ICC Got Angry On Participation of Amir in Practice Match

ICC got angry on the participating of Muhammad Amir, Suspended Pakistani player in spot-fixing scandal. The left-arm pacer played a practice match representing a local club in Rawalpindi cricket stadium.

Pakistan Cricket Board have took the notice and asked for the details of officials of Rawalpindi Regional Academy. The coach of the academy Azhar Sabeeh accepted that Muhammad Amir bowled in the match. The spokesman of PCB Nadeem Sarwar said that although the suspended player didn’t participated in event held by PCB but board will investigate that who gives the permission to participate fast bowler in the ground, which is under control of board.

The spokesman of PCB said that we are receiving applications from different associations to include the trio suspended players in their teams but PCB respect the injunctions of ICC anti-corruption unit. It is to be remembered that after the declaring sustentation of Muhammad Amir, Muhammad Asif and Salman Butt from ICC, PCB have also cancelled the central contracts of mentioned players. All three players were suspended after coming spot-fixing scandal on the record in England last year.

It is not cleared yet that the match played yesterday between Army and Rawalpindi was held by PCB or it is a private or friendly match. But according to academy coach Azhar Sabeeh he was not in the ground but when he came then came into knowledge that Muhammad Amir have bowled some overs from Army. He said that Regional didn’t arrange this match it is a private and friendly match. PCB decided the inquiry of the matter.

It is to be remembered that few months ago suspended Salman butt also practiced in the National Academy Lahore. After that PCB took series notice and giving the reference of ICC injunctions, said that all three suspended players cannot participate in any cricket activity. The fate of suspended players will be decided on 5 February. On the participation of Amir in practice match angry ICC said that until the verdict is announced, players are not allowed playing any sort of cricket.

Women Cricket Team to Get Central Contracts: PCB

Women Cricket Team to Get Central Contracts, PCB

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced to give central contracts to women cricket team from January 2011.

PCB governing body meeting was held under the chairmanship of Ijaz Butt in which all members unanimously decided to give central contracts to women cricket team from January 2011.

The BOG gave post facto approval to the Terms of Reference for the Integrity Committee formed by PCB.As per Clause 35 of the PCB Constitution the BOG approved the names of Justice Muhammad Sayeed Akhtar and Justice Fazal-e-Miran Chohan to be added to the Panel of Independent Arbitrators,said the spokesman after the meeting. It may be noted that Justice Irfan Qadir, Justice Jamshed Ali Shah, and Justice Munir A. Sheikh are the three names already on the PCB panel of Arbitrators.

Knock Out trailer faces censor trouble

The Sanjay Dutt-Kangna-Irrfan Khan thriller Knock Out is in censor trouble. The trailer has been banned by the censor board for an allegedly derogatory reference by Irrfan Khan to the 1000-rupee note.

Apparently, when someone in a scene wonders aloud why the 1000-rupee note is pink in colour Irrfan retorts, “Because it is created from the blood and sweat of the common man.”

The censor board raised an objection to what they see as a derogatory reference to the Indian currency. Rather than deleting the objectionable reference, the film’s makers have gone with the trailer to the revising committee.

Someone very close to the project says, “Why should the reference to the 1000-rupee note be seen as derogatory? What we’ve said is that politicians build their wealth on the betrayed trust of common people. Isn’t that the truth? Besides in Aashayein we have John Abraham constantly throwing money around, kicking and shoving wads of currency. Why didn’t the censor board object to that?”

Producer Sohail Makhlai confirms that the trailer has been stopped by the Censor Board. “It’s true they object to a dialogue on the 1000-rupee note. We’re now taking the trailer to the revising committee.”

Quetta shuts down to mourn Al Quds rally attack

QUETTA: The Balochistan Shia Council is observing a complete strike in Quetta to mourn the suicide attack on the Yaum-ul-Quds rally that killed 60 people.

All markets and schools are shut.

Police official Mohammed Sultan said on Saturday that about 150 people sustained injuries. He said the death toll jumped overnight.

Sultan said police were patrolling the city to ensure peace and avoid any untoward incident.

As many as 60 people were killed and over 150, including seven journalists suffered serious injuries in the deadly blast at Meezan Chowk, Quetta. SAMAA

Protest against Sohail Zia’s arrest

Staff Report

LAHORE: Hundreds of people held a protest outside Lahore Accountability Court against the arrest of PML-N leader, Sohail Zia Butt.

The accountability court has sent Sohail Zia to jail for eleven days of judicial remand.

Before the case hearing, many supporters of Sohail Zia Butt held a protest outside accountability court and demanded his release and withdrawal of all cases against him.

The protesters chanted slogans against the federal government and in support of Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif.

While talking to the media, Sohail Zia Butt said that many false cases were filed against him and his family during Musharraf’s era.

Earlier, the accountability court sentenced Butt to three years in prison.

Another reference presented him before court today (Saturday). SAMAA

Euro falls broadly, 4-year low vs dlr

TOKYO: The euro fell broadly on Monday, hitting its lowest in more than four years against the dollar with investors increasingly nervous about more slides in the currency after a clear break below a support point on charts.

Market players said the euro”s close on Friday below a 50 percent retracement of its 2000-2008 rally at $1.2135 was seen as a bearish chart signal, adding to the single currency”s woes.

