Fawad Alam is a diminutive but gutsy cricketer. Fawad got to play this Test after regular opener Salman Butt was dropped owing to his bad form. Fawad, who normally plays in the middle order, was ...

Pakistan fought back hard in the opening session of second day with five wickets as Sri Lankans slowly gathered a lead that could prove vital. Umar Gul reverse swung the ball with good effect while ...

LONDON (AFP/Reuters) - Britains government faced pressure to send more troops and equipment to Afghanistan Monday as a surge of military deaths prompted questions over the missions purpose and resourcing. Eight soldiers died within 24 hours at the end of last week, Britains blackest day yet ...

JERUSALEM (AFP/Reuters) - Britain has revoked five Israeli arms export licences over the Gaza war, refusing to supply replacement parts to navy gunships used in the offensive, officials and reports said on Monday. The Foreign Office told the Israeli embassy in London last week that following a ...

BAGHDAD (AFP/Reuters) - A small roadside bomb narrowly missed a vehicle carrying the US ambassador to Iraq in the south of the country, the US embassy in Baghdad said on Monday. The attack on the convoy carrying Christopher Hill and other US embassy personnel occurred in the largely peaceful ...

JACKSONS elder sister La Toya, 53, witnessed the 11-year-olds heartbreaking act during the familys private viewing of his body at the Forest Lawn Cemetery last Monday. She said: Paris told me, 'The heart is in two pieces. I want one half to go to Daddy and I will wear the other half for ever. She ...

KARACHI - Trade deficit of Pakistan has marginally narrowed by $3.873 billion in 2008-09 and closed at $17.040 billion as compared to $20.913 billion deficit in last fiscal year. During July-June 2008-2009, the YoY growth in trade deficit has decreased by 18.52 per cent. This improvement is ...