On March 3 -2009. Near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. 4 guns loaded terriost attack on sri lakanan team when they are on move towards stadium for 2nd test match.
4 security persons are killed during the attacks.while almost 6 player are injured.They moved to local hospital for the treatment.
Local official said that they found bullets, rocket launcher near the side. police control the area & searching start.
As per PCBA official match will be canceled & it will a great lost for Pakistani cricket. In the past many teams refused to come pakistan because of law & order situation.
Pakistan condemn this attack & many official said, its a pay back from Ra after Mumbai attack
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Slumdog Millionarie wins 8 Oscars at the 81st academy Awards
Holly wood director Danny Boyle Moive "slumdog Millionarie" wins eight Oscars at the 81st Academy Awards.
Oscars for Best
Picture
Director
Music(Song)
Music(Score)
FilmEditing
Sound Mixing
Cinematography
Writing
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Egypt jewels on display
Egypt official said on wednesday that its their plan to put on public display crown jewel that are the belongings of dynasty who ruled the country for 150 years.
The jewels are locked & their keys are in custedyof Central Bank & they will sohw in a musemum of Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
As per egypt culture ministerthat these jewels will be display first time after the 1952 revolution, jewels will show at the royal family museum of jewellery.
Moreover a former royal palace that is transformed into a museum in 1986.muhammad ali that ruled from 19 century till 1952 untill the fall of the monarchy.
The jewels are locked & their keys are in custedyof Central Bank & they will sohw in a musemum of Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
As per egypt culture ministerthat these jewels will be display first time after the 1952 revolution, jewels will show at the royal family museum of jewellery.
Moreover a former royal palace that is transformed into a museum in 1986.muhammad ali that ruled from 19 century till 1952 untill the fall of the monarchy.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Aussies good enough to beat any team, says Ponting
HYDERABAD (India), Sept 30: Australian captain Ricky Ponting vowed on Tuesday to make amends for his own past failures in India during the upcoming Test series.Ponting, one of the seven batsmen to have completed 10,000 Tests runs, has averaged a dismal 12.28 in eight matches in India since his maiden visit with Mark Taylor’s side in 1996.“I’ll work really hard for the next week to make sure I am as good as I can be.
Hopefully, I can turn things around there. It’s all in my hands and I know what I have to do to have success here,” he said.Ponting has managed just 172 in 14 innings in India, with his worst performance in 2001 when he scored 17 in three Tests, falling five times to off-spinner Harbhajan Singh.“There is a bit of a void in my international career here in India. There’s no doubt about that,” the Australian skipper said at his first press conference since arriving in India on Sept 22.
“Even on the last tour (in 2004) when we managed to win the Test series, I missed the first three Tests with a broken thumb and came back for the last one and we managed to lose that Test match.“So hopefully there are a lot of runs ahead for me here,” added Ponting, who has made 10,099 runs in 119 Tests with 35 hundreds during his career.Ponting made 11 and 12 in his only Test in India four years ago when his side lost by 13 runs on a turning Mumbai track.
The Australian captain is one of the four players in the current squad to have played a Test in India, the others being batsmen Matthew Hayden, Michael Clarke and Simon Katich.But Ponting said his side were capable of putting in a winning performance if they played to their potential.“We are confident the younger faces are going to be good enough and their skills good enough to stand up in Test cricket in India,” stressed Ponting.“I think even over the last 12 months when we have been missing some of our more experienced players we have still managed to show our best cricket is good enough to beat everybody.
“We go into every game confident to play at a certain level, and we’re good enough to beat anybody we play against,” Ponting said.Ponting noted that a weeklong training camp in Jaipur helped the team get acclimatised to Indian conditions, especially the pitches. The camp included a two-day game against the Rajasthan Cricket Academy XI in which Australia’s batsmen had difficulty against young spinners.
“We did struggle against spin, but we are confident for the first Test,” he asserted.Ponting also urged the teams to play in the right spirit to avoid a repeat of the ill-tempered series between the two teams in Australia early this year.“The important thing is that the captains are responsible for what happens on the field. We are responsible for our teams and the way we play our cricket,” expressed Ponting.Australia clinched the four-Test series earlier this year 2-1 amid deteriorating relations between the two sides.
The Indians, unhappy with umpiring decisions in the second Test in Sydney, almost abandoned the tour when off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was accused of making racist comments against Andrew Symonds.“We have addressed it a number of times, particularly after the Sydney Test. We all understand what is acceptable and what is not,” said Ponting. “Both teams have a responsibility in this series to make sure everybody is playing the game in the right way.”Australia, who trained for a week in Jaipur, open the tour with a four-day fixture starting in Hyderabad on Thursday.The opening Test begins in Bangalore on Oct 9, followed by back-to-back matches in Mohali, New Delhi and Nagpur.Australia clinched the four-Test series on their previous tour in 2004, their first success in India in 35 years.—Agencies.
West Bank settler violence a challenge for Israel
ASIRA AL-KIBLIYA, West Bank: Armed with guns, slingshots, knives and stun grenades, Jewish settlers pelted the house of Palestinian Nahla Makhlouf with stones, uprooted young trees and painted the Star of David on her walls.In Makhlouf’s West Bank village of Asira al-Kibilya, Palestinians brace for possible attack by their Jewish settler neighbours from nearby Titzhar almost every weekend. But the latest attack exceeded their expectations.
“They sprayed some sort of tear gas through the window. It smelled strong and made our eyes run and made it hard to breath, especially for my baby,” said the 33-year-old mother of four.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reacted strongly to the Sept 13 attack, saying he would not tolerate “pogroms” by Jewish extremists who are determined on religious grounds to stop Israel swapping occupied land for peace.
