Karachi: England’s pacer Saqib Mehmood will not be part of Peshawar Zalmi for the remaining matches of Pakistan Super League (PSL) season six. The 24-year-old Saqib announced that due to his commitment with Lancashire County, he can’t join 2017 PSL champion. “Really enjoyed my time with Peshawar Zalmi in PSL 6 earlier this year but given the timing of the …

Karachi: Pakistan’s batting maestro Javed Miandad has rated the current national team’s skipper Babar Azam as the best in the first. The 63-year-old Miandad, on his YouTube channel, hailed Green Shirts T20I series win over Zimbabwe on Sunday. “He’s a superb player and after a long time, Pakistan has got such a player. I rate him on a very high …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) and Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) president Dr. Fehmida Mirza on Monday said that government and PSB “shall continue to follow the policy of noninterference in the affairs of Pakistan Football Federation”. The minister IPC said this while speaking to PFF normalisation committee member Barrister Haris Azmat, who called on her in her …

NEW DELHI: Two Australian cricketers became the latest stars to pull out of the Indian Premier League on Monday as top bowler Pat Cummins said the tournament was being kept open to distract attention from the growing coronavirus toll on the country. Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson are returning to Australia for ‘personal reasons’, their Royal Challengers Bangalore team said, …

LAHORE: Former Test fast bowler Sarfaraz Nawaz said the manner of Pakistan’s Twenty20 series win over Zimbabwe exposed several weak areas in the side as the team looks ahead to the World Twenty20 in India later this year. Pakistan won the three-match series 2-1 after beating the hosts by 24 runs in the final match on Sunday. Zimbabwe had stunned …

HE has it all. The grit, the endurance, the acumen, the finesse, and the ever-growing will to rise and rise amid adversity. And the man is proudly showcasing these traits on the field across all formats. Mohammad Rizwan indeed is the newest star on Pakistan’s cricket horizon. The professional way this 28-year-old rock-solid lad from Peshawar in recent times has …

oISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Monday cleared two development projects worth Rs196.46 billion, including the construction of 306km Hyderabad-Sukkur Motor­way (M-6) in the public-private financing mode on the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis. The meeting, presided over by Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan, approved Rs5bn in the health sector for Balochistan and recommended the Rs191.47bn Hyderabad-Sukkur …

ISLAMABAD: The Establishment Division with the support of audit and finance officials got cleared 116 out of 129 audit objections during meetings of the Departmental Audit Committee (DAC), hence leaving only 13 paras for perusal of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). According to the documents available with Dawn, during an internal audit of the accounts of the Establishment Division for the …

CHAGAI: The goods train service between Pakistan and Iran was suspended after a freight train carrying sulphur derailed in the Padag area of Chagai district on Monday. A Pakistan Railways officer based in Dalbandin told Dawn that six bogies of the freight train, which was on its way from Zahedan to Quetta, derailed near Yadgar Close Station owing to the bad railway …