British tabloid to reveal more about match-fixing

LONDON: British tabloid newspaper ‘The News of the World’ said it would reveal more informations about cricket match fixing when it hits the streets tomorrow – just hours before England play the first of two Twenty20s against Pakistan, both in Cardiff.

The tabloid last Sunday created a storm in cricket world when it claimed that Pakistan pacers – Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir – were paid to deliberately bowl no-balls in the opening day of the fourth test against England at Lord’s last week. It also revealed that team’s Test captain Salman Butt was also involved in the whole episode.

Asif, Amir and Butt had their mobile phones confiscated by police, who also searched their hotel rooms and questioned players on several occasions later.

After a lackadaisical approach from the Pakistan Cricket board (PCB), the game’s governing body International Cricket Council

Bahawalpur by-poll: PML-N, PPP supporters clash

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BAHAWALPUR: A clash took place between supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) during the by-election in NA-184, prompting authorities to suspend the voting process at Januwala Union Council Polling Station on Saturday.

The clash began when some women were allegedly mistreated at Polling Station 68. It is still unclear who mistreated the women.

However, authorities had to stop the polling for a brief period over the fighting.

The seat fell vacant after PPP MNA was disqualified by the Lahore High Court for possessing a fake graduation degree. PPP then awarded the ticket to MNA Waran’s wife, Khadija Amir Waran, for the seat.

Mian Najeebuddin of PML-N, and Jamaat Ahle Sunnat’s Rao Javed Iqbal are the other candidates for this seat. SAMAA

Polling in Sargodha, Gujranwala, Lodhran kicks off

LAHORE: The polling for by-elections has kicked off in Sargodha NA-68, Gujranwala NA-100 and Lodhran NA-155 constituencies of National Assembly in Punjab on early Thursday, Geo News reported.

Police together with Rangers’ parties have been deployed in three districts owing to maintenance of law and order situation during polling.

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate Mazhar Ahmad Qureshi and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) nominee Shafqat Hayat Baloch are coming face to face in Sargodha, contesting elections on another seat of the National Assembly vacated over the issue of a fake education degree.

The National Assembly’s NA-68 seat was declared vacant due to the resignation of Syed Javed Hussian Shah, a PML-N MNA elected in the February 2008 general elections. He had to resign due to his fake degree and the Election Commission of Pakistan announced by-elections on the seat.

Syed Javed Hussain Shah had won the 2008 general elections by securing 80,174 votes. His opponent, Mazhar Ahmad Qureshi, bagged 56,959 votes, while Farakh Javed Ghuman got 38,516 votes.

As many as 19 candidates filed nomination papers for these by-elections. Out of these nomination papers, 10 candidates were rejected, while nine were declared ‘valid’.

This constituency is spread over the areas of three tehsils of district Sargodha. A complete tehsil of Sahiwal, the total population of tehsil Shahpur, excluding Jhawarian Town and Jhawarian qanungo halqas, and Sillanwali tehsil, excluding Sillanwali II qanungo halqa and the Patwar Circles of Chak no 119NB, 122NB, 130NB, 132NB and 135NB of the Sargodha district.

Four die in Karachi shooting incidents

KARACHI: Four people were killed and other four were severely injured in incidents of target killing in Shah Faisal Colony and Nagan Chowrangi areas of Karachi.

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Gulf Coast fears spreading slick, fishing ban widens

KEY WEST, Fla: BP Plc forged ahead on Wednesday with efforts to stem its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well, amid fears powerful currents were pushing the slick toward prized U.

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NRO verdict review hearing from May 25

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry Wednesday constituted 17 judges larger bench for hearing of the petitions for review of the National Reconciliation Ordinance verdict.

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PPP awards senate ticket to Hafeez Sheikh

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party has allotted Senate ticket to Federal Advisor for Finance Abdul Hafeez Sheikh for the seat vacated by former finance minister Shaukat Tareen.

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Britain plunged into election deadlock

LONDON: The Conservatives won most seats in a landmark general election but Britain was left Friday with a hung parliament as the party failed to land a knock out blow against Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Plunged into the kind of political uncertainty the country has not experienced since 1974, Conservative leader David Cameron insisted his centre-left rival had lost his mandate to govern.

But the prime minister”s key allies indicated Labour, which has ruled since 1997, would try to cling to power by seeking a deal with the centrist Liberal Democrats.

With 35 of the 650 seats still to be counted, the Conservatives had 290 lawmakers compared to 247 for Labour, meaning it was impossible for the Tories to win the 326 seats they need to govern alone in the House of Commons.

The Liberal Democrats had just 51 — a disaster for the third party after what had seemed a strong campaign.

Brown”s de facto deputy Peter Mandelson said Labour would “obviously” be prepared to consider an alliance with the Liberal Democrats that would allow it to remain in power for a fourth term.

“Obviously we would be prepared to consider that,” Mandelson told Sky News.

He also hinted at offering to meet a key Liberal Democrat demand to change the country”s first-past-the-post voting system, saying it was “on its last legs”.

But Mandelson poured scorn on suggestions that Brown should stand down. “I think that would be rather a surprising thing to happen… I don”t think it would help matters if he were suddenly to stand aside,” he said.

Another senior cabinet minister, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, said he believed Brown would try to form a “progressive majority” with the Liberal Democrats, stressing it was his constitutional right to try to do so.

But senior Conservative figure Michael Gove told BBC radio a pact between Labour and the Liberal Democrats would be “a coalition of the defeated”.

Brown also appeared to indicate he wanted to stay in power, raising the possibility of several uncertain days of horse-trading.

“The outcome of this country”s vote is not yet known but my duty to the country coming out of this election is to play my part in Britain having a strong, stable and principled government,” he said, before returning to the prime minister”s Downing Street residence.

It was a crushing night for the Lib Dems after a surge of support Clegg attracted during the campaign failed to translate into winning seats.

The party actually looked set to finish with fewer lawmakers than at the last election.

Clegg admitted: “This has obviously been a disappointing night for the Liberal Democrats. We simply haven”t achieved what we had hoped.”

He gave no indication of which party he would support.

Cameron tried to grab the momentum for the Conservatives by insisting Britain was crying out for “new leadership”.

“We have to wait for the full results to come out, but I believe it is already clear that the Labour government has lost its mandate to govern our country,” he said after winning his seat.

“What is clear from these results is that the country, our country, wants change. That change is going to require new leadership.”

Some commentators said the only solution to the deadlock might be fresh elections.

“The more we hear of the different permutations of who might work with whom after tonight, the more I feel there is only one certainty: we”ll be having another general election before too long,” The Guardian newspaper said.

The uncertainty had an immediate effect on the pound, which plunged to its lowest level against the dollar in more than a year on Friday.

One notable political casualty was Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, who lost his House of Commons seat after a sex and cash scandal involving him and his wife.

But he will stay on as Northern Ireland”s leader due to his seat in the British-ruled province”s assembly.

High-profile Labour losses included former interior minister Jacqui Smith, who was caught up in an expenses scandal after claiming for porn films for her husband. She lost her seat in Redditch, central England, to the Conservatives.

The polls were marred by a number of protests by voters prevented from casting their ballots in cities including London, Leeds and Sheffield because they were still queuing at 10:00pm (2100 GMT) when polling stations closed.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw said legal challenges could not be ruled out, while the Electoral Commission watchdog said it would carry out a “thorough review”.

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