Taking action on the players' poor performance on the recent Australian tour, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday imposed life bans on former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan. The PCB also banned former captain Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved for one year, along with a fine of Rs two million, for breaking the team's code of conduct during the tour of Australia. All-rounder Shahid Afridi has also been fined for involvement in ball tampering. In an unprecedented move, PCB fined Naved, Malik and Umar ...

Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) is all set to hold much-awaited meeting with Awami National Party in the next couple of days to agree on some common name to be given to NWFP.Sources in PML(N) informed that tentatively the party meeting on the issue would be held under the chair of Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif, who is also party President, on Tuesday to prepare ground for the meeting of Mian Nawaz Sharif with ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan. The sources in the party ...

The Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N have changed their stance on judges’ appointment agreed under the Charter of Democracy (CoD) signed about four years ago. Leaders of both the major parties said on Tuesday they had “made a compromise on the CoD for the sake of consensus among all the political parties and to honour the present chief justice for his struggle for the rule of law and independence of the judiciary”. The 26-member parliamentary committee on constitutional reforms (PCCR), headed by Senator ...

This is something that usually happens only in a Bollywood film. But, this time round, it's happening in real life and how. Ironically, the people involved in this are the B-town residents. We are talking about the family of legendary late Kamaal Amrohi, which is in news due to their property dispute that's worth over a staggering Rs.600 crore! Shandar, one of Kamaal Amrohi's three children, has now filed a case against his sister Rukhsar and brother Wasim stating that they have falsely pledged ...

Pakistan all-rounder Rana Naved-ul-Hasan has hit back at the Karachi City Cricket Association for accusing him of ball-tampering during the ongoing national Twenty20 championship. The KCCA has sent a complaint letter to the chairman of the Pakistan cricket Board (PCB), outlining its concerns over some poor umpiring and Rana’s tampering with the ball with his nails during a match between Sialkot Stallions and Karachi Zebras at the National Stadium. “I don’t know from where they got this notion that I was tampering with the ball. ...

The government is likely to ban export of diesel to Afghanistan on the request of Pakistan State Oil (PSO) in an effort to avoid loss of more than Rs1.5 billion due to misuse of export facility and to reduce foreign exchange pressure on import of the product. “The government should ban export of diesel to Afghanistan immediately. This is causing the government about Rs138 million in revenue loss per month,” Irfan K. Qureshi, the managing director of the state-run PSO, told Dawn. He said around 10,000 ...