When Mera Pakistan Mera Ghar (My Pakistan, My Home) or MPMG was launched in October 2020, the government boasted that it would help millions of Pakistanis have their own homes. The ruling PTI party was confident that the low-cost housing scheme would also replenish its waning political capital. But the scheme has taken off only recently which means the PTI’s …

Cricketing giants India exited the Twenty20 World Cup after New Zealand beat Afghanistan to book the second semi-final berth from Group 2 on Sunday. Virat Kohli’s team came into the tournament as hot favourites but let their future depend on other teams after big losses to rivals Pakistan, who were the first team to make the final four, and then the Kiwis. India thrashed …

Australia will tour Pakistan in March and April next year — the country’s first since 1998 — to play a series of Test, ODI and T20 matches, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Monday. In a statement, the PCB said the visiting team will play three Tests, three one day internationals (ODIs) and one Twenty-20 international (T20I) match. The Test …

BEIJING: Ambassador to China Moinul Haque has expressed the confidence that Pakistan’s exports to China will double over the next three to five years as a result of increasing interest of local traders and companies in trading with China. “China-Pakistan export and import trade is very promising. I can foresee that in the next three to five years, Pakistan’s exports …

ISLAMABAD: With supply shortages and unsustainable average cost of gas, the government is going to withdraw subsidised gas rates of $6.5 per unit for the industrial sector as first part of a three-phased tariff rationalisation plan. A senior government official told Dawn that Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) had already moved a summary to the federal cabinet for ending subsidised gas supply …

GLASGOW: COP26’s first week saw keynote pledges to end deforestation, phase out coal, and mobilise trillions for green investment. But observers say there is a gulf between host Britain’s proclamations and the emissions cuts that must be achieved. Mohamed Adow, director of the Nairobi-based climate think tank Power Shift Africa, said that there had been “two realities” at the global …

QUETTA: An all-men cabinet of Balochistan took oath on Sunday while Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo also appointed five advisers and three female lawmakers as parliamentary secretaries. Most of the provincial ministers were also part of the previous Jam Kamal Khan Alyani-led cabinet, as only three new faces — Mir Sikandar Ali Umrani of the Balochistan Awami Party, Syed …

The man who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at mosques in Christchurch is considering appealing against his life sentence, saying his guilty plea after the 2019 attack was obtained under duress, his lawyer told state radio on Monday. White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, 31, was sentenced to jail for life without parole last year for the murder of 51 people and attempted murder of …

ISLAMABAD: An in-camera meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on the Appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will be held on Tuesday (Nov 9) to consider the nominations made by Prime Minister Imran Khan and Leader of the Opposition Shehbaz Sharif for appointment of members of the ECP from Punjab and Khyber …