NATION BRIEFSPAKISTAN
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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The three Pakistan cricketers at the center of fixing allegations were dropped for the rest of the team's England tour on Thursday, shortly before they appeared for questioning by investigators of the Pakistan Cricket Board. Team manager Yawar Saeed said bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir and test captain Salman Butt will not play in the remaining Twenty20 and one-day international matches.
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| Posted at 02:37 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Thousands of Shiite Muslims, thumping their chests and crying, mourned Thursday at funeral prayers for victims of a triple bombing that heaped more tragedy on Pakistan, which is already struggling to cope with devastating floods. The blasts that targeted a Shiite ceremony late Wednesday in this eastern city were the first major attacks since flood waters tore through the country over the past month, destroying or damaging more than one million homes and prompting a major international relief effort that continues to struggle with the scale of the destruction.
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| Posted at 05:59 PM, Sep 02, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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China on Thursday dismissed reports saying troops of the People's Liberation Army are in a disputed area of Pakistan. The New York Times ran an opinion piece last week which said up to 11,000 soldiers of the People's Liberation Army were in Gilgit, a northwest area of disputed Kashmir.
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| Posted at 05:37 PM, Sep 02, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Australian cricket great Shane Warne has called for life bans to be imposed on players found guilty of fixing or conspiring to manipulate matches. "If it is true and they have been found (guilty of) match-fixing and throwing games and spot betting with the no-balls and stuff, if that's the case they should be thrown out," Warne told reporters on Thursday.
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| Posted at 05:17 PM, Sep 02, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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The former girlfriend of Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has met International Cricket Council officials investigating match fixing, after commenting on her suspicions of Asif's behavior. Actress Veena Malik's manager Sohail Rashid on Thursday said she met ICC anti-corruption officials on Wednesday evening.
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| Posted at 05:15 PM, Sep 02, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Three bombs ripped through a Shiite Muslim religious procession in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing 25 people and wounding about 150 others, officials said. The explosions appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by Sunni extremists against the minority Shiites they consider infidels. Allied with al-Qaida and the Taliban, the bombers are also seeking to destabilize Pakistan's U.S.-backed government.
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| Posted at 09:05 AM, Sep 02, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Pakistan's economic growth will plunge 2 percentage points because of the floods and lead to "massive" job losses, the prime minister warned Wednesday in a speech that predicted a grim couple of years for the already fragile country. Yousuf Raza Gilani said one-fifth of the country's irrigation infrastructure, livestock and crops had been destroyed.
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| Posted at 05:22 PM, Sep 01, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Pakistan army jets and helicopters targeted militant hideouts near the Afghan border, killing 45 people identified as insurgents or members of their families, including women and children, security officials said Wednesday. The attacks happened Tuesday in the Teerah Valley in the Khyber region, where al-Qaida and Taliban militants are known to have found sanctuary.
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| Posted at 04:55 PM, Sep 01, 2010 |
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Asia Society, Breaking News
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Could the news of Pakistani cricket's spot fixing come at a worse time? Probably not. In what is arguably the most sensational sporting scandal ever, an undercover reporter for Britain's News of the World claimed he smashed a multi-million pound cricket match-fixing ring which rigged the ongoing Test match between England and Pakistan over the weekend.
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| Posted at 04:47 PM, Sep 01, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Pakistan's military canceled a trip by officers to an annual meeting at U.S. Central Command after they were taken off a plane and subjected to "unwarranted security checks" at Dulles International Airport in Washington, a spokesman said Wednesday. The row appeared to be a sign of the mistrust between the U.S. and Pakistani militaries, which are nominally allies in the fight against Taliban and al-Qaida but have long had an uneasy relationship.
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| Posted at 04:24 PM, Sep 01, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Former Australian cricket captain Mark Taylor said Wednesday suspending Pakistan from international cricket over alleged match fixing would be "too harsh". Taylor said it would be detrimental to cricket if an entire nation was banned because of the conduct of individuals.
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| Posted at 04:19 PM, Sep 01, 2010 |
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Sriram Vadlamani, Indianomics
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The current floods in Pakistan are the worst ever for the country. It hasn’t seen anything like this in the past 80 years. 17.2 million people are affected, 1.2 million homes damaged and the overall loss could run into billions. To put things into perspective, the Pakistan floods are more disastrous than 2004 Asian Tsunami, and 2005 Pakistan earthquake and 2010 Haiti earthquake combined.
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| Posted at 09:41 PM, Aug 31, 2010 |
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