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 …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin on Monday directed relevant stakeholders to review the entire supply chain from farmer to end consumer for minimising difference between wholesale and retail prices of basic commodities. The direction came from the new finance minister with concerns on a wide range of differences in wholesale prices and retail prices at a …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports to its nine regional countries plunged over 5.7 per cent in the nine months of the current fiscal year due to the impact of Covid-19, data of the State Bank of Pakistan showed on Monday. The country’s exports to these countries — Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives — account for …

Late actor Naya Rivera became a trending topic on the internet after the Academy Awards excluded her from the ‘In Memoriam’ segment on Sunday. Infuriated fans turned to their social media platforms and expressed their rage over the Glee star getting snubbed from the section. “Once again, no love for Naya Rivera,” wrote one user. “I was fully expecting to see Naya …