LAHORE: The PCB cricket committee headed by its newly appointed chairman Saleem Yousuf has expressed dissatisfaction over the national team’s performance during the last 16 months in a meeting held here on Tuesday. However, it added that another review of the performance will be conducted at the end of the home series against South Africa which is scheduled to start …

LAHORE: Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Tuesday said there should not be many changes in the team for the upcoming series against South Africa and continuity should be maintained to give confidence to the players. The 26-year-old Babar has backed his troops and is confident that his team will perform better in the Test and T20I series against Proteas, scheduled …

KARACHI: Riding on a belligerent Asif Ali century, Northern maintained their clean sheet in the Pakistan Cup on Tuesday when they overwhelmed Southern Punjab by 57 runs at the UBL Sports Complex to record a third straight triumph in the 50-over competition. Sahibzada Farhan went ballistic at the SBP Sports Complex with a blazing ton while helping Khyber Pakhtunkhwa seal …

SYDNEY: Australia captain Tim Paine has apologised for his conduct during the final day of the third Test against India, saying his sledging of Ravichandran Ashwin fell short of the standards he has set for the team. Wicket-keeper Paine at one stage called Ashwin a ‘dickhead’ as the spinner and Hanuma Vihari batted through the last three hours of the …

Cricket, Imran Khan, India — put any two words from the three together and you have Pakistanis’ attention. And if you put all three together, then you have their attention plus a top Twitter trend. ‘Pakistan shocks India’ has been the top trend on Twitter all of Wednesday morning. Why, you ask? Because of a poll run by the International Cricket Council (ICC) …

pcl KARACHI: Shares rebounded on Tuesday after a slight drop a day earlier. The KSE-100 index climbed to new highs with gains of 316.62 points or 0.69 per cent to settle at 45,922.04. Intra-day, the index jumped over the 46,000 huddle when it rose 408 points on the back of splendid performance by the second- and third-tier stocks. Shares that …

ISLAMABAD: The Eco­nomic Coordination Commi­ttee (ECC) of the Cabinet will take five crucial decisions on Wednesday linked with the implementation of an ambitious Textile and Apparel Policy 2020-25, Dawn has learned from knowledgeable sources on Tuesday. The decisions, which are mostly political in nature, are expected to generate heated debate in the ECC meeting to be chaired by Finance Minister …

ISLAMABAD: Overriding all objections from some private companies, the Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Tuesday granted marketing licences to Energas and Tabeer Energy for sale of regasified-liquefied natural gas (RLNG) to their customers. The licences would be valid for 10 years, starting Jan 8, 2021. Both applicants are stated to have their own customers in the private sector …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has finally notified the Geographical Indication (GI) Rules strengthening its case against India over safeguarding its claims of basmati rice and Himalayan pink salt. The rules, prerequisite for any GI claims, will allow Pakistan to fight India in the European Union as the latter asserts that basmati rice is an Indian product. Meanwhile, Pakistan has already challenged India’s …

BERLIN: A German-led police sting has taken down the “world’s largest” darknet marketplace, whose Australian alleged operator used it to facilitate the sale of drugs, stolen credit card data and malware, prosecutors said on Tuesday. At the time of its closure, DarkMarket had nearly 500,000 users and more than 2,400 vendors worldwide, as the coronavirus pandemic leads much of the …