LHC ends house arrest of Sri Lankan team attack suspect

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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered authorities to end the house arrest of Malik Ishaq, allegedly involved in the 2009 attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.

Malik Ishaq appeared before a review board of the high court after his house arrest was withdrawn.

The Punjab government had requested the court to grant one-month extension in Ishaq’s house arrest.

Prosecutors argued that they record of Malik Ishaq’s speech and other material which could disturb law and order. However, the review board refused to end his house arrest and ordered his release. 

Malik Ishaq was placed under house arrest after he was granted bail in Sri Lankan team attack case. TrendPK

Sri Lankan selection committee Resigned

Sri Lankan selection committee has resigned and they handed over the resignations to the sports minister. The Sri Lankan selection committee headed by Arvinda de Silva has put their resignation to sports minister. The action was done after Sangakkara steps down from captaincy and Mahela Jayewardene also resigned from vice captaincy.

India become the new champion of cricket by defeating Sri Lanka in final

India vs Sri Lanka final

Blue shirts have become the new champions of cricket by getting 6 wickets victory in India vs Sri Lanka final of ICC World Cup 2011 played at Wankhede Stadium of Mumbai. Blue shirts got the target of 275 after losing 4 wickets when 10 balls were remaining. Gautam Gambhir suffered by nervous nineties. Dhoni scored unbeaten 91 runs.

India vs Sri Lanka final: Lankan innings

According to details in India vs Sri Lanka final, guest captain Kumar Sangakkara win the toss and elected to bat first. Lankans goes early in trouble by losing the big wicket of Upal Tharanga, he scored 2 runs. This time captain came to join Tillakaratne Dilshan. Dilshan turned back to pavilion after scoring 33 runs. Sangakkara and Mahila Jayawardene batted sensibly and added 72 runs in the third wicket partnership. Sangakkara was taken by Yuvraj Singh when his score was 48. The fourth Lankan wicket fell on the total of 179, when Samaraweera was dismissed by the same bowler on the individual score of 31.

Chamara Kapugedera became the second wicket of Zaheer Khan. With the wicket he levels Afridi’s highest 21 wickets in the tournament. On the other end senior batsman Mahela Jayawardene continued to move his side’s total. Nuwan Kulasekara and Jayawardene added 62 runs in the mutual cooperation. Nuwan Kulasekara goes runout on 32. After completing the limited number of overs, Lankan side posted the total of 274/6 on the scoreboard. Jayawardene was unbeaten on 103. Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh got two wickets each.

India vs Sri Lanka final: Indian Innings

Following the target, the home side goes early in trouble by losing the big wicket of Virender Sehwag. Lasith Malinga not permitted him to open his score account. Little master Sachin Tendulkar failed to play a big innings this time and became the wicket of Malinga, Kumar Sangakkara made no mistake in taking his catch behind the wickets. After losing two wickets, Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli played very sensibly and played beautiful strokes all around the ground. Both players added 151 runs in the third wicket partnership. The innings of Kohli was finished by Tillakaratne Dilshan when his score was 35.

This time captain MS Dhoni to join Gambhir once again India got success in making a big partnership and both players added 109 runs in the mutual cooperation. The innings of Gambhir ended when he was three behind from his century. Next Yuvraj Singh, along with Dhoni not permitted Lankan bowlers to create more hype and got their target on the second ball of second last over. At the Dhoni was notout on 91 while Yuvraj on 21. Lasith Malinga got 2 wickets in India vs Sri Lanka final.

WU Tharanga and TM Dilshan Steals The Quarter Final For Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan openers WU Tharanga and TM Dilshan has got the win for the Sri Lankan team over England in the forth quarter final match. Both openers have scored a century and it was their 2^nd 200 plus opening partnership performance in the world cup 2011. The performance of WU Tharanga and TM Dilshan has made it alarming for rest of the teams of the world cup.

Sri Lankan team attacker held from Lahore

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LAHORE: Police have apprehended a wanted terrorist involved in Sri Lankan team attack Monday.

Qari hails from Waziristan, police said. Police have also recovered explosives from him.

The Sri Lankan cricket team attack took place on March 3, 2009, when a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, part of a larger convoy, was fired upon by about 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.

At least half a dozen security personnel were killed and some Sri Lankan players got injuries. Trend Pk

President Zardari visits Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: Pakistan’s president arrived in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Saturday to begin a four-day state visit.

President Asif Ali Zardari was met off the plane by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and observed the traditional honour guard ceremony.

According to government officials, Zardari was accompanied by his foreign and defence ministers as well as around 40 other delegates.

Zardari is expected to visit parliament on Sunday, and to hold bilateral talks with his counterpart and other government officials on Monday.

