WASHINGTON — A state district judge dismissed a Texas state bar disciplinary case against Dallas attorney Sidney Powell for her role in disputing the 2020 election results as a lawyer for former President Donald Trump. The State Bar of Texas filed a petition last March accusing Powell of professional misconduct by filing “frivolous” voter fraud lawsuits in four states, making false statements …

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KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has begun an exercise to strengthen its statistics department by making it “go beyond traditional economic data”. Speaking at conference organised by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) on Wednesday, SBP Deputy Governor Sima Kamil said the central bank has set up a new division by the name of Avant-Garde Digit, which …

WELLINGTON: New Zealand will “throw some punches” when they face an attacking England in the second Test starting on Friday in Wellington, as the hosts bid to rescue the two-match series. Bowling greats James Anderson and Stuart Broad, combined with some aggressive batting, propelled England to a thumping 267-run first Test win in a day-night encounter in Mount Maunganui. It …

LAHORE: In an exciting development for women’s sports in Pakistan, the 34th National Games scheduled to be held in Quetta from May 15 to 23 will include women’s cricket as one of three exhibition sports. The decision was announced in a press release by the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA), which also revealed that tug of war and futsal will be the other …

NEW DELHI: India batter KL Rahul’s prolonged slump in form is likely to cost him his place for the third Test against Australia with demands growing for Shubman Gill’s inclusion in the match in Indore. India have retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a 2-0 lead in the four-Test series but Rahul’s form has been a major concern for Rohit Sharma’s …

KARACHI: Amid looming shortages in Ramazan due to a host of reasons mainly restrictions on palm oil imports, the PMLN-led coalition government has dire­cted provincial governments to provide monthly ghee and cooking oil consumption data and the number of mills in operations. The provincial administrations have also been instructed to share data on available stocks of edible oil and prices …

President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday signed the Finance (Supplementary) Bill, 2023, generally known as the mini-budget, as the government rushed to fulfil the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) conditions to unlock an economic bailout that the country needs to avoid the risk of default. The Prime Minister Secretariat sent the bill to the President Secretariat on Wednesday evening for assent, …

Shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) slid on Thursday on fears that the central bank may raise the policy rate, which is already at a 25-year-high of 17 per cent, in an off-cycle review. The benchmark KSE-100 index lost 337.15 points, or 0.82pc, to reach 40,830.45 points at 3:23pm. Intermarket Securities’ Head of Equity Raza Jafri said a sharp …

MULTAN: It shouldn’t have, but it had come down to the wire. Karachi Kings should have run away with the match after the swashbuckling start James Vince had given them, but here they were at the Multan Cricket Stadium on Wednesday, needing 40 off the last 12 balls to reach the 197-run target against Multan Sultans in their HBL Pakistan …