The murder of Baba Ziauddin Siddique, leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and former Maharashtra legislator turned minister, has shocked not only state residents and members of his party but also leaders and activists of rival organizations. He was getting into his car after leaving his son’s office on Saturday evening when he was shot dead by three people in Bandra East. The involvement of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, the main suspect in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in 2022, in Siddique’s death has been confirmed by Mumbai police. Interestingly, six months prior to Siddique’s death, members…
Author: Raja Zahid Khanzada
The Pakistan Cricket Board said in a press release on Sunday that former captains Babar Azam and Sarfaraz Ahmed, ace pacers Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah, spinner Abrar Ahmed, who was suffering from dengue fever, were resting for the Green Shirts’ remaining two games of the three-match series Test against England. The Green Team’s poor record in Test matches continued on Friday when they were defeated by the visitors in Multan by an innings and 47 runs. Multan and Rawalpindi will host the remaining two games. The Green Team has lost its previous six Test matches, their last victory…
According to AFP, England captain Ben Stokes appears to be on track to return for the second Test against Pakistan, which begins in Multan on Tuesday. The 33-year-old had been injured during the first Test, which England won on Friday by an innings and 47 runs under Ollie Pope, who took over as captain. Stokes participated in practice with the England team on Sunday, according to a spokesperson. Chris Woakes will likely be replaced by Stokes if he is deemed fit. Today, Ben bowled approximately four overs at full speed. The spokesman added, “He has done some intense running and…
Economic jargon occasionally frightens people, and Pakistani politicians, like those in most other nations, frequently exaggerate difficult statistics to present a false picture. For the majority of us, a comparable circumstance happened following the arrival of the typical month to month expansion rate for September, which showed a 44-month low. Everyone seems to be happy that inflation has been controlled, which has led to lower prices, from the upper echelons of the government that is currently in place to party workers. The typical month to month expansion rate in September was 6.9 percent, the most minimal since January 2021 (5.7pc).…
In 1980, Australia’s pace legend Dennis Lillee referred to a Pakistani pitch as a “graveyard for bowlers,” but little has changed since then. Lillee vented his resentment in the wake of working for 21 wicketless overs in Faisalabad in a bloated draw. Every one of the 11 Australian players, even wicketkeeper Pole Bog, had a turn bowling in Pakistan’s second innings of 382-2 in answer to Australia’s 617 all out as the game diminished into close to joke. England rewrote the record books last week when they scored 823-7 declared in response to Pakistan’s 556 in the first Test in…
The government and the military establishment (ME) have decided to label Imran Khan a “fitna” (conspiratorial, divisive, violent). The majority of anti-Khan individuals view him as obstinate, narcissistic, and egotistical, rendering him unfit for any significant political position. Not long before he became state leader in 2018, and during his residency as PM, Khan’s jokes and manner of speaking were either seen as being ‘splendid’ and ‘charming’ by his allies, or were essentially parodied by his rivals. However, nuclear physicist and author Pervez Hoodbhoy wrote in Dawn in 2015, three years before Khan became PM, that Khan was actually “dangerous.”…
RAWALPINDI: After the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) raised concerns regarding the project’s cost increase from Rs32 billion to Rs39 billion, the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has sent a revised PC-I of the Rawalpindi Ring Road project to the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) in Lahore. The revised document is likely to be discussed on Monday by the PDWP. A senior RDA official let First light know that the CDWP protested the heightening in the expense of the Rawalpindi Ring Street and requested that the authority change the heightening by lessening other above charges, while guaranteeing that general venture cost…
Economic jargon occasionally frightens people, and Pakistani politicians, like those in most other nations, frequently exaggerate difficult statistics to present a false picture. For the majority of us, a comparable circumstance happened following the arrival of the typical month to month expansion rate for September, which showed a 44-month low. Everyone seems to be happy that inflation has been controlled, which has led to lower prices, from the upper echelons of the government that is currently in place to party workers. The typical month to month expansion rate in September was 6.9 percent, the most minimal since January 2021 (5.7pc).…
KARACHI: A Challenge Fund for the digitalization and adoption of technology by small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) has been established by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The central bank said it has been taking steps to help banks make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to get loans. As per a round gave on Saturday, asset will uphold creative answers for SME banking. As a grant, this fund will assist banks in developing cutting-edge technological solutions to meet the banking requirements of the SME sector. The government and central bank have repeatedly announced their support for small and…
KARACHI: Monetary good faith driven by powerful information and assumptions for a loan cost cut one month from now, the securities exchange expanded its unrivaled binge in the active week, pushing the benchmark record to its most noteworthy at any point level almost 86,000 notwithstanding forceful selling by outsiders. According to Arif Habib Ltd. (AHL), the market had a remarkable week in which it closed at an all-time high of 85,669 points on Wednesday. The stocks Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) and Pakistan Petroleum Ltd. (PPL) remained the primary focus throughout the week due to the fact that their…
