Pakistan

Sharif says ‘transparent’ Mumbai carnage probe in Pak’s interest

London, Feb.

PCB set to generate whopping Rs. 400 mln from Dubai Oz series

Karachi, Feb. 5: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) which has been facing a huge financial crunch due to lack of international events on its soil, is looking to make huge money from the proposed Australia-Pakistan series.

According to The News, the PCB is hoping to make the Pakistan-Australia series a money churner event, and is expected to generate a whopping Rs 400 million from television rights alone.

Sources privy to the PCB have revealed that the Board will be adding a huge amount to its depleting bank accounts.

The PCB is banking on the fact that there has been virtually no cricket between both the sides for a long time now, and people in Pakistan would be eager to watch the encounter between the World Champions and the home team.

Britain ask Pakistan to go ‘further and faster’ in Mumbai carnage probe

London, Feb. 5 : Heightening the international pressure on Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of the November 2008 Mumbai attack to justice, Britain has asked Pakistan to speed-up its investigations into the matter, and come out with substantial results.

"Pakistan must go `further and faster' in prosecuting those suspected of being involved in November's attacks on Mumbai," The Daily Times quoted British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, as saying.

Miliband said that though Pakistan had taken actions against some of the terrorist groups operating from its soil, more firm steps were needed to prosecute the masterminds of the Mumbai carnage.

UN announces three-man committee to probe Bhutto’s murder

Islamabad, Feb. 5 : The United Nations (UN) has announced that it would set up a commission to probe the killing of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

UN's Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said that an independent three-member committee would be established to investigate Bhutto's assassination, on December 27, 
2007.

"I intend to establish an independent commission of inquiry to be headed by a distinguished person who will be appointed very shortly," The Daily Times quoted Ban Ki-Moon, as saying here.

Pakistan Presidency spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said that an outline for the commission is being prepared.

ROUNDUP: UN sets up commission to probe Bhutto murder

Islamabad  - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday the formation of a UN commission to probe the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

The announcement was made during Ban's meeting Bhutto's widower and President Asif Ali Zardar, Pakistan's state-run news channel PTV said.

Ban met Zardari during his first visit of the Islamic country since taking office in late 2006.

Bhutto was murdered in a suicide attack on December 27, 2007 during an election rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi.

A Taliban commander named Baitullah Mehsud was initially blamed for the slaying, but he denied the allegations.

Struggle for world peace would be of no use until Kashmir is resolved: Sharif

Nawaz SharifIslamabad, Feb 4 : Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif today said that the struggle by the international community for world peace would be of no use until the Kashmir issue is resolved.

He urged international community to play their effective role for devising a comprehensive strategy to ensure implementation of the UN resolutions on both major issues.

Sharif added that people of Pakistan and India yearn for peaceful relations and they had always been lauding and supporting the efforts of their leadership for bilateral peace.

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