KARACHI: Imad Wasim, the Karachi Kings captain, was standing tall on the pitch. His uppercut off Salman Irshad flew for six, bringing up his half-century and he was keeping his side in the contest. It brought Peshawar Zalmi head coach Darren Sammy to the boundary ropes for a chat with captain Babar Azam. A game they seemingly had in the …

MULTAN: Quetta Gladia­tors captain Sarfraz Ahmed is pinning hopes on former Pakis­tan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez and hitter Iftikhar Ahmed as their team get ready to play their HBL PSL opener against Multan Sultans here at the Multan Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. “Hafeez is an experienced Twenty20 player who has strengthened the team’s prospects [after the former test cricketer joined Quetta …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday restrained Geo TV Network and Geo Super from airing and broadcasting Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches till Feb 17. A single-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Shafi Siddiqui also issued notices to the Independent Media Corporation (IMC), the parent company of Geo TV Network, and other defendants for the next date. The bench was hearing lawsuits filed by ARY Communication and …

KARACHI: The latest increase in gas prices seems to have pitched the industrialists of Punjab against those of Sindh. Newspaper ads by the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association-North demand that the government do away with different gas rates for the export-oriented industrial units of Punjab and Sindh by adopting a uniform price of $7 per million British thermal unit (mmBtu). …

KARACHI: The latest increase in gas prices seems to have pitched the industrialists of Punjab against those of Sindh. Newspaper ads by the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association-North demand that the government do away with different gas rates for the export-oriented industrial units of Punjab and Sindh by adopting a uniform price of $7 per million British thermal unit (mmBtu). …

LONDON: Camilla, wife of Britain’s King Charles, will wear the crown of Queen Mary for her coronation in May, Buckingham Palace said, avoiding the use of a crown featuring the disputed 105-carat Koh-i-Noor diamond which India has demanded be returned. The Koh-i-Noor, one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, was taken from India by the East India Company …

WASHINGTON: US State Department Couns­ellor Derek Chollet will arrive in Islamabad this week with an inter-agency team, as Washington underlines the need to continue dialogue with Pakistan on a broad range of issues. Mr Chollet will lead an inter-agency delegation to Bangladesh and Pakistan from Feb 14 to 18, the US State Depar­tment said in a press note. In Pakistan, …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed Beijing’s “solidarity” with Iran on Tuesday as he hosted the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the start of a three-day trip. For the first state visit by an Iranian president to China in more than 20 years, Raisi has brought a large trade and finance delegation to Beijing and was earlier greeted by Xi …

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed to press on with rescue and recovery efforts more than a week after a powerful quake ripped through his country and neighbouring Syria, with an elderly woman the latest to be pulled from the rubble. The combined death toll in Turkiye and Syria has climbed over 41,000, and many survivors are enduring near-freezing winter temperatures, …

Military helicopters winched stranded storm survivors to safety in New Zealand on Wednesday after Cyclone Gabrielle killed four people and displaced 10,500 more. With the storm now fading into the South Pacific, rescue teams have finally reached regions cut off by days of torrential rain and gale-force winds. The New Zealand military deployed three NH90 helicopters on reconnaissance and rescue …