Pakistani Court Rejects Plea against Malik

Court has rejected petitions to file charges against model and actress Veena Malik, following allegedly nude photographs of her appearing on the cover of …

Written on December 9, 2011 | Posted in Mali, photographs, unlmitie | Leave a comment

Sehwag blitz launches 10th World Cup

NEW DELHI: Virender Sehwag pulverised the Bangladesh attack on Saturday to get India’’s World Cup bid off to a flying start with a thumping win in the first match of the six-week cricket marathon. The 10th World Cup, jointly hosted by India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, is tipped to be the most open for years but India hammered out an ominous warning in their first innings of the showpiece, scoring a mammoth 370-4. Big-hitting Sehwag led the way with a stunning 175 despite struggling with injury, while Virat Kohli scored 100 not out as the pair put on 203 for the third wicket. Bangladesh made a spirited chase of the daunting target before ending at 283-9 with opener Tamim Iqbal making 70 and Shakib Al Hasan playing a captain’’s knock of 55 off 50 balls in the Group B match. Sehwag, whose innings was the joint fourth highest individual score in World Cup history, said the victory was sweet revenge for India’’s humiliating loss to Bangladesh in the 2007 edition that contributed to their early exit. “It was a good start for the team. I have said this is a revenge game and we have won. I have said before Bangladesh are not good in Tests, but they can compete in ODIs, but today they could not,” Sehwag said. “I was looking to bat long, maybe get 100 in 30 overs and then go on,” added Sehwag, who needed a runner late in his innings. Earlier, Bangladesh came to a virtual standstill as thousands of fans enjoyed a carnival atmosphere inside and outside the Sher-e-Bangla stadium in Dhaka. Huge crowds, wearing national team shirts of green and red, had jammed the streets leading to the 25,000-seat stadium since Friday night, hoping for a repeat of their team’’s famous five-wicket win over India in 2007. Security is tight for the 14-team tournament with authorities desperate to avoid any repeat of the deadly 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team that still haunts the sport. Around 20,000 members of Bangladesh’’s elite paramilitary force the Rapid Action Battalion and regular officers were deployed in Dhaka for the first match, police spokesman M. Sohail said. “All cricket venues, airports, the nine official hotels and transport for all the teams and officials fall under our security blanket,” Sohail said. Memories are still fresh of the attack in March 2009 when gunmen ambushed the team bus carrying Sri Lanka’’s Test squad in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Eight people were killed and seven Sri Lankan players and their assistant coach injured in the attack, which led to Pakistan’’s removal by the International Cricket Council as a co-host of the World Cup. Cricket fever has gripped Bangladesh, which is co-hosting the World Cup for the first time. All businesses, private offices and schools have been either partly shut or completely closed since Thursday when the opening ceremony was held. The tournament is the biggest sporting event the impoverished country of 146 million has hosted since it won independence four decades back. Local television channels have stopped regular programming and switched to virtual round-the-clock discussions on cricket. On Friday, at least 100,000 people — some with young children — visited Dhaka’’s western suburb of Mirpur just to soak up the atmosphere around the stadium. “People have gone crazy. They were dancing late into the night, shouting Bangladesh and the names of the players,” local police chief Kazi Wajidul Alam said. “It’’s a big national celebration. Young boys blew car horns and vuvuzelas, some took family photographs in front of the illuminations around the stadium.” Hamida Hossain, 45, who came from Old Dhaka to join the carnival, said: “I have never seen such a festive atmosphere before. People are singing and dancing as if we had achieved something special.” (AFP)

Written on February 19, 2011 | Posted in 2009, 2011, Channels, Cricket, ISI, International, ODIs, Pakistan, Sports, UN, US, USA, War, World Cup, ad, aid, ban, bangladesh, captain, cia, dha, india, lahore, military, photographs, police, pta, tests, uth | Leave a comment

Pics of Pak defence sites found in Davis's camera

ISLAMABAD: Prosecutors have recommended registering an espionage case against US official Raymond Davis, who shot dead two Pakistanis in Lahore, after police retrieved from his camera photographs of …

Written on February 10, 2011 | Posted in Pakistan, US, ad, cia, islam, islamabad, lahore, photographs, police, unlmitie | Leave a comment

The Surfer: Is Wankhede any better than Eden Gardens?

While Eden Gardens has been stripped of the India-England World Cup match, which was scheduled for February 27, the Wankhede Stadium was cleared by the ICC. in.com decided to do their own inspection of Wankhede and took some revealing photographs….

Written on January 28, 2011 | Posted in Cricket, ICC World Cup 2011, Sports, World Cup, ad, england, icc, india, photographs | Leave a comment

Kennedy library puts archives online

WASHINGTON: The John F. Kennedy library has put thousands of papers, photographs and recordings of the former US president online to mark the 50th anniversary of his inauguration. The digital collection at jfklibrary.org is the largest online digitized archive of any former US president, the Boston-based John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said. It was unveiled on Thursday by Kennedy’’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, the president of the foundation. “My parents believed that history is one of our greatest teachers,” Caroline Kennedy said in a statement. “As young people increasingly rely on the Internet as their primary source for information, it is our hope that the library’’s online archive will allow a new generation to learn about this important chapter in American history,” she said. Historical documents and images put online include records of the US civil rights movement, Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union, Cuban missile crisis and efforts to send a man to the moon. The digital archive includes Kennedy’’s personal papers, letters and the White House photo, audio and film collections. It features 200,000 pages of documents, 300 reels of audio tape with 1,245 individual recordings of telephone calls, speeches and meetings, 72 reels of film and 1,500 photos. The library said more material will be added as it is scanned and catalogued. The library houses more than 8.4 million pages of Kennedy’’s personal, congressional and presidential papers, more than 400,000 photographs, 9,000 hours of audio recordings and 7.5 million feet of motion picture film.

