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 ...

Four boys drowned in the BRB canal and River Ravi, rescuers said on Friday.Police sources said that two teens were swimming in the BRB Canal near the Jallo More when they disappeared. Eyewitnesses alerted rescuers who rushed to the site. However they could not retrieve the bodies until Friday ...

ISLAMABADPakistan squash team head coach Jamshed Gul Friday showed confidence in Pakistan players’ ability and predicted a home winner in the upcoming Asian Squash Championship to be held here next month. Jamshed said the event was to be held at five courts of Mushaf Ali Mir Squash Complex ...

QUETTA - Two boys were killed in a hand grenade attack in Pasni, a coastal town of Balochistan, on Wednesday.According to police, unidentified people lobbed a hand grenade in a house in Ward No 2 in Pasni town which landed inside with a huge blast, killing two children immediately.The deceased were ...

KARAK - The lone degree college for boys of Tehsil Banda Daud Shah was blown up by some unknown miscreants with explosive device. Till filing of this report police arrested around ten persons for interrogation. Police sources informed that late Monday night some unidentified miscreants planted ...

LAHORE - Girls again outshined boys in academics at the 11th Convocation of the Government College University (GCU) as they clinched top positions in 17 of 27 disciplines at BA/BSc (Hons) level, while boys as usual shined in co-curricular activities and sports.Vice chancellor Dr Khaleequr Rahman ...

PESHAWAR:  Unknown miscreants blew up another government primary school for boys in Badaber area near Peshawar early Thursday. According to police, unknown militants blew up a school in Mushtarzai area with explosives. The explosion partially damaged the school building and its boundary wall. ...

LAHORE – Two young boys who were admitted to a local hospital with serious burn injuries two days ago, died there on Thursday, police and hospital sources said.  Police said that the boys, later identified as Muhammad Faisal, 10, and Hassan Arif, sustained serious burn injuries as they ...

mardan : Militants blew up a government boys school in Babuzai village of Mardan on Monday night. Sources said explosive device was planted by militants inside the building of Government Boys Middle School Babuazi which went off at night, demolishing one room and partially damaging nine others, the ...

BIRMINGHAM Captain Darren Sammy was quick to reaffirm his young side’s huge respect for former West Indies’ greats after Denesh Ramdin was fined by the International Cricket Council for a jibe at legendary captain Vivian Richards. Ramdin celebrated his century on the fourth day of the ...

SWAT - Boys students once again outshined girls in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination, as the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Swat declared results on Sunday evening at Swat Press Club.A ceremony was organised for announcement of the (SSC) examination results of ...

KARACHI - Two boys drowned in separate mishaps in the city on Sunday.The first incident took place in Abdullah Goth, where four-year-old Raza, son of Hashim, was playing at a cattle farm with his friends when he jumped into a water tank and drowned. He had drowned when area people rushed to his ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Militants blew up another government school with explosives here late Saturday night. According to police, unknown miscreants had planted explosives in the government-run boys primary school located in Kotka Lavingkhel area of Lakki Marwat which exploded. The school building was ...

ISLAMABAD - International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) has inaugurated two new hostels for male students that will have the capacity to accommodate about 500 students.The university has total six hostels including two new hostels for male students accommodation about 2500 students while the ...

LAHORE - Lahore once again proved their worth by grabbing 17 gold medals in karate competitions, eight in boys’ karate final and nine in girls’ karate final in the Punjab Sports Festival final phase here on Friday at the various venues of the city. In boys’ school karate ...

QUETTA - Two children were killed and 23 others including a police officer and his guard received injuries in a bomb attack in Dera Murad Jamali of Naseerabad district, some 400km south-east of Quetta on Monday.  Banned Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the bomb attack.A police ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER MANDI BAHAUDDIN -The Revenue Department of district Mandi Bahauddin is under immense pressure of Lahore High Court, which has directed its high-ups to recover Rs10 of millions in the head of state fee from patwaris, who embezzled around Rs80 million during last few years in the ...

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) today claimed responsibility for kidnapping a group of over 30 boys, who had strayed into Afghanistans eastern Kunar province as reports said some of them had escaped and reached back to their homes. The fate of children would be decided by TTPs central council, the ...

According to a countrywide monitoring by Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), 14% of the sanctioned teaching posts and 12% of the sanctioned non-teaching posts were lying vacant in the government boys high schools. According to FAFENs Education Institution Monitor released here Sunday, 42% of ...

LAHORE - The activists of Insaf Students Federation have pledged full support to teachers in their struggle for rights. ISF Lahore President Muhammad Usman said that government was trying to teach a lesson to teachers by harassing and torturing female educators. He said that police thrashed and ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - A body of a 14-years-old boy, who was kidnapped by unidentified abductors some five days back from Misri Shah police area, was found from the fields of Kala Shah Kaku located in Ferozewala Police precincts on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Hamza Tariq, a ...

LAHORE - Malaysia U-21 coach Ong Kim Swee has warned his team against taking their places in the Olympic squad for granted after clear misses led to team in first leg and recent matches used by Malaysia as preparation for the Olympic qualifiers. "Opportunities are few in nowadays football and it ...

Mohammed has become the most popular name for newborn boys in Britain. It shot up from third the previous year, overtaking Jack, which had topped the list for the past 14 years but was relegated to third spot. Olivia topped the list for little girls for the second year in a row, behind Ruby and ...

KARACHI - The Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) with the assistance of Central Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) secured the release of two kidnapped boys during a raid here in the Pak Colony Police precincts, on Tuesday morning. Addressing a press conference at AVCC office, AVCC Chief SSP Usman Ghani ...

KARACHI Faizan Khan of Sindh sprang the biggest surprise on the second day of the ASB Tughral Shah Memorial National Junior Squash he ousted third seed M Zain Ramzan of Punjab in straight games to enter the last four of the event here Tuesday at Pakistan Navy Roshan khan Jahangir Khan Complex. The ...

KARACHI Maheen Dada, a talented and promising girl playing Boys Under 13 Event, defeated his opponent Shaheryar by 8-0 in the first round of the event of the 6th Pizza Hut Sindh Ranking Tennis here Saturday at Beach View Club. Sindh Tennis Association a few years back launched the new concept of ...

UPPER DIR - Unknown miscreants blew up a boys primary school with explosive here on Saturday. The explosive material, which was planted in the darkness of night and later it want of with a big bang destroying the state-run boys primary school in Heragalli Payan completely. However, law enforcement ...

PESHAWAR (AFP) - Taliban militants blew up a boys school in Khyber, officials said Wednesday. The boys school attack took place overnight in the Spin Qabar area of Khyber, a lawless district that straddles the main supply line for NATO troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. All four rooms of ...

Militants blew up a boys' primary school in northwest Pakistan on Monday, the latest in a wave of attacks by Islamist extremists targeting educational institutes, local officials said. No-one was hurt in the bombing in the village of Ashraf Kalay in the Khyber tribal region, which lies between ...

KARACHI Farhan Zaman of Pakistan Navy caused a flutter on the penultimate day of the PST second Roshan Khan Junior Squash when he ousted top seed Shaikh Saquib of Punjab in straight games in the semi-final of under-19 boys event here Wednesday at Pakistan Navy Roshan Khan Jahangir Khan complex. ...