ISLAMABAD: The season’s highest number of dengue cases was reported in the capital on Thursday. DHO Dr Zaeem Zia said 125 cases emerged on Thursday which was the highest since Oct 9 when 121 cases were reported. He said 78 were reported from rural and 47 from urban areas of the capital. He said 29 patients were admitted at the …

A leopard pauses to take a cautious look around before continuing its way through the thick forest in the Margalla Hills overlooking Islamabad — once a rare sight, but now one recorded and tracked by software and cameras. The cat, once found all over Pakistan but increasingly endangered as humans encroach on their habitat, has been recorded painstakingly by the …

LAHORE: Top seed Aqeel Khan was made to work before he beat Mudassir Murtaza 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to reach the semi-finals of the Sapphire National Open Tennis Championship at the Punjab Lawn Tennis Association courts here on Thursday. Mudassir’s brother Muzammil made it to semis with a 6-0, 6-1 cruise past Yousaf Khalil, Shoaib Khan toppled seasoned campaigner Heera Ashiq …

DUBAI: New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson on Thursday said he will be back to full fitness after dealing with a hamstring and elbow injury ahead of the T20 World Cup. Williamson missed the final league match of the IPL for Sunrisers Hyderabad with a hamstring niggle before joining his national side for T20’s showpiece event starting on Sunday. The Black …

LAHORE: Everything that Iftikhar Ahmed had been touching over the last few days has turned into gold in the National T20 Cup. It was no different on Wednesday night at the Gaddafi Stadium either. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s ‘Captain Marvel’ was at it again to help his side retain their title. Riding on Iftikhar’s superlative all-round display, the champions crushed Central Punjab’s …

Former New Zealand cricketer Grant Bradburn has decided to step down from the role of Pakistan cricket’s head of high-performance coaching “to pursue further coaching opportunities”, it was announced on Friday. During his three years with the PCB, Bradburn served Pakistan cricket as the national side’s fielding coach from September 2018 to June 2020, before taking on the development of …

Bitcoin hit a six-month high on Friday, approaching the record hit in April, as traders became increasingly confident that US regulators would approve the launch of an exchange-traded fund based on its futures contracts. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency rose nearly 4 per cent to as high as $59,664, its highest since mid-April. It has doubled in value this year and …

TOKYO: North Korean defectors in Tokyo symbolically summoned Kim Jong Un to court on Thursday over a repatriation programme they described as “state kidnapping”. The unusual case is a bid to hold Pyongyang responsible for a scheme that saw more than 90,000 people move to North Korea from Japan between 1959 and 1984. The programme mainly targeted ethnic Koreans but …

MELBOURNE: Australian cricket remains driven by governance feuds three years after ‘Sandpaper-gate’, with the country’s most powerful state demanding further change to the board a day after the resignation of chairman Earl Eddings. Cricket New South Wales chairman John Knox took aim at Cricket Australia’s executive board, saying the member states were not given enough say in how the game …

DUBAI: Charles Amini’s two brothers, his parents and a grandfather all played cricket for Papua New Guinea, and there’s even a stadium named after the family. But he is the only one to reach a World Cup — and happily claims bragging rights. The leg-spinning all-rounder is a crucial cog in the Pacific nation’s team at their first global tournament, …