Written on January 16, 2011 | Posted in 2011, America, American, Cuba, ISI, International, News, UN, US, USA, War, ad, aid, ban, import, internet, photographs | Leave a comment

Tour Diaries: Trip down a not-too-serious memory lane

Kids playing cricket in South Africa in 1934

Written on September 14, 2010 | Posted in Cricket, Sports, africa, cricinfo, photographs, uth | Leave a comment

Churchill’’s archive to go online

LONDON: Winston Churchill’’s school reports, a drinking bet he once made, and even information on his budgie will be available to all when the wartime Prime Minister’’s archive goes online. The digitised archive will offer an insight into Churchill’’s personal and professional life, from his school days up to his final years as a statesman during the Cold War. Bloomsbury will publish 2,500 archival boxes of Churchill’’s letters, telegrams, manuscripts and photographs in 2012, after striking a deal with the Churchill Archive Trust (CAC). “As an archival collection, there’’s nothing like this,” said publisher of Bloomsbury Academic Frances Pinter. For a modest, up-front fee, users will be able to search through over 1 million items including a personal copy of the “finest hour” speech, and the less well-known “Savrola,” a novel Churchill wrote when he was 23 years old. The price is yet to be decided, but Bloomsbury say they will keep it low to maximise the archive’’s reach. Since 1995, when the archive was bought from Churchill’’s heirs using 12 million pounds of lottery money, it has been housed in Cambridge, where it can only be viewed by appointment.

Written on August 2, 2010 | Posted in International, War, aid, photographs | Leave a comment

Photo exhibition of ex-IGPs begins

Friday, July 16, 2010 Our crime correspondent IslamabadIGP (Islamabad) Syed Kaleem Imam inaugurated an exhibition of photographs of all previous IGPs who had served the Islamabad Police since its …

Written on July 16, 2010 | Posted in 2010, exhibition, islam, islamabad, photographs, police, unlmitie | Leave a comment

Fugitive kills himself in dramatic armed siege

LONDON: One of Britain’’s biggest-ever manhunts ended in dramatic scenes Saturday with fugitive gunman Raoul Moat shooting himself dead to end a tense armed stand-off with police. After gradually closing the net on Moat, who had been on the run for a week after a deadly shooting rampage, armed police surrounded him in the country village at the very epicentre of the massive manhunt. They cornered the 37-year-old bouncer by a riverbank late Friday and negotiated for six hours into the rainy night when the wanted man killed himself. A source close to the investigation confirmed that Moat was dead. In a search that brought in police officers from across the country, Moat was finally captured in Rothbury, north of Newcastle. He was wanted for shooting dead his ex-girlfriend’’s new partner, and seriously injuring her plus a policeman in the Newcastle area shortly after being released from prison. In letters left for detectives he claimed to be a “killer and a maniac”, declared “war” on the police and said in a letter to them he would not stop killing “till I”m dead”. Police said they found the father-of-three in Rothbury at around 7:00 pm Friday. “Raoul Thomas Moat was discovered by police in the vicinity of the riverbank and he was armed,” Northumbria Police said in a statement. “Expert negotiators were brought in to speak to him and spoke to him extensively for several hours. “At around 1:15 am, from information available at the moment, it appears the suspect shot himself. No shots were fired by police officers. “No officers have been injured.” He rushed by ambulance to Newcastle General Hospital. Moat was seen being carried in on a stretcher, with a blanket covering his head. The search for Moat closed in quickly on Friday. It had focused on the wild terrain around Rothbury after a car linked to him was found abandoned there. Detectives arrested two people accused of helping him, found three of his mobile phones and released photographs of camping equipment including a tent and sleeping bag which he and accomplices are thought to have used. They said they had “recovered valuable information”. Armed police had imposed a lockdown around Rothbury for days and within hours threw an exclusion zone around part of the village as the siege began, with those stuck inside ordered to stay inside their homes. BBC television showed a grainy, night-vision footage of the moment the stand-off ended, which featured shouting and dogs barking in the downpour. Saturday’’s newspapers were filled with headlines about the siege. “Got Him”, said The Sun and the Daily Express’’s front pages. The search for Moat brought in officers from 15 forces, including specialist snipers, and armoured all-terrain cars from Northern Ireland. A Royal Air Force plane with imaging equipment also joined the search. Moat had been serving an 18-week sentence for assault. It is the second gun rampage in quick succession in England’’s most northerly counties. On June 2, taxi driver Derrick Bird killed 12 people before turning the gun on himself in Cumberland in a shooting spree that shocked the quiet, rural area.

Written on July 10, 2010 | Posted in ISI, International, Mobile, News, War, aid, ban, cars, cia, england, footage, photographs, police | Leave a comment

Islamabad at Night

For a long time i was planning to take snaps of Islamabad at night. This very time i went to Daman-e-Koh at around 8pm. I was actually planning to go their around sun set , but couldn’t manage so it was pitch dark when i reached there. Here are some snaps i took. There were

Written on June 14, 2010 | Posted in Photography, Pictures, Politics, islam, islamabad, photographs | Leave a comment

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