Pakistan starts training for NZ tour

LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket team started training at a camp set up in Qaddafi Stadium, Lahore, ahead of the upcoming tour of New Zealand.

Pakistan is to play three Twenty20 International, six one-day international and two Test matches during the tour.

Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi and other players joined the camp which will continue till December 15.

Coach Waqar Younis is supervising the camp.

On the first day of training, Team Manager Intikhab Alam told reporters that none of the players had sought the board’s permission to participate in advertisement shoots.

“The World Cup is just three months away. Players should only concentrate on their game,” he said.

To a question, he responded that Javed Miandad will assume charge any time today. Trend Pk

Pak cricket team training camp starts tomorrow

The training camp of the Pakistan cricket team for preparation of series with South Africa will begin in Lahore on Sunday.
Test, One-day and T20 players are called to join the training camp. All preparations have been completed for starting the camp. In the series against South Africa in Abu Dhabi, two T20 matches, 5 one-day matches and two test matches would be played.
According to the PCB spokesman, first a detailed meeting of the players and the management will be held before the camp begins in the morning and the practice schedule will be finalized. Coach Waqar Younis will lead the training.

Pak cricket team training camp starts tomorrow

The training camp of the Pakistan cricket team for preparation of series with South Africa will begin in Lahore on Sunday.
Test, One-day and T20 players are called to join the training camp. All preparations have been completed for starting the camp. In the series against South Africa in Abu Dhabi, two T20 matches, 5 one-day matches and two test matches would be played.
According to the PCB spokesman, first a detailed meeting of the players and the management will be held before the camp begins in the morning and the practice schedule will be finalized. Coach Waqar Younis will lead the training.

Two security men shot dead in Mastung

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MASTUNG: Two security personnel have been killed in a drive-by shooting in the Mastung District of Balochistan, police said on Thursday.

The deceased, Abdullah Tareen and Muhammad Zahid, were returning to their camp after buying Iftari items when two unknown assailants riding a bike opened indiscriminate fire on them.

They were rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition. However, they succumbed to their injuries.

PM visited real camp, asserts NDMA chief

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lt Gen Nadeem Ahmed (retd) denied reports that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani visited fake flood relief camp in Mianwali Wednesday.

While talking to Geo News, NDMA chief said the camp was real and patients were asked to stay a little longer due to some administrative issues on the prime minister”s visit.

He also said the camp was established on July 31st and 99 patients since then have been treated.

CJ’s restoration illegal, NAB writes to SC

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has launched a frontal attack on the Supreme Court of Pakistan by accusing it of interfering with investigations, paralysing NAB, being biased, suffering a faulty composition and simply not being fit to hear the case.

The rather harsh remarks came in NAB’s blistering response to the queries posed a few days back by the apex court during the hearing of the ongoing case of the multi-billion rupees Bank of Punjab scam.

In its reply addressed to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, NAB has also questioned the CJ’s restoration in March last year through an executive order of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani by stating, “Neither order is countenanced by the constitution nor the same has any other legitimate basis”.

The NAB has also challenged the legality of the judgment of July 31 on the same grounds and said that the appointment of two ad hoc judges—including Justice Ramday is in derogation of Al-Jihad Trust case (PLD 1966 SC 324).

According to NAB’s written response, the present bench led by CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had developed biases against NAB and others concerned so it should not hear the BoP case.

NAB has also protested strongly against the humiliation being faced by its top officers in the SC and accused the SC of paralysing the institution.

In its formal response, NAB has gone to extent of alluding that instead of focusing on the real issue involving the Bank of Punjab scam, “scores” were being settled at the cost of national institutions. It said that NAB’s institutional pride has suffered immensely as the senior officers of the Bureau are being ridiculed in the SC and this attitude is neither legal nor good for a healthy environment within the organisation.

In a strongly worded six-page long response submitted in the SC with regard to Bank of Punjab (BoP) case and available with Jang Group, the NAB has also told the SC not to let the Punjab government become party to the Bank of Punjab case as its former chairman Hamesh Khan, presently being investigated by NAB, had levelled some serious accusations against Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif.

Attabad affectees start evacuating camps

HUNZA: The IDPs residing in Altat camp started evacuating camps after flop talks with the government on Wednesday, Geo News reported.

At least 500 out of 1200 affectees, mostly young men, started marching towards Attabad lake. The protestors’ leaders will decide about the second stage of the long march after reaching Attabad lake under which women, children and elderly present in the camp will leave the camp and join the march.

The IDPs said despite huge claims and announcements, government did nothing for the rehabilitation of affectees. Meanwhile, the inflow in the lake is 14,100 cusecs and outflow is 13470 cusecs.

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