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Tarin asks Balochistan, Sindh to bring down flour prices


October 7, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Wednesday took strict notice of high prices of wheat flour prevailing in Sindh and Balochistan and urged the chief secretaries to start daily release of wheat for stabilising its prices. The federal government is constantly criticising the provincial governments, especially Sindh, for not matching the price fixed by Punjab, which is releasing wheat to …

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Ozil launches centre to address lack of South Asians in football


October 7, 2021

LONDON: Former Arsenal star Mesut Ozil hopes to boost the numbers of British South Asians breaking into professional football after helping launch a development centre in Bradford. The United Kingdom has a South Asian population of more than three million people, which amounts to seven per cent of the population. While Britain’s Afro-Caribbean population is well-represented in elite sport, especially …

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Uncertainty hangs over Pakistan’s T20 World Cup preparations


October 7, 2021

LAHORE: Just two days remain until Pakistan’s squad for this month’s Twenty20 World Cup has to enter a six-day quarantine before departing to the United Arab Emirates. Yet, there are no signs of things speeding up or the pressing matters being addressed. The final make up of the squad, which was originally announced before the cancelled tours of New Zealand …

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ICC to switch from ‘batsmen’ to gender-neutral ‘batter’ from T20 World Cup


October 7, 2021

The International Cricket Council (ICC) will change “batsman” to the gender-neutral term “batter” in its playing conditions starting from this month’s Twenty20 World Cup, the world governing body said on Thursday. The Lord’s-based Marylebone Cricket Club, the sole authority on the laws of the game since it was founded in 1787, last month made the change in the Laws of …

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Psychologists to monitor players during T20 World Cup for ‘mental health’ issues: ICC


October 7, 2021

Psychologists will monitor players at the T20 World Cup to help cope with the growing number of mental health cases in coronavirus safety bubbles, cricket’s governing body said on Thursday. The pandemic strain has become increasingly apparent in recent months with England’s Ben Stokes on a prolonged mental health break, and other leading players complaining about the pressures of going …

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Dubai ruler ordered hacking of ex-wife’s phone using Israeli spyware: UK judge


October 7, 2021

Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum authorised the use of spying software to hack the phone of his ex-wife, according to a British court ruling published on Wednesday. The phone of Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, 47, and those of her lawyers and others in her entourage were hacked using Pegasus spyware during the pair’s acrimonious divorce custody case …

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Nato expels eight Russians


October 7, 2021

BRUSSELS: The North Atlantic Treaty Organis­ation on Wednesday expe­lled eight members of Russia’s mission to the alliance who were “undeclared intelligence officers”, the latest deterioration in East-West ties that are already at post-Cold War lows. A Nato official said Moscow’s mission to the alliance headquarters in Brussels would be halved “in response to suspected malign Russian activities, including killings and …

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Water crisis confronts both Pakistan and India, says UN report


October 7, 2021

UNITED NATIONS: Nearly 2.3 billion people live in water-stressed countries, which include India and Pakistan, says the latest UN report on the looming water crisis. Globally, every two-minute a child under five dies from a preventable waterborne disease. In Sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls spend an estimated 40 billion hours a year collecting water. One in four lack access to …

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Underdone Aussies can win T20 World Cup, says Finch


October 7, 2021

MELBOURNE: Most of Australia’s players have had scant preparation for the Twenty20 World Cup but white-ball captain Aaron Finch said his underdone squad can still bring the trophy home for the first time. Many of Australia’s first-choice players elected to skip the recent white-ball tours of West Indies and Bangladesh and also sit out the resumption of the Indian Premier …

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Covid strikes Balochistan team


October 7, 2021

LAHORE: Balochistan were forced to pull out of the National T20 Cup match against Northern on Wednesday night after it emerged that four players in their squad had tested positive for Covid-19. While the affected players were duly quarantined from the squad, the organisers changed the schedule with the bottom-placed Southern Punjab replacing Balochistan for the scheduled game at the …

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