ISLAMABAD: The export of raw food products consecutively surging for the sixth month in the current fiscal year forcing local consumers to pay higher prices. The food export value more than doubled to $787.36 million in January, up 105.29 per cent from $383.54m in the same month last year, according to data compiled by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The …

LONDON: Mohamed Salah returned with a goal as Premier League leaders Liverpool routed Brentford 4-1 despite a rash of injuries, while Arsenal demolished Burnley 5-0 to keep up the pressure in the title race on Saturday. Salah came off the bench to replace the injured Diogo Jota in his first Liverpool appearance since their win over Newcastle United on New …

LAHORE: Peshawar Zalmi take on Quetta Gladiators, led by newly-appointed captain Rilee Rossouw, in the ninth HBL Pakistan Super League here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday. The day match will see for the first time a new captain for Gladiators, South Africa’s Rilee Rossouw, after the mantle was taken back from long-time skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed who led the franchise …

DAMBULLA: Rookie Sri Lankan fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana claimed four wickets to help rescue the hosts after their batting collapse and hand Afghanistan a narrow four-run defeat in Saturday’s T20 opener. Sri Lanka were all out for 160 with six balls remaining and Afghan opener Ibrahim Zadran led the reply, batting through the innings with 67 not out. But his …

KARACHI: Growing doubts about the formation of a new coalition government amid raging protests against alleged manipulation of election results across the country kept the market sentiment depressed in the outgoing week. The equities received a massive battering on the first day of the trading week as nervous investors resorted to panic-selling amid an inordinate delay in announcing a clear-cut …

KARACHI: Several retailers have started charging Rs100 per kg extra on beef and mutton ahead of Ramazan thus exposing the lack of any official price-checking mechanism. Those retailers who were selling veal (Bachia) meat with and without bones at Rs1,000 and Rs1,200 are demanding Rs1,100 and Rs1,300 per kg, respectively. A customer in North Nazimabad N Block said he had …

ISLAMABAD: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations will implement a Sustainable and Regenerative Management of Rice Production in Pakistan, for which the Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved funding of $6.9 million last week. The project aims to enhance sustainable rice production landscapes in Sindh, one of Pakistan’s major rice-producing provinces. It will restore 15,000 hectares of …

KABUL: Taliban auth­orities said on Saturday their participation inUN-convened Afgh­anistan talks would be “unbeneficial” if certain conditions were not met, a day before meetings were due to kick off. Special envoys to Afghanistan are due to launch two days of talks in the Qatari capital on Sunday, aimed at discussing more coordinated international engagement with Afghanistan. The meeting is a …

GAZA STRIP: Like many in northern Gaza, Shadi Jenina has resorted to desperate measures to stave off hunger for his five children — grinding up animal feed into flour. “We’re looking for food for birds, animals and livestock… such as barley, corn, wheat and fodder. We grind them and make flour,” Jenina, 40, explained. “The bread is dry and not …

ADDIS ABABA: Tensions between Horn of Africa rivals Ethiopia and Somalia boiled over on Saturday on the opening day of an African Union summit in Addis Ababa. The two neighbours — already at odds over a controversial maritime pact — locked horns over Somalia’s claims that Ethiopian security tried to block its President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud from accessing the summit …