Weekly EHTASABI AMAL Lahore ھفت روذھ احتسابی عمل لاھور

8 troops,23 militants killed in khyber Agency clashes.... Ai jaz reiterates military coup receiving threat after may 2..  PML-N decides  not to attend APC on Balochistan.... Iran Gas projecthas finalized without foreign pressure Cylinder blast in Peshawar's hospital ,4 hurt...At least 3 people were injured in gas cylinder explosion in peshawar's lady reading hospital the administration of the hospital said the blast in pathological department has damaged the building andequipment

For 15 years, Pakistanis exalted Imran Khan as a cricket legend but largely ignored his politics. When Khan discussed cricket, the public hung on his every word. But when he campaigned for office, they dismissed him as an outsider. Now, asPakistan'stopsy-turvy political landscape careens into an election season, Khan the politician has emerged for the first time as a major force, his ascent directly proportionate to the rising tide of frustration Pakistanis feel over woes such as seemingly endemic corruption, poverty and shortages of power and natural gas. At an Oct. 30 rally in Lahore, he stunned the political establishment by drawing more than 100,000 people. He followed up in December, rallying 100,000 more in Karachi, the country's biggest city and commercial capital. Khan's struggle to be taken seriously has been a long one in a country where political newcomers rarely gain traction. He even had to overcome an affliction that pained him as far back as his cric...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's chief selector Mohammad Ilyas resigned Thursday and was replaced by former spinner Iqbal Qasim, the country's cricket board said, following defeat against England in limited-overs series. Pakistan won the Tests 3-0 in the United Arab Emirates, but then went down 4-0 in the one-day series and 2-1 in the Twenty20 internationals, prompting calls for the removal of captain Misbah-ul Haq's and a management shake-up. Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Zaka Ashraf announced that Qasim, a former chief selector, had been appointed to replace Ilyas as chairman of the selection committee. Ilyas, who only took over as chief selector in October but had been on the committee since 2008, said it was time to go. "As selector I did my best and our team did well at all levels, but now I think it's time to move on and allow new faces to come and serve," the former Test batsman told AFP from Lahore. He reportedly had reservations over the controvers...

KARACHI — Pakistan coach Mohsin Khan appeared stumped Wednesday by his team's lack of form in limited over matches after routing England 3-0 in Tests, saying he had "tried everything". Pakistan whitewashed England in the three Tests but slumped to a 4-0 defeat in the one-day series and lost 2-1 in the Twenty20s. The 56-year-old Khan, who is likely to be replaced by former Australian batsman Dav Whatmore next month, said he did not understand what happened. "Pakistan team's performance in the Tests was outstanding," Khan told AFP. "But the team was disappointing in the limited overs series and I am at a loss to understand how a team playing high-level cricket went down like that." Khan refused to blame captain Misbah ul-Haq and also refused to comment when asked whether some players may have under performed to oust him as coach. "I am happy with my efforts and my tenure. The win against England was special," said Khan, who played 48 Tests...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Chinese woman was shot dead with a male companion on Tuesday in the Pakistani city Peshawar, which borders the tribal belt stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants, police said. They were killed by gunmen on motorbikes while walking in the Kohati bazaar in the historic centre of the northwestern city, police said. The motive for the shooting and why the Chinese woman was in Peshawar were not immediately clear. "Those who were killed are one man carrying a Pakistani ID card and one woman carrying a Chinese passport," police official Tahir Ayub told AFP. They were walking in the Kohati bazaar when gunmen on motorbikes shot them and fled, he said. The woman was aged about 40 and the Pakistani man was named as Suleiman Shams, 22. It was the fifth shooting or bomb attack in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since Thursday, raising fears that violence is again on the rise following a relative decline in unrest in recent mo...

 PTI has demanded that high level security must be ensured whenever a media person is threatened and all incidents of assaults and tragic deaths of the journalists in the line of duty should be thoroughly investigated and the culprits be given exemplary sentences.

KARACHI, 27 February 2012 (IRIN) - Sixteen-year-old Ameena Ahmed*, now living in the town of Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, does not always respond when her mother-in-law calls out to her.  Even after a year of `marriage’ I am not used to my new name. I was called Radha before,” she told IRIN on a rare occasion when she was allowed to go to the corner shop on her own to buy vegetables.  Ameena, or Radha as she still calls herself, was abducted from Karachi about 13 months ago by a group of young men who offered her ice-cream and a ride in their car. Before she knew what was happening, she was dragged into a larger van, and driven to an area she did not know.  She was then pressured into signing forms which she later found meant she was married to Ahmed Salim, 25; she was converted to a Muslim after being asked to recite some verses in front of a cleric. She was obliged to wear a veil. Seven months ago, Ameena, who has not seen her parents or three siblings...