LAHORE: While Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister on Sports and Youth Affairs Wahab Riaz has announced hefty cash prizes for the winners from the province at next month’s National Games in Quetta, the government is yet to release funds to prepare the contingents. A summary has moved to the Punjab government asking to release Rs30 million for training camps, travel …

They say that if you come at the king, then you better kill the king. And Imad Wasim definitely came at the king when he criticised his former Karachi Kings teammate Babar Azam before the start of this Pakistan Super League (PSL). For all intents and purposes, it seemed that those words were just confirming what everyone had suspected — Imad’s international …

RAWALPINDI: After months of speculation, Mickey Arthur has finally arrived. The former Pakistan head coach has returned to the men’s national team setup in a directorial role and seems to be clear about his goals in his second stint. Building match-winners is what the South African will be focused on. In this role, according to a Pakistan Cricket Board press …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of non-textile products fell 5.81 per cent year-on-year to $8.58 billion in the first nine months of the current fiscal year owing to the rising cost of production and a dip in demand from the international market. The stagnation in export proceeds of the non-textile sector was noted since the start of the current fiscal year as …

ISLAMABAD: K-Electric has sought the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority’s (Nepra) approval for extracting Rs6.636 billion additional funds from its consumers at the rate of Rs4.49 per unit for the electricity used in March. Nepra has accepted the KE’s tariff petition under the monthly fuel cost adjustment (FCA) mechanism and fixed a public hearing for May 3. The regulator would …

Share prices at the Pakistan Stock Exchange rose on Thursday with the benchmark KSE-100 index gaining 508.48 points, or 1.26 per cent, to reach 41,007.82 points. The market opened at 40,499.34 points and jumped from the get-go, and at one point had created a daily high of 41,086.67 before settling slightly lower. First National Equities CEO Ali Malik said the …

Weekly inflation measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) hit an all-time high of 47.23 per cent year-on-year (YoY) for the week ending on April 19 — driven mainly by a major increase in food prices — data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Thursday showed. On a week-on-week basis, short-term inflation increased by 0.51pc as food …

SYDNEY: A rare hybrid solar eclipse over a remote town on Australia’s west coast drew thousands on Thursday to witness the event. Astronomy fans and enthusiasts from around the world travelled to Exmouth, a tiny beachside town roughly 1,200 kilometres from Perth, to witness the total solar eclipse. The moon crossed the sun for a minute at 11:29am local time …

ISLAMABAD: The Health Inequ­ality Data Repository (HIDR), laun­ched by World Health Organisation (WHO), shows that in just a decade, the rich-poor gap in health service coverage among women, newborns and children in low- and middle-income countries has nearly halved. The report also revealed that in these countries eliminating wealth-related inequality in under-five mortality could help save the lives of 1.8 …

NEW DELHI: In a direct attack on the Modi government, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar said the government does not have any right to stay in power when it can’t protect Indian soldiers. Speaking at a farmers’ congregation at Purandar, in Maharashtra’s Pune district, Mr Pawar referred to former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik’s interview with The Wire’s Karan Thapar. …