KARACHI: Jemima Goldsmith, the screenwriter and film producer once married to former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, has married for a second time, exchanging vows with the Irish-Australian financier Cameron O’Reilly in a private ceremony over the weekend.
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India’s women follow men’s lead in refusing Asia Cup trophy from ACC chief Naqvi
India’s women cricketers refused to collect the Asia Cup trophy from the head of Asian cricket’s governing body on Sunday night, plunging the presentation ceremony in Dubai into confusion and repeating a snub delivered by their male counterparts a year earlier.
Pakistan’s whitewash in England lays bare a crisis years in the making
KARACHI: Pakistan’s cricketers left England on Saturday with the emphatic misery of a 3-0 series whitewash and, almost despite themselves, one image that will outlast the scoreline: a 21-year-old fast bowler from Mardan, on Test debut, launching nine sixes into the Edgbaston evening as his side’s innings defeat turned, however briefly, into hope.
Cricketer Rizwan, Haq grilled by cyber crime agency over alleged dressing-room leaks
LAHORE: Two of Pakistan’s most prominent cricketers, Mohammad Rizwan and Imam-ul-Haq, presented themselves before the country’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency in Lahore on Thursday, as officials pressed ahead with an inquiry into alleged leaks from the team’s dressing room during its troubled tour of England.
Afghan women studying medicine in Pakistan ordered home to a country that bars them from university
LAHORE: Twenty Afghan medical students at King Edward Medical University were given 24 hours to report to the administration and begin the process of leaving Pakistan. Seven were in their final year of training. For the women among them, the order does not just interrupt a degree. It sends them back to a country where they are barred from attending university at all.
Babar Azam blindsided by Pakistan cricket cull as England eye series whitewash
LAHORE: Babar Azam has revealed he was given no warning of the extraordinary shake-up that saw his head coach sacked and seven players sent home mid-series, telling reporters in Birmingham that the sweeping changes were “news to me” as well.
EU warns Pakistan not to take GSP+ trade perks for granted- report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan cannot assume its preferential access to European Union markets will continue, the bloc’s ambassador to Islamabad said, as the two sides engage in high-stakes talks over a trading arrangement worth billions of euros to the South Asian nation’s export economy.
PTI says senior leader Hammad Azhar arrested in 2023 riot case; police say they have no confirmation
A senior leader of opppsition Pakistan Tahreek- e- Insaf party said on Sunday that police had arrested former finance minister Hammad Azhar in the eastern city of Multan and transferred him to custody in Lahore, an action the party branded political retaliation.Â
SBP rejects reports Raast was named as money-laundering channel in FATF report
KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank disputed reports circulating on social media on Friday that a global financial-crimes watchdog had identified the country’s instant payment system as a conduit for money laundering, saying the claims distorted the findings of a report examining underground banking networks worldwide.
Govt, Islamist party agree to negotiate fuel tax as strikes shutter markets
LAHORE: Facing 19 straight days of street protests and a nationwide strike that emptied marketplaces from Karachi to Peshawar, the government agreed on Thursday to form a joint committee with the country’s largest religious political party to study whether the fuel taxes squeezing ordinary drivers can be rolled back.