairs relating to the city.
Commenting on the province wide strike observed by the PPP yesterday in Sindh, against the removal of Chairman NAB , Gilani said that he respects the mandate of all parties and will not interfere in their matters.
No tsunami threat to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD – A spokesman of the foreign ministry Friday said that the ministry was in contact with its embassy in Tokyo, which had confirmed that all of its Pakistani officials were safe.
The Pakistani community in the Tokyo is reportedly safe, Spokesperson Tehmina Janjua said in a statement. She said…
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The Pakistani community in the Tokyo is reportedly safe, Spokesperson Tehmina Janjua said in a statement. She said…
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Govt to extend term of ISI chief: Mukhtar
LAHORE: Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar on Saturday said that the tenure of the chief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is being extended.
Speaking to reporters in Lahore, Mukhtar said that those who wish for a clash between the executive and the judiciary will be disappointed.
The defence minister did not say how long Lt-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha would stay on as the head of the ISI.
He had been due to step down on March 18.
Pasha is believed to have a good relationship with the CIA, but strains over the country’s differing strategic interests cause frequent tensions.
Japan scrambles to cope after quake
A day after an earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami in Japan, an explosion at a nuclear plant raised fears that bad could turn into worse. Officials warn of a possible meltdown in a quake-hit reactor and authorities are concerned about radiation leakage. More than 1,000 people are feared killed, and helicopters skim over the swathes of flattened land, searching for survivors.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reports.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reports.
We’re still recovering from NZ hammering: Misbah
NEW DELHI: Only a comprehensive victory over Zimbabwe will restore some of Pakistan’s lost self-belief in Monday’s World Cup Group A match in Kandy.
Ross Taylor battered them on Tuesday, hammering a 124-ball 131 to inflict on Pakistan a crushing 110-run defeat that continues to rankle the 1992 champions.
“We are trying to recover from our shaken confidence (with a win) in the next match against Zimbabwe,” senior batsman Misbah ul Haq said.
“We are trying to get the basics right before the (March 19) Australia match.”
One of the things they would like to fix at the earliest opportunity is Kamran Akmal’s dismal form behind the stumps that has made the diminutive wicketkeeper, who dropped Taylor twice, the butt of numerous jokes.
In his brother Umar, Pakistan had an alternative option but he is nursing a finger injury and the team management is unlikely to make him shoulder the additional wicketkeeping burden.
Misbah confirmed Umar has a swelling in the finger but team manager Intikhab Alam said it was not serious.
“He is perfectly all right. He was cleared after an X-ray and a scanning,” Alam said.
“We just want to make sure that everything is okay. That’s why I sent him to get an X-ray and scan also.”
The Pakistani batsmen would have to deal with Zimbabwe’s accurate spin attack which seems to have mastered the art of bringing down the run-rate and forcing opponents to court risk.
Zimbabwe’s batting order, however, looks brittle and against a Pakistan attack that will probably include Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul and skipper Shahid Afridi, the Africans’ task looks even tougher.
“Their bowling is more of a threat, to be honest,” Zimbabwe opener Brendan Taylor said.
“They have shown that in this tournament. Afridi in the middle overs and the seamers up front have done a good job for them. Afridi, Shoaib Akhtar and Umar Gul are bowling really well.”
Pakistan, India test N-capable missiles
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan successfully test fired its short-range surface-to-surface (STS) ballistic missile Hataf-2 (Abdali) on Friday. The missile test was conducted as part of the process of validation and technical improvements in the land based ballistic missile systems. Hataf-2 (Abdali) with a range of 180 kilometres can carry nuclear as…
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Exam for students of Class IX on 24th
Around 138,000 Class IX science students will appear in a mock test of English subject to be held under the aegis of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) on March 24, it was learnt on Thursday.
According to BSEK chairman Syed Anzar Hussain Zaidi, the number of examination centres in the city has been curtailed from over 430 to just 170 this year.
He said the exercise would help board officials find and remove the shortcomings that might arise at the examination centres so that the forthcoming secondary school certificate annual examinations could be conducted in an efficient manner.
The other purpose of holding the mock test was to ensure that all the candidates get their enrolment cards before the annual exams and the BSEK would shortly announce a date for the collection of enrolment cards by schools, he added.
He said the test would be conducted from 9am to 12noon at the 170 examination centres being set up at both government and private schools.
According to BSEK chairman Syed Anzar Hussain Zaidi, the number of examination centres in the city has been curtailed from over 430 to just 170 this year.
He said the exercise would help board officials find and remove the shortcomings that might arise at the examination centres so that the forthcoming secondary school certificate annual examinations could be conducted in an efficient manner.
The other purpose of holding the mock test was to ensure that all the candidates get their enrolment cards before the annual exams and the BSEK would shortly announce a date for the collection of enrolment cards by schools, he added.
He said the test would be conducted from 9am to 12noon at the 170 examination centres being set up at both government and private schools.
University of Health Sciences (UHS) MBBS result 2010
The University of Health Sciences (UHS) has announced the result of Third Professional MBBS annual examination 2010.
According to a press release on Thursday, a total of 2,100 candidates from 13 affiliated medical colleges appeared in the examination out of which 1,795 passed and 289 failed. Result of 16 candidates was put on RL list. The pass percentage remained 86.13 per cent.
