Ben Cutting and Sohail Tanveer have been fined 15 per cent of their match fees for “using a gesture that is obscene, offensive or insulting” in separate incidents during a Pakistan Super League (PSL) match between their respective sides on Tuesday. “Ben Cutting of Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators’ Sohail Tanvir have both been fined 15 per cent of their match fees for breaching a Level 1 offence of the HBL PSL code of conduct in separate incidents during their side’s match in the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022,” a statement by the Pakistan Cricket Board said. “Both the players were found…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the Cloud First Policy and the Personal Data Protection Bill, noting that the decision was crucial to move the country further into the digital world. The Cloud First Policy has listed five classes for data, including open data in the public sector to make the government open and accountable and increase citizens’ participation in government’s affairs. The other one is public data related to the public sector that is non-confidential and is publicly available. It is followed by restricted data related to public sector business, operations and services, which is not sensitive in…
ISLAMABAD: Energy Minister Hammad Azhar on Tuesday said the profit share in the Saindak project has been increased in favour of Pakistan from 50:50 to 53:47. The minister in a series of tweets said the royalty to the Balochistan government was also enhanced from five per cent to 6.5pc of revenue, besides social uplift support to the government of Balochistan from 5pc to 6.5pc of net profit and increase in annual rent by up to 40pc (indexed with price). The minister said the newly negotiated agreement was concluded in consultation with all the stakeholders including the provincial government. In another…
KARACHI: Steel producers on Tuesday asked the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to remove the ambiguity in the sales tax rules due to which they have not been able to supply steel to tax-exempt mega projects in Gwadar including free zone and airport and others. Pakistan Association of Large Steel Producers (PALSP) Secretary-General Syed Wajid Bukhari in a statement said that in the absence of a proper mechanism for availing sales tax exemption the producers could take benefit of this incentive. He said the association has approached the FBR and recorded the industry’s concerns regarding the Sales Tax Rules 2006…
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday increased the prices of all petroleum products by Rs10 to Rs12 per litre for next fortnight ending on Feb 28 to pass on the impact of higher international oil prices and application of additional petroleum levy, as committed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These are the highest-ever prices of all the products and also perhaps the highest-ever increase in their prices in one go. The Ministry of Finance announced the decision after Prime Minister Imran Khan agreed to raise levy on all petroleum products by Rs4 per litre to honour commitment made with the…
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) was told on Tuesday that despite significant benefits offered to freelancers, most of them were reluctant to get registered with the government. Committee chairman Kauda Babar asked the IT ministry about facilities being provided to the freelancers by the government. He said the freelancers independently executed IT projects for local and overseas clients, while working even from remote areas, and they were generating billions of rupees without any government support. “Most of the freelancers were lower and middle-class youths, and a significant amount was remitted by them,” Senator Babar said. Senate…
BANDUNG: An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a teacher to life in prison for the rape of 13 students, in a case that has drawn national attention to sexual abuse in some of the country’s religious boarding schools. Herry Wirawan, 36, was found guilty of raping 13 female students — all minors — and impregnating at least eight of them by Bandung district court in West Java. The revelations sparked national outrage, with a senior government official saying President Joko Widodo has paid special attention to the case. The pattern of abuse came to light when the family of a…
WASHINGTON: Delays in dealing with the growing debt burden in poor countries seems unlikely to be resolved by the G20, a top World Bank official warned. As interest rates are starting to rise around the world, putting more pressure on borrowers, the Group of 20 finance ministers are due to meet in Indonesia this week. But World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart is skeptical there will be a resolution soon to help address unsustainable debts. “The stalling is really, really problematic,” she told AFP in an interview. She warned that the average length of a government debt crisis is nine years,…
GENEVA: Pollution by states and companies is contributing to more deaths globally than Covid-19, a UN environmental report published on Tuesday said, calling for “immediate and ambitious action” to ban some toxic chemicals. The report said pollution from pesticides, plastics and electronic waste is causing widespread human rights violations and at least 9 million premature deaths a year, and that the issue is largely being overlooked. The coronavirus pandemic has caused close to 5.9 million deaths, according to data aggregator Worldometer. “Current approaches to managing the risks posed by pollution and toxic substances are clearly failing, resulting in widespread violations…
NEW YORK: Prince Andrew and his accuser Virginia Giuffre have settled a sexual assault lawsuit for an unspecified sum, according to a court filing on Tuesday. In a letter sent to a New York judge on behalf of both parties, Giuffre’s lawyer David Boies wrote that they “have reached an out of court settlement,” without disclosing the financial terms. As part of the agreement, the British royal will make a “substantial donation” to a charity established by Giuffre that supports sex trafficking victims, Boies said. Giuffre has said she had sex with Andrew when she was 17 and a minor…
