Beijing—President Pervez Musharraf on Monday
condemned attempts to undermine the Beijing
Olympics and said efforts were being made to
ensure peaceful holding of torch relay event in
Islamabad.
Karachi—A 23-member Pakistan junior hockey squad
is due to leave for Durban en-route Johannesburg
(South Africa) on a 11-day tour to play seven
matches against the host.
WEST Indies have secured the series after their
back-to-back wins in Trinidad, one a last-ball
thriller and the other a more comfortable
success completed by the man-of-the-moment,
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, and Marlon Samuels. It
has been an uplifting couple of weeks for West
Indies, following their series-levelling Test
victory, and a whitewash of the one-dayers would
set them up nicely for the ultimate challenge of
facing Australia. For Sri Lanka it’s about
salvaging pride from a tour that started so
promisingly before fading away. They have
clearly missed some of their experienced
players, but no one ever said rebuilding a side
would be easy.
Lahore—Pakistan named paceman Mohammad Asif in a
16-man squad for the fourth one-day
international against Bangladesh after a
five-month lay-off due to injury.
Islamabad—The Pakistan senate committee on
sports has decided the process for Shoaib
Akhtar’s appeal regarding his five-year ban
should continue and that the appellate tribunal
should be allowed to take its decision
independently. Last week the Pakistan board had
appointed a three-man tribunal, headed by a
retired High Court judge, to look in to Shoaib’s
appeal.
