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Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
Former Pakistani cricket team captain Younis Khan has sent a message of goodwill to Indian great Virat Kohli to play one last match in Pakistan. Last month, Kohli and Rohit Sharma announced they had played their last T20 internationals after India’s thrilling seven-run win over South Africa in the T20 World Cup final in Barbados. Star batsman Kohli put a run of low scores behind him to make 76 as he was named player of the match, with the 35-year-old saying afterward: “This was my last T20 World Cup, and this is what we wanted to achieve.” However, India’s new head coach Gautam Gambhir…
PARIS: Top seed Novak Djokovic could face 14-time French Open champion Rafa Nadal in a blockbuster second-round match in the Olympic men’s singles after the draw was made at Roland Garros on Thursday. Women’s top Iga Swiatek of Poland, who will be overwhelming favourite after winning her third successive French Open crown last month, meets Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu while second seed US Open champion Coco Gauff, who missed the Tokyo Olympics three years ago with Covid, faces Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic. There were murmurs around the room when the men’s singles draw was revealed on a screen showing Spaniard Nadal, who…
PARIS: The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee chief (USOPC) on Thursday urged the warring American and world anti-doping bodies to work together while assuring Olympic officials they will support the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) as the supreme anti-doping authority. The USOPC, along with the 2028 Los Angeles and 2034 Salt Lake City Olympic host committees have been caught in the crossfire in an increasingly bitter feud between Wada and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), who were shown the red card by Olympic officials. The International Olympic Committee has issued a stern warning to US sports officials: support Wada…
PARIS: Women’s football took centre stage at the Paris Olympics on Thursday after a chaotic start to the sporting action at the Games in the men’s football, while preparations ramp up for an unprecedented opening ceremony. Reigning Ballon d’Or Aitana Bonmati scored one goal and helped create another as World Cup holders Spain came from behind to beat Japan 2-1 while reigning Olympic champions Canada shrugged off a spying scandal to start their campaign with a 2-1 win over New Zealand. Spain fell behind against Japan in the western French city of Nantes to Aoba Fujino’s early free-kick, but Bonmati soon equalised…
PARIS: The first competition at one of Paris’ postcard Olympic venues opened on Thursday at the Invalides, the resting place of Napoleon Bonaparte, with the first records of the Games as Lim Si-Hyeon topped women’s archery qualifying. It was a day of almost uninterrupted conquest for South Korea. Nam Suh-yeon was second in the women’s qualifying and Kim Woo-jin and Kim Je-deok topped men’s qualifying. The ancient martial competition is being held on the lawn in front of the gilded dome of France’s military museum, where Napoleon was entombed in 1861. Thursday’s qualifiers represented the calm before the tumult. So…
PARIS: The head of the Palestine Olympic Committee criticised “double standards” from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday over its decision to allow Israel to compete at the Paris Games. Palestinian Olympic head Jibril Rajoub demanded a boycott in a letter to the IOC earlier this week which was rejected by the head of the international Olympics body, Thomas Bach. “This confirms that there are international institutions that insist on applying double standards and not adhering to the Olympic Charter, laws and regulations, or morals,” Rajoub said as he arrived at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport with the Palestinian…
On the water, perched on rooftops and operating AI-augmented cameras, French security forces have mounted a colossal operation to prevent an incident ruining the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on the river Seine on Friday evening. The figures tell only part of the story of the efforts made to protect the river parade, the first time a Summer Olympics has started outside a stadium. About 45,000 police and paramilitary officers will be on duty, along with 10,000 soldiers and 20,000 private security guards. The total area that needs securing measures more than six kilometres (four miles) along the Seine and will…
ISLAMABAD: In light of the recent increase in base tariffs, government-owned power distribution companies (Discos) have sought an additional fuel cost adjustment (FCA) of Rs2.63 per unit to extract about Rs35 billion more from consumers in the next billing cycle for the electricity consumed in June. The Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA), a subsidiary of the power division, has filed a formal petition before the regulator for an increase of Rs2.63 per kilowatt-hour (unit) over the reference tariff of Rs7.14 per unit already charged to consumers in June. This increase comes even though almost 75 per cent of the power…
LAHORE: The Gallup Pakistan latest survey reveals a stark decline in business confidence among the country’s business owners, who now view Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government as an even worse economic manager than its predecessor. The continued political turmoil and the introduction of a tax-heavy budget have further exacerbated their pessimism about the future. The Gallup Business Confidence Index, which surveyed 454 small, medium, and large businesses across more than 30 districts in the second quarter of 2024, showed negative values for all three key indicators: the current business situation, future business situation, and the direction of the country. The…
