LONDON - Rio Ferdinand has signed a one-year contract extension with Manchester United, the Premier League champions announced on Thursday. The 34-year-old centre-back announced his retirement from international football last week and says he is eager to start work with new manager David Moyes. "I ...

ISLAMABAD - Young Man Football Club edged out Pindi United 1-0 in their DFA Rawalpindi A League soccer match played here at Municipal Football Stadium on Wednesday. The match started at a brisk pace as both the teams tried to seal early initiative and take early lead. Pindi FC remained unlucky as ...

The upcoming elections are indeed significant for every Pakistani. We are in dire need of a strong, powerful, influential democratic system. The conditions in Pakistan have become worse, violent and depressing. Everyone is looking forward to a change, we all want to see our country survive, we want ...

      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 ...

"The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments and affections of the people, was the real American ...

  MANCHESTER   Robin van Persie hit a first-half hat-trick as Manchester United cantered to an unprecedented 20th English league title with an emphatic 3-0 victory at home to Aston Villa on Monday.ManchesterCity's 3-1 loss at Tottenham Hotspur a day earlier had handed United a chance to ...

  LONDON - Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini believes Manchester United's determination to avenge last season's narrow failure has underpinned their drive towards this season's Premier League title. Alex Ferguson's side need just three points from their remaining five games to clinch the ...

LONDONTottenham Hotspur sent the Premier League title towards Manchester United with a 3-1 win defeat of Manchester City on Sunday, on a day when Liverpool striker Luis Suarez created controversy once again. Spurs roared back from behind to stun defending champions City at White Hart Lane and ...

LONDONManchester United may have to wait a little longer to reclaim the Premier League title after being held to a 2-2 draw at West Ham, while Manchester City won 1-0 against Wigan on Wednesday.Alex Ferguson's team were below their best for long periods at Upton Park and needed Robin van Persie's ...

LONDON - Manchester United took a step closer to the Premier League title with a 2-0 win at Stoke City on Sunday that saw them re-establish a 15-point lead over Manchester City at the top of the table.Michael Carrick gave United an early lead and Robin van Persie completed victory by claiming his ...

KARACHI (PR) –July 16, 2012 witnessed the rebirth of UBL on UK’s horizon after a hiatus of nearly 11 years.At a grand ceremony hosted by Sir Anwar Pervez, OBE H Pk, Chairman Bestway Group, UBL UK was re-launched by Rt. Hon. Alistair Burt, Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister in ...

MANCHESTER  - Sergio Aguero tore through the Manchester United defence to score a dazzling winner as Manchester City beat the Premier League leaders 2-1 on Monday to remind them they are still champions for a few more weeks.Second-placed City's second successive league win at Old Trafford, ...

UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani education activist, ‘a daughter of the United Nations’ when he spoke to her on Friday to mark the 1,000-day milestone in the run-up to a Millennium Development Goal to reduce poverty by the end of ...

LONDON  - Holders Chelsea kept one hand on the FA Cup by overcoming a lacklustre Manchester United 1-0 at Stamford Bridge on Monday in their quarter-final replay.Senegalese striker Demba Ba settled the tie with a memorable goal early in the second half to send Chelsea into the last four for ...

LONDON : - Manchester United must weigh the prospect of a 15-point Premier League lead against the importance of next week's Champions League clash with Real Madrid when they entertain Norwich City on Saturday.United go into the weekend with a 12-point advantage in the league and with second-place ...

MANCHESTER - Ryan Giggs and Robin van Persie scored the goals as Manchester United opened up a commanding 12-point lead at the top of the Premier League after a 2-0 win over Everton on Sunday.With Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho watching from the directors' box at Old Trafford ahead of his team's ...

LONDON  - Manchester City hope to capitalise on Manchester United’s Champions League distractions by re-launching the defence of their Premier League title, starting with Saturday’s trip to Southampton.City’s 2-2 draw at home to Liverpool last weekend enabled United to ...

The last couple of weeks have witnessed an escalation of violence and sheer showmanship, which is completely beyond the pale and which, furthermore, has left the entire population reeling in a horrified mixture of full frontal shock combined with stunned fascination.The wholesale massacre of Hazara ...

LONDON  - Manchester United kept a firm grip on the Premier League title race by sweeping to a 4-0 win at Wigan Athletic on the first day of 2013 to maintain their seven-point lead. Champions Manchester City remain United's nearest rivals after a 3-0 success at home to Stoke City, while ...

LONDON  - Premier League leaders Manchester United begin the year 2013 at Wigan Athletic on Tuesday, with manager Alex Ferguson hoping they can muster enough freshness to keep Manchester City at arm's length.United overcame West Bromwich Albion 2-0 at Old Trafford on Saturday to take their ...

Federal Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, elder brother of assassinated KP senior minister Bashir Bilour, on Monday said his brother’s assassination united the nation.Speaking at a public gathering in Peshawar, the federal minister said although the Pakistani Taliban had taken his ...

LONDON - Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson fumed that Swansea City defender Ashley Williams could have killed Robin van Persie on Sunday, on a day that saw Chelsea crush Aston Villa 8-0 to climb to third.Williams struck the prone van Persie in the back of the head with the ball during the ...

LONDON - Manchester United re-established their six-point advantage at the top of the Premier League by sweeping Sunderland aside 3-1 at Old Trafford on Saturday.Manchester City had trimmed United's lead to three points by winning at Newcastle United earlier in the day, but Alex Ferguson's men ...

LONDON  - Manchester United star Ryan Giggs has warned Manchester City that his side's derby triumph will provide the perfect springboard to wrestle the title away from Eastlands. United moved six points clear of second placed City after an explosive 3-2 win over their bitter rivals in the ...

HYDERABAD  - Pakistan Muslim League-Functional leader Pir Syed Sabghatullah Shah Rashdi has said his party supports a united Sindh and a united Pakistan, and wants to see the nation and country safe and prosperous.He said this while addressing a public rally here on Friday. He said they had ...

MANCHESTER   - Top spot in the Premier League will be at stake in Sunday's Manchester derby, but leaders Manchester United and champions Manchester City are both still to hit their stride this season.The two teams are threatening to leave third-place Chelsea trailing in their wake, and ...

LONDON - Alex Ferguson lit the fuse on a potentially explosive showdown with Manchester City as the Manchester United manager claimed a victory at Eastlands would be one of his club's greatest ever results.For the first time in 44 years, City will go into the Manchester derby as reigning English ...

PARIS  - Manchester United became the third club to reach the Champions League knockout stages after coming from behind to beat Braga 3-1 and ensure they also top their group on Wednesday.However, it was the side that beat them to being Britain's first ever winner of the European Cup, Celtic, ...

PARIS - Manchester United can avenge the embarrassment of last year's Champions League group stage exit with a victory in Braga on Wednesday, while Barcelona can also secure their passage to the knockout stage by beating Celtic.The fourth round of matches holds great significance for several teams ...

LONDON  - Robin van Persie piled on the misery for former club Arsenal as Manchester United went top of the Premier League with a 2-1 victory at Old Trafford on Saturday.The Dutch striker needed fewer than three minutes to put United in front before Patrice Evra doubled their lead in the 67th ...