lahoreAll the three Sharifs contesting elections in Lahore have won their respective seats.As per unofficial results, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has conquered NA-68 Sargodha seat defeating Hayat Kalyar of PTI, and Dr Yasmin Rashid of the same party in NA-120 Lahore. Former chief minister Shahbaz ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Academy Football (IFA) team beat Sibbi football team 2-0 in an exhibition soccer match played here at Jinnah Football Stadium, Pakistan Sports Complex. Islamabad Academy was leading 2-0 in the first half. Thanks to Abdullah and Shahbaz who played very well and contributed one ...

RAWALPINDI - West Indies Cricket Club (WICC) beat Kiwi Boys Cricket Club by two runs in a nail-biting match played here at Saint Mary Cricket Ground. WICC, batting first, posted 256-7 in 40 overs. Kamran Subhani was the star of the show as he made 117 studied with 10 fours and three sixes while ...

      london   Juan Mata struck an 87th-minute winner as Chelsea won 1-0 at champions Manchester United on Sunday to reclaim third place in the Premier League and tighten their grip on a Champions League spot. A lacklustre game at Old Trafford was drifting towards a goalless ...

          SHEFFIELD   Former world light-welterweight champion Amir Khan had to climb off the canvas to keep on course for a shot at the division's champions by out-pointing Julio Diaz on Saturday. Khan, 26, was floored in the fourth round and looked on the brink of ...

ISLAMABAD -  Islamabad police on Wednesday refused to register an FIR against a group of students who allegedly beat a teacher who caught them cheating during secondary school certificate (SSC) examination.Muhammad Imran Awan, lecturer in Computer Science at IMCB I-8/3, reported to Industrial ...

NEW DELHI  A late bowling surge by Kings XI Punjab helped them pull off a thrilling victory by 4 runs over Kolkata Knight Riders in their IPL 6 match at PCA Stadium in Mohali. Earlier, after putting up an impressive 105-run stand, Gautam Gambhir and Eoin Morgan fell in quick succession ...

LAHORE – Misbah led Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) to thrashing 76-run triumph over National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) in the President’s Cup One-day Tournament 2012-13 fifth round group A match played here at the LCCA Ground on Saturday. SNGPL, batting first, posted a decent ...

Rosa Brooks‘I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,’ Albert Einstein had warned US president Harry Truman, “but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”It doesn’t do to quarrel with Einstein and he is no doubt right about a fourth World ...

NEW DELHI  - Skipper Gautam Gambhir (41) and Sunil Narine (4-13) helped Kolkata Knight Riders beat Delhi Daredevils by six wickets in the IPL 6 opener at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday.Yusuf Pathan (18 not out) and Eoin Morgan (14 not out) steered the hosts to victory with 8 balls to ...

LAHORE – Master Paints registered thumping 8½-4 victory over Newage in the Spring Polo Cup 2013 match played here at the Lahore Polo Club on Tuesday. Master Paints, having one and half goal advantage, started the match with a field by Shah Shamyl Alam which was leveled by ...

Riding on Ian Bell's unbeaten 113, England beat India by seven wickets in the fifth and final one-dayer here on Sunday. Having taken an unassailable lead over the visitors, India clinch the five-match series 3-2.England got off to a solid start with the openers (Bell, Alastair Cook) putting up a ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN – On the court orders, the Khanpur Saddr police have recovered a woman who was allegedly being tortured by her in-laws in the absence of her husband as a “healer” has declared her a possessed woman in Feroza area. As per detail, Khanpur Civil Judge Muhammad Nawaz ...

DUBAI  - Namibia on Tuesday boosted their chances of an appearance in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, overcoming second-ranked Ireland for a surprise four-run victory.Left-hander Louis van der Westhuizen scored 24 to help the African side to 160-8 and took two for 37 with the ball to ...

ANISUDDIN KHANKARACHI - Gwadar Port Authority (GPA) made an impressive opening in the KPT National Challenge Football Cup by playing two-all draw against a strong KESC here at KPT football stadium on Tuesday afternoon. Gwadar was almost at the verge of winning the interesting encounter when a ...

SYDNEY - Aspirin and other household drugs may inhibit the spread of cancer because they help shut down the chemical “highways” which feed tumours, Australian researchers said Tuesday.Scientists at Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre said they have made a biological ...

