SportsLAHORE - The FIFA Members Associations Elite Referee Course commenced here at the Football House on Monday with over 30 participants taking part in it. "It's now easier than ever to become a qualified
SportsBIRMINGHAM - Rafael Van der Vaart was the scourge of Aston Villa yet again as he marked his return from injury with two goals to hand 10-man Tottenham a deserved 2-1 victory on Sunday. The Dutch inter
BusinessLAHORE - Pakistan Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA) and SAMBU-SARCO have signed an agreement worth Rs 7.52 billion at WAPDA House on Monday for Lot-II of 106MW Golen Gol Hydropower Project.<br />North Projects General Manager Fazal-e-Mabood and SAMBU Board of Representatives Chairman Oh Sung Hoon signed the agreement. Golen Gol Lot-II involves construction of diversion weir, intake, gravel trap, sand trap, headrace tunnel, pressure shaft, pressure tunnel and roads.
BusinessKARACHI - The payment systems infrastructure in the country was upgraded during the first quarter (July-September) of the current year, as 99 new automated teller machines (ATMs) were added to the e-b
SportsLAHORE - Karachi Gymkhana won the second Super Veterans (over 60 years) T20 cricket match defeating Karachi Kings at the Karachi Gymkhana Ground on Sunday.<br />The Pakistan Veterans Cricket Association organised this match. After winning the toss, Karachi Gymkhana opted to field. Karachi Kings scored 135 runs for three wickets. Rafiq Allahrakha retired at 51 runs scored in 43 balls with three fours. <br />Skipper of Karachi Kings and former captain Zaheer Abbas played a fine innings
NATIONALNEW YORK/KABUL - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was appalled by an attack outside a UN food agency center in Pakistan that killed at least 43 people, his spokesman said Sunday.Ban "unequivocally con
SportsDURBAN - Dale Steyn produced another magnificent exhibition of fast outswing bowling on Sunday to scythe through the Indian batting on the opening day of the second Test at Kingsmead. The world's top-
NATIONALKARACHI - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat has claimed dispatching a batch of 10 suicide bombers to the Tribal Areas to fight security forces combating militants near the Afghanistan border.In the latest vi
Arts / EntertainmentSinger/actor Jackson Rathbone is hoping for a musical start to 2011 - he's setting up his own record label. The star rose to fame as a vampire in the hit Twilight movie franchise, but spends his time
NATIONALISLAMABAD - Benazir Bhutto was martyred in Rawalpindi, the same garrison town where her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, another popular leader of Pakistan, was hanged well over three decades ago by milita
LAHORELAHORE - A woman committed suicide on the railway tracks in Shahdara Town police precincts on Sunday.She was identified as Sakeena (35), a resident of Barket Town Shahdarah. Sakeena had five children
Arts / EntertainmentMUMBAI - After kicking his smoking habit for his children and wife, Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan is now wants Shah Rukh Khan to leave smoking. Hrithik says, "Arjun Rampal has teamed up with me a
