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Breaking News ST JOHN'S, Antigua and Barbuda: Guyana left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul was called into the West Indies squad for the first time on Saturday, for the tour of Bangladesh. Permaul, 23, has played 45 first-class matches since his debut five years ago, taking 152 wickets at 24.59 apiece. He has just returned from a tour of Bangladesh with the West Indies High Performance Centre, where he collected 21 wickets across the three formats of the game. Permaul also skippered the West Indies A team earlier this year when they prevailed over India A in a home series. Meanwhile, Barbados batsman Kirk Edwards has been recalled, after losing his place for the third Test on the tour of England earlier this year. West Indies, who won the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka last week, are scheduled to play two Tests, five one-day internationals and one Twenty20 match on their tour of Bangladesh between November 3 and December 12. West Indies...

Benazir withdraws from NA-204LARKANA: Former Prime Minister and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has announced to withdraw candidature for contesting election at NA-204 Larkana.This decision was taken after the seat adjustment reached between Chairperson PPP (SB) and PML (Q) leader Haji Ali Hussain Unnar.Now she will contest the forthcoming general elections only from NA-207 Larkana from where she had won the election four times and this time she is contesting from the same co .... 5 killed in India train blastGAUHATI: A bomb tore through a moving train in India's remote northeast Thursday, killing five passengers and injuring four others, an official said. The New Delhi bound super-fast Rajdhani Express, which started from the eastern town of Dibrugarh in Assam state, had just crossed a station near Chungajan, 270 kilometers (170 miles) east of statecapital Gauhati when the bomb exploded, jolting passengers out o ftheir sleep, an Indian Railway spoke .... Textile sector loan vo...

Election symbols allotted to political parties ISLAMABAD: The incomplete Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a meeting, which was held today (Sunday) formally allot the election symbols to the political parties.Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (Retd) Qazi Muhammad Farooq presided over the meeting.Pakistan Muslim League was allotted bicycle as the election symbol, arrow to PPP, kite to MQM, flower to PML (F), thumb was allotted to PPP (SB).The MMA had fought the 2002 election with ‘book’ as election symbol. But it has not been able to surmount its internal differences at the moment. It faces division on the question of participation in the electoral process. Germany beat Australia to win Champions Trophy (Updated at 2020) KUALA LUMPUR: Germany won the 29th Champions Trophy after defeating Australia 1-0 in the final held at Bukit Jalil National Hockey Stadium on Sunday.Germany scored the goal in the fifth minute through Timo Wess.In the match for third place, the Netherla...

Draft receiving final touches for emergency lifting ISLAMABAD: The legal advisors are Saturday giving final touches to the draft of Provisional Constitutional Amended Order-II at the President House for lifting the emergency on December 15 and several new amendments are being recommended in the constitution.The suggested amendments include the accountability of the judges of higher judiciary and deleting the words regarding the appointed timeframe for the presidential election.According to the sources, the legal advisors are mulling over amending Clause-3 of the Article 41 of the amended PCO related with the presidential election. Under this article, the presidential election can be held prior to end of its stipulated tenure; also, thought is being given to eliminating the words related with the timeframe for this election from August 17, 1988.Phrase ‘subject to constitution’ is being replaced by ‘notwithstanding anything contained in the constitution’ in Sub-clause II of Article 44 dw...

LAHORE: The former captain of Pakistan Cricket team Inzamamul Haq decided late Tuesday to get retirement from test cricket as well. According to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) sources, Inzamam made up his mind in this connection in his meeting with PCB officials three days back.According to his understanding with PCB, the test match against South Africa being played at Gaddafi Stadium from October 8 will be the last test of his career.A former captain is said to have played a vital role in striking this understanding with PCB.According to the understanding, Inzamam will make a formal announcement to this effect in a press conference on Friday.Besides, PCB will organize a farewell ceremony in honour of the former captain, where he would be given Rs10 million.Inzamamul Haq has to his test career 8813 runs in 119 test matches. If he scores 20 runs in his last test, he will break Javed Miandad’s record of 8832 runs.Besides, he scored 11739 runs in 378 one-day matches.