PESHAWAR: A Task Force under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Gandapur has been set up to reform the health sector in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a notification issued here on Saturday. Dr. Nizam Ud Din, MD Diplomate American Board Medicine Consultant also included in the members and all the other members of the 10-member Task Force are post-doctoral …

ISLAMABAD: A new case of polio has been reported in Pakistan, bringing the total number of cases in the country to five in 2024. According to sources, the latest case is a two-year-old child from Quetta, Balochistan, who tested positive for wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1). The National Institute of Health in Islamabad confirmed the fifth polio case reported in …

PARIS: As the countdown to the Olympics passed the 50-day mark, Paris hoisted its rings on the Eiffel Tower overnight and showed them off on Friday morning. Workers assembled the prefabricated steel rings and after dark on Thursday lifted the logo, weighing 30 tonnes and 29 metres long, into place between two legs of the tower just above its first …

PARIS: Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz recovered from a woeful start to beat an inconsistent Jannik Sinner 2-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 and qualify for his maiden French Open final after a see-saw encounter on Friday. The third seed was a shadow of his brilliant self in the opening set before making the most of his Italian opponent’s premature cramps to level …

BRIDGETOWN: Captain Richie Berrington upstaged his Namibian counterpart in leading Scotland to a table-topping, five-wicket victory in Group B at the T20 World Cup on Thursday at Kensington Oval in Barbados. Thwarted by the weather in their opening fixture against England two days earlier at the same venue, Berrington’s composed unbeaten 47 off 36 balls (two fours, three sixes) and the …

NEW YORK: Canada won their first-ever Twenty20 World Cup match with a stunning 12-run victory against Ireland in a Group ‘A’ game in New York on Friday. Defending a target of just 138, the non-Test nation bowled and fielded expertly to hold Ireland to 125 for the loss of seven wickets from their full 20 overs. After a cautious start …

Afghanistan’s bowlers exploited a pitch assisting both pace and spin to the full at the Providence Stadium on Friday as they skittled New Zealand for just 75 from 15.2 overs and bowled their team to an 84-run run victory in the T20 World Cup. Afghanistan captain and spin bowler Rashid Khan took four for 17 in his team’s second decisive …

ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), is on the rise for the second week in a row ahead of the upcoming federal budget, official data showed on Friday. The SPI-based inflation increased by 21.69 per cent year-on-year in the week ending June 6, mainly due to surging prices of vegetables and pulses. It witnessed a 0.45pc week-on-week increase. …

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday notified up to Rs3.23 per unit additional increase in electricity rates for consumers of K-Electric for four months — June to September — to clear a nine-month backlog of fuel cost adjustments (FCA). KE had sought about Rs18.6 per unit cumulative FCA for three quarters (July 2023 to March 2024) of the …

LONDON: The United Nations world food price index rose for a third consecutive month in May, as higher cereals and dairy product prices outweighed drops in prices for sugar and vegetable oils. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisa­tion’s price index, which tracks the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 120.4 points in May, up 0.9pc from its revised April level, the FAO said …