ISLAMABAD: Former England Skipper Nasser Hussain has picked Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar among the four cricketers whom he would pay to watch. The other three cricketers include India’s Virat Kohli, West Indian Brian Lara and his own countryman David Gower. About Saeed, Nasser said that his strokes on the off-side had lot of grace and elegance. […]
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BERLIN: A Swiss prosecutor investigating corruption in football met in secret with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, German and Swiss media alleged Friday, further fuelling allegations of collusion between football’s world governing body and Swiss investigators. Citing unnamed sources, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and Switzerland’s Luzerner Zeitung suggested that Cedric Remund, 38, was the previously […]
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LONDON: European football’s governing body UEFA is mulling to continue the Champions League matches suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic on August 7-8, after the domestic leagues have reached their conclusion. According to a report on Sky Sports Italia, the first of the remaining matches in the Round of 16 will be played on August […]
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SHANGHAI: Wuhan Zall, the Chinese Super League team from the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, made an emotional return to their home city after more than three months torn from their families. Zall endured a turbulent 104 days on the road — including being stranded in Spain — because Wuhan was sealed off in January […]
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Novak Djokovic faces a dilemma if it becomes compulsory for players to get vaccinated before they can begin competing once the tennis season resumes following the hiatus created by the coronavirus pandemic, the world number one said on Sunday. “Personally I am opposed to vaccination and I wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to […]
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QUETTA: The Balochistan government has decided to give interest-free loans to people to compensate them for the losses suffered due to lockdown triggered by the coronavirus. The provincial cabinet had approved the scheme and in some districts it had already been started, Finance Secretary Noorul Haq Baloch said in a statement on Sunday. “Around 30,000 […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Sunday criticised the package announced by the government for the construction industry and termed it “a windfall profit package for property developers, dealers, speculators and tax evaders”. The president of PPP’s Sindh chapter, Nisar Khuhro, and former senator Taj Haider said in a joint statement that on the […]
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ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce, Textile, Industry and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood said on Sunday that the government was finalising a scheme to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across all sectors. “It is our endeavour to help small businesses as compared to larger ones because of their weaker financial position,” Mr […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s development spending will be further cut during the current and next fiscal years as part of a larger fiscal rearrangement to put the $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) back on track following about $1.4bn additional emergency funding by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that provides the country a breathing space to fight […]
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US crude crashed to below $15 a barrel on Monday, its lowest level for over two decades, as concerns about a virus-triggered demand shock and lack of storage eclipsed an output cut deal. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the US benchmark, fell more than 19 per cent to $14.73 a barrel in early Asian trade, before […]
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