Sidra Zahoor d/o Zahoor Ahmad of Rawalpindi Medical College Rawalpindi got first position securing 852 marks.Yaruk Omar Shifa s/o Muhammad Shifa of Rawalpindi Medical College Rawalpindi got second position securing 841marks and Saira Yasmin d/o Ch. Khadim Hussain of Rawalpindi Medical College Rawalpindi and Wajahat Humayun s/o Umar Farooq of Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore got third position both securing 839 marks. The failed candidates are required to submit their admission forms on or before 04.04.2011.
According to a press release on Thursday, a total of 2,100 candidates from 13 affiliated medical colleges appeared in the examination out of which 1,795 passed and 289 failed. Result of 16 candidates was put on RL list. The pass percentage remained 86.13 per cent.
Sidra Zahoor d/o Zahoor Ahmad of Rawalpindi Medical College Rawalpindi got first position securing 852 marks.Yaruk Omar Shifa s/o Muhammad Shifa of Rawalpindi Medical College Rawalpindi got second position securing 841marks and Saira Yasmin d/o Ch. Khadim Hussain of Rawalpindi Medical College Rawalpindi and Wajahat Humayun s/o Umar Farooq of Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore got third position both securing 839 marks. The failed candidates are required to submit their admission forms on or before 04.04.2011.
Strike across Sindh on PPP’s call in Karachi
KARACHI: At least two people were killed in incidents of gunfire in Karachi and several were wounded as a strike called by the Pakistan People’s Party was being observed across the Sindh province on Friday, DawnNews reported.
8.8 Magnitude Huge Earthquake Rocks in Japan triggers tsunami
TOKYO: A massive 8.8 magnitude quake hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, shaking buildings in the capital Tokyo, causing “many injuries”, at least one fire and triggering a four-metre tsunami, NHK television and witnesses reported.
There was also a warning of a 10-metre tsunami following the quake, Japan’s biggest in seven years.
The public broadcaster showed flames and black smoke billowing from a building in Odaiba, a Tokyo suburb, and bullet trains to the north of the country were halted.
Black smoke was also pouring out of an industrial area in Yokohama’s Isogo area.
TV footage showed boats, cars and trucks floating in water after a small tsunami hit the town of Kamaichi in northern Japan.
“The building shook for what seemed a long time and many people in the newsroom grabbed their helmets and some got under their desks,” Reuters correspondent Linda Sieg said.
“It was probably the worst I have felt since I came to Japan more than 20 years ago.”
Passengers on a subway line in Tokyo screamed and grabbed other passengers’ hands.
The shaking was so bad it was hard to stand, said Reuters reporter Mariko Katsumura.
The US Geological Survey earlier verified a magnitude of 7.9 at a depth of 15.1 miles and located the quake 81 miles east of Sendai, Honshu. It later upgraded it to 8.8.
The Tokyo stock market extended its losses after the quake was announced. The central bank said it would do everything to ensure financial stability.
Japan’s northeast Pacific coast, called Sanriku, has suffered from quakes and tsunamis in the past and a 7.2 quake struck on Wednesday. In 1933, a magnitude 8.1 quake in the area killed more than 3,000 people. Last year fishing facilities were damaged after by a tsunami caused by a strong tremor in Chile.
Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active areas.
The country accounts for about 20 per cent of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Students’ week at FUUAST begins today
The first Students’ Week of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) begins today (Thursday), at Abdul Haq Campus of the university, which will be organised by the Faculty of Arts.
A large number of students from 16 different departments of the Abdul Haq Campus will participate in the students’ week. The week would include contests in various co-curricular activities such as sports, singing, speech declamation in Urdu, Sindhi and English, General Knowledge, Na’at and Qira’at competitions.
A large number of students from 16 different departments of the Abdul Haq Campus will participate in the students’ week. The week would include contests in various co-curricular activities such as sports, singing, speech declamation in Urdu, Sindhi and English, General Knowledge, Na’at and Qira’at competitions.
PUNJAB University MBBS exam date sheets
PUNJAB University Examinations Department has issued date sheets for written examinations of MBBS (New Re-Organized Scheme), Second Professional, Supplementary Exam 2010 and MBBS (Latest New Re-Organized Scheme), Second Professional, Supplementary Exam 2010. The exam will commence from March 14 and conclude on March 21, 2011. Detailed date sheet is also available at PU website www.pu.edu.pk, said a press release here on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe Captain E Chigumbura on His 24th Birthday - 14th March
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Japan issues tsunami warning after 7.2 earthquake
TOKYO: Japan issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after a major 7.2-magnitude quake struck 160 kilometres east off the main Honshu island at 0245 GMT, swaying buildings in the capital Tokyo.
A tsunami warning of up to 50 cm was issued for northeastern Japan, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Tohoku Electric Power said its Onagawa nuclear plant was operating normally after the quake. Tokyo Electric Power also said there was no impact on its power plants in the region.
Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active areas.
