In 1980, Australia’s pace legend Dennis Lillee referred to a Pakistani pitch as a “graveyard for bowlers,” but little has changed since then. Lillee vented his resentment in the wake of working for 21 wicketless overs in Faisalabad in a bloated draw. Every one of the 11 Australian players, even wicketkeeper Pole Bog, had a turn bowling in Pakistan’s second innings of 382-2 in answer to Australia’s 617 all out as the game diminished into close to joke. England rewrote the record books last week when they scored 823-7 declared in response to Pakistan’s 556 in the first Test in…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
The government and the military establishment (ME) have decided to label Imran Khan a “fitna” (conspiratorial, divisive, violent). The majority of anti-Khan individuals view him as obstinate, narcissistic, and egotistical, rendering him unfit for any significant political position. Not long before he became state leader in 2018, and during his residency as PM, Khan’s jokes and manner of speaking were either seen as being ‘splendid’ and ‘charming’ by his allies, or were essentially parodied by his rivals. However, nuclear physicist and author Pervez Hoodbhoy wrote in Dawn in 2015, three years before Khan became PM, that Khan was actually “dangerous.”…
RAWALPINDI: After the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) raised concerns regarding the project’s cost increase from Rs32 billion to Rs39 billion, the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has sent a revised PC-I of the Rawalpindi Ring Road project to the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) in Lahore. The revised document is likely to be discussed on Monday by the PDWP. A senior RDA official let First light know that the CDWP protested the heightening in the expense of the Rawalpindi Ring Street and requested that the authority change the heightening by lessening other above charges, while guaranteeing that general venture cost…
Economic jargon occasionally frightens people, and Pakistani politicians, like those in most other nations, frequently exaggerate difficult statistics to present a false picture. For the majority of us, a comparable circumstance happened following the arrival of the typical month to month expansion rate for September, which showed a 44-month low. Everyone seems to be happy that inflation has been controlled, which has led to lower prices, from the upper echelons of the government that is currently in place to party workers. The typical month to month expansion rate in September was 6.9 percent, the most minimal since January 2021 (5.7pc).…
KARACHI: A Challenge Fund for the digitalization and adoption of technology by small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) has been established by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The central bank said it has been taking steps to help banks make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to get loans. As per a round gave on Saturday, asset will uphold creative answers for SME banking. As a grant, this fund will assist banks in developing cutting-edge technological solutions to meet the banking requirements of the SME sector. The government and central bank have repeatedly announced their support for small and…
KARACHI: Monetary good faith driven by powerful information and assumptions for a loan cost cut one month from now, the securities exchange expanded its unrivaled binge in the active week, pushing the benchmark record to its most noteworthy at any point level almost 86,000 notwithstanding forceful selling by outsiders. According to Arif Habib Ltd. (AHL), the market had a remarkable week in which it closed at an all-time high of 85,669 points on Wednesday. The stocks Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) and Pakistan Petroleum Ltd. (PPL) remained the primary focus throughout the week due to the fact that their…
KARACHI: In contrast to the eagerly anticipated locally assembled petrol-driven 660cc Suzuki, a number of new and established businesses prepare to launch locally assembled plug-in hybrid and pure electric motorcycles every Saturday following the Bolan’s demise. The MG HS Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHEV) will go on sale in Pakistan in Q42024. A gasoline engine and a pure electric motor power this vehicle. The battery can be charged on inactive also, not at all like traditional half and half vehicles where no outside charging is required. In a market that is otherwise conservative, Pakistan, MG has been leading the way in…
In New York: According to his posthumous memoir, which will be published on October 22, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent political opponent prior to his death in February, believed that he would die in prison. A portion of the book was published in the New Yorker, and it included writing from Navalny’s prison diary and earlier. On March 22, 2022, he wrote, “I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here.” “There won’t be anyone to say goodbye to… Every anniversary will be celebrated without me.” I won’t ever…
WARSAW: As part of a strategy to reduce illegal migration amid tensions with Belarus, which Warsaw accuses of funneling migrants across its border, Poland plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum. “One of the components of the movement technique will be the impermanent regional suspension of the right to shelter,” State leader Donald Tusk said on Saturday. He stated at a congress that was held by his liberal Civic Coalition (KO) group, which is the largest member of Poland’s coalition government. He said, “I will demand this, I will demand recognition in Europe for this decision.” According to Tusk,…
NAIROBI: Police said on Saturday that at least 18 people have died in communal clashes in southeastern Kenya over the past two weeks, as security was increased in the affected areas. Due to the clashes, which have pitted pastoralist communities against flood victims who have been resettled, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki declared 12 areas of Tana River County “dangerous and disturbed.” To prevent a further escalation of violence, Kenya’s national police chief, Douglas Kanja, instructed residents to surrender their firearms. The battling, which has been most extreme in the town of Bura, started when the region government offered land to…
