LONDON: England fast bowler Jofra Archer has had surgery to remove a fragment of glass that had been lodged in his right middle finger since January, when his fish tank broke as he cleaned it at home. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said Wednesday that Archer will begin a two-week rehabilitation. The consultant will review him before returning …

KARACHI/LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Shahid Khokkar stood outside the Pakistan Football Federation headquarters in Lahore on Wednesday, waiting for a decision. He waited and waited. And kept on waiting as the 8pm deadline passed. Khokhar was the only member of the FIFA-appointed PFF Normalisation Committee there, waiting to report to chairman Haroon Malik whether the group of officials led by Ashfaq Hussain Shah …

NORTH SOUND: Sri Lanka lost their two overnight batsmen in a rain-interrupted session as the West Indies restricted the tourists to 189 for five in reply to their first innings total of 354 at lunch on the third day of the second and final Test at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. Shannon Gabriel finally claimed his first …

Lahore: Pakistan U19 players and officials have started to gather at a local hotel in Lahore for the camp ahead of the tour of Bangladesh. The squad will undergo second testing tomorrow and upon negative results, the team will start their camp tomorrow at National High-Performance Center (NHPC). A ten-day training camp will allow players to prove their mettle for …

KARACHI: Khwaja Saeed Hai, a former tennis legend of Pakistan and patron of the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF), passed away here on Wednesday after a protracted illness. He was 91. Born in British India in 1930, Saeed Hai studied at the Aligarh Muslim Univer­sity where he honed his skills in the sport. He was a former Pakistan number one tennis …

Pakistan is all set to play one-day international cricket after five months against South Africa on the venues of Centurion and Johannesburg. Green Shirts’ fans are also eager to see their stars again after an embarrassing last month where season six of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) was postponed after the COVID-19 fallout. The three-match series against Proteas is the …

ISLAMABAD: A day after launching $2.5 billion international bond and receiving $500 million tranche from the International Monetary Fund, newly appointed Finance Minister Hammad Azhar on Wednesday hinted at reviewing the IMF programme and the controversial State Bank of Pakistan amendment bill 2021. “We are taking the SBP law to parliament with an open mind and are ready to adopt …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) has received 42 bids from a record 12 international traders for the eight liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo deliveries between April 30 and June 28 against prices that are significantly higher than comparable period last year. According to the bidding results finalised by PLL, Eni SpA of Italy secured three cargoes with the lowest prices …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) surpassed its collection target by Rs36 billion to reach Rs475bn in March 2021, the highest monthly collection in the current fiscal year (FY21), provisional data released by the tax authorities on Wednesday showed. The net collection for the month of March was Rs475bn against a target of Rs439bn, an increase of 8.2 per …