JOHANNESBERG: Cricket South Africa said Monday they had banned four players for fixing matches during 2015.
The banned players were named as Jean Symes, Pumelela Matshikwe, Ethy Mbhalati and Thami Tsolekile, the former South African Test wicketkeeper.
"The banning of these four players follows a lengthy investigation," said the organisation in a statement.
JOHANNESBERG: Cricket South Africa said Monday they had banned four players for fixing matches during 2015.
The banned players were named as Jean Symes, Pumelela Matshikwe, Ethy Mbhalati and Thami Tsolekile, the former South African Test wicketkeeper.
"The banning of these four players follows a lengthy investigation," said the organisation in a statement.
QUETTA: Facebook on Monday activated the ?safety check? feature following the massive explosion in Quetta that claimed around 53 lives and injured 56.
The social media feature acts as a tool to notify connected contacts that people in a certain calamity-hit or dangerous area are safe.
The feature was launched in October 2014. Mark Zuckerberg had announced the launch of the feature saying that it was launched in wake of an earthquake in Japan.
"Now we're glad to have this ready to serve everyone in the world," he had said in a Facebook post.
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QUETTA: Facebook on Monday activated ?safety check? following the massive explosion in Quetta that claimed around 53 lives and injured 56.
The social media feature acts as a tool to notify connected contacts that people in a certain calamity-hit or dangerous area are safe.
The feature was launched in October 2014. Mark Zuckerberg had announced the launch of the feature saying that it was launched in wake of an earthquake in Japan.
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LAHORE: Supreme Court Bar President Ali Zafar condemned the Quetta blast and said lawyers who have always stood up for democracy are targeted.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Bar President Ali Zafar said the tragedy is not just an attack on lawyers but an attack on all citizens.
He said lawyers will not just protest the attack but also prepare a long-term action plan.
Zafar further said security is not just the right of lawyers but a basic right of every citizen.
He added that if the government cannot provide security, it should quit the next elections.
“Our brothers in Balochistan had been receiving threats for some time and had said they needed security, but the government did nothing,†Zafar said.
“We have raised our voice again and again that we need security, and we will see to it that our demand is met,†he added.
He vowed not to let the martyrs’ sacrifices go to waste.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Supreme Court judges strongly condemned the attack as well.
At least 53 people were killed and 56 injured when a loud explosion occurred on Monday in Quetta’s Civil Hospital.
The explosion occurred when Balochistan Bar Association President Bilal Kasi's body was being brought to the emergency department. He was gunned down at Mano Jan Road earlier today. Former Balochistan Bar President Baz Muhammad Kakar was injured in the attack. He later succumbed to his wounds at the hospital.
Police said that unknown men opened fire after the blast. Panic tore through the hospital after the incident. The blast occurred near the emergency department of the hospital.
Most of the injured are lawyers and journalists who had arrived at the hospital when they heard news of the attack on the two senior lawyers, eye witnesses said.
BEIRUT: Regime and rebel forces have sent in hundreds of fighters and extra military equipment to join the crucial battle for Syria´s second city Aleppo, a monitoring group said Monday.
Fighting is intensifying as both sides prepare for what Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said would be a decisive battle for the northern city.
"An estimated 2,000 Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian fighters as well as Lebanese fighters from (Shiite movement) Hezbollah have arrived in Aleppo since Sunday night," Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The Monday edition of Al-Watan, a Syrian daily close to the government, said the army and allied forces had received "the necessary military reinforcements to launch the battle to retake the areas from which it withdrew".
Al-Watan said a Palestinian loyalist militia had sent "huge reinforcements" to Syria´s army battling to defend a cement factory south of Aleppo.
Citing a source on the ground, the newspaper said military warplanes "are carrying out a barrage of air strikes targeting the armed groups."
Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad are on the defensive in Aleppo since an opposition alliance overran key territory south of the city at the weekend.
The coalition of rebels, and jihadists seized territory in a military academy on Aleppo´s edges on Saturday, breaking the government encirclement of eastern districts, home to an estimated 250,000 people.
"Hundreds of fighters, specifically from the Fateh al-Sham Front (formerly Al-Qaeda´s Syrian branch), and others arrived in Aleppo city from other parts of the province and Idlib province," said Abdel Rahman.
Fateh al-Sham Front -- which changed its name from Al-Nusra Front after breaking off ties with Al-Qaeda -- leads the Army of Conquest, which has played a major role in the fight for Aleppo.
Late Sunday, the Army of Conquest pledged to "double the number of fighters" to recapture all of Aleppo city.
"Both sides are amassing their fighters in preparation for the great battle of Aleppo... which is existential for both the fighters and their backers," said Abdel Rahman.
Once Syria´s commercial hub, Aleppo has been transformed into a bombed-out, divided city since fighting first erupted there in 2012.
QUETTA:Â An Aaj News journalist lost his life in an attack at the Quetta Civil Hospital on Monday.
Shahzad, a cameraman at the news channel had reached the hospital to report the killing of Quetta Bar President Bilal Kasi who was gunned down at Mano Jan Road. The senior lawyer?s body was brought to the hospital by rescue workers.
An explosion which occurred near the emergency ward of the hospital killed Shahzad. He had been working with Aaj News for the last seven years.
The explosion critically injured another cameraman who was working for Dawn News.
At least 53 people were killed and 56 injured in a bomb explosion followed by firing at the Civil Hospital.