The euro fell to an 8- year trough versus the yen as mounting worries about the region”s debt problems drove investors to sell the single currency.

Investors dumped riskier assets such as the higher-yielding Australian dollar and unwound leveraged carry trades, moving funds to the U.S. dollar, the yen and the Swiss franc, considered safe-haven assets in times of volatility.

The euro fell to its lowest point on record against the Swiss franc as more market players chased the euro down after it cracked below 1.40 francs on Friday in the absence of Swiss central bank efforts to stem strength in its currency.

Investors were aggressively removing themselves from risk on a number of factors such as mounting worries about Hungary and the euro zone, disappointing U.S. jobs numbers and falling commodity prices.

Lack of any expression of strong concerns at a meeting of G20 finance ministers over the weekend or from euro zone policymakers after the euro”s fall below a key chart support around $1.20-1.21 on Friday also encouraged market players to sell the euro more, traders said.

“Europe”s sovereign debt problems are just not going away and it”s difficult to see a light at the end of tunnel for it just yet,” said Jonathan Cavenagh, a currency strategist at Westpac.

“There might be a bit of support around the $1.18 handle, but we expect it to fall to $1.15 eventually.”

The euro fell as low as $1.1876 on the EBS trading platform, having fallen past $1.1900 in early Asian trade when more stop-loss selling was triggered.

Traders say the next option trigger is at $1.1850 and the likely target at $1.1825, the euro”s March 2006 low.

The euro came under fresh pressure last week on growing concerns that Hungary could be facing a Greek-style debt crisis.

Also weighing on the euro were comments by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon on exchange rates.

Fillon said he was unconcerned by the current level of the euro to the dollar and saw only “good news” in the parity between the two currencies. Later the remarks were clarified saying his reference to “parity” was about the general evolution of the exchange rate between the euro and the dollar.

The euro”s weakness helped the U.S. dollar index climb to a fresh 15-month high of 88.708, eyeing the 2009 high of 89.62.

The greenback”s gains came despite disappointing U.S. jobs numbers on Friday.

U.S. employers created 431,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department said, below the 513,000 predicted by analysts polled by a UK-based news agency. The jobless rate fell more than expected to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent in April.

APPG Result 2010

APPG Result 2010 | APPG Medical Entrance Exam Results 2010 | AP Post Graduate Medical Entrance Test Results 2010

The Andhra Pradesh postgraduate medical entrance exam results published for admission in various medical colleges, located in Andhra Pradesh. The MBBS or Medical graduates from Andhra Pradesh, or those who have graduated from Andhra Pradesh’s medical schools appears to be in PG Degree and Diploma courses in surgery and medicine, etc. Students / Medico has appeared in APPG audition can pick up their results from the official website of the APPG Entrance 2010th

Center not to intervene in internal matters of AJK: Gilani

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the federal government will not interfere in the internal affairs of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

He made this assurance to AJK Prime Minister Raja Hyder Farooq, who called on Prime Minister Gilani at the Parliament House in Islamabad Monday.

Two leaders exchanged views about the ongoing row over Chief Justice of the AJK.

Farooq said that the reference against the Chief Justice was sent in line with the law and constitution.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Gilani said the judicial issues should be resolved according to the Constitution.

President Was Never Convicted in BMW Reference: Additional Prosecutor General

Pakistan News: President Was Never Convicted in BMW Reference: Additional Prosecutor General, Additional Prosecutor General Abdul Basir Quershi has informed the Presidency that President Zardari was never convicted in the BMW reference.
According to sources in the Presidency that President was never convicted in the BMW case due to his unavailability. Bashir said that article 31A is not applicable on President. NAB has declared rumors incorrect that the president has been convicted in the BMW reference case and said that according to NAB documents Article 31A failed to prove President Zardari guilty of BMW case.
Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani met famous lawyer Abdul Hafiz Pir Zada to discuss issues related to law and constitution. PM said that the balance of power is very important.

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President Was Never Convicted in BMW Reference: Additional Prosecutor General was first posted on January 26, 2010 at 1:03 pm.

Osama Mock-up Had Spanish Politician’s Features: FBI

MADRID: A Spanish lawmaker was horrified to learn that the FBI used an online photograph of him to create an image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today.

The image using Gaspar Llamazares’ photo appeared on a wanted poster updating the U.S. government’s 1998 photo of the al-Qaida leader.

FBI spokesman Ken Hoffman acknowledged to the Spanish newspaper that the agency used a picture of Llamazares taken from Google Images.

In a statement Saturday, the agency would say only that it was aware of similarities between their age-progressed image “and that of an existing photograph of a Spanish public official.”

“The forensic artist was unable to find suitable features among the reference photographs and obtained those features, in part, from a photograph he found on the Internet,” the FBI said in a statement to media.

The wanted poster appeared on the State Department Web site rewardsforjustice.net, listing a reward of up to $25 million. The FBI said the photo of bin Laden would be removed from the Web site.

Llamazares, former leader of the United Left party, was elected to Spain’s parliament in 2000. The photograph of him used to make the wanted poster originally appeared on posters for his 2004 general-election campaign.

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Osama Mock-up Had Spanish Politician’s Features: FBI was first posted on January 17, 2010 at 12:52 pm.

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