Urgent action needed to tackle ‘education emergency’
Pakistan faces an ‘education emergency’ with millions of children out of school, crumbling infrastructure and constantly shrinking education budgets. — File Photo
KARACHI: According to a report to be released on Wednesday, Pakistan faces an ‘education emergency’ with millions of children out of school, crumbling infrastructure and constantly shrinking education budgets.
Yet the report claims the situation can be turned around in a matter of years if there is political will for change.
Education Emergency Pakistan, published by March for Education, a project of the Pakistan Education Task Force, contains well-researched statistics about the extent of the crisis facing Pakistan and possible ways to exit the quagmire. The organisers of the project will also present a petition to the provincial chief ministers at the end of the month calling for the state to maintain education budgets.
The report points out that under the Eighteenth Amendment the state is constitutionally mandated to provide free and compulsory education to children between five and 16 years. However the Millennium Development Goal for education is now out of reach for Pakistan, while India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are on track to meet this particular MDG.
The report says that seven million children in the country are not in primary school while three million will not see the inside of a classroom. Pakistan is second in the global ranking of out-of-school children. It says that at the current rate Punjab will provide all children with their constitutional right to education by 2041 while Balochistan will reach this goal by 2100.
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KARACHI: According to a report to be released on Wednesday, Pakistan faces an ‘education emergency’ with millions of children out of school, crumbling infrastructure and constantly shrinking education budgets.
Yet the report claims the situation can be turned around in a matter of years if there is political will for change.
Education Emergency Pakistan, published by March for Education, a project of the Pakistan Education Task Force, contains well-researched statistics about the extent of the crisis facing Pakistan and possible ways to exit the quagmire. The organisers of the project will also present a petition to the provincial chief ministers at the end of the month calling for the state to maintain education budgets.
The report points out that under the Eighteenth Amendment the state is constitutionally mandated to provide free and compulsory education to children between five and 16 years. However the Millennium Development Goal for education is now out of reach for Pakistan, while India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are on track to meet this particular MDG.
The report says that seven million children in the country are not in primary school while three million will not see the inside of a classroom. Pakistan is second in the global ranking of out-of-school children. It says that at the current rate Punjab will provide all children with their constitutional right to education by 2041 while Balochistan will reach this goal by 2100.
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MQM vows to continue Sindh Assembly boycott
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday in their Coordination committee’s meeting, vowed to continue boycotting Sindh Assembly sessions until their ‘concerns’ were removed, DawnNews reported. A meeting would be convened between the provincial leaders of both parties on Sunday to thrash out the issues raised by the MQM, said the Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar after a meeting of MQM delegation with the president in Islamabad. The President Zardari held out the assurance to a four-member MQM delegation, headed by the party’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, Dr Farooq Sattar, after discussing for almost three hours the situation in Karachi, with particular reference to a recent statement of Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza about a controversial peace committee that had created tension between the coalition partners. MQM leader, Wasay Jalil told DawnNews that his party would hold its principled stand on the issue until all its concerns were resolved. Jalil said that his party would carry on boycotting all Sindh Assembly sessions until the meeting on Sunday. He further said that in the mean time any National Assembly or Senate’s sessions would also be boycotted.
MQM-PPP talks end with Asif Ali Zardari’s assurances
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also co-chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), has assured the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) that all its grievances about the situation in Sindh will be removed and that the ruling party will not support ‘criminal elements’.
The president held out the assurance to a four-member MQM delegation, headed by the party’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, Dr Farooq Sattar, after discussing for almost three hours the situation in Karachi, with particular reference to a recent statement of Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza about a controversial peace committee that had created tension between the coalition partners.
Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar told Dawn that during the meeting, President Zardari also talked to MQM chief Altaf Hussain in London by phone and discussed the points raised by the delegation, which included Senator Babar Ghouri, Dr Sagheer Ahmed and Raza Haroon.
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New zeland Cricketer Birthday boy Taylor zips to incredible ton
Extraordinary hitting with a cracked bat by New Zealand birthday boy Ross Taylor helped his team pile on an amazing 85 runs in 3.4 overs to reach 302-7 in their World Cup match against Pakistan on Tuesday.
Taylor was given two 27th birthday gifts, dropped on zero and eight off Shoaib Akhtar, before unleashing some of the most incredible slugging ever inflicted on an attack in a one-day international cricket match never mind the World Cup.
He thumped eight fours and seven sixes in his unbeaten knock of 131 scored off 124 balls in the Group A match.
In one brutal over, the 35-year-old Pakistan paceman Shoaib was struck for three sixes and two fours in one over as Taylor raced passed three figures in 117 balls. That over cost Shoaib 28 runs.
More was to come. Having figured in half-century stands with Martin Guptill (57) and Scott Styris (28), he paired up with Jacob Oram (25 off nine balls) to power 85 off 22 balls.
In Last , New Zealand blasted 92 runs off the last four overs.
New Zealand Beat Pakistan by 110 Runs
KANDY: New Zealand beat Pakistan by 110 runs in a crucial World Cup Group A match at the new Pallekele stadium on Tuesday.
Pakistan were all out at 192 in the 42nd over, with Razzaq being the high scorer for the team at 62.
Earlier, New Zealand had made 302 for 7 against Pakistan after captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to bat.
