LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday announced the Team of HBL Pakistan Super League 6, which includes three players each from Islamabad United and Multan Sultans, two each from Lahore Qalandars and Peshawar Zalmi, and one from Karachi Kings. Mohammad Rizwan, who led Multan Sultans to their maiden title, has been named captain of the team. The wicket-keeper/batsman was …

ISLAMABAD: Social media giant Facebook is expanding its women-empowerment focused initiative ‘SheMeansBusiness’ to bolster financial inclusion and resilience of women-led businesses in Pakistan. The ‘SheMeansBusiness’ initiative is operating in 21 countries around the world and more than one million women have been trained in digital skills worldwide by Facebook and its partners. Implemented in partnership with the State Bank and …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday directed the federal government to take steps for the recovery of illegal profits the oil marketing companies (OMCs) made by creating an artificial shortage of petroleum products in the country during the first half of 2020. Announcing the judgement on several public interest petitions, Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan ordered the government to form …

ISLAMABAD: The board of governors (BoG) of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) on Friday showed its ‘satisfaction’ over the university administration’s handling of an alleged rape case in the university hostel. The BoG, headed by IIUI Rector Dr Masoom Yasinzai, met on Friday to discuss the single point agenda of sexual assault on a student in the hostel. The incident took …

ISLAMABAD: UN human rights experts on Friday urged Pakistan to stop evicting close to 100,000 people living along two of Karachi’s narrow watercourses — Gujjar nullah and Orangi nullah. “These actions were undertaken by city authorities without adequate consultation with the affected residents, no relocation plan, and disparate and insufficient compensation for the displaced,” the experts said in a statement …

RAWALPINDI: The culprit who snatched the purse of a schoolteacher early Friday morning was arrested and the stolen items recovered. The victim’s brother, Mohammad Junaid Ahmed, a resident of Dhoke Chaudhrian, told Race Course police that his sister, a schoolteacher, was heading to her school when a motorcycle rider snatched her purse. CCTV footage of the incident went viral on …

KARACHI: Three railways policemen were slightly injured while 20 residential units were razed to the ground during an anti-encroachment drive when residents put up stiff resistance against the operation near Chanesar Halt on Friday. The operation was jointly carried out by the Pakistan Railways and local police. The residents allegedly resorted to aerial firing and pelted the staff with stones, …

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Friday quickly passed the Rs1.47 trillion tax-free budget for financial year 2021-22 with a majority vote amid opposition protest as neither the leader of the house and ministers nor opposition leaders and parliamentary leaders of some parties spoke on the budget. The budget was passed in 20-minute proceedings after the house hurriedly approved all 72 …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday questioned the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) decision to continue to keep Pakistan on the watchdog’s “increased monitoring list”, also known as the grey list, despite implementation on 26 out of 27 points included in the original action plan. In a statement, Qureshi said there was “no room” to keep Pakistan on the grey list …

Former caretaker prime minister Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso passed away in Quetta after a prolonged illness on Saturday. He was 95. His son, Amjad Hussain, told that the retired judge died of a cardiac arrest. Khoso’s funeral will be held in his native town in the Lehri tehsil of Balochistan’s Bolan district. His body was given pre-burial bath at …