Indian captain Virat Kohli said on Friday his side have “moved on” from the controversy over an overturned decision during the third Test defeat to South Africa, to lose the series 2-1, at Newlands. Kohli, 33, and two teammates were caught on the stump microphone complaining after home captain Dean Elgar survived on review after being given out leg before wicket at a crucial stage on the third afternoon. “I have no comment to make,” he told a press conference after the seven-wicket defeat in Cape Town. “We understood what happened on the field and people on the outside don’t know if…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
Australia returned Novak Djokovic to detention on Saturday, saying the tennis star’s opposition to vaccination could cause “civil unrest” and trigger a high-profile court showdown. Having once failed to remove the unvaccinated 34-year-old from the country, Australia’s conservative government is trying again. And Djokovic is fighting back for the second time, with a new court appeal scheduled for Sunday. The case will be heard from 9:30am (2230GMT) by the full Federal Court of three justices, a format that leaves little room to appeal any decision. For now, the Serbian ace is back at a notorious Melbourne immigration detention facility after…
England fought back to take three Australian wickets in the final session but still trail by 152 runs at the end of day two of the fifth and final Ashes Test in Hobart on Saturday. After conceding a lead of 115 runs when bowled out for 188 in their first innings, the visitors bounced back in the last hour of the night session of the day-night Test. With an hour to bat before stumps, Australia lost David Warner for his second duck of the match, caught brilliantly by Ollie Pope in the gully off the bowling of Stuart Broad. Marnus…
KARACHI: Despite the passage of a mini-budget on Friday, trading on the Pakistan Stock Exchange remained dull because of investors’ risk aversion growing out of the increasing number of Covid-19 cases, said Arif Habib Ltd. Analysts at JS Global said investors should look for opportunities to buy technology, fertiliser, oil and gas exploration stocks on dips. The benchmark index closed at 45,763 points, registering little change from a day ago. Market participation decreased 26.7 per cent to 240 million shares while the value of traded shares went down 5.9pc to $34.6m. Sectors adding the highest number of points to the…
KARACHI: The cost of labour in Pakistan is two times less than that in China, which makes the former an attractive destination for Chinese capital, according to Khalid Mansoor, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Delivering a presentation at the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Friday, Mr Mansoor said China is witnessing a scarcity of skilled labour because of its internal migration trends. Its human resource problem is accentuated because of the one-child policy that was in place until recently. In contrast, Pakistan’s population is fairly young and growing, which makes the local workforce…
ISLAMABAD: Amid reports of the misuse of China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA), the government on Friday ordered all oil marketing companies (OMCs) to provide evidence-based data on the import of petrol from China. Under the CPFTA renegotiated in 2019, the government had issued statutory regulatory orders on Dec 31, 2019 that abolished tariff on import of petrol. As such, there was no customs duty on the import of petrol from China with effect from Jan 1, 2020. Normal petroleum imports from all other sources, mostly the Middle East, attract 10pc customs duty while similar deemed duty is applicable on production…
KARACHI: With $2.5 billion of inflows in December 2021, monthly remittances from overseas workers stayed above the $2bn mark for the seventh straight month, according to the data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Friday. Remittances in December increased 2.5 per cent on a month-on-month basis while the rise was 3.4pc in annual terms. Cumulatively, remittances grew 11.3pc to $15.8bn in the first half of 2021-22 on a year-on-year basis, the SBP said. Remittance flows in the latest month were mainly sourced from Saudi Arabia ($626.6 million), United Arab Emirates ($453.2m), United Kingdom ($340.8m) and United States…
BEIJING: China on Friday dismissed a rare public warning by British security services that a suspected Chinese agent was trying to influence lawmakers, saying it was the result of watching “too many 007 movies”. British authorities said on Thursday that a London-based solicitor “knowingly engaged in political interference activities” inside parliament, citing Britain’s counter-intelligence and domestic spy agency MI5. Christine Lee had reportedly worked on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party to gain influence through donations, the office of House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said. China’s foreign ministry denied engaging in “interference activities”, blasting the accusations as “alarmist remarks…
LONDON: Muhammad Gohir Khan made multiple attempts to reach Rotterdam, and even bought a paring knife during his visit to the Netherlands as he scouted the home and location of exiled blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya. Khan also repeatedly asked a middleman in Pakistan — said to be the individual who allegedly hired the defendant for the murder plot — for more information on the identity and whereabouts of the blogger. On the second day of the trial in which Khan has been charged with conspiracy to murder, the prosecution again made its case to the jury that the defendant intended to kill…
LILLE: One man has died and about 30 other people have been rescued in the Channel after their boat ran into difficulties while trying to cross from northern France to Britain on Friday, prosecutors said. The victim is believed to be in his 20s and to be of Sudanese origin, the prosecutor’s office in Boulogne-sur-Mer said, adding that the others had been rescued in waters off the village of Berck. A record 28,000 migrants crossed the Channel from France to the UK in small boats last year, according to a tally from Britain’s PA news agency, causing major diplomatic tensions between the…
