Absentee Zulqarnain to return Pakistan

KARACHI: Former Pakistan wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider, who fled to London last year citing death threats from match-fixers, has said he will return home and cancel his application for asylum in Britain. Zulqarnain was reassured by a meeting with Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik in London last week, and will seek to resume his cricket career, he said. "After meeting with (the) interior minister and getting assurance of my and my family's safety in Pakistan, I have decided to return home on April 24," Zulqarnain, 24, told Pakistani private TV channels GEO and others from London. "After getting this assurance there is no need for...

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Eight bodies recovered from dry well

 ATTOCK: Four days old eight dead bodies have been recovered from a dry well in China Chowk area of Attock, Geo News reported Sunday. DPO Attock told media that the bodies were four days old and they may have been killed due to personal enmity. Bodies have been shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital for postmort...

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SIC announces to take part in politics

LAHORE: Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) on Sunday night while announcing to take part in the politics vowed to enforce the Nizam-e-Mustafa in the country. A large number of party workers from the country gathered in a public meeting, the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Conference, at Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore. Addressing the public meeting, Chairman SIC Sahabzada Fazal Kareem demanded the Chief Justice of Pakistan to alleviate corruption from the judiciary and take suo moto action against suicide bombings. He said that his party would end the politics of horse trading. Chief of Sunni Tehreek while addressing the meeting said that those involved in shrine...

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would consider his job “well done”

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would consider his job “well done” if ties with Pakistan return to normal before he leaves office, local media quoted him as saying on Sunday, weeks after Singh’s diplomatic push at the cricket World Cup. The neighbours have slowly tried to rebuild a fragile trust shattered by the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which Singh’s government blamed on Pakistan-based militants in collusion with the country’s spy agency. According to a recently released Wikileaks cable, Singh has led the push for peace with Pakistan despite misgivings from members of his own administration, including the National Security Adviser. “Well,...

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Rains lash Pindi, Islamabad, Muzaffarabad, Swat

ISLAMABAD: Intermittent heavy downpours today lashed Lahore, Gujranawala, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar Division, Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir, while in the northern areas and upper Pakhtunkhaw the spate of sporadic rain continues. Met Department said that upper Punjab including Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, Islamabad and several areas in the upper Pakhtunkhaw likely to witness rains with thunder and lightening in the next 24 hours. Swat and its surrounding areas continued receiving rains for the second day today. Weather turned chill after showers and light snowfall in Astur and Skardu. District Kohistan,...

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Six killed in Karachi violence

Updated at: 1245 PST,  Sunday, April 17, 2011  KARACHI: At least six people were killed including three women and a policeman in Karachi while six were injured in different areas of the city since last midnight till this morning in a spate of firing that continues holding the city in its grip. In New Karachi area, a former SHO of Shareefabad Police Station Zulfiqar Qaimkhani was shot dead at his home. Another policeman residing in police quarters committed suicide within jurisdiction of Jackson Police Station, Geo News reported. Sources said that husband and wife in Baldia town, two persons in Korangi industrial area and Manzoor colony, three persons in Mauripur barracks and Lyari area and one person in Baldia town were killed by unidentified persons' firin...

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