LONDON: The Premier League could face years of legal challenges if this season is not completed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the chairman of Crystal Palace warned on Sunday. Steve Parish offered public support for the league’s Project Restart plans after relegation-threatened Brighton and West Ham United expressed concerns about teams being forced to play […]
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LONDON: Explosive opener Jason Roy is desperate to get back to playing cricket, even if matches have to take place behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic. Roy, who was part of England’s World-Cup winning team last year, had a taste of playing in an empty stadium for outgoing champions Quetta Gladiators in the […]
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LAHORE: Finally demonstrating a sympathetic stance, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Sunday announced to help the country’s cricketers and technical officials, other than the contractual ones, as they face a financial crisis following a complete halt in sport activities due to the spread of coronavirus pandemic. According to the PCB announcement, it would support […]
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KARACHI: Work on almost all ongoing uplift projects and schemes across the province is learnt to have come to a halt as the provincial government has frozen all funds allocated for the current Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it emerged on Sunday. Sources in the construction industry and provincial […]
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ISLAMABAD: The prime minister’s think tank at a meeting on Sunday advised the government to consider reducing tax rates and shifting focus of federal and provincial development programmes to high-impact areas while keeping a close eye on an effective rescue and relief campaign to protect vulnerable segments of society from the serious fallout triggered by […]
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PAKISTANIS distribute Zakat and are generous in helping the less fortunate in the absence of a social security net. However, their religiosity does not stop them from indulging in profiteering during Ramazan. To ensure adequate supply in the local market, the cabinet hasbanned the export of all edible items until further orders. Incidentally, exports to the […]
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ISLAMABAD: At the peak of wheat harvesting season, the supply chain of major petroleum products, particularly high speed diesel (HSD), has been seriously affected in many parts of the country as oil marketing companies (OMCs) allegedly played tricks for monetary gains on the basis of increase in tax rates on petroleum products as approved by […]
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The Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, according to officials familiar with US planning. US President Donald Trump, who has stepped up recent attacks on China ahead of the November 3 US […]
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KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that federal ministers keep ‘unnecessarily’ criticising the Sindh government and misleading the people, compelling the ministers of the Sindh government to respond to them to tell people the truth. “On our response it is said that we are creating controversy even though we do not […]
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KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan has asked the Election Commission to stop the process of delimitation of local government constituencies in Sindh till the final publication of the results of the sixth population census held in 2017. On April 13, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had issued a letter regarding “delimitation of union council, […]
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