Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan at the weekend, meeting President Hamid Karzai and Czech military forces, his office said Sunday. The 500 Czech troops in Afghanistan under a NATO-led mission are due home by the end of next year but according to the government website Necas assured Karzai his country would offer support after 2014 in the form of training. The leaders also talked about expanding their bilateral economic cooperation, particularly in building up Afghanistan's transport infrastructure.

Veteran allrounder Shahid Afridi said Thursday he is targeting the 2015 World Cup after returning to the Pakistan side, but vowed to quit if he became a burden on the team. The 33-year-old was left out of the squad for the one-day series against India in December before staging a comeback for the tour of South Africa, but his woeful run of form has continued.

Both Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) and Awami National Party (ANP) will fight tooth and nail on the NA-7 and NA-8, Charsadda as both parties claiming themselves champion of Pakhtun rights but it will prove on may 11 to claim the throne of the district. Beside these two parties, the JUI-f, JI and PML-N and PPP have also fielded their candidates for each constituencies to counter the influence of both QWP and ANP in charsadda.On NA-07 Charsadda Asfandyar Khan, Chief of Awami National Party, will face Najma Zeb of Qaumi Watan Party, who is wife of former MPA Alamzeb Umarzai.

Former World Squash Champion Qamar Zaman was elected president and Ehsanullah Khan as General Secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Squash Association for the next term of four years here at Abbottabad. Elections were supervised by the representatives of Pakistan Squash Federation, Pakistan Olympic Association and KPK Sports Directorate. Annual General meeting was largely attended by the representatives of divisional bodies of Hazara, Swat, Peshawar, Kohat and others.