It is thought that the main subjects of the talks will be enhanced economic and defence cooperation between the two south Asian countries. AGENCIES

Nail torture’ shows maid abuse in Mideast : HRW

NEWYORK: Human Rights Watch Tuesday urged Middle Eastern states to protect migrant workers after two Sri Lankan maids returned from the region with shocking stories of torture by their employers.

The New York-based rights group said accusations by three Sri Lankan maids that they were forced to swallow nails or had nails driven into their bodies highlighted a broad pattern of abuse of migrant domestic workers.

“The wanton brutality alleged in these cases is shocking, but reports of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and labour exploitation such as non-payment of wages are nothing new,” said Nisha Varia, HRW’s senior women?s rights researcher.

“The governments of Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia need to show they take such allegations seriously, and create accessible ways for domestic workers to report abuse as soon as it happens.”

In August, a Sri Lankan

ICC Double Standard

ICC is showing double standards with different cricket boards.

ICC is taking strict actions against Pakistani player but they are showing leniency with other cricket boards. It was previously reported that many players were involved in match fixing in IPL. More then 20 players were alleged for their involvement in spot fixing. After the reports no action was taken by ICC.

IPL has cover of BCCI and ICC so it was their duty to take action for violations of code of conduct of ICC. ICC took no action against them. S Raina case is the recent case. Sri Lankan board has sent a video to ICC of S Raina’s activities. He was seen spending time with a woman who has close relations with bookies. It was again duty of ICC to investigate the matter but no actions again.

Sri Lankan cricketer Dilshan was also alleged for match fixing. A news paper claimed that he was seen with book maker during last year’s world cup. He was alleged for having links with book makers. He was also investigated by Sri Lankan Police but they haven’t found any thing against him.

ICC didn’t take any action on the cases of T Dilshan and S Raina but they are taking strict action against Pakistan. It seems to be a big controversy against Pakistan cricket.

Sri Lanka appeal over death-row maid in Saudi Arabia

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has appealed for the king of Saudi Arabia to spare the life of a Sri Lankan housemaid convicted of killing an infant, his office said Tuesday.

Rizana Nafeek, who was working in the Middle Eastern country, was found guilty of killing a four-month-old baby boy in her care in 2005.

The Saudi Supreme Court recently rejected an appeal against the verdict by the maid’s family.

“President Mahinda Rajapakse wrote to King Abdullah … of Saudi Arabia seeking clemency for Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek,” his office said in a statement.

Nafeek, who was 17 at that time, has maintained that the death of the infant was an accident.

She originally confessed to killing the baby, but later retracted her statement saying it had been made under duress.

The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission in a

Charged-up Sri Lanka Beat India, Clinch Tri-series Title

Sri Lanka defeated India by 74 runs in the in the tri-series final in Dambulla today. Chasing a victory target of 300, India were bundled out for 225 runs. Earlier, Tillakaratne Dilshan struck a blistering century as Sri Lanka exploited a sloppy bowling display by the Indians to amass an imposing299 for eight in the cricket tri-series final in Dambulla on Saturday.
Dilshan notched up his eighth ODI century to provide the impetus to the Lankan innings who capitalised on some wayward bowling by the Indians to rattle up a decent score at the Rangiri International stadium.
Captain Kumar Sangakkara (71) and Mahela Jayawardene (39) were the other notable scorers for the hosts who have left India with a stiff asking rate of nearly six runs per over to record their second successive series triumph on Lankan soil in three months.
Electing to bat, it was not a fiery start for the hosts as both the Lankan openers took some time to settle down and opened up gradually to pile up the misery on the visitors. After the first few overs, the Indian bowlers seemed to lose their rhythm and bowled a lot of loose deliveries.
The home crowd had a lot to cheer when Tillakaratne Dilshan hit two cracking fours off Praveen Kumar and Mahela Jayawardene produced a lofted drive off Ashish Nehra in the first few overs.
There was a minor altercation between Dilshan and Munaf Patel, who collided with the batsman in the seventh over, but normalcy was restored after umpire Asad Rauf and Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni intervened and pacified the two players. Dilshan was more agressive of the two openers, who raised the best opening partnership of the series so far by putting on 121 for the first wicket.
Ishant Sharma provided the breakthrough for the visitors by evicting the experienced Mahela Jayawardene (39) with Dinesh Karthik latchinng on to a well-judged catch. Jayawardene reached forward and tried to wrist a length delivery across the line but only succeeded in spooning a catch to Karthik at the sweeper cover. But his dimssal came only after he had achieved a personal milestone of completing 9000 runs in ODIs, becoming only the third Sri Lankan to achieve the feat after Sanath Jayasuriya (13,428 runs) and Aravinda de Silva (9824 runs).

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