The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday announced a list of 29 players — including all-rounder Imad Wasim and pacer Mohammad Amir, both of whom recently announced their decision to end their retirement from international cricket — who would take part in the fitness camp in Kakul, Abbottabad. In a press release, the cricket board said that the camp, organised …

SYLHET: Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis both slammed their second century of the match as Sri Lanka set up a 511-run target for Bangladesh before pushing the hosts to the corner in the first Test on Sunday. The visitors were all out for 418 in their second innings at Sylhet, with Mendis making 164 runs to go with his …

KARACHI: Men dressed in casual t-shirts and trousers, screaming in excitement as someone gets a wicket or hits a six, is a common sight on Ramazan nights in the metropolis. Night cricket has become a part of culture now. But, due to lack of safe spaces for women, it was not very gender neutral. However, Khelo Kricket, a sports organisation, …

Fast bowler Mohammad Amir on Sunday said that he reconsidered his decision regarding international retirement after “few positive” discussions with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and announced his availability for the ICC T20 World Cup starting in June. In 2020, the veteran pacer had announced his retirement and said that he was being “mentally tortured” by the PCB management.   View this …

PORTIMAO: Jorge Martin hit the front in the first lap and never relinquished his lead to win the Portuguese MotoGP on Sunday, in the second race of the season. Enea Bastianini was second and teenage rookie Pedro Acosta third. Martin took top spot in the standings from champion Fra­n­cesco Bagnaia who crashed out after a collision with Marc Mar­q­uez in …

In eight months and one week of this fiscal year — between July 1, 2023, and March 8, 2024 — the federal government’s budgetary borrowings from commercial banks more than doubled to about Rs4.2 trillion from Rs2.01tr. Meanwhile, the private sector’s net borrowings slumped to Rs73 billion from Rs246bn. Want to know more about why banks and bankers generally remain …

BEIJING: China needs to “reinvent itself” with economic policies to speed resolution of its property market crisis and boost domestic consumption and productivity, the International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Sunday. “China faces a fork in the road rely on the policies that have worked in the past, or reinvent itself for a new era of high-quality …

LONDON: Foreign Mini­ster Ishaq Dar has said PIA flights to the UK will res­ume “in weeks, not months”, and that he took up the matter of banned flights of the national carrier with British government officials here over the weekend. Mr Dar made this anno­uncement during a brief visit to London on his ret­urn from Brussels, where he attended the First Nuclear …

ISLAMABAD: Just before the end of its tenure, the caretaker government allowed a cost escalation of about 30pc to “ongoing contracts” of hundreds of development projects, financed under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) of the federal government. The country’s large development portfolio has always been subject to time and cost overruns, leading to repeated revisions in financial costs, besides …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed authorities to ensure foolproof security for workers of the Reko Diq gold and copper mining project and for the logistics and transport from the project’s site to Gwadar port. Mr Sharif issued the directive while chairing a meeting on the Reko Diq project in Lahore, the PM Office said in a statement on Sunday. A delegation from …