Updated : Wednesday March 10 , 2010 LAHORE: Veteran cricket players and key Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials have widely acclaimed board’s unprecedented decision to take action against players' poor performance and the internal disputes among the team players,it was reported reported. Media quoted the Chief Selector Mohsin Hasan Khan as saying that the decision of the PCB is strict and good. “I back ... Read More

Updated : Wednesday March 10 , 2010 LAHORE: 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,it was reported. 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 ... Read More

Wednesday March 10, 2010 BRADFORD: The Jammu Kashmir Self Determination Movement Europe (AJK SDME) organised an events here in Bradford to celebrate the International Women’s Day and to highlight the plight of women in Kashmir who have suffered for over 60 years. The meeting was attended by Terry Rooney MP for Bradford, Linda McAvan European Member of Parliament, Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Naveeda Ikram, Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Keighley Jane ... Read More

Updated : Wednesday March 10 , 2010 MANSEHRA: Gunmen attacked the office of a Western aid agency in Mansehra district Wednesday with a bomb and gunfire, killing up to seven people working for the organization, it was reported reports. The attackers hurled grenades during the attack on World Vision, a large Christian humanitarian group, in in Tehsil Oghi of Mansehra district. The identity of the ... Read More

Gunmen have attacked the office of a Western aid agency in north-western Pakistan, killing six people, it has been reported. The victims, including two women, were all Pakistani nationals. The attack took place on World Vision's office in Mansehra district, 65km (40 miles), north of Islamabad. No group has admitted carrying out the attack but Islamist militants and specifically the Taliban will be suspected, a BBC correspondent says. Earlier ... Read More

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has left Tehran for Kabul leading a high-ranking delegation on his first official visit to Afghanistan since the re-election of Hamid Karzai as president, Press TV reported. The Iranian president was received in the Afghan capital by Vice President Muhammad Qasim Fahim. He is reportedly on his way to be officially welcomed by President Karzai in the presidential palace. "Iran has innovative plans for resolving ongoing problems in ... Read More

Secret back-channel chats with Taliban leaders point to a willingness to end conflict, says UK Wednesday 10 March 2010 David Miliband's call for a major political push towards a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan follows a series of back-channel contacts between a string of international intermediaries and the Taliban, the Guardian can reveal. Those contacts – involving a colourful cast of former Arab mujahideen fighters, Saudi lawyers, a top UN official and ... Read More

Updated : Wednesday March 10 , 2010 LAHORE: The by-elections in NA-123 Lahore and two constituencies of provincial assembly PP-82 Jhang and PP-284 Bahawalpur is currently in progress, it was reported reported Wednesday. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has completed all its arrangements in connection with by-elections and local holiday announced in the city. All polling stations of NA-123 have been declared sensitive after Monday’s suicide ... Read More

Wednesday March 10, 2010 ISLAMABAD: A strategic shift in Pakistan’s three-decade old Afghan policy has taken a quiet but effective shape as Islamabad has successfully negotiated a peace plan with Mustafa Zahir Shah, the grandson of late King Zahir Shah, who would play a key role in future political dispensation comprising all ethnic groups. “It is a strategic coup by Pakistan against rising Indian influence in Afghanistan,” an analyst tartly ... Read More

KABUL – Iran does not consider the presence of foreign troops a solution for peace in Afghanistan, visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Kabul on Wednesday. "We do not see the presence of foreign military forces in Afghanistan as a solution for peace in Afghanistan," Ahmadinejad told a joint news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "Our policy is full support for the Afghan people and Afghan government and ... Read More

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, unseen, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Taking aim at the U.S., Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that it's the United States that is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists it once supported. KABUL -- Taking aim at the U.S., Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that it's the United ... Read More

KABUL – A car bomb killed five people in Afghanistan on Wednesday, as the Iranian president and the defence secretary of Iran's arch-foe, the United States, paid duelling visits to the war-torn country. The attack killed Afghan security personnel at a security post in Paktika, the eastern province which has become a flashpoint for a Taliban insurgency now in ... Read More