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DUBAI - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistani player Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi qualified for the Dubai ATP quarterfinal in men's doubles category as they defeated Canada's Vasek Pospisil and France's Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the first round match on Wednesday, 6-2, 6-3.

The World Cup got a soft opening yesterday with a predicted 2.5 billion people poised to tune in to the six weeks of action but with the 49-match program facing a series of headaches.

MELBOURNE - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan reached the doubles fourth round at the Australian Open in Melbourne, after defeating Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 7-6 (11-9), 7-4 on Friday morning (CET).

MELBOURNE - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi qualified for the Australian Open second round in men's doubles as they defeated Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili and Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin in the Wednesday match, 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 6-3.

SYDNEY - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi are through to the second round of the Sydney ATP doubles tournament after beating Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan and Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday.

Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Dec. 22, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre.

Six militants have been hanged since Friday amid rising public anger over Tuesday's slaughter in the northwestern city of Peshawar, which left 149 people dead including 133 children.

Pakistani protesters pushed closer to the prime minister's house in central Islamabad on Sept. 1 in their bid to force his removal and closed down national television after clashes turned violent over the weekend.

Pakistan’s powerful military returned to the political arena on Aug. 28, agreeing to mediate between the government and protesters who have camped out in the capital for two weeks demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over alleged voting fraud.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cancelled plans to attend Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presidential inauguration in Turkey on Aug. 28 due to a crisis at home.

A fiery Pakistani cleric, who has been leading a mass rally outside Parliament demanding Sharif’s resignation, says he has “shut the door” on further talks with the government.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cancelled plans to attend Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presidential inauguration in Turkey on Aug. 28 due to a crisis at home.

A fiery Pakistani cleric, who has been leading a mass rally outside Parliament demanding Sharif’s resignation, says he has “shut the door” on further talks with the government.