KARACHI: Former Australian all-rounder Shane Watson has turned down an offer to become the head coach of Pakistan men’s national team, media reported on Saturday. A front-runner for the said position, the 42-year-old Watson was in discussion with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the national team’s coaching job but withdrew his name in the end. The Ipswich-born player, who …

LAHORE: Jordan are perhaps the toughest opponents Pakistan will face in their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign and head coach Stephen Constantine isn’t happy with the build-up. While the Englishman said he was preparing a team that wouldn’t go down without a fight, he admitted there is little he can do. Having been thrashed by both Saudi Arabia and …

WOLVERHAMPTON: Coventry City stunned Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-2 with two injury-time goals in a rollercoaster FA Cup tie at Molineux Stadium on Saturday as the Championship side reached the semi-finals for only the second time in the club’s history. Wolves had looked set for a trip to Wembley after Rayan Ait-Nouri cancelled out Ellis Simms’ second-half opener, and Hugo Bueno then …

KARACHI: Quetta Gladiators came into the ninth season of the HBL Pakistan Super League with renewed hopes under a revamped management structure and a new captain. The changes seemed to have worked right away, as the former champions got off to a flying start in the campaign, as they won their opening three matches and despite a few jitters later, …

KARACHI: Imad Wasim and Haider Ali starred with counterpunching efforts against Peshawar Zalmi in the second Eliminator here at the National Bank Stadium on Saturday to take Islamabad United to their third HBL Pakistan Super League final. Both batters hit half-centuries after Islamabad, chasing 186, had found themselves reeling at 91-5 with the likes of captain Shadab Khan and power-hitter …

AUSTIN: Artificial intelligence aficionados are betting that the technology will help solve humanity’s biggest problems, from wars to global warming, but in practice, these may be unrealistic ambitions for now. “It’s not about asking AI ‘Hey, this is a sticky problem. What would you do?’ and AI is like, ‘well, you need to completely restructure this part of the economy’,” …

KARACHI: Conditionalities before the start of the final review with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and uncertainty about the possibility of a rate cut given the Ramazan-driven spike in inflation kept investors in a jittery mood as a result the benchmark KSE 100-share index closed the outgoing week in the red. Arif Habib Ltd (AHL) said the stock market remained …

ISLAMABAD: The export of raw food products recorded a growth of 35.38 per cent in February to $702.46 million, up from $518.87m over the corresponding month last year, forcing the local consumers to pay higher prices. With this growth, raw food exports increased for the seventh consecutive month during the current fiscal year despite the highest food inflation in the …

RAWALPINDI: The government has decided to extend by two months the deadline for submission of bids for the outsourcing of management and operations of the country’s three major airports following the requests of foreign investors and recommendations of the Internat­ional Finance Corporation (IFC). The decision was taken at a meeting of the steering committee on outsourcing of Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore airports …