Pakistan court Hearing of Davis case adjourned till March 16 2011
LAHORE: The hearing of double-murder case against US national Raymond Davis has been adjourned until March 16.
The hearing held at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail was conducted by additional sessions judge Yousaf Ojla.
Raymond Davis’ counsel Justice retired Zahid Bukhari was absent from the proceedings, but his junior lawyers and two American lawyers were present.
During the previous hearing on Thursday, the judge had said that the trial for Davis would go ahead and had rejected his plea that he could not be prosecuted because of diplomatic immunity. Davis’ counsel had also demanded for some case relevant documents to be presented in court by the prosecution.
The hearing held at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail was conducted by additional sessions judge Yousaf Ojla.
Raymond Davis’ counsel Justice retired Zahid Bukhari was absent from the proceedings, but his junior lawyers and two American lawyers were present.
During the previous hearing on Thursday, the judge had said that the trial for Davis would go ahead and had rejected his plea that he could not be prosecuted because of diplomatic immunity. Davis’ counsel had also demanded for some case relevant documents to be presented in court by the prosecution.
US A says Saudis have right to peaceful protests
WASHINGTON: Saudis have a right to protest peacefully, the United States said on Monday after Saudi Arabia reminded its citizens that demonstrations were banned in the kingdom, the world’s largest oil exporter.
Inspired by protests in other Arab countries, there have been Shi’ite marches in the past few days in the east of Saudi Arabia as well as Facebook calls for two more protests this month, the first on Friday.
“The United States supports a set of universal rights, including the right to peaceful assembly and to freedom of expression,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters at his daily briefing.
“Those rights must be respected everywhere, including Saudi Arabia,” he added.
While the US ally has by no means faced protests of the scale that toppled veteran authoritarian leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, dissent has built up as unrest has spread in Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Libya and Oman.
Inspired by protests in other Arab countries, there have been Shi’ite marches in the past few days in the east of Saudi Arabia as well as Facebook calls for two more protests this month, the first on Friday.
“The United States supports a set of universal rights, including the right to peaceful assembly and to freedom of expression,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters at his daily briefing.
“Those rights must be respected everywhere, including Saudi Arabia,” he added.
While the US ally has by no means faced protests of the scale that toppled veteran authoritarian leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, dissent has built up as unrest has spread in Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Libya and Oman.
Punjab CM’s ‘judicial marshal law’ against constitution: Awan
Federal Law Minister Babar Awan on Tuesday said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has introduced the concept of “judicial marshal law” in the province, which is against Section 63-G of the constitution.?
Talking to the media in Sargodha, Awan said the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) coalition government has been tolerating severe criticism adding that the federal and provincial governments were formed under the party’s reconciliation policy, which has not been done by any previous government.
The law minister said the PPP believes in empowering the provinces and that his party will continue with its reforms agenda.
To a question on his indictment in a case, Awan said he will not leave the country even if other cases are registered against him.
Talking to the media in Sargodha, Awan said the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) coalition government has been tolerating severe criticism adding that the federal and provincial governments were formed under the party’s reconciliation policy, which has not been done by any previous government.
The law minister said the PPP believes in empowering the provinces and that his party will continue with its reforms agenda.
To a question on his indictment in a case, Awan said he will not leave the country even if other cases are registered against him.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Morning session students allowed exam in evening
THE issue of roll number slips continued dominating the ongoing matriculation annual examination 2011 on Monday as dozens of candidates, who could not get their roll number slips, had to sit in the evening session of the exam.
Authorities of the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore passed special instructions to the examination staff in all the exam centres to allow a candidate of morning session to sit in the evening session if he/she had got the roll number slip on Monday morning.The compulsory paper of English was held on Monday in which thousands of candidates appeared unlike the first day when papers of minor subjects were held.
Authorities of the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore passed special instructions to the examination staff in all the exam centres to allow a candidate of morning session to sit in the evening session if he/she had got the roll number slip on Monday morning.The compulsory paper of English was held on Monday in which thousands of candidates appeared unlike the first day when papers of minor subjects were held.
PU date sheet, Different exams
THE Punjab University has issued the revised written exam date sheet of MCom, First Year (Part-I), Second Annual Examination, 2010. The exam will commence from March 10 and conclude on March 28, 2011. Meanwhile, PU Examinations Department has announced the results of LLB, Part-III, Special Annual Examinations, 2010, held in Stockholm, Sweden and Sydney, Australia, and BSc Special Annual Examination 2010 held in Toronto, Canada. The exam date sheet and results are available at the varsity’s website www.pu.edu.pk
AIOU Date extended [The News]
Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has extended admission date with late fee charges from Matric to Ph.D level programmes for the Semester Spring, 2011 till March 18.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
داخلہ فیس19 مارچ تک جمع ہوگی [جنگ نیوز]
حیدرآباد (بیورو رپورٹ) سندھ یونیورسٹی کے ڈائریکٹر ایڈمیشن کی جانب سے اکیڈ مک سیشن 2010ء کے مختلف شعبوں میں زیر تعلیم طلبہ و طالبات کو ہدایت کی گئی ہے کہ وہ ہائر کلاسز میں داخلے کے لیے اپنی داخلہ فیس 19 مارچ تک جمع کراسکتے ہیں۔ داخلہ فارم حبیب بینک جامشورو برانچ سے مقررہ فیس پر حاصل کیے جاسکتے ہیں۔
PU students excell in contest
STUDENTS of the Punjab University’s Department of Electrical Engineering have excelled in the “IEEE Week 2011” held at FAST University, Lahore. The department students in Circuit Schematics Muhammad Azeem and Mah Zaib in Money Stacking (quiz) Muhammad Azeem Javed in Geek Wars (progh and quiz) M Azeem, Mah Zaib and Muhammad Abdul Basit won first positions while in Microprogramming M Azeem and Mah Zaib and in Money Stacking (auiz) M Abdul Basit won second positions.
