"In the new FTP India will now tour Pakistan in 2009 and 2113 while England will visit in 2010."
"We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people"
"The selectors feel that these are the best possible players available for the coming series and most of them have performed well in the recent series against England"
"'m surprised at this decision because in no other country you will find such a precedent. Even in countries like Australia, England or South Africa they reduce the ticket prices on the last two days or just the final day but never have they distributed totally free tickets for a Test match"
"The matches have been so close and tensely fought that people not only in England but in other cricket playing nations are totally involved in its outcome."
"Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan."
"The entire nation is with the armed forces and will shed the last drop of their blood but will not allow any harm to come to the motherland"
"Footwear market of Thailand is too little and no exporter will go there to use the duty-free facility"
"The Pakistan Peoples Party and my colleagues in opposition believe that this is a war on Pakistan this is a war on our soil. It is our boys who are dying, our children who are homeless, our daughters who are being shut out of their homes, and we will defend our land"
"I should like to give a warning to the landlords and capitalists who have flourished at our expense by a system which is so vicious, which is so wicked and which makes them so selfish that it is difficult to reason with them. The exploitation of the masses has gone into their blood. They have forgotten the lessons of Islam."