Karachi, Mar. 19: The Pakistan cricket team would be leaving for Dubai on April 13 to take part in a conditioning cum training camp ahead of the One-day international series against Australia.

Pakistan is slated to host Australia in the United Arab of Emirates (UAE), where both the teams will play five One-day internationals and a Twenty-20 match.

The matches would be played in Dubai and Abu Dhabi from April 22 to May 7.

Miramshah (Pakistan), Mar. 19: The Taliban has threatened to kill Canadian journalist, Khadeja Abdul Qahaar if their demand of two million dollars is not met by March 30.

A video received by the Miramshah Press Club showed Qahaar appealing the Canada and Pakistan government to help her return safe.

“I am very sick and they (kidnappers) will kill me at the end of March,” the video footage showed Qahaar, as saying.

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Washington, Mar. 19 : A bunkered Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is in no mood to reconcile with Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif.

According to informed sources, Zardari is taking the reinstatement of judges sacked by former President General Pervez Musharraf as his "personal defeat".

Zardari's own party men fear that he will leave Pakistan politically adrift at a time when it is facing severe threats from Islamist extremists.

Quetta, Mar 19: Pakistan’s Frontier Corps Inspector General, Major General Saleem Nawaz, has denied the presence of Mullah Omar and the Taliban in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan, saying that they lacked political and tribal support in the province.

“Border and other areas of Balochistan territory are not congenial for Taliban activities,” Major General told reporters in the FC headquarters here, adding that Quetta is not safe haven of Taliban.

Islamabad, Mar. 18 : a Pakistani anti-terrorism court has extended the police remand of three Mumbai attack suspects by another two days.

Anti-terror Court judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahut remanded Lashker-e-Taiba operatives Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Zarar Shah and Abu al-Qama to the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

They are being held in Rawalpindi's high-security Adiala Jail.