Matric examinations start today
Secondary School Certificate (Matriculation) Annual Examination 2011 will start from Saturday (today).
Matriculation (Class- 9th) Annual Examination 2011 will commence from March 21. Over two million candidates will appear in the matric exam from all the eight Boards of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISEs) of Punjab, with 461,856 candidates appearing in the exam only from Lahore.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, BISE Lahoreís chairman Prof Dr Akram Kashmiri, who was flanked by Controller of Examinations Prof Manzur ul Hassan Niazi, claimed that the board had successfully completed all arrangements for the exam.
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Matriculation (Class- 9th) Annual Examination 2011 will commence from March 21. Over two million candidates will appear in the matric exam from all the eight Boards of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISEs) of Punjab, with 461,856 candidates appearing in the exam only from Lahore.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, BISE Lahoreís chairman Prof Dr Akram Kashmiri, who was flanked by Controller of Examinations Prof Manzur ul Hassan Niazi, claimed that the board had successfully completed all arrangements for the exam.
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Stocks hit oil slick but economy to trump
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks will take their cues from the oil market this week as unrest rumbles through the Middle East. But so far equity investors are sanguine, believing the economic recovery wins the day.
Sentiment is driving large daily swings as traders vacillate between the fear that oil prices will hit consumers and derail the recovery, and the euphoria that the U.S. labor market is turning a corner.
Reports of escalated fighting in Libya and protests in Bahrain, Yemen and top oil-exporter Saudi Arabia rattled investors on Friday -- oil rose, equities fell.
"We are in such a sentiment-driven market right now and everyone is watching the equity market with one eye and oil and commodity markets with the other," said Michael James, a senior trader at Wedbush Morgan in Los Angeles.
SHIFT TO OIL STOCKS
Some hedge funds are trading the inverse correlations between oil and equities that have grown in recent weeks, while other investors are shifting their exposure to oil stocks and paring back in overvalued areas of the market.
Through it all the S&P 500 is down less than 2 percent from a near three-year high hit in late February, which even bears concede is a remarkably robust performance. Last week, stocks ended flat.
So far the trade seems to be a reallocation of risk within equities rather than a move out of stocks altogether.
Zahid Siddique, a portfolio manager at the Gabelli Equity Trust, has used the turmoil as a chance to raise his exposure to energy stocks, which have surged with oil prices.
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Quakes to almost halve NZ economic growth in 2011
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Police cordons around the most devastated section of New Zealand's earthquake-struck city of Christchurch were relaxed Sunday, allowing businesspeople and residents to salvage their valuables nearly two weeks after a temblor that killed at least 166 people.
Meanwhile, the government forecast that last month's quake, combined with a larger but less destructive one that hit the Christchurch region in September, will almost halve New Zealand's economic growth this year.
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India beat Ireland by five wickets in Group B
BANGALORE, March 6 (Reuters) - India beat Ireland by five wickets in their World Cup Group B match on Sunday.
Scores: Ireland 207 all out (W. Porterfield 75; Y. Singh 5-31, Z. Khan 3-30); India 210-5 (Y.Singh 50 not out)
Scores: Ireland 207 all out (W. Porterfield 75; Y. Singh 5-31, Z. Khan 3-30); India 210-5 (Y.Singh 50 not out)
Gold Rates in Pakistan ,karachi,Lahore,Check Online Silver & Gold Rates
You can find Daily update Gold Rates & Silver Rate from major cities in Pakistan . Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Multan, Hyderabad much more at upakistan.blogspot.com .Here you can also find gold price chart and current silver rates (silver bullion prices) goldrates.
City 24k per 10 Grams 24 carat per Tola 22k Per 10 Grams Silver 10 Grams
Karachi Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Lahore Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Multan Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Faisalabad Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Rawalpindi Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Hyderabad Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Gujranwala Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Peshawar Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Quetta Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Islamabad Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Sargodha Rs. 48,471.00 Rs. 56,550.00 Rs. 44,432.00 Rs. 891.42
Source: Karachi Saraf.
England set South Africa 172 for victory
CHENNAI: England could not recover from a dreadful start and folded for 171 in 45.4 overs in a World Cup Group B match against South Africa on Sunday.
Opening the bowling, South Africa's left-arm spinner Robin Peterson (3-22) wrecked the English top order, claiming two wickets in his first over. The 99-run fourth-wicket partnership between Jonathan Trott (52) and Ravi Bopara (60) in 25-odd overs somewhat arrested the slide but England never got going.
