LAHORE   Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has decided to retain Akhtar Rasool-led team management till next year’s World Cup adding few professionals in the team management staff to boost the performance of the team. “Chief manager and coach Akhtar Rasool and coach Hanif ...

  MUSCAT   FormerPakistanfast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who retired from international cricket two years ago, believes that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is largely responsible for the persisting problem of spot-fixing that is plaguing cricket in his country. Speaking exclusively to Muscat ...

 The Lahore Transport Company (LTC) board of directors meeting on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Yawar Mukhtar as chairman of the company, giving responsibility to Waseem Akhtar.“The LTC is introducing E-Ticketing system in buses to facilitate the private transport operators and ...

NEW YORK Ayad Akhtar’s “Disgraced,” about a well-off Pakistani-American whose life takes unsettling turns, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, according to American media reports.“The play came out of me,” said Akhtar, who is of Pakistani origin. He was born in ...

The return of former Chief Minister of Balochistan and head of the Balochistan National Party (BNP), Sardar Akhtar Mengal, to Pakistan after ending his self-exile and his decision to participate in the ensuing elections is a significant and welcome development that might prove a harbinger to the ...

Balochistan National Party chief Akhtar Mengal arrived here on Sunday after four and half years and addressed a public rally in the provincial capital.The Baloch leader said that there should be no illusion that decisions could be enforced upon the Baloch at gunpoint against their wishes.He ...

ISLAMABAD - Sardar Akhtar Mengal an estranged Baloch leader, who had also remained Chief Minister of Balochistan, will appear before the Supreme Court on Thursday (today) regarding the target killings and human rights violations in the province.Balochistan National Party President Sardar Akhtar ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) coach-hunt committee has shown no interest in Shoaib Akhtar’s offer to take on the vacant bowling coach’s role with the national squad. Akhtar, while talking to reporters on Thursday, said that he would jump at the opportunity if the PCB ...

LAHORE – Former Olympian M Akhlaq has said that the appointment of new hockey team head coach Akhtar Rasool is a good step taken by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) for the promotion of the game across the country and the new coach will help the team to get better results. Talking to this ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) on Thursday appointed Chaudhry Akhtar Rasool as chief coach and manager of Pakistan national hockey team while sacked foreign coach Michel van den for breaching of contract. Talking to the reporters after 22nd Executive Board meeting of the federation here ...

LAHORE – PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and Chaudhry Brothers have been fighting for power and the former spoiled my political carrier. I alongside Ghulam Haider Wyne Shaheed strived hard to reorganise PML in 1985. “I also wrote a letter to TheNation Editor-in-Chief Majid Nizami to unite ...

ISLAMABAD – Describing the resolution on Balochistan tabled in the US House of Representatives as a positive step, former chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal has expressed surprise over the reaction the move has generated in Pakistan.Talking to the BBC, Mengal said it was astonishing so much ...

Akhtar Ali and Amna Ghafoor were on Thursday declared ‘Warden and Lady Warden of the Month’. They got cash prizes and commendatory certificates for their excellent performance, at a ceremony arranged at the CTO’s office at Outfall Road. The CTO also declared Saddr DSP Ikram Ullah ...

shorkot Independent member of the National Assembly from NA-90 Shorkot Saima Akhtar Bharwana has announced to join PML-N. She took the decision after meeting with CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif in Lahore.  During the meeting MPA from Jhang, Mehr Sultan Sikandar Bharwana and former Adviser to the ...

Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has said in his autobiography that India's batting maestro "chickened" out of Faisalabad Test because he was unwilling to face his pace. The fastest bowler in the history of cricket, Shoaib Akhtar has made some sensational claims in his autobiography ...

ISLAMABAD - The PPP-led federal government Tuesday assigned the countrys important post of Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) to Akhtar Buland Rana, a grade-22 officer of Audit and Accounts Group, which the independent observers term a sheer case of nepotism. Though, there was no official hand out ...

ISLAMABAD - Terming the recent contact of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain as a good omen, MQM considered that working relation between the two sides had the potential to provide an alternate option to the poor, who were fed up ...

COLOMBO (Agencies) - It's not just the watering holes of Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, London, Manchester and Nottingham that are debating why England opted for the batting Powerplay when they were cruising against India in Bangalore on Sunday? Down in Colombo too the talk of the town was Andrew ...

NEW DELHI: Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam feels that "half-fit" Shoaib Akhtar is good enough to give the country its second World Cup win. Intikhab, who coached Pakistan to 1992 World Cup triumph and Twenty20 World Cup title in 2009, was confident that team will put up a good show in the ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan cricket has been rocked with another controversy with their fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar being accused of ball-tampering during the last match of the ODI series in Rose Bowl, Southampton. The ball-tampering accusations come at a time when Pakistan cricket is reeling under the ...

LAHORE Controversial Pakistani pace duo of Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif will be under the spotlight in the Asia Cup starting on Tuesday in Sri Lanka as the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has decided to conduct random dope tests during the four-nation tournament. The ACC has already intimidated all ...

MUMBAI Controversys favourite child, Pakistani pace ace Shoaib Akhtar has always consulted his doctor friend Tauseef Razaq whenever the former has undergone any medical treatment in Pakistan or abroad. However, when Shoaib Akhtar recently underwent liposuction cosmetic surgery, performed by Dr ...

Epstein, a foreign correspondent, described the scene on the plane C-130, before the crash on August 17, 1988, in the following words: Seated next to Gen Zia-ul-Haq for the flight back to Islamabad was his close friend Gen Akhtar Abdul Rahman, the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and after Zia the ...

KARACHI (AFP) - Injury-prone Pakistan paceman Shoaib Akhtar said Monday he hoped to recover from a knee injury and return to action in time for next month's tour of Bangladesh. The 33-year-old fast bowler was ruled out of Pakistan's two-Test series against Sri Lanka, starting later this week, due ...

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor, Dr. Shamshad Akhtar has been listed among the ten outstanding Asian women leaders. The report published in a newspaper, Asian Wall Street Journal said that SBP Governor, Dr. Shamshad Akhtar was the first woman Governor of Pakistan's Central Bank placed in a ...

Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been sent back from London as he had no working visa. He had reached London for playing cricket for Surrey - an English county. He was determined to make a successful return to county cricket and help Surrey with his performance in the county's remaining three matches. ...

PCB has asked Shoaib Akhtar to pay the fine of seven million rupees before the ICC Champions Trophy. The PCB has sent a notice to fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar asking him to pay the fine of Rs. 7,000,000. Shoaib Akhtar's name has been included in the 15-man squad selected for the ICC Champions Trophy. ...

Pakistani cricketers picked in the preliminary squad for the Champions Trophy have cleared their dop tests. The tests were conducted by the Pakistan Cricket Board on 26 players including fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar. According to PCB spokesman, Anti doping agency's dop control officer, Dr. Lubna ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Board is yet to appoint a special counsellor for speedster Shoaib Akhtar but interestingly some piece of advice came from the chief Lahore High Court justice Syed Zahid Hussain, it would be in his own interest if he obeys to it. "The chief justice had ...

LAHORE - The Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain, on Friday temporarily allowed fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar to play cricket at all level and suspended his 18 months ban imposed by an appellate tribunal of the Pakistan Cricket Board. However, the imposition of fine ...