Met Department said that upper Punjab including Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, Islamabad and several areas in the upper Pakhtunkhaw likely to witness rains with thunder and lightening in the next 24 hours.
Swat and its surrounding areas continued receiving rains for the second day today. Weather turned chill after showers and light snowfall in Astur and Skardu.
District Kohistan, Mansehra, Islamabad and Pindi also witnessed rains this morning turning the weather pleasant. Heavy downpours lashed in different upper areas of Azad Kashmir including Neelum valley in Muzafarabad, upper Hathyan and Chakar. Shahrah-e-Neelum at a place Dhongacus, Srinagar-Muzaffarbad Road at Chakoti and Islamabad-Muzaffarabad Road at Kohala were closed due lashing rains and land-slidings.
Maximum rain in last 24 hours was recorded at 48mm in Rawalakot, Murree 46mm, Sibi –Patan 35 each, Muzaffarabad 31, Garhi Dopatta 30, Barkhan 27, Malamjabba 23, and Kotli—Risalpur 21mm each.
Zulqarnain was reassured by a meeting with Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik in London last week, and will seek to resume his cricket career, he said.
"After meeting with (the) interior minister and getting assurance of my and my family's safety in Pakistan, I have decided to return home on April 24," Zulqarnain, 24, told Pakistani private TV channels GEO and others from London.
"After getting this assurance there is no need for me to continue with my asylum application, which I will withdraw," he said late Saturday.
Zulqarnain fled the team hotel in Dubai on the morning of the fifth and final one-day international against South Africa on November 8, saying he had received death threats from unidentified people seeking to draw him into match-fixing.
After flying into London, Zulqarnain sought asylum in Britain and said he was retiring from international cricket.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) terminated his contract and formed a committee to establish the facts surrounding his disappearance, which described him as "mentally ill".
Zulqarnain said Saturday he has now contacted the PCB and wants to resume his international career.
Zulqarnain made a successful Test debut in England last year, scoring a brilliant 88 in the second innings to help Pakistan avoid follow-on. He also played four one-day and three Twenty20 internationals for Pakistan.
MUMBAI: Ranbir Kapoor has revealed that he is keen to become part of the Dhoom action franchise.
The actor said that he wants to be able to flex his muscles as an action hero for the first time, Hindustan Times has revealed.
He told the paper: "If another sequel to the Dhoom series is planned, I would love to be part of it.
"I hope that at some point I get an action film so that I can make a good body and put on some muscle. If I hit a villain it should look real."
Kapoor has mostly been seen in romances and youth films such as Wake Up Sid.
Dhoom spawned one sequel in 2006, two years after the original film about a motorcycle gang.
The 2004 movie starred John Abraham, Abhishek Bachchan and Esha Deol. The third instalment of the action series was announced in February this year, with Bachchan expected to take on his previous role.
The players were questioned by ICC's Anti-corruption Unit but were never under suspicion of match-fixing and told investigators that they had not been asked to do anything illicit, according to 'Sunday Star Times'.
According to the report, the New Zealand team in that tournament -- which featured Daryl Tuffey, Nathan McCullum and Scott Styris -- wined and dined with the suspicious businessman, a Middle East-based diamond dealer, who was already on the anti-corruption unit's watchlist.
At that time, they had no idea of the man's identity, but became suspicious when he offered them discounted gems and other benefits.
Team manager Steve Wilkins told NZC of the approach and they in turn tipped off ICC's anti-corruption and security unit.
NZC chief executive Justin Vaughan, however, said the ICC "never had any concerns about the incident". "I don't believe there was anything untoward," he was quoted as saying.
Asked if his players were asked to do anything illegal, Vaughan replied, "Not to my knowledge".
New Zealand Players' Association chief Heath Mills confirmed the approach by the suspicious person and the subsequent questioning of the players by the ICC ACSU. "The team did have dinner with a gentleman in Hong Kong.
We understand he might have been involved in diamond industry and was keen to offer products to the players. His behaviour was suspicious and the team manager reported that to NZC and ICC's anti-corruption unit. That was the right thing to do. The players were questioned about their contact with this gentleman," Mills said.
Mills said the questioning of the players was "standard procedure" for the ICC and he was "comfortable" that both the players and NZC had done the right thing.
"But this is a reminder to everyone about how vigilant they need to be in this area," he said.
ATTOCK: Four days old eight dead bodies have been recovered from a dry well in China Chowk area of Attock, Geo News reported Sunday.
DPO Attock told media that the bodies were four days old and they may have been killed due to personal enmity. Bodies have been shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem.
