Nauman Ali made a spectacular debut with five wickets and fellow spinner Yasir Shah grabbed four to give Pakistan a seven-wicket victory in the first Test against South Africa in Karachi on Friday. Nauman, making his Test bow at the age of 34, finished with 5-35 and Yasir took 4-79 as South Africa slumped to 245 all out in their …

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday expressed the hope that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global illicit financing watchdog, would delist Pakistan from its grey list at its next plenary meeting. The meeting is scheduled to take place virtually from Feb 22 to 25. Briefing the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, the foreign minister said he was …

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar on Thursday announced that the government had retrieved 22 “illegal” properties wroth over Rs200 billion owned by opposition leaders, mostly belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). “The Qabza mafia (land grabbers) benefiting former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members have also been arrested,” Mr Akbar said …

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide about $5.4 billion assistance to Pakistan over the next three years. This is part of the ADB’s five-year Country Partnership Strategy (CPS). “The indicative resources available for commitment during the first three years of the CPS period (2021-2023) total $5.4bn,” said the ADB on Thursday. This include $3.6bn for regular OCR (ordinary …

ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday reconstituted the board of directors of the National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) under the chairmanship of former managing director of K-Electric Naveed Ismail. According to a notification issued by the Power Division, seven out of 11 members of the existing board have been replaced. All the independent directors are new faces on the board …

ISLAMABAD: The Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Thursday allowed Rs44 per unit (5.4 per cent) increase in the prescribed price for Karachi-based Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC). The increase was determined on the request of the utility on the basis of its estimated revenue requirement (ERR) for financial year 2020-21. The regulator said the company will be able …

Kate Middleton recently spilled the beans behind her struggles with parenting during a pandemic. According to a report by Express UK, the Duchess touched upon her struggles and admitted she’s being “pulled in so many different directions” as a teacher, and in-house hair dresser. During her call with headteacher Melissa Loosemore Kate was asked about “one word that describes parenting during this …

LAHORE: Officials of the Pakistan Railways (PR) IT Directorate have restored online ticketing at 60 stations across the country, and they are also working to recover the data. The PR management has constituted two committees to probe into the Jan 26 system breakdown that has been restored through using host server of the National Telecom Corporation, according to a senior …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecom­munication Authority (PTA) has deleted 778 links of the blasphemous content of a movie from social media. According to the PTA, it “detected 778 links on various platforms i.e. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Daily Motion, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Ladyofheaven.com, Moviefit.me and Bestnetflix.com having trailers and promos of the movie”. The PTA, however, clarified that no such links were …

Superstar Mariah Carey left fans in hysterics after  she recreated a photo of Shawn Mendes. Mendes had earlier shared a photo of himself with a caption listing all the things that he is grateful for which also names “old Mariah Carey songs”. The innocent post didn’t go unnoticed as Carey shared a photo of herself in a similar fashion while …