LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has made shuffles in coaching staff for the upcoming domestic season 2021-22.  Abdul Razzaq has been given the coaching of Central Punjab (CP). Last time, he coached Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KPK) First XI that won National T20 Cup, Pakistan Cup, and jointly won Quaid-e-Azam Trophy with CP. Then CP’s First XI coach Ijaz Ahmed Jr …

KABUL: An Afghan footballer who played for the national youth team fell to his death after trying to cling to a US plane airlifting people out of Taliban-controlled Kabul, a sports federation said Thursday. The General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports of Afghanistan, a government institution that worked with sporting groups, confirmed the death of Zaki Anwari in the …

Pakistani fast bowler Hassan Ali posted a warm message for his wife, Samyah, on the occasion of their second wedding anniversary on Thursday. In the heartfelt post on Instagram, the right-arm pacer credited his wife with bringing “real happiness” to his life. “Two wonderful years with you, Alhamdulillah and many more to come insha’Allah,” he wrote as the caption. “You …

Singapore, one of the world’s most vaccinated countries, is likely to stick to its mask mandate for some more time, according to its foreign minister, as the city-state cautiously reopens its borders and eases its COVID-19 restrictions. “I don’t think people want to wear masks. But on the other hand, I think we’ve gotten used to it,” Vivian Balakrishnan, who …

Emirates has signed a codeshare agreement with Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras S.A (Azul) which will allow customers to seamlessly connect to and from eight cities in Brazil to Emirates’ global network via Sao Paulo. The codeshare agreement has been approved by the Brazilian Federal Aviation Agency (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil). Under the codeshare, customers will be able to connect …

Malaysia’s new prime minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, will have to draw on his experience of more than a decade in governance as he takes the reins of a country beset by political turmoil, raging COVID-19 infections and a pandemic-battered economy. The 61-year-old was appointed by the Southeast Asian nation’s constitutional monarch on Friday to succeed Muhyiddin Yassin who stepped down …

LAHORE: Pakistan was ranked 153rd among the 193 countries surveyed in the 2020 UN E-Government Development Index (EGDI) report which marks a decline in ranking in comparison with the report published in 2018 [148th]. Earlier, UN EGDI solely tracked the e-government development but now includes elements of digital government development of member states by ranking them across three distinct indicators …

Dispelling the impression that the visit of Reg Dickason — a long-time independent security consultant for New Zealand Cricket (NZC) — to Pakistan next week was related to the situation in neighbouring Afghanistan, a spokesperson for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday said that Dickason was “always scheduled” to visit the country as part of NZC’s tour protocols. During …

KARACHI: Credit cards remain out of reach for most Pakistanis even though plastic cards of other kinds continue to gain a firm foothold in the country of 212 million people. There were only 1.68m credit cards at the end of March, which constitutes a share of 3.8 per cent in 44.5m payment cards currently in existence. Debit cards form almost …