Smarting from the defeat by Ireland in their previous match, England captain Andrew Strauss won the toss and decided to bat first but a nightmare unfolded before his eyes at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.
His South African counterpart Graeme Smith opened with Peterson, whose magical first spell (three wickets for four runs) wrecked England's top order.
Peterson's third delivery drew out the scoreless Strauss, who wanted to clear midwicket but instead watched AB de Villiers dart from long on to take a well-judged catch.
Three balls later, Kevin Pietersen (2) joined Strauss in the pavilion, having edged one to Jacques Kallis in the slip.
Peterson returned to send down a maiden over before catching Ian Bell off his own bowling to reduce England to 15-3 inside five overs.
Trott and Bopara gamely hung on but could not break the shackles and the lower order batsmen could not do much either as England lost their last five batsmen for 23 runs.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Religious scholar, son killed in Pakistan Karachi
KARACHI: Unknown gunmen assassinated a leader of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and his son on Saturday night at 11 o clock...
According to police force, Maulana Ahmed Madni, founder of Jamia Mehmoodia in Bufferzone, was shouteded when armed men open fire on his auto in the area of North Karachi.
Panic spread in adjacent areas after airing of news of the killing and people closed their businesses in Nagan Chorangi, North Karachi and other areas.
US assigns two legal experts for Davis case, says report
LAHORE: The US government has reportedly assigned two American legal experts to defend the double murder accused Raymond Davis in Pakistan courts.
Reports said that the legal advisors reached Pakistan some days ago and met with Davis in Kot Lakhpat jail, Lahore on Saturday.
10 dead as blast rips through Nowshera mosque
NOWSHEHRA – At least 10 persons were killed and 44 others injured as a result of remote control bomb blast inside Akhund Panjo Baba Mosque in Akbarpura area here after Friday prayers.
Local sources said that the bomb was planted below the mat of the first praying row of…
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Sri Lanka-Australia match abandoned due to rain
The World Cup Group A match between Sri Lanka and Australia was abandoned because of rain at R. Premadasa stadium on Saturday. Sri Lanka, who chose to bat, were 146-3 after 32.5 overs when play was halted. After a delay of two and a half hours, play was finally abandoned…
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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Married Tanveer Zamani In Dubai
Pakistan’s president, Asif Zardari, was recently married in Dubai, UAE. Tanveer Zamani, an American physician.Asif Zardari got married to Tanveer Zamani according to Muslim Shiyat Bylaws in Dubai last week.
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India Vs Ireland Live Score, Highlights 2011
India Squad :
MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin
Ireland Squad :
William Porterfield (c), Andre Botha, Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, Ed Joyce, John Mooney, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien (wk), Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Albert van der Merwe, Andrew White, Gary Wilson (wk).
کراچی ، ابراہیم حیدری میں مسجد کے قریب مکان میں دھماکہ ،مکان منہدم ہوگیا ، دھماکے سے 2 افراد جاں بحق ،2 زخمی
کراچی ، ابراہیم حیدری میں مسجد کے قریب مکان میں دھماکہ ،مکان منہدم ہوگیا ، دھماکے سے 2 افراد جاں بحق ،2 زخمی
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Suspected militant dies in blast at his Karachi residence
KARACHI: A suspected militant died in a blast at his home in Karachi, police said.
Senior police official Tanveer Alam said at least one person was also wounded when the blast ripped through the house on the outskirts of Karachi on Saturday.
He said the dead and the injured, who lived in the rented house, were apparently handling explosives at the time. Alam gave no further details and identity of the men was not immediately known.
Senior police official Tanveer Alam said at least one person was also wounded when the blast ripped through the house on the outskirts of Karachi on Saturday.
He said the dead and the injured, who lived in the rented house, were apparently handling explosives at the time. Alam gave no further details and identity of the men was not immediately known.
Dhoni hails “unbelievable” O’Brien before clash
BANGALORE: India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni hailed Irish master-blaster Kevin O’Brien as “unbelievable”, but hopes there’s no repeat of his pyrotechnics when the two sides clash on Sunday.
O’Brien smashed the fastest World Cup century off 50 balls, and went on to make 113 off just 63 deliveries, in a remarkable exhibition of power-hitting as Ireland stunned England on Wednesday for an historic victory.
When asked whether his team had made plans to stop the Irishman in Sunday’s Group B match, Dhoni said: “As far as strategies are concerned, every day is different and accordingly you have to plan based on how a batsman is playing.
“It was an unbelievable innings. We really enjoyed O’Brien’s innings. As it was not against us we can always be a spectator and enjoy each and every hit. It was really impressive to see him change gears at the end.”
Dhoni addded that India will bank on their batting strength to counter Ireland’s threat.
“What is good for the side is everybody is scoring runs and it’s more about a battle for the slots. We are still more inclined to play with seven batsmen as you should always back your strength,” the Indian skipper said Saturday.
India’s batting clicked in their previous two matches as they scored a massive 370-4 against Bangladesh and 338 against England, with Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar all scoring centuries.
The hosts need to make sure they put enough runs on the board again to give their under-fire bowlers a chance to defend the total, especially after Ireland’s amazing run-chase on the same pitch.
The Indian skipper said no team could afford to take Ireland lightly after their superb show against a strong England side.
