LAHORE: Due to Covid-19 pandemic the Pakistan Cricket Board’s plan to hold matches of the 2021 HBL Pakistan Super League at five centres instead of four, has now been reduced to just two — Karachi and Lahore — as the PCB on Friday announced the schedule of the league starting on Feb 20. Last year, the PCB staged all the …

KARACHI: The first-round action in the Pakistan Cup on Friday saw Khyber Pakht­unkhwa and Southern Punjab both comfortably chase down 300-plus totals and five batsmen post centuries across the three matches. In the televised fixture at the SBP Sports Complex, Southern Punjab rode on an Agha Salman’s second List A ton to hand Sindh a four-wicket defeat with nine deliveries …

First innings heroes Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith steered Australia to a commanding 197-run lead in the high-stakes third Test on Saturday, leaving an injury-hit India with a mountain to climb. They came to the crease after Will Pucovski and David Warner fell early, pushing them to 103 for two at stumps and a strong position with the four-Test series …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Javed Ghani has constituted a committee for timely designing, finalisation and simplification of income tax return forms for individuals, association of persons and companies for the tax year 2021. The decision to simplify the income tax return came six months before the filing of the tax return. Normally, the changes in the return …

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to remove moratorium on new gas connections for industrial and captive consumers in Balochistan after a gap of almost a decade. For ensuring implementation of the decision, the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) has constituted a five-member committee to first approve a criterion for fresh connections. The Petroleum Division had reported to the CCOE that …

KARACHI: Stocks continued to climb on Friday powered by the banking sector. The KSE-100 index added 309.80 points, or 0.68 per cent, to close the week at 45,654. The market opened in the green and as the much undervalued banking sector’s shares garnered investor interest, the index touched intra-day high by 572 points. Improvement in leading macro indicators such as …

KARACHI: Remittances from overseas Pakistanis during December 2020 rose by 16.2 per cent year-on-year to $2.436 billion, compared to $2.097bn in December 2019, clocking in above $2bn mark for the seventh consecutive month, according to the latest data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday. Sharing the jump in remittances, Prime Minister Imran Khan said in a …

WASHINGTON: Pakis­tan’s exports to the United States have registered an increase of 10.9 per cent during the July-November 2020 period, shows the official US data released on Friday. The data, released by the US Commerce Department, also showed that Pakistan’s exports to the United States increased from $1653.2 million in the same period in 2019 to $1832.6m in 2020. In …

Celal Al, who portrayed Abdul Rehman Alp, is a part of Turkish delegation visiting Pakistan. The actor held meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan, federal ministers and Pakistani actors Humayun Saeed, Adnan Siddiqui and Imran Abbas during his visit. The actor was quite impressed by the hospitality of Pakistanis and the natural beauty of its capital. Celal has been sharing …

Jason Sudeikis has been left heartbroken after seeing his ex Olivia Wilde holding hands with Harry Styles. According to an insider quoted by E! News, “Olivia’s romance with Harry has been going on for a little while and has broken Jason’s heart. “She was definitely trying to keep the romance with Harry under wraps and was very careful,” they added. Although Olivia …