Former Pakistan wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider coming back to home.

KARACHI: Former Pakistan wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider, who fled to London last year citing death threats from match-fixers, has said he will return home and cancel his application for asylum in Britain.

Zulqarnain was reassured by a meeting with Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik in London last week, and will seek to resume his cricket career, he said.

"After meeting with (the) interior minister and getting assurance of my and my family's safety in Pakistan, I have decided to return home on April 24," Zulqarnain, 24, told Pakistani private TV channels GEO and others from London.

Cricket craze $11.1mln loss to Bollywood

MUMBAI: A packed cricket schedule that peaked with an Indian win in the World Cup final has hit the country's other grand passion -- film -- emptying cinemas and forcing studios to postpone big movie releases.

Analysts said business at multiplex cinemas had been weak so far in 2011, with the six-week World Cup that finished earlier this month keeping people glued to their television screens in the evenings.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament, which began immediately afterwards is also expected to keep many cinema-goers away until the end of May.

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Sonakshi Sinha the most searched Indian celebrities on the web

Actor Salman Khan and newcomer Sonakshi Sinha have been named the most searched Indian celebrities on the web in a new survey.
Salman beat action star Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgan in the survey carried across the metros as well as
tier-II and tier-III cities. Bollywood heartthrobs Ranbir Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor wrapped up the top five.

She might be one-film old, but Sonakshi came ahead of the likes of Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif to be

the most searched celebrity on the internet among the female brigade.

The spate of sporadic rain continues.

Intermittent heavy downpours today lashed Lahore, Gujranawala, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar Division, Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir, while in the northern areas and upper Pakhtunkhaw the spate of sporadic rain continues.

Another ‘men eater’ arrested

Police on Monday arrested a second accused of ‘men eater’ in Bhakkar.

The police has arrested four accused on a tip in Bhakkar, who were used to eat dead bodies. Police said that the investigation is underway.

On Sunday, Darya Khan Police had raided a house in Union Council Kahawar Kalan in Bhakkar and arrested a 3-member family including

a woman while one of them succeed to flee from the site.

A leg-broken dead body of 19 years old girl and a big bowl having curry was also recovered from the house.

Pak-Ind Blind Cricket series on year’s end

Secretary, Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC), Bilal Satti, said on Saturday that as all the nation is working on to make better the Pakistan-India relations so we are too not lacking behind in that.

He told APP that we are likely to host a bilateral Pak-India series at the end of this year in Dubai.

“We will be playing three ODIs and three Twenty-20s in the series,” he said.

He said that on May 12 there is a meeting of World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) in which we will discuss this thing.

He said teams of Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Australia New Zealand, West Indies South Africa and England will attend that meeting which will also prove very helpful for us.

“We want India and all other countries teams to tour Pakistan and revive the International cricket over here.”

He said that earlier this year South African team wanted to come to Pakistan in December if their government allows them.

He also expressed that among all the countries blind cricket teams Pakistan is the most successful and the only one who spends the most on this sport.

“We get a grant of one crore thirty lakhs from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) which has made it very easy for us to participate in many international events.”

He expressed that because of this grant we have got alot of exposure to international cricket and that is why we are getting better day by day.

As many as three Blind World Cups have been held So far at New Delhi, India (1998); Chennai, India (2002) and Islamabad, Pakistan (2006). Pakistan has won the last two World Cups while the first one was won by South Africa.

Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply

Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, signaling the possibility of new leaks at the facility, the government said Saturday.

The announcement came after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted Japan on Saturday morning, hours after the country’s nuclear safety agency ordered plant operators to beef up their quake preparedness systems to prevent a recurrence of the nuclear crisis.

There were no reports of damage from the earthquake, and there was no risk of a tsunami similar to the one that struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant March 11 after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake, causing Japan’s worst-ever nuclear plant disaster.

Since the tsunami knocked out the plant’s cooling systems, workers have been spraying massive amounts of water on the overheated reactors. Some of that water, contaminated with radiation, leaked into the Pacific. Plant officials said they plugged that leak on April 5 and radiation levels in the sea dropped.

But the government said Saturday that radioactivity in the seawater has risen again in recent days. The level of