BERLIN: Switzerland dumped reigning champions Italy out of Euro 2024 with a stunning 2-0 victory on Saturday to reach the quarter-finals for the second time in their history. Murat Yakin’s supremely well-drilled side outplayed the flat two-time winners in the last 16 clash in Berlin and will face England or Slovakia in the next round. Ruben Vargas teed up Remo Freuler for Switzerland’s 37th minute opener before curling home superbly himself right at the start of the second half to deservedly double their lead. A new-look Italy, short on star power and without many of the key figures that led them…
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India greats Virat 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 on Saturday. 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 afterwards: “This was my last T20 World Cup, and this is what we wanted to achieve. “One day you feel you can’t get a run, then things happen. God is great, and I got the job done for the team on the day…
KARACHI: Auto sector players are optimistic about China’s BYD entering Pakistan in collaboration with Hub Power Company Ltd (Hubco) to locally assemble electric vehicles (EVs), which could benefit exports. “[The] Entry of BYD in Pakistan should be looked at from a global perspective instead of [a] regional one,” GM Marketing Division, MG JW Automobiles Syed Asif Ahmed told Dawn from Lahore. He said China will focus on other potential markets for EVs after restrictions in North America and Europe. Turkiye has already imposed a 30 per cent duty to protect its EV brand TOGG, while South America plans to follow the duty curbs. He…
President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday gave assent to the government’s tax-heavy Finance Bill 2024 for the new fiscal year. The government had presented the budget two weeks ago, drawing sharp criticism from opposition parties, especially the PTI, as well as coalition ally PPP. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb had moved the finance bill in parliament, which had been opened to seek amendments and debate by the ruling alliance led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and its opposition. Opposition parties, mainly parliamentarians backed by currently incarcerated former premier Imran Khan, had rejected the budget, saying it would be highly inflationary. Earlier this week, the PPP…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday formed a management company to manage the assets of the Pakistan Public Works Department (PWD) and digitise its records. The decision was made in a meeting regarding the winding up of PWD and its alternative arrangements. The meeting was briefed about the plan to dissolve the PWD, implementation of ongoing projects, alternative to the PWD and outsourcing of the construction and repair work to private companies. The meeting was informed that ongoing projects under the PWD would be completed by the relevant federal and provincial departments whereas no further project would be assigned to the…
SWABI: The police on Saturday arrested two persons for allegedly assaulting a girl near the boundary of Swabi with Haripur district. A police official said that the victim was a close relative of the accused, who belonged to Haripur district. He said an FIR was registered in the Utla police station against the accused, and the medical report also confirmed assault on the victim. SHO Utla police station Jihad Khan said that the medical examination of the girl was conducted at the Bacha Khan Teaching Hospital, Shahmansoor. The victim had also recorded her statement in the magistrate’s court, and nominated…
GILGIT: The chief secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan has constituted a high-level committee to conduct a fact-finding inquiry after a recent scrutiny found there were 83 ghost employees in the Communication and Works Department. Ibrar Ahmad Mirza, the chief secretary, asked the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Saturday to finalise legal action over the malpractice. The six-member committee, to be headed by the Additional Finance Secretary, will include a representative from the Accountant General’s office. The committee’s terms of reference include conducting a comprehensive inquiry into the issue of excess employees in other organisations like the Health, Education and Water and Power departments.…
Taliban authorities said on Saturday that demands over women’s rights were “Afghanistan’s issues” to solve, ahead of United Nations-led engagement talks where the exclusion of Afghan women has sparked an outcry. The Taliban government, which has imposed restrictions on women since seizing power in 2021 that the UN has described as “gender apartheid”, will send its first delegation to the third round of talks starting in Qatar on Sunday. Civil society representatives, including from women’s rights groups, will attend meetings with the international envoys and UN officials on Tuesday, after the official talks. Rights groups have condemned the exclusion of Afghan women from the…
ESSEN: The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) declared its ambition to rise to power in Germany as its party congress kicked off on Saturday with clashes between hooded demonstrators and police, just weeks after it scored record EU election results. About 1,000 police were deployed in the western city of Essen, where demonstration organisers said 50,000 protestors marched towards the congress. The police have not yet provided figures. “We want to govern, first in the east (of Germany), then in the west, then at federal level,” Tino Chrupalla, co-president of the AfD, told around 600 delegates of the two-day meeting…
BELGRADE: A Serbian police officer on Saturday killed a man who shot him in the neck with a crossbow in front of the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, in what the prime minister called a “terrorist act”. Police identified the assailant as being a “convert” to Islam, who was born in 1999 in the town of Mladenovac, some 50 kilometres from Belgrade. The attack happened around 11:00am on Saturday morning in the Serbian capital, when the attacker shot the officer who was on duty outside the Israeli embassy. The policeman “used a weapon in self-defence and defeated the attacker, who died…
