Lahore, Mar. 4 : Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has not been included in the Pakistan cricket team for the tour of Bangladesh that gets underway from the next week.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday announced a 16 member squad for the forthcoming Bangladesh tour.
According to sources, the selection committee did not consider Akhtar for the selection, as he was not hundred percent fit.
Islamabad, Mar. 4 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has assured Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama that the investigation into the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team on Tuesday, is making progress.
"Progress has been made in the investigation and the perpetrators will be exposed and brought to justice," The News quoted Zardari, as saying.
Zardari told Bogollagama that the terrorists would be caught and dealt "with iron hands".
Islamabad - The Pakistani government has come under heavy criticism for slack security arrangements for the Sri Lankan cricket team that narrowly escaped death in a terrorist attack on Tuesday in the eastern city of Lahore.
Former players, opposition politicians, and even a federal minister termed the terrorist attack a serious security lapse, media reports said.
London, Mar. 4 : Britain has asked Pakistan to dismantle the terror infrastructure inside its territory, and act sincerely against the terrorist groups operating from its soil.
Expressing concern over the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that a vast majority of Al-Qaeda operatives have taken refuge inside Pakistan.
"We know that the vast majority of Al-Qaeda fighters are now in Pakistan not in Afghanistan," Brown said.
Brown said that Islamabad must act sincerely against the outlawed organizations.
Lahore, Mar. 4 : A report in the Foreign Policy magazine has warned the United States to get prepared for an `unwelcome contingency' of military regime which may return to rule Pakistan, by formulating a list of its highest-priority demands for any new military regime, including a timeline and plans for Pakistan's return to constitutional democracy.
The Obama administration's effort to bring in a new strategy for Afghanistan may not yield desire results due to the prevailing political uncertainty in neighbouring Pakistan.
Peshawar (Pakistan), Mar 4 : The US has started launching unmanned aircraft attacks on Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in order to nuetralise a Taliban spring offensive against US forces in Afghanistan.
Sarfaraz Khan, a University of Peshawar professor, supported the American aggressiveness saying, "In order to stop unifying Taliban groups from launching massive attacks against NATO and in particular newly arriving U. S. troops in Afghanistan, such attacks have become indispensable on Americans'' part."
Lahore, Mar. 4 : Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has not been included in the Pakistan cricket team for the tour of Bangladesh that gets underway from the next week.
Islamabad, Mar. 4 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has assured Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama that the investigation into the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team on Tuesday, is making progress.
Islamabad - The Pakistani government has come under heavy criticism for slack security arrangements for the Sri Lankan cricket team that narrowly escaped death in a terrorist attack on Tuesday in the eastern city of Lahore.
London, Mar. 4 : Britain has asked Pakistan to dismantle the terror infrastructure inside its territory, and act sincerely against the terrorist groups operating from its soil.
Lahore, Mar. 4 : A report in the Foreign Policy magazine has warned the United States to get prepared for an `unwelcome contingency' of military regime which may return to rule Pakistan, by formulating a list of its highest-priority demands for any new military regime, including a timeline and plans for Pakistan's return to constitutional democracy.
