German Andrea Petkovic reaches the second round at Miami German wildcard entrant, Andrea Petkovic, registered cracking straight sets 6-3, 6-1 victory against the 21-year-old Serb, Bojana Jovanovski, in the Sony Ericsson Open at Miami. She dispatched the 41st raked competitor in just 57 minutes and stamped her authority with the victory. The troubled German who ended […]
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Omer Aftab to attend RRI International Conference On Breast Cancer in Cape Town Omer Aftab, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pink Ribbon Campaign Pakistan (PRCP) will attend Reach To Recovery International’s 17th International Conference on Breast Cancer supported by Union For International Cancer Control (UICC) at Cape Town , South Africa during March 20-22. […]
Roberto Pavoni and Tilly Gray won gold medals of the Men’s 400m Individual Medley (IM) and Women’s 200m butterfly respectively at the 2013 British International. Pavoni stayed one and a half body length ahead of his closest competitor and tapped the wall for first position with a timing of 4 minutes and 19.23 seconds. The […]
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Ericsson will cut its workforce by 250 people in Spain because, among other reasons, the delayed deployment of 4G technology has forced the company to make a harsh decision on Wednesday. The technology group said it needs to adjust its workforce in Spain to respond to the termination of contracts and network modernization in order to […]
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Mansoor Amjad, the 25-year-old cricketer from Sialkot, has expressed that he is still hungry to play for Pakistan once again and is not satisfied with the sole opportunity he received to represent his country at the highest stage of the game in 2008. During the Asia Cup 2008, played in Karachi, the right-arm leg-spinner […]
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A car bomb blast killed at least 12 people near a camp for displaced persons in district Nowshehra on Thursday, police and witnesses said. District Police Officer (DPO) Nowshera Hussain Khan confirmed that 12 people lost lives and 30 others injured when a bomb planted in car blasted at Jalozai camp’s administration block. […]
Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) member of the Parliamentary Committee, Senator Pervez Rashid, has claimed there is no deadlock over choosing a caretaker prime minister. The eight-member parliamentary committee continues consultations on Thursday as the panel could not reach any consensus on the first day on Wednesday. Pervez Rashid, the PML-N member of the […]
The Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), led by self-exiled leader, Altaf Hussain, tops the list of target killers and extortionists in Karachi, a police report revealed on Thursday. The report presented before the Supreme Court by the Inspector General Police Sindh says that 224 target killers and extortionists (bhatta khur) have been arrested since 2011. […]
Punjab assembly was dissolved on Wednesday hours after the chief minister Shahbaz Sharif sent a summary to Governor, Makhdoom Syed Ahmed Mahmud. Shehbaz Sharif had disagreed with other provinces on the date of the dissolution and sent the summary after the three assemblies had been dissolved. The chief minister had earlier sent a […]
The cricketer-turned politician, Imran Khan, was elected unopposed as the chairperson of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday in intra-party elections. Renowned lawyer and the PTI leader Hamid Khan supervised the elections. Khan had filed nomination papers for the chairmanship and was not challenged by any other party leader. Khan said Tuesday that […]
The Election Commission on Wednesday that schedule for the May 11 parliamentary polls will be announced on March 23, the day Pakistan also celebrates its republic day. President Asif Ali Zardari has set May 11 for parliamentary elections, presidential spokesman senator Farhatullah Babar said. A spokesman of the Election Commission announced that the process […]
Justice (retd) Tariq Pervez Khan, a former judge of the Supreme Court, was administered the oath as the caretaker chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Peshawar on Wednesday. Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and leader of the Opposition in provincial assembly, Akram Khan Durrani, had agreed on Tariq Pevez recently. KPK took […]