New Zealand tied their second test with India helped by a Brendon McCullum double-hundred while Younis Khan's ton secured a draw against South Africa, and Chris Gayle's triple-ton handed Sri Lanka a formidable task.
Moody's Investor Service published a report assessing Pakistan's B3 foreign and local-currency issuer rating
The Obama administration is to present a transition plan for Afghanistan at the upcoming NATO summit in Lisbon. A gradual reduction of troops is to begin in July next year and all combat operations will end in 2014 as scheduled. The plan is also expected to suggest stepping up the efforts to build up the Afghan security forces.
President Barack Obama's 10-day Asian tour has been dubbed a failure by media owing to key failures in binding together the much-awaited free trade pact with South Korea and the inability to persuade a majority of the G-20 nations to support the U.S. position on current account imbalances.
Pakistani authorities on Friday accused the Taliban- and Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents for the Thursday's attack on the CID building in Karachi which killed 17 people. More than 140 have been injured in the blast and police believe that more than 1,000kg of explosives were used in the attack, making it the biggest blast ever to hit the country's financial capital.
As a growing oil consumer and importer, China is taking strategic steps to secure its oil imports from the Middle East by strengthening its influence in the South Asia/Indian Ocean region.
Most of the people in Pakistan view the US as an enemy and see a significant threat from India though extremist groups are active in the country, said a poll from Pew Research Centre