“There is no weak side in the World Cup. We have memories of getting beaten by Bangladesh in the 2007 World Cup and we won’t make that mistake again,” Dhoni said, referring to India’s first-round exit in the Caribbean.
“It depends on each particular day and there are individuals in every team who can score at an amazing strike-rate of may be 150 or 200 and that can change the course of the game.
“The preparation level remains the same and the intensity should remain the same.”
The pitch heavily favoured batsmen in the last two matches here — India v England and Ireland v England — and Dhoni said batsmen would likely to have a field day again.
“It is difficult to say whether it will turn or not. But the last couple of games here have been high-scoring ones as close to 1,400 runs were scored and it says what kind of a wicket it is,” said the Indian captain.
“Probably it won’t change much and it could still be a high-scoring game. It is amazing to see the way the runs have been chased here. I think Bangalore is one place where batsmen have the upper hand and I feel it will be the same.”
Dhoni said India had yet to decide whether to go into the match with three pacemen and one specialist spinner or two seamers and as many spinners.
Four suspects arrested in Shahbaz Bhatti case
Police have arrested four members of a banned organisation in connection with the murder of minorities affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti. According to sources, police handed over the arrested men to an intelligence agency for investigation and two of the men were shifted to Islamabad. The investigation authorities suspect that an…
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23 more stranded Pakistanis returns from Libya
Another batch of 23 Pakistani nationals stranded in Libya landed in Karachi on Saturday. The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis arranged for their safe return from Libya. According to sources, several Pakistani families were still stranded in Libya and were waiting to return to Pakistan because of the uncertain situation in…
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Reduced World Cup could see new shocks – Lorgat
CHENNAI: Ireland’s dramatic giant-killing World Cup win over England could be repeated in future despite a decision to reduce the event to 10 teams, world cricket’s top administrator said Saturday.
As there are only 10 Test-playing countries, many second-tier or associate nations such as Ireland fear they could be frozen out by the move.
Ireland created one of the great World Cup shocks by beating England by three wickets in Bangalore on Wednesday, with Kevin O’Brien scoring the fastest hundred in the tournament’s history.
International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat said provided there was a “sufficiently robust qualification process,” future upsets could still be possible.
“It’s a balance we’re trying to achieve in top-class competition, the opportunity for developing nations and to have the 10 best teams at the World Cup,” Lorgat said.
He said the qualification system would be discussed at the next ICC executive board meeting in April.
“If there is a qualification process that is robust enough, no doubt any team could come through.
“It’s not at all related to the question of getting funds from the event. It’s the balance we try to achieve between excellent competition and the development of the game.
“We are blessed with three formats. We believe the Twenty20 format is the one we could use primarily to develop the game. We’ve expanded that to 16 teams.
“We believe that if qualification was the route through to the World Cup, that would make for a far better World Cup from a competitive point of view.”
Ireland have just one more ODI, against England in Dublin in August, to play this year after the World Cup. Lorgat said the global governing body had urged the Test elite to pay more attention to those in the second tier.
Gilani assigns additional portfolios to ministers
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday allocated additional portfolios for the existing ministers. The ministers who got additional portfolios include Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo – Minister of Defence Production, Makhdoom Shahabuddin – Housing and Works, Mian Raza Rabbani – Human Rights, Syed Khursheed Shah – Labour and Manpower,…
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Pak and India should solve water issue through dialogues: Qureshi
Farmers Association Pakistan (FAP) Chairman and former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday that Pakistan and India should seriously solve the most sensitive issue of water through dialogues. Speaking to the media after a foundation day ceremony of FAP, he said that water was the basic necessity for…
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Muslim-Christian clashes kill 2 south of Cairo
Egyptian security officials say Christian and Muslim families have clashed south of Cairo in a dispute over a romance between children from the two families. The fathers from both families have been killed and a crowd of Muslims has torched a church. Mixed relationships are taboo in Egypt, where the…
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Malik issues visas to Blackwater agents: Rana Sanaullah
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said that Interior Minister Rehman Malik issued visas to Blackwater agents and he was responsible for Blackwater activities in Pakistan. After the meeting of Unification Bloc members with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in Lahore, Sanaullah told media that Malik started issuing discriminatory statements to…
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Lahore Court rejects Davis’ plea for diplomatic immunity
LAHORE: A Pakistani court on Thursday said that the murder trial of a CIA contractor would go ahead, despite the insistence of the US government that he has diplomatic immunity.
The hearing in the murder case against Raymond Davis took place amid high security in Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore where he is being held, and was adjourned until March 8.
Davis has claimed he acted in self-defence when he shot dead two men in a busy Lahore street in January.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Karzai condemns NATO airstrike that reportedly killed 9 Afghan children
A NATO airstrike that appears to have killed nine children as they collected firewood drew strong condemnation Wednesday from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, as well as an apology from the commander of NATO forces. The alliance confirmed that nine civilians had been killed, but did not address the assertion by…
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Irland Kevin O’Brien breaks World Cup fastest century record
BANGALORE: Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien smashed the fastest century in World Cup history on Wednesday when he reached the landmark off just 50 balls against England.
