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Serving indigenous music
Feb 11th
Pakistan’s Haider Rehman, a flute player and tabla nawaz, returns after performing at the World Music Festival.
Swiss to increase engagements
Feb 2nd
Switzerland government funding two-year programme in Pakistan to strengthen principles.
Murray faces moment of truth
Jan 30th
MELBOURNE: Being feted as the great hope of British tennis means Sunday''s Australian Open final against good friend Novak Djokovic is a genuine boom or bust experience for Andy Murray.
Win, and the 23-year-old will become one of Britain&#…
World Cup 2022 will not be shared, says Bin Hammam
Jan 29th
DOHA: The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will not be jointly hosted by other Gulf nations as requested by UEFA head Michel Platini, AFC president Mohammed Bin Hammam told reporters on Saturday. Bin Hammam has often appeared frustrated when asked questions about possibly moving the dates of the World Cup or sharing matches and he [...]
Djokovic upsets Federer for new order final
Jan 28th
MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic signalled a possible new order after ending Roger Federer’s title defence at the Australian Open in a titanic semi-final on Thursday. The resurgent Serbian third seed wore down the 16-time Grand Slam champion 7-6 (7/3), 7-5, 6-4 in three hours to repeat his semi-final win over the Swiss great when he went [...]
IPL-style hockey series refused
Jan 28th
FIH claims that they do not recognise World Series of hockey.
Wozniacki, Federer crash out
Jan 28th
Djokovic outs Swiss, paves way for maiden Australian Open title.
Federer floored by Djokovic in Melbourne
Jan 27th
Champion Federer exits in straight sets as Djokovic reaches his fourth grand slam final
Plans for IPL-style hockey series shot down
Jan 27th
World Series Hockey had hoped to attract the world’s top stars to play for cash-rich franchises for hefty sums of money, like the three-season-old IPL Twenty20 event that revolutionised cricket. -Photo by Reuters NEW DELHI: Field hockey’s governing body on Thursday refused permission for a new multi-million-dollar world series in India modelled on the popular [...]
Interpol arrest warrant for Tunisia’s ex-ruler
Jan 27th
TUNIS: Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Tunisia’s toppled president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as protests demanding a clean break with the past mounted ahead of a major cabinet revamp due Thursday. The cross-border police agency said that member states, including Saudi Arabia where Ben Ali fled, were asked to “search, locate and provisionally [...]
