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Asif confident of Pakistan doing well in Asian Team Snooker

KARACHI, May 22 (APP): Reigning World Champion Muhammad Asif was confident of doing well in inaugural Asian Team Snooker and 6-Red Snooker Championship being held Doha (Qatar) from May 24 to 30. “All our players like Sajjad, Hamza and Majid are in a good nick and are in the best frame of mind to do well in Doha event”, Muhammad Asif told APP in an interview on Wednesday.
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National ranking boxing tournament next month

LAHORE, May 22 (APP): National ranking boxing tournament will be held from June 20 at Hyderabad under the aegis of Pakistan Boxing Federation. “It will be a top national level boxing activity being held after the elections of the present regime of the PBF,” said Secretary, PBF, Iqbal Hussain while talking to APP here on Wednesday.
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Pak snooker to leave for Doha

LAHORE, May 22 (APP): A four-member Pakistan snooker team is leaving, Thursday for Doha to take part in the first Asian team event and 2nd Red snooker championship being played from May 24-30.
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Latest scandal again damaged game’s image: Ex-cricketers

ISLAMABAD, May 22 (APP): Former Pakistan players perceive the recent spot-fixing scandal as a cause to faint the image of the game of cricket and has stone the ongoing Indian Premier League. Talking to private news channel, Former Test captain Zaheer Abbas said that he was shocked by the scandal involving Indian Test player, S.Sreesanth and two others Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan.
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Akhtar Rasool led team management to continue till World Cup

LAHORE, May 21 (APP): Pakistan Hockey Federation has decided to retain Akhtar Rasool led team management till next year’s World Cup adding few professionals in the team management staff to boost the performance of the team.
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BEIJING, Oct 31 (APP):Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the 10th meeting of prime ministers of the member states of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to be held in St. Petersburg in Russia from November 6 to 8,Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei announced on Monday.Wen was invited by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Hong said at a press briefing.

COAS leaves for Turkey to attend Istanbul Conference

RAWALPINDI, Oct 31 (APP): Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani left for Turkey on Monday to participate in Istanbul Conference being held on Tuesday. The conference encompasses trilateral meetings between political and military leadership of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey.The Army Chief will hold discussions with senior military leaders of Turkey and Afghanistan. He was seen off by Lieutenant General Waheed Arshad, Chief of General Staff and Lieutenant General Khalid Nawaz Khan, Commander Rawalpindi Corps.

Afghan refugees’ repatriation remained low in 2011: UNHCR

ISLAMABAD, Oct 31 (APP): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that the repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan is 59 per cent low this year as compared to last year.According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Pakistan Neil Wright, the number of Afghan refugees returning home with the help of UNHCR had dropped substantially this year as some 60,000 repatriated form overseas in the first 10 months against over 100,000 during the same period in 2010, a private news channel reported.

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