O’Brien beat Australian Matthew Hayden’s record of a century off 66 balls against South Africa at St Kitts in the 2007 tournament.
The 26-year-old O’Brien hit 13 boundaries and six sixes in his blistering century at the Chinnaswamy Stadium which was also the sixth fastest ODI ton of all time.
Chasing England’s 327-8, O’Brien shared a sixth-wicket partnership of 162 with Alex Cusack (47) as Ireland targeted a famous victory.
Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi hit the fastest century of all time off 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Kenya in 1996.
First World Cup upset as minnows Ireland beat England
BANGALORE: Ireland recorded the first upset of the ICC World Cup 2011 when they beat England by three wickets at Bangalore on Wednesday.
Kevin O’Brien led the assault for the Irish with his 50-ball century, in process breaking the record for the fastest World Cup century.
Kevin O’Brien led the assault for the Irish with his 50-ball century, in process breaking the record for the fastest World Cup century.
Pakistani Minister Shahbaz Bhatti shot dead
Unknown gunmen shot dead Federal Minister of Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti in Islamabad on Wednesday. The assailants opened indiscriminate fire at Federal Minister of Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti. He was admitted at Shifa hospital of Islamabad in critical condition where he was succumbed to injuries. According to initial reports about…
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Sack FIA DG in 3 days: CJ
ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Tuesday has given three days to the Federation to remove Director General Federal Investigation Agency along with other officials who have been appointed on contract after their retirement on obtaining the age of superannuation.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry heading a six-member bench that…
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Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry heading a six-member bench that…
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Zaradari orders to restore Gas supply to Punjab industries
Zaradari orders to restore Gas supply to Punjab industries
German defence minister resigns over plagiarism row
Germany’s defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has resigned after being unmasked as a plagiarist. The 39-year-old aristocrat, a baron who was widely tipped as a future chancellor, handed in his notice to Angela Merkel following almost two weeks of front page stories about the authenticity of his PhD thesis. “It…
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Davis’ issue is being hijacked by some elements: Fauzia
PPP leader Fauzia Wahab said that some people tried to highjack the issue of Raymong Davis. While talking to media in Rawalpindi, Fauzia said that corruption was not hindering development process. She said that Raymond enjoys diplomatic immunity but she condemned the killings of two citizens, however she said that…
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SLC denies fixing allegations, Jayawardene takes legal course
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s cricket authorities on Tuesday denied allegations of match-fixing by two of their players in their World Cup defeat to Pakistan.
Mahela Jayawardene and Thilan Samaraweera may have deliberately “changed the game” by getting out cheaply and said the outcome would have been different had the pair scored more runs.
The channel said a local businessman had placed an ,000 bet on Sri Lanka losing the game.
“We are treating the matter seriously,” said Nishantha Ranatunga, the secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket.
Sri Lanka, who are one of the favourites to win the tournament, fell short of Pakistan’s total of 277-7 by 11 runs on Saturday, leaving thousands at a packed R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo devastated.
“It is with deep regret that we note that a leading television channel in a special programme, namely ‘Wimasuma’, has stated that Sri Lanka has lost against Pakistan due to two of our leading players not getting runs in that game,” Sri Lanka Cricket said in a press release.
“Further they added that the two players had failed intentionally, thereby implying that our players might have been involved in match-fixing,” said SLC.
“SLC strongly condemns the bona fides of this anchor, who hosted the programme carrying a story that is baseless and thereby demoralising our players during the ongoing World Cup.”
“SLC will take up the matter with the relevant authorities of this channel, based on the fact that this channel has brought great distress to two of our cricketers who have served the country with honour and dignity,” it added.
Jayawardene contributed two runs and Samaraweera one to Sri Lanka’s total of 266-9.
Jayawardene was considering legal action against the station for implying he was guilty of corruption, the BBC said.
Meanwhile Jayawardene has taken legal advice over the doubts raised by the television show.
“We are now in second thoughts whether Mahela and Thilan actually ‘changed the game’,” the narrator of the programme said, adding that if both had scored 30 runs together, Sri Lanka would have won.
Compared to other Asian neighbours, the 1996 World Cup champions have been relatively free from corruption and match-fixing scandals.
“People who make such allegations should be careful of what they say unless they have sufficient proof,” Sri Lanka’s team manager Anura Tennekoon told Reuters.
“The lawyers will decide what proper course of action should be taken,” he told Reuters.
Tennekoon denied there would be any inquiry from the SLC or from the International Cricket Council (ICC).
“Knowing both Mahela and Thilan, we feel there is no necessity to investigate the matter and, as far as the ICC has concerned, they have the right to investigate but so far they have not brought anything on this,” Tennekoon said. “But we will discuss the matter with our lawyer as well.”
The game’s governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), told Reuters on Tuesday that each of the 49 matches at the World Cup were “to some extent” scrutinised by an anti-corruption unit.
A spokesman explained that unless the unit, which keeps its deliberations secret, planned action against a team or individual then the ICC itself would not be informed.
Also on Tuesday, an agency story suggesting that Australia were under investigation for slow scoring in a win against Zimbabwe was dismissed by team officials as “laughable”.
The ICC told Reuters they had heard nothing suggesting anything untoward.
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