Pakistan clinched the kabaddi gold medal after beating India 42-33 at the inaugural South Asian Beach Games in Hambantota, Sri Lanka. Previously, Pakistan had defeated Sri Lanka, Nepal and India to finish at the top of the group and faced India in the final. This was Pakistans first gold medal at ...

KARACHI - Frequent power outages and hunger strike of the KESC employees echoed in the Sindh Assembly when it met here on Tuesday. Sindh Minister for Electric Power Shazia Marri took up the issue and said that the government was keen to table a resolution on the issue of agitation of the KESC ...

KARACHI - The ruling PPP taking shelter of minor technicalities in the formation of adjournment motion on the issue of target killings avoided to discuss the subject, which is of utmost important for the government and public in general, when the Sindh Assembly met here Monday for the first session ...

ISLAMABAD - At a time when the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is probing the mismanagement and irregularities in Haj affairs, as many as 10 buildings hired by the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Saudi Arabia with the housing capacity of 2,995 persons remained vacant during 2009. The Ministry ...

KARACHI Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmakers received lukewarm welcome on Wednesday when they came to attend the session of the Sindh Assembly after calling off their boycott. Except Finance Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, no other PPP legislator, known as hawks and sitting on the front row benches of ...

KARACHI The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill, which aims at regulating and controlling the manufacturing, selling and use of used syringes, which are causing danger to the human lives. A penalty of at least two-year imprisonment and Rs 0.5 million fines has been suggested for violators ...

Former Army Chief Gen (Retd) Mirza Aslam Baig has termed the WikiLeaks report a conspiracy to sabotage relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia adding US is included in this plot and the report is part of its psychological war. Former army chief said this while talking to a private TV channel on ...

AB de Villiers notched a career-best 263 runs and a last-wicket partnership of 91 on Sunday helped South Africa reach 568-9 at tea against Pakistan in the second and final Test. The tea break was extended by half an hour but de Villiers and Morne Morkel (34) were unbeaten at the crease. Earlier in ...

ROSEAU (Dominica) (AFP) Morne Morkel and Charl Langeveldt shared seven wickets to bowl South Africa to a 67-run victory over West Indies in the third One-day International on Friday. Morkel captured an ODI career-best four wickets for 21 runs from seven overs, and Langeveldt took three for 30 from ...

LAHORE Dr KA Pervez Rizvy, secretary general of the Sports Medicine Association of Pakistan (SMAP), has left for Dhaka as part of the SA Games being held in Bangladesh. Dr Rizvy, one of the few diploma holders in Doping Control, has been appointed the Doping Control Officer (DCO) by the ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan will lunch its quest to maintain the second spot in the South Asian Games 2010 on Friday as the 11th edition of eight-nation sports gala will roll off in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Green shirts earned this place (second) at medal table with 41 gold, 43 silvers and 72 bronze medals ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - More than 100 tonnes of ivory will go on auction in four southern African countries in two weeks, in the first sale of stockpiled elephant ivory in nearly a decade, wildlife groups said Wednesday. The sales were approved in July by the UN-backed Convention on ...

Four players of Pakistan's cricket team have left for South Africa to take part in shooting of an Indian documentary film based on cricket. According to reports, Captain Shoaib Malik, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Suheel Tanvir and wicket keeper batsman Kamran Akmal are among the players, who have left today ...

The Sindh Assembly session would be resumed today (Friday). On Thursday, the Assembly rejected a resolution to increase job quota for women in government services. The opposition leader termed the rejection as an attempt to bulldoze the efforts of opposition whereas treasury benches members said ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Sa Jaeh-Youk of South Korea won the men's 77kg weightlifting gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in dramatic, come-from-behind fashion on Wednesday, inflicting China's first defeat in the competition. Sa hoisted 203kg in the clean and jerk and 163kg in the snatch for a total lift ...

LEEDS (AFP) - South Africa coach Mickey Arthur says his team will live up to its billing as world No 2 when they face England in the second match of their four-Test series at Headingley on Friday. For the first three days of the series opener at Lord's, South Africa were on the backfoot as ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Table Tennis Federation selection committee headed by former international star Javed Chotani here on Tuesday announced a 12-member team for the South Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships which will be played here July 9-11 at the newly constructed Toyota Gymnasium in the ...

LAHORE - The players of Muhammad Essa-led Pakistan will get cash prizes who clinched gold medals in the 10th South Asian Games in Colombo, Sri Lanka two years ago. By virtue of that gold-medal triumph, Pakistan become the most successful nation of South Asian Games' 24-year history, sprinted past ...

ISLAMABAD - A leading South African (SA) coal mining company Tuesday showed keen interest in the coal mining areas of Thar in Pakistan, expressing desire to exchange know-how and expertise in the development of said discipline to the benefit of both the countries. The South African delegation, ...