ANISUDDIN KHANKARACHI - A classical hat-trick from international Umar Bhutta could not save NBP from defeat at the hand of a superbly fit Pakistan Army which won the crucial contest 4-3 in the 59th national hockey championship here Saturday at the Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium. Umar Bhutta scored ...

FAISALABAD - Experts have called for conducting scientific studies to assess potential of different plants extracts against the dengue epidemic.They were addressing a concluding session of an international symposium titled ‘Diet as an Adjunctive Measure for Prevention and Management of Dengue ...

ABU DHABI  - England coach Andy Flower said Sunday Pakistan's series-clinching Test win would be a huge boost to the country, but called on his team to show their mettle on subsequent matches in the subcontinent. Pakistan thumped England by 72 runs in the second Test here on Saturday, taking ...

LAHORE - Mobilink beat Lahore Gym Colts by 53 runs in the Shapes’ Cricket League match at Bagh-e-Jinnah.Mobilink made 234/9 in 30 overs. Ijaz (73), Syed Haider 56* and Wajahat 27 batted well Quaid Khan took 3-26.  In reply, Lahore Gym Colts could manage to score 161 runs all out in 25.1 ...

LAHORE - University of Engineering and Technology (UET) defeated Mobilink by 27 runs in the Shapes Cricket League here at UET cricket ground.Batting first, UET scored 216 runs in 29.3 overs. Sajjad  made 61 runs, Tahir 50 and M Azwin made unbeaten 28. Ijaz Malik bagged four wickets for 33, ...

DUBAI (AFP) - Steve Davies and Stuart Broad shared a resolute seventh stand of 61 to help an unimpressive England to win the three-day tour opener against ICC Combined XI by three wickets here on Monday.It was a case of second batting failure for the tourists as, chasing 261 to win, England owed ...

MULTAN - The surgical floor located on the roof of Emergency Ward in Nishtr Hospital presented the view of a battlefield when a sudden brawl erupted among the attendants of road accident patient and doctors here on Friday. The doctors badly thrashed the attendants including women, grabbed them and ...

RAWALPINDI - Sammer Abbas bowled Bails to 7 wickets victory against Kiwi Boys in a friendly cricket match played here at Saint Merry Cricket Ground.Batting first Kiwi Boys were bowled for 128 runs. Wahab made 55 runs. Syed Sammer Abbas (3/12), Bilal Azeem and Mumtaz grab two wickets each bowled ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Juniors Under-14 team edged out one of the pre-tournament favourites team Hong Kong 2-1 in the Qatar Juniors Asian Team Cup Under-14 Championship match at Khalifa Tennis Centre in Doha. Pakistan's top Under-14 player M Mudassar beat Anthony Jackie 5-7, 7-5, 7-5 while Go Mazhar ...

KARACHI (AFP) - Former captain Rashid Latif on Wednesday backed Pakistan to beat the world's best Test side England in a three-Test series starting next month.After beating Sri Lanka 1-0 in Tests and 4-1 in one-dayers in the United Arab Emirates last month, Pakistan added a clean sweep in all three ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Army struggled to score 1-0 victory against Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in the 8th Pakistan Premier Football League 2011 match played here at Jinnah Stadium on Tuesday.Army having services of national players were looked a bit shaky throughout the match but their ...

Sports DeskLAHORE - Quetta team held nerves to beat Rawalpindi by 5 runs in the first semi-final of the PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars Under-16 One-day Tournament here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Monday.After winning the toss and batting first, Quetta scored 154 runs for 9 wickets in the allotted 45 overs. ...

OUR STAFF REPORTERISLAMABAD - Pakistan team managed to beat strong Sri Lankan 2-1 on the opening day of the Qatar Asian Junior Team Under-14 Championship in which eight top teams of Asia including Qatar, Iran, India, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Kirghizistan participating.In the ...

ISLAMABAD - Rawalpindi outpaced Lahore by eight wickets in PCB-PEPSI Cricket Stars U-16 One Day Tournament Group A match played here at Bhutto Cricket Ground on Saturday. Batting first, Lahore were bundled out for only 97 runs in 37.3 overs with Asad Rayan scoring 27 runs. Aaqib Shah got 3-13 while ...