Proteas win series against Pakistan by 2-0

South Africa completed a 2-0 sweep in the Twenty20 internationals against Pakistan, by cruising to a six-wicket victory in the second game in Abu Dhabi.
The hosts, who turned in a poor batting display in the opening game yesterday when they set 120, were equally poor today in managing to set 121 for victory with Juan Theron grabbing four wickets for 27. The Proteas cruised for most of the response with Graeme Smith (38) and Colin Ingram (32) helping their side cross the line with 10 balls to spare. After winning the toss and electing to bat first, Pakistan’s innings bore several similarities from 24 hours earlier. They lost wickets in clusters, there was poor decision making and they had to again rely on newly appointed Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq (33) to see them to a respectable total. Pakistan needed early wickets, but got none as Smith and Loots Bosman (11) put on 38 for the first wicket, before Shahid Afridi came in and struck immediately. Afridi should then have taken the wicket of Smith in the ninth over, but Umar Akmal spilt a regulation chance at long-off. AB de Villiers also fell for 11, before Afridi ended his miserly spell with 1-13. There was a little more pressure when Smith was stumped with 53 still needed from 40. Pakistan’s captain blamed poor batting for the series loss. We needed good starts but that didn’t come in both the matches, said Afridi. My own performance was not up to the mark so we have to sit down and plan to improve our batting which is struggling, he added. The two teams now play the first of five one-day internationals in Abu Dhabi on Friday.

Intikhab denies differences with Waqar

Staff Report

KARACHI: Pakistan’s newly appointed team manager Intikhab Alam has said that there is no truth in rumors about his differences with national coach, Waqar Younis.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday named Intikhab Alam the new team manager for the upcoming UAE tour, where Pakistan is to play a Test and ODI series against South Africa.

He was stripped from his coaching job following Pakistan’s victory-less tour of Australia.

“I have accepted this job as a challenge,” he told a cricket website after assuming his new responsibility.

“There is no dispute with Waqar Younis. I have very good relations with all team members.”

Alam has replaced Yawar Saeed, who came under scathing criticism due to the scandal-hit tour of England. SAMAA

Newly appointed MD OGDCL resigns

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ISLAMABAD: The newly appointed Managing Director of Oil and Gas Development Company Ltd. (OGDCL), Adnan Khwaja, resigned from his post, five days after his appointment, SAMAA learnt Thursday.

Adnan Khwaja was appointed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani last week as the Managing Director of OGDCL. He did not have any prior experience in the field of Oil and Gas, where he could use his business knowledge to improve the organization’s performance.

The Supreme Court (SC) took suo moto notice against his appointment.

Adnan Khwaja, before handing in his resignation, met with Prime Minister Gilani.

He has returned the government vehicle to OGDCL after resigning.

Adnan Khwaja was previously serving as Chairman National Vocational and Technical Education (NAVTEC). SAMAA

Iran ready to free detained American woman

TEHRAN: Iran is prepared to release on bail a U.S. woman, one of three Americans it has held for more than a year accused of espionage, Iran’s English language Press TV quoted a Tehran prosecutor as saying on Sunday.

“The American spy could be released on $500,000 bail. She is not barred from leaving Iran,” the prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said. “The other two detained American hikers will remain in jail.”

Sarah Shourd was detained near Iran’s border with Iraq at the end of July 2009 along with two males, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. Their families say the three were on a mountain hike in northern Iraq at the time.

Dolatabadi did not say when Shourd would be freed. Officials had said last week that one of the three might be freed on Saturday, but the release was postponed.

They have not been formally charged, but under Iran’s Islamic law,

Two thirds in Indian Kashmir want independence: poll

SRINAGAR: About two thirds of residents in India-administered Kashmir want independence for their region, with less than one in ten seeking a merger with Pakistan, a survey showed Sunday.

The Kashmiri region is administered separately by India and Pakistan, with the Indian part subject to an insurgency and violent separatist movement for the last 20 years that has claimed an estimated 47,000 lives.

The poll, conducted for the Sunday Hindustan Times newspaper, showed that 66 percent of respondents in the Kashmir valley wanted “complete freedom to entire Jammu and Kashmir as a new country”.

Jammu and Kashmir is the far northwestern state of India that includes the violence-wracked Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, the Hindu-majority region of Jammu and the mostly Buddhist Ladakh area.

Only six percent in Kashmir wanted a “complete merger of the entire

Sialkot lynching: Brothers bodies to be re-examined on Sept.14

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SIALKOT: On the orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the bodies of the two Sialkot lynched brothers, Mughees and Munib, are scheduled to be re-examined on September 14.

According to government sources, the Supreme Court did not accept the earlier postmortem report and ordered for re-examination of the deceased bodies.

All the arrangements have been completed for the fresh postmortem and the bodies of the lynched brothers will be taken out from their graves on September 14.

The upcoming re-examining of the corpses will be done by a board of senior doctors appointed by the Supreme Court.

The newly appointed board of senior doctors will present its report in the Supreme Court after re-examining the bodies. SAMAA

Indo-Pak cricket ties not possible as of now: Pawar

ISLAMABAD: Newly-appointed ICC President Sharad Pawar says immediate resumption of cricket ties between India and Pakistan is not possible.

“Immediate ties between both countries are not possible. It is not in the hands of the Cricket Boards. It is a diplomatic issue. This is a decision taken by the Indian government,” quoting Pawar an Indian television channel reported Thursday.

Asked about demands for the introduction of day-night Tests to save the longer format of the game, Pawar said the “issue has not reached his ear”.

“We are only administrators. If needed, I will let the experts take a call (on the issue),” he said.

To a query whether the ICC was mulling to shift its headquarters back to England, Pawar said, “In England, there are 40 per cent taxes while there are no taxes in Dubai. The moment England thinks similarly about cricket we will consider it.”

Pawar said he was confident about BCCI President Shashank Manohar`s integrity to handle the controversial Lalit Modi issue.

Sri Lanka appoints new team manager

Anura Tennakoon has been appointed as the new manager of the Sri Lanka national team.

Tennakoon’s predecessor former Sri Lankan wicket keeper batsman Brendon Kuruppu whose contract with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) expired this month. And newly appointed manager Tennakoon was a pre-Test era batsman and the CEO of the former Board of Control (BCCSL) form 2000 to 2003. He is also a member of the current, national selection committee.

SLC has also approached the out going national team Manager Brendon Kuruppu to fill the national selector’s position held by Tennakoon prior to his appointment.

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Two New Supreme Court Judges To Sworn In

ISLAMABAD: The newly appointed judges of the Supreme Court (SC) took oath on Monday in a ceremony held at the Supreme Court here. The number of SC judges now reached to 17.

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry has administered the oath to the judges Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, judge high court of Sindh and Justice Rehmat Hussain Jaffery, former judges high court of Sindh. Senior judges and lawyers attended the function.

The oath text included the wordings that judges will follow code of conduct of Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The code of conduct of SJC has been changed recently which now included that interim constitutional order will not be abide.

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