BEIJING: Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday. Hall clinched the gold on the first of three runs when he defied gravity with a trick called right double 10 pretzel one. He spun 900 degrees one way and, as G-forces took over, stopped the spin in midair and spun 180 degrees the other way. He stuck the landing and skied in backward to the finish, earning a score of 90.01. “I’m just stoked I did it,…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
KOLKATA: India overcame a mid-innings blip to beat West Indies by six wickets in the first T20 here at the Eden Gardens on Wednesday. Chasing 158, the hosts, who swept the preceding ODI series 3-0, got off to a flying start before West Indies made a brief comeback. Suryakumar Yadav and Venkatesh Iyer then added 48 runs in 4.2 overs to help India home with seven balls to spare. Kieron Pollard returned from a knee injury but they posted a modest 157-7 after being put into bat. After Brandon King fell in the first over, Kyle Mayers made 31 but…
MELBOURNE: Australia fast bowler Michael Neser has been ruled out of next month’s Test tour of Pakistan due to a side strain and will be replaced with uncapped Mark Steketee, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday. Cricket Australia said Neser, who earned his first test cap during the Ashes, picked up the injury during Queensland’s Marsh One-Day Cup loss to New South Wales on Monday. Australia are due to play three Tests against Pakistan, with the first Test scheduled to begin on March 4 in Rawalpindi. “Neser injured himself while warming up to bowl during the innings break of…
Karachi Kings fans might be some of the unhappiest people on Earth these days. Their team has been knocked out of the PSL 7 play-offs and after Wednesday night’s seven-wicket loss to the Multan Sultans, the Kings now have eight consecutive defeats in a row, a first in PSL history. As if things weren’t bad enough, fans saw their favourite captain, Babar Azam, being apparently told off by franchise president Wasim Akram as a camera focused on the two mid-game. Suffice to say moods turned even more sour after that. Akram and Azam were caught talking on camera, with Akram gesturing towards…
LAHORE: Islamabad United will be without captain Shadab Khan and pacer Zeeshan Zameer against Peshawar Zalmi in their HBL Pakistan Super League match scheduled for Thursday at the Gaddafi Stadium. It is a big blow for United as the tournament enters its final stretch with Shadab being the leading wicket-taker of the tournament. He also had two half-centuries in six innings. Shadab and Zeeshan were injured during United’s last match against Karachi Kings. United won that match by one run.
LAHORE: Multan Sultans rebounded swiftly from the first defeat of their campaign. Karachi Kings just can’t even get a consolation win. Sultans’ seven-wicket victory over the Kings on Wednesday night was a predictable outcome in the HBL Pakistan Super League clash between the sides who sit top and bottom of the standings. But the Kings had their moments at the Gaddafi Stadium and while this clash didn’t go down to the wire, like their previous one against United which was decided on the last ball, this one went to the final over. Umaid Asif had nine runs to defend but…
KARACHI: The benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange closed on Wednesday slightly lower than a day ago amid investors’ concerns about inflationary pressures. Trading remained range-bound in response to the government’s decision to increase the prices of all petroleum products by Rs10-12 to pass on the impact of higher international oil prices. According to Topline Securities, the stock market recorded a 20-month low in terms of the value of shares traded. As a result, the KSE-100 index lost 46.9 points or 0.1 per cent on a day-on-day basis to close at 45,684.80 points. The trading volume decreased 47.1pc to…
KARACHI: In a move to encourage timely inflow of export proceeds to boost foreign exchange reserves, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday allowed exporters to get more discounts on borrowing against their future proceeds. “The State Bank has enhanced the scope of Export Finance Scheme (EFS) — both conventional as well as Sharia-based — allowing the exporters to obtain financing against their export proceeds through discounting of export bills or receivables,” the SBP circular said. Discounting of bills or receivables is essentially a financial transaction where the exporter surrenders its future export proceeds and obtains financing in rupees…
ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday said its Strategic Trade Policy Framework (STPF) and new Textile and Apparel Policy (TAP) 2021-25 envisaged diversification of export markets and products but did not suggest measures beyond guaranteeing competitive energy rates to sectors other than textiles or offer any alternative plan in case exports suffer in key destinations of the European Union and the United States due to Ukraine standoff. Speaking at a news conference, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce & Textiles Abdul Razak Dawood said the main commitment of the TAP approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday was to “give textile…
ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel on Wednesday unanimously cleared the Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) Act that gives representation to a member each of the two houses of parliament and the provinces on its board, but did not clear a bill on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority (CPECA) for lack of provincial representation. A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Planning and Development presided over by Saleem Mandviwalla unanimously passed the P3A Act, recommending the nomination of one member each of the Senate and the National Assembly, to be nominated by the chairman and speaker, respectively, for the authority’s board for…
