ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ace pugilist and Asian champion Usman Wazir on Thursday said he would be establishing a boxing academy here at Pakistan Sweet Home so that aspiring children could be trained and win laurels for the country in future. “I will establish a boxing academy at Pakistan Sweet Home in one month where the coach will train the children three days a week,” the 21-year-old Usman said while visiting Pakistan Sweet Home, a major orphanage in Islamabad. He was of the view that children would learn the skills and techniques at the academy and would go on to become international…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
HOBART: Pat Cummins believes the vast majority of Australia’s Test squad will travel to Pakistan but the skipper fully understands if any team-mates opt out of the tour. Cricket Australia is yet to press players for a final decision regarding the multi-format series in Pakistan, which is slated to begin on March 3 with a Test in Karachi. But selectors have started to thrash out plans for a busy couple of months, when Australia’s white-ball series against New Zealand and Sri Lanka will be quickly followed by the Pakistan tour then the IPL. Players and staff have been given a…
LAHORE: He made history for the country at the 2020 Olympics where he reached with his efforts, not as a wild card. Having earned a commendable fifth spot in the Tokyo final featuring the world’s elite javelin throwers, Arshad Nadeem is thinking not just about himself but Pakistan’s future in the sport as well. And the promising 25-year-old reckons the country has all the talent to become a major international competitor in javelin throw provided the government patronises the aspiring athletes. “Pakistan has the best talent to do wonders in this sport where 23 gold medals [in international contests] are…
If you’ve been wondering who’ll sing the PSL anthem this year, well wonder no more. Singers Atif Aslam and Aima Baig will be the voices behind the anthem, a “fun and catchy” song produced and composed by Abdullah Siddiqui. The PSL will begin on January 27, the first match being between the Karachi Kings and Multan Sultans, and there’s nothing like an uplifting song to get you in the mood for the game. This year’s anthem will see the return of Baig who also featured in last year’s PSL anthem ‘Groove Mera’ alongside Young Stunners and Naseebo Lal. Aslam will be singing…
The Australian government cancelled Novak Djokovic’s visa for a second time on Friday, saying the world tennis No 1, unvaccinated for Covid-19, may pose a risk to the community. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke used discretionary powers to again cancel Djokovic’s visa, after a court quashed an earlier revocation and released him from immigration detention on Monday. “Today I exercised my power under section 133C(3) of the Migration Act to cancel the visa held by Mr Novak Djokovic on health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so,” Hawke said in a statement. The…
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) and the Special Communication Organisation (SCO) on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities for the growth of telecom services across the country with a special focus on Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. The MoU will facilitate multi-level cooperation between the leading telecom players to foster resource efficiency and growth of telecom services nationwide, especially in the remote mountainous regions of AJK and GB. The arrangement will facilitate passive network sharing and SCO’s backhaul support for the launch of PTCL’s Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service in AJK and…
ISLAMABAD: A total of 168 reform proposals have been taken up with the federal and provincial departments to eliminate regulatory bottlenecks for facilitation of businesses — particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs) — and over 100 reforms have been implemented while others are in various stages of implementation, the Board of Investment (BoI) said on Thursday. To date, three rounds of regulatory reforms and guillotine have been launched, and a dedicated interactive portal showcased the implemented reforms along with supporting evidence, BoI Additional Secretary Mukarram Jah Ansari informed the Sixth Steering Committee Meeting on the Pakistan Regulatory Modernisation Initiative (PRMI).…
ISLAMABAD: The prices of key petroleum products are estimated to jump by up to Rs6.30 per litre on Jan 15 for the next fortnight, mainly because of higher international oil prices. Informed sources said the prices of petrol (motor gasoline) and high-speed diesel (HSD) had been worked out to go up by about Rs5.30 and Rs5.80 per litre, respectively, based on the existing tax rates, import parity price and exchange rate. Likewise, the prices of kerosene and light diesel oil (LDO) are also estimated to go up by Rs5.80 and Rs6.30 per litre, respectively. An official said the government could…
KARACHI: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) tsar Khalid Mansoor said on Thursday Chinese businesses have shown willingness to relocate their production facilities to Pakistan if the ongoing trade war between China and the United States escalates further. Speaking at a conference of business leaders, the special assistant to the prime minister on CPEC affairs said two to three investors have approached him for the possible relocation of their manufacturing units to Pakistan. “[They said] create a vocational and training institute [as] we’re going to need 100,000 talent of Pakistan in the next one year,” he said. Replying to a question about…
LONDON: Britain’s domestic spy service MI5 has told the House of Commons speaker that the Chinese Communist Party has been employing a woman to exert improper influence over lawmakers. Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said in an email to lawmakers on Thursday that MI5 had found that the woman “has been engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, engaging with members here at parliament”. She “has facilitated financial donations to serving and aspiring parliamentarians on behalf of foreign nationals based in Hong Kong and China”, the email added. Hoyle said the woman had been involved with the…
