KARACHI: Veteran cricketer Mohammad Hafeez said he has got motivation for practicing power-hitting after watching West Indian players.  Speaking exclusively in show ‘Sports Room’, Hafeez said Caribbean players are so good at power-hitting just because of their practice. “I have been asked a lot about my power-hitting and people said it came from playing Golf but I think golf was …

LAUSANNE: Competitors at this year’s Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games will be offered coronavirus vaccines bought from China, Olympic chief Thomas Bach announced on Thursday in a significant move for the holding of the Covid-delayed Tokyo Games. “The Chinese Olympic Committee have made an offer to make additional vaccine doses available to participants for Tokyo 2020 and …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to start the registration of players for holding trials for the registration of senior and U-19 teams of the 90 City Cricket Associations (CCAs) teams from Friday, to be continued till March 16. “The trials begin from March 18 and the schedule will be announced in due course,” said a PCB press …

LAHORE: Sharjeel Khan and Mohammad Hafeez have made comeback in the T20I squad as Pakistan announced squads of all three formats for South Africa and Zimbabwe tours.  T20I Squad Babar Azam (C), Shadab Khan (VC), Sharjeel Khan, Mohammad Hafeez, Haider Ali, Danish Aziz, Asif Ali, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Waseem Jr, Mohammad Rizwan, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris …

AHMEDABAD: Rivals are wary of England’s strength and Eoin Morgan’s men are the favourites to win the Twenty20 World Cup this year, India captain Virat Kohli said on Thursday. The teams will clash on Friday in the first of their five-match Twenty20 International series in Ahmedabad, which assumes more importance coming in a World Cup year. Morgan and his deputy …

QUETTA: The Balochis­tan government has fixed the support price of wheat at Rs1,650 per 40kg and the procurement target at one million bags for this year. “We are expecting a better wheat crop during the current year,” Zeeshan Lehri, director general of the provincial food department, told Dawn, adding that Balochistan missed the procurement target last year as it could …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Thursday made it mandatory for all manufacturers to affix tax stamps or Unique Identification Marking (UIM) on all products effective from July 1, 2021. The order was notified through late-night Sales Tax General Orders (STGO). After awarding the licence for Track and Trace System to the successful bidder, the FBR has also …

KARACHI: Remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis remained above $2 billion in February for the eighth consecutive month, the State Bank said on Thursday. If June FY20 is also counted, it was the ninth straight month when the country received over $2bn in monthly remittances. The Covid-19 pandemic has positively impacted on remittances which increased by 24.1 per cent during the …

  American actress and model Emily Ratajkowski announced on social media that she had been blessed with her first child, the happy couple named  Sylvester Apollo Bear. The Gone Girl actress tied the nuptial knot with Sebastian Bear-McClard in 2018. The 29-year-old model/actress announced the birth of her first baby on Instagram on Thursday. The baby was born on Monday, …

KARACHI: Overall auto sales, barring heavy vehicles segment, showed robust performance in the first eight months (July-February) of FY21 as car sales grew by 19.6 per cent, jeeps by 143pc, pick-ups by 32pc, tractors by over 50pc and two- and three-wheelers by 17pc. Despite frequent price hikes, low interest rates appear to have played a major role in luring new …