By Rida Zaheer Shahid Afridi has alledged  Pakistan’s one-day cricket captain  Misbah-ul-Haq for his exception from the Champions Trophy squad, and has vowed  to return to the national team. Afridi told the  media on Wednesday that “It’s the  captain’s decision to drop me.” The veteran of 354 limited-overs internationals also says it’s “no big deal”  for him if a captain doesn’t want a certain player in the ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Today's evening is dedicated to our martyrs, veterans and soldiers who remain steadfast and resolutely committed in the defence of our sacred motherland. Regardless of the cost, our spirits are high and our determination unwavering. The nefarious designs of our enemy, may it be internal or external, will never succeed and we shall eventually prevail. I can say this with complete co ...

By Major Muhammad Ijaz Khattak On 22 March 13, I have observed a common but very encouraging phenomenon. A plethora of writings are present on motivational subjects, what inspired me to express my heartfelt happiness was a simple, shinning and contented smile on face of two sons of my unit hero, Major Ehsan (shaheed). Aarish and Basil, natty among their age mates, yet secured 90% and above in their 3rd and ...

By David Rohde BOSTON - There is no right way to react to a terrorist attack. Oklahoma City rebuilt after Timothy McVeigh's 1995 truck bomb attack on the federal government. Atlanta moved on following anti-abortion activist Eric Rudolph's 1996 bombing of the Olympics. New York displayed staggering resiliency after the September 11 attacks. Boston, though, may have set a new standard. Customers swarmed resta ...

By David Ignatius It’s a measure of the relatively quiet time for Israel these days that the sharpest argument at a big national security conference here was between an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who wanted “autonomy” for his fellow believers and secular Israelis in the audience who shouted out denunciations of what one called his “apartheid” plan. To be sure, the Iranian threat looms on the horizon. And Amos Yad ...

By Michael Burleigh The drum beats for Western intervention in the Syrian civil war have grown louder in the last few days. Not because 70,000 to 100,000 people are dead, with more than a million dispersed as refugees. But because it is claimed the regime of Bashar al-Assad is using chemical weapons. It has long been known that Syria  possesses the largest stockpile of  chemical munitions in the Middle East ...

BCCI is initially impressed with the facilities at the newly-built Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium but will analyse the preparedness of the venue to host international matches through the two IPL matches. "The kind of infrastructure which they have got, I think this is the most suitable venue to be allotted for the international matches," IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said ahead of the Pune Wa ...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="266"] Horia Ankour, 30, was taken off an Air France flight after confirming she’s not Jewish[/caption] By Elham Asaad Buaras A French court has found Air France guilty of discrimination for removing a pro-Palestinian activist from a flight to Israel because she was not Jewish. The incident happened during the ‘flytilla’ campaign in April 2012 – when hundreds of pro-P ...