PARIS: Confusion reigns in French football as to whether the league should resume amid the coronavirus pandemic. The co-president of the French professional footballers’ union called for the league to stop, while coaches in the top two divisions have expressed diverging opinions whether the 10 remaining games should be played. “It is legitimate to collectively […]
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KARACHI: Former Pakistan fast bowler AAaqib Javed on Tueday said he fears for the future of Pakistan cricket and it is the need of the hour that the players for a players association to protect their’ rights, especially keeping in view the uncertain situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic In an exclusive interview in program […]
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TOKYO: An open conflict broke out Tuesday between Tokyo Olympic organisers and the International Olympic Committee over who will pay for the unprecedented year-long postponement. Tokyo spokesman Masa Takaya said the organising committee has asked the Switzerland-based IOC to remove a comment from its website suggesting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had agreed that Japan […]
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KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board’s Chief Executive Wasim Khan has termed the upcoming ICC Chief Executives’ Committee meeting as ‘extremely critical’ as a wide-range of topics will be discussed with the other board members on Thursday. “The purpose of the meeting is to gain a full understanding of the members’ priorities during this time and to […]
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• Govt to send 8m anti-malaria tablets to seven countries• Approves tax exemption for construction, allied services• National Commission on Minorities reconstituted ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday decided to make public the findings of an inquiry commission report on Independent Power Projects (IPPs) and order their forensic audit. The cabinet formally approved tax exemption for […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party’s parliamentary leader in the Senate Sherry Rehman assailed the federal government on Tuesday for “spreading misinformation” about debt relief and not applying formally for the G20 programme concerned. “Why has Pakistan failed to formally ask G20 for debt relief?” she asked, adding that it was alarming that the government was misleading […]
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KARACHI: The country is in danger of running out of life-saving products like vaccines and insulin merely because the National Control Laboratory has stopped the process of certification, according to importers and government officials. They confirmed that the position of chief federal analyst — the signing authority — was vacant since the retirement of the […]
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ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a major fallout from Covid-19, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has linked the collection of the revised target of Rs3.908 trillion for 2019-20 to the resumption of economic activity in Ramazan and Eidul Fitr. The coronavirus-led slowdown and suspension of business activity have heavily hit the revenue collection, […]
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US oil prices surged on Wednesday after falling below zero for the first time at the start of the week as markets drown in crude due to a virus-triggered collapse in demand. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for June delivery was up almost 10 per cent at $12.68 a barrel, paring gains of around 20pc […]
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Officials suspect a Chinese trader was kidnapped after his colleague filed a complaint with police saying he had gone missing from Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority, it emerged on Wednesday. According to his colleague, the missing Chinese national had gone out on Monday night at around 7pm, saying he was supposed to meet his friends for […]
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