Posted in Aamir khan, ICL, India, Kareena Kapoor on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
If sources are to be believed, Zee group’s Indian Cricket League (ICL) has plans to rope in Aamir to promote their cricket venture.
The ICL is promoted by Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group, which also owns Zee TV. Apparently, it has realised that it is important to have a brand name like Aamir associated with the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
An international prostitution ring that charged wealthy clients in Europe and the United States up to $5,500 an hour for the body of their choice may have lost its high-class veneer with the arrest of four organizers, prosecutors announced yesterday.
Charges were unsealed in Manhattan accusing the four of participating in a prostitution ring that called [...]
Posted in Bush, Poland, US on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Monday, March 10, 2008
WASHINGTON: The United States will help Poland modernize its military as part of an agreement to deploy part of a new U.S. missile defense system in the country, President George W. Bush said here on Monday.
“The United States recognizes the need for Polish forces to be modernized,” Bush told reporters after talks [...]
Posted in Geoff Lawson, Lawson on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
KARACHI: Pakistan cricket coach Geoff Lawson said Australia’s decision to call off their tour over security fears on Tuesday was disappointing and unjustified.
Lawson, a former Australia paceman, lashed out after the tour scheduled for March-April was postponed following a double bomb attack in the eastern city of Lahore that killed at least 21 people.
“I don’t [...]
Posted in India, Pakistan, William Dalrymple on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
ISLAMABAD, Mar 11 (APP): Pakistan’s economy may currently be in difficulties with fast rising inflation and the shortage of gas, electricity and flour, but between 2002 and 2006, it grew almost as strong as of India, a leading Indian magazine said.
Pakistan in many ways is better than India in terms of transport infrastructure and [...]
Posted in Mullah Omar, Osama Bin Laden on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Source: Daily Times* Maulana Faqir says US biggest terrorist in world
KHAR: A pro-Taliban leader in the Tribal Areas said on Sunday that Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and fugitive Taliban militant leader Mullah Omar were “not enemies of Pakistan”.
Addressing a rally near Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district bordering Afghanistan, Maulana Faqir [...]
Posted in Adnan Ghalib, Brtinay Spears on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Britney Spears and paparazzo Adnan Ghalib have been spotted together, sparking speculation they have rekindled their bizarre romance.The 26-year-old pop star broke their on-off relationship last month after checking out of the Los Angeles UCLA medical centre where she was having treatment for bipolar disorder.
Ghalib was seen driving into Spears’s gated property in Beverley Hills [...]
Posted in India, Iran, Pakistan on March 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Source: BloombergBy Dinakar Sethuraman
March 11 (Bloomberg) — Iran, the world’s No. 2 holder of oil and gas reserves, will sign a final agreement to export gas via pipeline to Pakistan in April, an official from the National Iranian Gas Co. said.
Iran has completed half of the pipeline, which will have a capacity to carry 110 [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, Pakistan on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Australia have confirmed that they will not go ahead with their scheduled tour of Pakistan later this month due to security concerns. The series has not officially been cancelled but rather postponed, however it is unlikely to be played this year.
“We are very sorry that the tour could not take place at this time,” Creagh [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, Nasim Ashraf, Pakistan on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
ISLAMABAD: Bangladesh have agreed in principle to play a one-day series in Pakistan next month as an alternative to Australia test tour, which was postponed because of security concerns.
The world champions were due to visit Pakistan at the end of this month for a 30-day tour but put the trip on hold after a spate [...]
