Osama bin Laden’s family is expected to be deported from Pakistan early on Wednesday, their lawyer and an intelligence official said, 11 months after the US raid that killed the Al-Qaeda kingpin. The 9/11 mastermind’s three widows and their children were detained by the Pakistani authorities after the Saudi was killed in a US Navy [...]

Pakistan’s cricket team put its numerous problems behind them through consistent performances as they wiped out the world’s best team England 3-0 with captain Misbah-ul Haq aiming to move on to further heights. Bedevilled by the spot-fixing scandal of 2010, which ended in lengthy bans and ultimately jail terms for three of its key players [...]

World Cup winning coach Dav Whatmore appears upbeat about taking on Pakistan after talks with cricket bosses in Lahore, saying a final decision will be made later in the month. “We had some good discussions,” Whatmore, who guided Sri Lanka to a 1996 World Cup win, told journalists before leaving late on Monday. “A decision [...]

Captain Misbah-ul Haq insisted on Saturday that Pakistan had thoroughly dispelled all thoughts of the spot-fixing scandal that engulfed his side, ahead of the series against England. It was against the same opposition, in August 2010, that a British tabloid exposed the scheme that ended in jail terms for Test captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif [...]