Meeting Mr Miandad How the Pakistani great's biographer came to write his life story Saad Shafqat Get him in front of a TV when a Pakistan match is on Like all Javed Miandad fans, I had waited patiently to read the story of his life. I assumed it would appear soon after he retired. Yet years passed and nothing emerged. Pakistan's cricket stars are not known for their written output, but there was a feeling ...

Roseau, Dominica: Australia won the third and final Test against West Indies by 75 runs on Friday to secure a 2-0 series victory despite a valiant second-innings effort from the home side. Set a daunting target of 370, West Indies resumed on 173 for five and were bowled out for 294 shortly before lunch on the fifth and final day. Australia captain Michael Clarke finished with five wickets for only the secon ...

Islamabad—The SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) in collaboration with Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) supported by Freidrich Naumann Foundation, Fur Die Freiheit, Regional office, New Delhi will organize Conference on Energy, Climate Change and Water Management in South Asia on Monday, the 30th April 2012. The conference will also be inaugurated by Chairman National Disaster Ma ...

London: South Korean mobile maker Samsung has overtaken Nokia to become the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, according to a report. Research firm Strategy Analytics revealed that in the first quarter of 2012 Samsung shipped 93 million mobile handsets phones compared to almost 83 million by Nokia. The firm said its IT and mobile communications division, which manufactures the smartphones, made an oper ...

By David Ignatius In the year since Osama bin Laden’s death, it has been a comforting thought for Westerners to say that he failed. And that’s certainly true in terms of al-Qaeda, whose scorched-earth jihad tactics alienated Muslims along with everyone else. But in terms of bin Laden’s broader goal of moving the Islamic world away from Western influence, he has done better than we might like to think. Egypt ...