Pakistani selectors on Wednesday dropped faltering wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal from the one-day and Twenty20 squad for this month's tour of the West Indies and rested senior players.

The 29-year-old wa

At least 42 people were killed and over a hundred injured on Sunday when three powerful blasts ripped through a crowded shrine in Pakistan's Punjab province. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has stro

The toll in the suicide bombings that tore through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan's Punjab province Monday climbed to 49 as doctors raced to treat over a hundred people who were wounded.

The toll

A bomb exploded at a bus terminal in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing up to six people in the sixth bomb attack in as many days to strike the country, police said.

The bomb exploded in the small

Two suicide bomb attacks outside a shrine in the central Pakistani province of Punjab on Sunday killed 41 people, a police officer told the media from the scene of the blasts.

The bombers struck outs

India and Pakistan had a brief bout of acrimony with both complaining that a staffer each posted at their diplomatic missions in Islamabad and New Delhi respectively were detained by the host country

Indian and Pakistani envoys to the UN today noted that the friendly spirit on the cricket field should be reflected in bilateral relations between the two countries.

Top envoys of India, Pakist

Pakistan has agreed to allow an Indian team to question the 2008 Mumbai terror attack suspects being prosecuted there as the home secretaries of the two countries on Tuesday concluded their two-day talks on a positive note.

Top officials from India and Pakistan met for peace talks in New Delhi on Monday looking to benefit from a warming in relations brought on by some successful "cricket diplomacy."

Home Secretaries of India and Pakistan today met here to deliberate on a wide range of issues concerning the two countries including the progress in the probe into 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

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