Last week, an outspoken Israeli critic of the settlements was wounded by a pipe bomb outside his Jerusalem home, in what Olmert said was evidence of “an evil wind of extremism, of hatred, of violence” threatening Israeli democracy.Settlers and the Israeli army said the Asira assault was triggered by the wounding of a nine-year-old settler boy by a Palestinian whom he had disturbed in the act of setting fire to a house in the Yitzhar settlement while the family was away.But settler vigilante violence is growing, according to a recent UN report, which recorded 222 incidents in the first half of 2008, versus 291 in all of 2007.
Some half a million Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, including Arab East Jerusalem. Their presence, viewed by major powers as illegal under international law, is partly shielded by a 790-km barrier Israel has been building since 2002.In a newspaper interview on Monday, Olmert broke new ground by urging Israel’s withdrawal “from almost all the territories” captured in the 1967 Middle East war in return for peace.
But Olmert says Israel plans to keep major settlements in the West Bank in any peace deal, and would have to compensate the Palestinians for land lost.The Palestinians say they cannot have a viable country of their own if it is chopped into pieces by Israeli settlement islands and the snaking walls and fences of the new barrier.US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called the settlements “an obstacle to peace” which must go.Some settlers justified the attack on Asira, saying the army failed to protect them against a violent infiltration.“If the Israeli army had done what it should, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.
They should either have prevented that infiltration or carried out a raid after,” Renana Cohen said.Dani Dayan of Israel’s mainstream settlers’ organisation says the Arabs do not want peace. A Palestinian state would be a “launching pad” from which they would conduct “ethnic cleansing” against the Israelis, he argues. Many Israelis feel the same.Most settlers oppose vigilante violence. But most agree that withdrawal would be “a sure recipe for war”, as Dayan puts is, because there will no “peace-loving Palestinians taking over”.A younger, more aggressive breed of religious ideologues vows a violent response to any eviction threat, warning a heavy price would be exacted for any bid to close settlements down.Residents of Asira say the settlers need no provocation or pretext.
Attacks on Asira date back three years, Makhlouf said.Palestinians complain of unremitting harassment, such as the burning of their olive trees and stoning attacks on farmers in the fields, as a prelude to land-creep and confiscation.The garden and rooftop of Makhlouf’s neighbour, Ahmed Dawood, were littered by stones rained onto his house in the settler rampage. The water tank was holed by four bullets.Dawood’s son and a labourer in his field were shot and wounded. The army, he said, made no effort to stop the attack.“I complained to the soldiers and they shouted back ‘Get inside’ and started shooting,” he said.“We have nothing to protect ourselves with. We just take precautions such as putting metal grids on the windows. But the solution is to have them uprooted from here.”—Reuters.
“They sprayed some sort of tear gas through the window. It smelled strong and made our eyes run and made it hard to breath, especially for my baby,” said the 33-year-old mother of four.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reacted strongly to the Sept 13 attack, saying he would not tolerate “pogroms” by Jewish extremists who are determined on religious grounds to stop Israel swapping occupied land for peace.
Last week, an outspoken Israeli critic of the settlements was wounded by a pipe bomb outside his Jerusalem home, in what Olmert said was evidence of “an evil wind of extremism, of hatred, of violence” threatening Israeli democracy.Settlers and the Israeli army said the Asira assault was triggered by the wounding of a nine-year-old settler boy by a Palestinian whom he had disturbed in the act of setting fire to a house in the Yitzhar settlement while the family was away.But settler vigilante violence is growing, according to a recent UN report, which recorded 222 incidents in the first half of 2008, versus 291 in all of 2007.
Some half a million Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, including Arab East Jerusalem. Their presence, viewed by major powers as illegal under international law, is partly shielded by a 790-km barrier Israel has been building since 2002.In a newspaper interview on Monday, Olmert broke new ground by urging Israel’s withdrawal “from almost all the territories” captured in the 1967 Middle East war in return for peace.
But Olmert says Israel plans to keep major settlements in the West Bank in any peace deal, and would have to compensate the Palestinians for land lost.The Palestinians say they cannot have a viable country of their own if it is chopped into pieces by Israeli settlement islands and the snaking walls and fences of the new barrier.US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called the settlements “an obstacle to peace” which must go.Some settlers justified the attack on Asira, saying the army failed to protect them against a violent infiltration.“If the Israeli army had done what it should, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.
They should either have prevented that infiltration or carried out a raid after,” Renana Cohen said.Dani Dayan of Israel’s mainstream settlers’ organisation says the Arabs do not want peace. A Palestinian state would be a “launching pad” from which they would conduct “ethnic cleansing” against the Israelis, he argues. Many Israelis feel the same.Most settlers oppose vigilante violence. But most agree that withdrawal would be “a sure recipe for war”, as Dayan puts is, because there will no “peace-loving Palestinians taking over”.A younger, more aggressive breed of religious ideologues vows a violent response to any eviction threat, warning a heavy price would be exacted for any bid to close settlements down.Residents of Asira say the settlers need no provocation or pretext.
Attacks on Asira date back three years, Makhlouf said.Palestinians complain of unremitting harassment, such as the burning of their olive trees and stoning attacks on farmers in the fields, as a prelude to land-creep and confiscation.The garden and rooftop of Makhlouf’s neighbour, Ahmed Dawood, were littered by stones rained onto his house in the settler rampage. The water tank was holed by four bullets.Dawood’s son and a labourer in his field were shot and wounded. The army, he said, made no effort to stop the attack.“I complained to the soldiers and they shouted back ‘Get inside’ and started shooting,” he said.“We have nothing to protect ourselves with. We just take precautions such as putting metal grids on the windows. But the solution is to have them uprooted from here.”—Reuters.
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