Pakistan
The PPP on Thursday made a fresh bid for a rapprochement with estranged partner PML-N inviting it back to the government and asking it to withdraw its candidate in the Presidential election, pleas which were rebuffed by Nawaz Sharif-led party.
Pakistani leg spinner Danish Kaneria on Thursday expressed frustration at not playing Test cricket for more than eight months since he toured India in December 2007and urged his board to increase the Test schedule.
Nine persons were killed and several others injured when a police van transporting prisoners was targeted in a roadside bomb attack in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province on Thursday.
Under pressure to reinstate 60 judges sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan government on Thursday "reappointed" eight of them, a move seen as being selective by the influential lawyers' movement.
India on Wednesday lodged a strong protest with Pakistan for pushing in militants in Jammu and Kashmir in the cover of firing from across the border.
With the mishandling of the land row, the Indian government has allowed Kashmiri separatists to create the spectre of a mass movement and give Pakistan a handle to internationalise the dispute, say experts.
There will be no souring of relations between Cricket South Africa and the Pakistan Cricket Board over the former's decision not to play in the Champions Trophy. The tournament was finally postponed by the International Cricket Council.
"The border firing and attempts of infiltration are a matter of concern," Antony told reporters on the sidelines of a function in the capital.
Pakistan's head coach Khawaja Zakauddin who took over as Pakistan's manager and chief coach in 2007, "accepted the responsibility" for the Greenshirts' unimpressive performance in Beijing and said that he has decided to quit.
The ruling Pakistan People's Party on Tuesday filed nomination papers for party chief Asif Ali Zardari for the September 6 presidential polls, a day after the PML-N pulled out of the coalition government.
Senior Bush administration officials are angry over US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad's "unauthorised contacts" with Pakistani presidential candidate and PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said on Tuesday.- Pakistan's political turmoil deepened on Tuesday as terror attacks continue and the ruling coalition split, weakening the fragile government just a week after President Pervez Musharraf resigned.
A well-placed source pointed out that Naghmi's departure would be a big setback for the Board as practically he was running the cricket affairs even when Ashraf was Chairman.
Disgraced Pakistani pacer Mohammad Asif and his lawyer Hamid Karim are coming to India next week to appear before the Drugs Inquiry Tribunal of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The Australian cricket team is "passionately keen" to tour Pakistan in April next year, despite the postponement of next month's Champions Trophy tournament over security concerns.
Ten people were killed on Monday when militants attacked the home of a provincial legislator's brother in Pakistan's restive northwestern Swat valley even as the government banned the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
- Militants have used rockets and a bomb to attack the family home of a lawmaker in Pakistan's volatile northwest, killing eight people, including the politician's brother.
The US Central Intelligence Agency recruited a family of Swiss engineers to help it thwart the Libyan and Iranian nuclear programs, according to The New York Times.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif quit Pakistan's ruling coalition on Monday over differences on the reinstatement of judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf and on who should replace him.- A senior Pakistani official says the government has rejected a ceasefire offer from Taliban militants in a region near the Afghan border.
- The crisis encircling Pakistan's fragile ruling coalition reached a boiling point with PPP refusing to comply with PML-N's demand on reinstating sacked judges within a deadline and the ally also not enthusiastic about supporting Zardari for Presidency.
Pakistan's fragile coalition government is facing a Monday deadline on reinstating judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf that could determine whether its major parties split.
PCB admitted that after South Africa withdrew from the Champions Trophy, there lies a strong possibility of Australia, England and New Zealand doing the same and issued a warning to ICC that it will boycott the tournament if relocated to another country.
A suicide car bombing at a police station in northwestern Pakistan killed at least six officers and wounded several others on Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks claimed by Taliban militants, security officials said.
The US is in quandary over whom to support in Pakistan in their fight against Taliban as civilian leaders Asif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif and Yousaf Raza Gilani are less than ideal for Washington.
