KARACHI - The suspended Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf is hiring top lawyers of the country to defend him in the Islamabad high court which has stopped him from working in his present capacity.Sources close to the suspended PCB chief said two well-known lawyers, Hafeez Pirzada ...

NEW YORK - Bernard Hopkins, the oldest boxer to win a major world title, will defend his International Boxing Federation light-heavyweight belt against German Karo Murat on July 13 in Brooklyn. Hopkins broke his own world record by nearly two years in March when he won a unanimous decision over ...

WILLIAMSBURG- World number one Park In-Bee and defending champion Shin Jiyai headline a stellar field for the $1.3 million LPGA Kingsmill Championship. All of the top-10 players in the world rankings are competing as the LPGA plays its first tournament on the US East Coast this season. Shin won ...

LAHORE – Dispelling the impression that polio vaccine lacks efficacy and can damage health, medical experts contended that it is necessary for every child to develop immunity against the menace. They ruled out the possibility that polio vaccine can negatively affect a child, irrespective of ...

JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazalur Rehman has said India has violated LoC and Pakistan has the right to defend.In a statement‚ he said the Kashmir issue cannot be resolved through war‚ but dialogue and it is main hurdle in the Pak-India relationsHe said the world has different standards on ...

BRATISLAVA  - Slovakia’s leftist leader Robert Fico pledged Sunday to defend the euro after his party won a solid majority in parliamentary elections dominated by voter anger over corruption.Fico, whose Smer-SD party picked up 83 seats in the 150-member parliament, will be the first ...

NEW YORK - Coldplay and Mumford and Sons were among the performers here late Sunday at an Amnesty International concert organised in defence of freedom of expression. The show marked the first time that the “Secret Policeman’s Ball” - organised by Amnesty International since 1976 ...

SADIQABAD - Islahi Jamaat is organising congregations across the country to spread the message of Islam to the whole of humanity, said the successor or Gaddi Nasheen of Hazrat Sultan Bahu shrine. “The purpose of the religious gatherings is purification of souls through spiritualism and to ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LALAMUSA - Federal Defence Minister Ch Ahmed Mukhtar has said that The All Parties Conference (APC) has given a message to the world that the entire nation despite our internal political differences is united to defend the mother land. Pakistan is a responsible and peace-loving ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER NANKANA SAHIB - If any country including America attacks Pakistan, all the minorities would be in front line to fight for their homeland, said Pakistan Sikh Council President Sardar Mustan Singh and Christian leader Pastor Mubarak here while talking to media on Friday. District ...

ISLAMABAD - The Government is ready to defend LNG case in International Court of Justice (ICJ) if Dutch firm 4Gas moves court in case Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet decides to invite fresh bids for multibillion dollars LNG Mashal Project. During an informal discussion with ...

LONDON (Reuters) - NATO has drawn up secret plans to defend the Baltic states against any Russian threat, Britains Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. The decision to draft contingency plans for the former Soviet states of Estonia, Latvia and ...

BERLIN (AFP) World cruiserweight champion Marco Huck will defend his WBO title against Russias Denis Lebedev on December 18 in Berlin. The Serbian-born Huck has held the title since beating Argentinas Victor Emilio Ramirez in August 2009, and the December bout will be his fifth title defence. Huck ...

ISLAMABAD In an attempt to put the Supreme Court judges in an awkward position, the Law Ministry has formed an inexperienced team to defend the case of 18th Amendment. Sources in the Law Ministry confided to TheNation that Law Minister Babar Awan had intentionally selected a team of junior lawyers ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force said Wednesday that PAF today stands ready to defend aerial frontiers of Pakistan. This he said in his annual address to the members of Air War College, Faisal in Karachi. The Air Chief gave an ...

KANDAHAR (Agencies) - Taliban fighters have pledged to defend the town of Marjah from an imminent Nato offensive, saying that their ranks had been bolstered by foreign fighters eager to fight against western troops. NATO commanders called on the Taliban to surrender as troops dug in Monday for a ...

ISLAMABAD - A high-level meeting of Pakistan Peoples Party on Friday night decided to allay apprehensions of all the stakeholders including Armed Forces on Kerry-Lugar Bill (KLB) and defend it in the Parliament with full force. Held at Aiwan-i-Sadr with President Asif Ali Zardari in the chair, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Will the Mad Men of US television score a second Emmy best drama victory and can anyone stop comic actress Tina Fey and 30 Rock? The US television industry bestows its highest honors on Sunday at the 61st Prime Time Emmy Awards in a ceremony hosted by actor Neil Patrick ...

BERLIN (AFP) - New Zealand's Valerie Vili retained her shot putt title here on Sunday at the world athletics championships. The 24-year-old Olympic champion had a best mark of 20.44 metres with Nadine Kleinert of Germany taking silver (20.20m) and China's Lijao Gong taking bronze with 19.89m. Vili, ...

ISLAMABAD - Former president Pervez Musharraf is weighing his options to fight legal battle ahead but his close aides claim that he or any counsel on his behalf may not appear before the court to defend the actions taken on November 3, 2007 and afterwards. The sources close to the former president ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military would be able to defend the United States against any ballistic missile fired by the North Korean regime, a US general said on Tuesday. "If we felt the North Koreans were going to shoot a ballistic missile at us today, I am comfortable that we would have an ...

NAIROBI - Pakistan Cricket Academy's most impressive medium pacer Anwer Ali ripped through Kenya with a four wicket haul to give his team 19 runs win in the second one day match against the home team here on Saturday in the second one day of the series of three at the deserted Nairobi Gymkhanas ...

TEHRAN (Agencies) - Iran announced Tuesday that it has put the elite Revolutionary Guards in charge of defending the country's territorial Persian Gulf waters in what appeared to be a hardening of its stance in the vital oil route. The Guards, seen as fiercely loyal to Iran's system of clerical ...