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  • PCB chief assures complete cooperation to curb cricket corruption

    Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf has assured that the board will put its best efforts to eradicate cricket corruption. A preliminary report by police in India has proved that Karachi is one of the hubs for corrupt practices in the game, apart from Mumbai, Delhi and Dubai, the Dawn reports. Ashraf claimed that PCB will extend its support to any country wanting to curb ...

  • Nawaz Kayani agree to overhaul Pakistans policy in closed door meeting

    Incoming Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and army chief General Ahfaq Parvez Kayani have agreed to 'overhaul' the country's national security and foreign policy in a closed door meeting. During the meeting, which lasted three-and-half hours, Sharif told Kayani that he planned to revisit the policies of the previous administration. He said that those policies have not only damaged ...

  • Pak media says team to experience lack of warmth in Champions Trophy with Guls absence

    Pakistan cricketer Umar Gul's absence from the ICC Champions Trophy squad due to the knee surgery is a big blow for Pakistan given his love for major tournaments, English conditions and, lately, digging his team out of trouble with the bat, according to the Pakistani media. According to The Dawn, although Gul's form has always been patchy and his wickets record inconsistent but it is his ...

  • Irish cricketers could be heading to Pakistan Irish cricketers could be heading to Pakistan

    Ireland has given hope of reviving international cricket in Pakistan after it reportedly agreed to consider visiting the country to reciprocate Pakistan's one-day international (ODI) tour of Ireland. At a time when all the Test playing nations have written-off touring Pakistan, the International Cricket Council's (ICC) associate member Cricket Ireland (CI) gave a positive response on that ...

  • Growing intolerance in Pak-occupied Kashmir

    On February 17, 2013, 25-year-old Muhammad Ali Murtaza from Aghaar, Kotli, the son of a Kashmiri Imam of a masjid in Lahore, was brutally tortured and killed by the Pakistani Army. His crime? He was visiting his cousin sister's home in a village in District Kotli near the LOC. Before he could reach her home, he was picked up by the Pakistan Army from Chattar and handed over to the ISI. That ...

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Real Steel [Blu-Ray]

Real Steel [Blu-Ray]

Like Atom, the giant, vaguely humanistic sparring robot that is dug out of the mud and becomes an unlikely champion in the near-futuristic world of robot boxing, Real Steel is a big, seemingly clunky contraption that works against all odds. Inspired by a 1956 short story by the proli ... ...

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  • Pakistani daily hopes Sharif Kayani work together

    A leading Pakistani daily Monday hoped that incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif and army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani "can at least be expected to try and work together". Nawaz Sharif, who is all set to become the prime minister for the third time, had a long meeting in Lahore with General Kayani. "Of one meeting is not made a relationship, functional or otherwise...," said an editorial ...

  • US-based Pak filmmaker calls for ban on Hollywood Bollywood movies to save failing Pak film industry

    An US-based Pakistani filmmaker has urged on a ban on Bollywood and Hollywood movies in Pakistan, and has offered his guidance and support to save the deteoriating Pakistani film industry. Urging the government to make efforts in the revival of the large screen by encouraging independent filmmakers and movies on social issues, Mumtaz Hassan said that it can be possible only by imposing a ban ...

  • Karzai Seeks Indian Military Aid Amid Tensions with Pakistan

    KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan. Kabul's overtures to New Delhi are likely to rile Islamabad where a new government led by two-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif is set to take office ...

  • Pakistans Sharif supports Taliban peace talks

    ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday threw his support behind peace talks with the country's Taliban insurgents, saying it would be a top priority for his new government."If Taliban have offered us an option to have dialogue then we should take it seriously," Sharif said while addressing his party's newly elected parliamentarians in ...

  • Imran Khan holds London-based rival responsible for Pakistani politicians murder – video

    Imran Khan 'holds responsible' London-based MQM leader Altaf Hussain of the murder of Zahra Hussain, vice-president for Khan's party. The female politician was gunned down outside her home in Karachi on Saturday, sparking outcry among supporters of Khan's party, PTI, who claim Hussain threatened its supporters in a speech from London. A spokesman for MQM has accused Khan of ...

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