BELGRANO - WO - An Argentinian football fan found a unique way of expressing his displeasure at his team’s performance.The Argentinos Juniors supporter threw his false teeth at manager Ricardo Caruso Lombardi after a fifth straight defeat, reports The Mirror. The supporter, whose identity is ...

SYDNE - Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait has strongly denied any link to the arrest of three Indian teammates allegedly involved in spot-fixing during an Indian domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament. Test player Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and fellow bowlers Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were all ...

PESHAWARCriticising party parliamentary board for alleged unfair distribution of tickets and ignoring ideological workers, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Fata chapter disgruntled workers have announced to field their own candidates on three NA seats from the area.Addressing at a news conference ...

MAUREEN DOWDOver the winter, I heard military commanders and White House officials murmur in hushed tones about how they would have to figure out a legal and moral framework for the flying killer robots executing targets around the globe. They were starting to realize that, while the American ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN: Former MNA Ijaz Chaudhry, a prominent leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, has quit the party over his failure to get the party’s ticket for contesting an election from NA-108. Likewise, former MPA Devan Mushtaq also decided to contest independently.At his residence ...

LAHORE – The PML-N workers on Saturday staged a forceful protest outside the Model Town Secretariat of the party, against ignoring them for awarding party ticket despite promise. They also staged a sit-in while an old worker demonstrated by climbing an electricity pole and tried to touch the ...

QUETTA - The leaders of Quetta Yakjeti Council (QYC) declared on Friday they would not bury the victims of twin blasts until Army is deployed in the city and the Balochistan Governor fulfilled his responsibilities.Leaders of QYC Abdul Qayyum Changezai, Alama Juma Asadi, Allama Hashim Musavi and ...

KARACHI - Angry women held a protest on Saturday against unannounced gas load shedding at homes in different parts of the city resulting in a massive gridlock on main M A Jinnah Road.A large number of women and children from Lines Area held a demonstration at Nomaish Chowrangi against low gas ...

GUJRANWALA - Chaudhry Tasadduq Masud Khan has resigned as PPP MNA from NA-100 and blamed that Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf for discriminatory behavior toward the former. Talking to the media, the PPP leader said that former prime minister Gilani had visited his constituency and announced a ...

AMMAN  - Thousands of protesters made unprecedented calls on Friday for Jordan’s King Abdullah II to go, as police blocked them from heading to the royal palace to vent their anger over sharp hikes in fuel prices.“The people want to reform the regime. Freedom, freedom, down with ...

TRIPOLI (AFP) - Nearly 100 Libyan fighters backed by artillery kept the national assembly under siege Thursday in protest at the new premier’s cabinet lineup and alleged links of some ministers to Moammar Gaddafi’s regime.The protest which erupted on Wednesday night has drawn dozens of ...

OKARA - Hundreds of residents of Depalpur ransacked the Lesco office at rural Sub-Division in protest against overbilling here the other day.  The charged mob later blocked Okara-Depalpur Road for hours, chanted slogans against the Lahore Electric Supply Company and threw traffic out of the ...

KHANEWAL –The riots erupted after funeral of deceased Azhar, who was died with the firing of advisor to former Prime Minister Ahmad Yar Hiraj, PMQ MNA Hamid Yar Hiraj from their residence situated in civil-lines here the other night. The mob ransacked the Mepco office, TMA office, Post ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States, the world’s lone superpower, has pushed its onetime strategic ally Pakistan to corner as a part of the strategy to grill Islamabad for halting the Nato ground supplies to Afghanistan for so long, diplomatic sources said.“Forget about the US apology over ...

KARACHI - A number of people appearing as protesters attempted an attack on Pakistan People’s Party leader Nabeel Gabool’s residence in Defence Housing Authority on Sunday. The attackers were intercepted by the security guards present outside his residence before any real harm ...

Lyari remained tense on Saturday as clashes between the police and residents were continued while the police vans were attacked with petrol bombs.The tension started after the law enforcers launch operation against criminal elements here in Lyari area.  The protestors broke the windows of ...

LAHORE - As part of preparations for the All-Party Conference (APC) expected next month, the government is considering making fresh contacts with the Baloch leaders abroad who are believed to be supporting militancy in the volatile province.Informed circles told this correspondent on Saturday that ...

ISLAMABAD - After Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Balochistan chapter has also come up with strong protest over awarding of party tickets to the favourites and blue-eyed for the upcoming Senate elections from the province and Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Khan Raisani rushed to ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court on Monday came hard on Punjab School Education Department Secretary for continuously floating the court’s orders on a petition challenging the appointments of Secondary Schools Teachers (SST) at Hafizabad district.Hafiz Muhammad Safdar and three other ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Infuriated villagers killed a bandit after he along with two other accomplices made a robbery attempt in a house in Langerkhel Hindal village near Lakki late Saturday night. Official sources said Sunday that three armed bandits barged into the house of Obaidullah Jan in the village ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) The angry National Assembly Speaker, Fehmida Mirza, has once again extended her foreign visit as she is annoyed over the forceful ouster of her husband Zulfiqar Mirza from the ministry. Sources close to the speaker told that Fehmida Mirza went to the US along with Zulfiqar ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) Brazil coach Dunga was sacked on Sunday following the teams World Cup quarter-final exit with charismatic Luiz Felipe Scolari, who won the title in 2002, immediately being tipped to take over. The cycle of work started in 2006 and which culminated with the elimination of ...

PARIS (AFP) Defending champion Roger Federer showed no mercy to Stanislas Wawrinka on Sunday, handing his Olympic gold medal-winning teammate a French Open hiding as Andy Murray made an angry Roland Garros exit. World number one Federer beat close friend Wawrinka 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 and nows faces ...

CUTRAL-CO (Argentina) (Reuters) Argentine Football Association President Julio Grondona was in national coach Diego Maradonas sights on Wednesday when he complained about the cancellation of a May 29 World Cup warm-up in Dubai. I have the bad news that (the friendly) is not on, but for this one ...

LONDON (Online) - Britain has plunged into a new diplomatic row with Pakistan over the arrest of 12 people accused of plotting bombing attacks on northern England as senior Pakistani diplomat in London has said that British Prime Minister Gordon Browns statements after the arrests a fortnight ago ...

Faisalabad - Seven workers of a powerloom factory sustained injuries in a clash with the factory managerial staff and owners in Sidhar area on Tuesday. SP Madina Town Muh-ammad Yousaf also got injured in the violence. Hundreds of factory workers gathered at a spot to register their protest ...