PCB chief rubbishes claims of security lapses

June 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Latest CCTV images of minutes before the terror strike on the Provincial Headquarters of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) have revealed that the security officials were least worried about any terror threat. The video footages, which flooded the local TV channels here, showed a single policeman retaliating to the heavily armed militants, as all his compatriots had fled from the scene immediately after the terrorists opened fire.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely Thursday threatened action against Modern School if it does not act against the teacher and the nurse responsible for the death of 17-year-old student Aakriti Bhatia within seven days. The government is giving seven days' time to the school to take action against the nurse and the teacher and if they fail to do so, then action will be taken against the school, the minister told reporters on the sidelines of a conference here.

May 13th, 2009 LAHORE - The Chief selector of the Pakistan cricket team, Abdul Qadir, has rubbished media reports which claimed that he and captain Younis Khan are not on talking terms, as the latter is unhappy over the selection of the squad for the forthcoming ICC Twenty20 World Cup. "These reports are not true.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Thursday dimissed as 'baseless allegations' Pakistan's claims that New Delhi was backing the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), an insurgent outfit active in Pakistan's south-western province. 'These are entirely baseless allegations and we see no reason to dignify them with a response,' external affairs ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash told reporters.

April 15th, 2009 RANCHI - The Congress Wednesday rubbished allegations by Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) general secretary Durga Soren that the Congress was involved in a conspiracy to kill his father and party chief Shibu Soren. 'Durga is mentally sick.

April 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police filed a fresh charge sheet against a suspected Hizb-e-Islami militant and sought a retrial Tuesday, nearly three months after he was acquitted by a court here. Ayaz Ahmed Shah, a suspected militant, was acquitted by a city court in January after the Special Cell of Delhi Police failed to take necessary sanctions for charging him with waging war against the country under the Indian Penal Code and possessing explosives under the Explosive Substance Act.

March 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A probe into the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore has attributed the assault to security lapses and has also identified its perpetrators, a media report Friday said. An interim report on the incident, Geo TV said, points to 'very vivid' security lapses which allowed 12 terrorists armed with automatic weapons to ambush the Sri Lankan cricketers team and escape.

March 6th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Vehemently denying that security lapses had led to the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, Punjab provincial Governor Salman Taseer said Thursday the report of the probe into the incident would be released Friday. 'It is wrong to say there was no security.

March 5th, 2009 LAHORE - 'There are certain security lapses which are very vivid and very clear,' said a top official in Lahore where an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team left six policemen dead and six players injured, a media report said Thursday. The Commissioner of Lahore, Khusro Pervez, admitted to 'a huge security failure' which led to the attack on the Sri Lankan team in the city's heart Tuesday, Dawn reported.

February 15th, 2009 MUMBAI - There's a battle brewing between two actors - Sonu Sood and Arjan Bajwa. Both claim to play the lead in the Telugu movie 'Arundhati'.

February 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A large quantity of weapons given to the Afghan army by the US have been missing, officials said. The US congressional auditors said Thursday in a report that nearly 87,000 pieces of weapons, including rifles, pistols, machine guns, grenade launchers, shotguns and mortars were missing.

February 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Members of a caste group Wednesday stormed the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly to press for their demand for categorisation of Scheduled Castes as per population to evenly share reservation benefits. About 40 activists of Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) barged into the high-security assembly building.

February 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow dismissed rumours that her marriage to Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin is in trouble. Paltrow said they are not seen together at public do's because her husband doesn't like to make a big show, reports the mirror.co.uk.

January 8th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian spin wizard Shane Warne Friday rubbished rumours that he is in line for the job of England cricket team coach after the sacking of Peter Moores. England captain Kevin Pietersen Wednesday stepped down from the captaincy after a long strife with coach Moores.

December 29th, 2008 NAGPUR - The Maharashtra government Tuesday announced a two-member committee to probe the 26/11 terror strike in Mumbai and fix the responsibility for lapses in handling the situation in its aftermath. The committee, to be headed by former union home secretary Ram Pradhan, will investigate the attacks, which left over 170 people dead and nearly 300 injured Nov 26, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan told the legislative assembly on the last day of its winter session in this second capital of the state.