LAHORE: Mickey Arthur and Grant Bradburn, the foreign coaches attached with the Pakistan cricket team, are likely to continue in their respective roles with new chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq conveying to the management that he is comfortable working with them, Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported on Tuesday. South African Arthur was appointed as Pakistan’s team director in April by the …

LAHORE: Finally, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to take on board the real stakeholders of the game in order to prepare the 2023-24 domestic structure, which presently is in the doldrums. It is learnt that PCB Interim Management Committee (IMC) chairman Zaka Ashraf has called on elected presidents of all the regional cricket associations to attend a meeting …

LAHORE: Finally, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to take on board the real stakeholders of the game in order to prepare the 2023-24 domestic structure, which presently is in the doldrums. It is learnt that PCB Interim Management Committee (IMC) chairman Zaka Ashraf has called on elected presidents of all the regional cricket associations to attend a meeting …

ISLAMABAD: A day before its term completion and preparing for general elections, the government on Tuesday extended over Rs158 billion Kissan Package for another six months, approved a ‘single-entity’ export processing status to Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) in Waziristan for mineral exports and revival of modified SME Asaan Finance (SAAF) Scheme. The decisions were taken at a meeting of the …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has offered help to Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) in capacity building and for establishing a digital forensics lab to check misdoings and violations by digital lending apps. The FIA additional director general, Ahmed Ishaque Jehangir, on Tuesday visited the SECP head office and met its Chairman Akif Saeed. The SECP and …

KARACHI: The compliance department of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) has sought clarifications from six listed companies for a “substantial” increase in their share prices between July 3 and July 31. One of the six companies is Meezan Bank Ltd, which is among the largest listed firms in terms of the value of total shares or market capitalisation. It has …

TORONTO: Barrick Gold Corp is open to bringing in Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund as one of its partners in Pakistan’s Reko Diq gold and copper mine, Barrick CEO Mark Bristow told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. He also dismissed a June media report that Barrick was in talks with fellow Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals on a possible acquisition as a …

LAHORE: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has entered the cotton market to stabilise the white lint prices which have fallen below the intervention threshold. The TCP will purchase one million bales of lint to stabilise the market so that the growers may get the minimum rate of Rs8,500 per maund as promised by the government at the outset of …

OSLO: Norway’s data protection agency said on Tuesday it would start fining Facebook and Instagram owner Meta nearly $100,000 per day for defying a ban on using users’ personal information to target ads. The Norwegian watchdog, Datatilsynet, said Meta would be fined one million kro­ner ($97,000) per day, starting August 14. Tobias Judin, head of Datatilsynet’s international department, said the …

India’s parliament debated a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Tuesday, a day after opposition leader Rahul Gandhi returned to the house. The opposition Congress party launched the debate in a bid to force comment from Modi on months of deadly ethnic conflict in northeastern Manipur state, with a vote potentially to be held on Thursday. Government minister Kiren Rijiju said …