February 8, 2019

MADRID: Thibaut Courtois left Chelsea on bad terms last summer and he expects to feel the anger from Atletico Madrid too when he faces them in the white of Real Madrid on Saturday. Courtois developed into one of the world´s finest…

LAHORE: Pakistan’s coach Mickey Arthur has held everyone responsible for the team’s series loss in South Africa. Pakistan lost the Test series 3-0, ODIs 3-2 and T20s 2-1 against the Proteas. “I don’t think that there is any coincidence…

LAHORE: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) chairman Jahanzeb Khanhas said that the board is mulling to get rid of the advance tax collections and ensure early reimbursement of the refunds and rebates enabling the business community to…

KARACHI: Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shallwani has declared Karachi “The Cricket City” for the upcoming season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL). The fourth edition of PSL will commence from February 14 and conclude on March 17. The T20…

GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA: West Indies recalled veteran batsman Chris Gayle on Thursday for the first two one-day internationals against England in preparation for this year´s World Cup. The hard-hitting, 39-year-old Gayle last played for…

LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal chaired a meeting at the bureau’s headquarters here on Friday. During the meeting, the performance of NAB’s operation and prosecution divisions was evaluated.…

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Friday said the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman had stolen Rs1,500 billion. “A person who stole 15 hens is in jail for one year. But a person who stole Rs1,500 billion become PAC…

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi excused himself from appearing before the National Accountability Bureau on Friday in an ongoing probe pertaining to the liquefied natural gas…

MANCHESTER: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said Pakistan will present a strong case against Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at a hearing scheduled for later this month. Addressing…

Lahore: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has launched the first Urdu Version of the Customs Act, 1969 for the convenience and benefit of the traders and the business community. The version is updated till the 30th June 2018 and has been…

Lahore, February 8, 2019: Karandaaz Pakistan is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Shamshad Akhtar as its new Chairperson, Board of Directors. Dr. Shamshad Akhtar replaces Dr. Ishrat Husain, who served as the Chairman of Karandaaz…

ISLAMABAD, (TLTP) : Invoking inherent powers of the Supreme Court on Friday Sindh government sought the top court written order for removal of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto and Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah names form Joint Investigation…

DUBAI: Iranians will chant “Death to America” as long as Washington continues its hostile policies, but the slogan is directed at President Donald Trump and US leaders, not the American nation, Iran’s supreme leader said on Friday. “As…

PARIS/BERLIN: A priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys is trying to block the release of a film about a scandal that has rocked the French Catholic church and put one of its most senior cardinals in the dock. The acclaimed…

NEW DELHI: Facebook is toughening up the rules governing political advertisements in India to create more transparency ahead of the country’s general elections due before May, the social media giant said late on Thursday. Users will see…

LONDON: A body retrieved from the wreckage of a crashed plane in the English Channel has been formally identified as Cardiff City’s Argentina-born football player Emiliano Sala, British police said on Thursday. Sala, 28, had been flying…

Artist Thomas Deininger’s sculptural assemblages are nothing but three-dimensional tricks of the eye which makes one experience a good optical illusion. A video of his recent art work, which is doing the rounds on social media and has…

LAHORE: Director General Health Dr Munir Ahmed on Friday confirmed presence of the polio virus in Faisalabad. As per details, the samples that were taken from Achkera pumping station for test of polio virus were ‘positive’. The…

Hundreds of jobless young people marched on Thursday through the streets of the Indian capital demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government tackle what they called a rising unemployment crisis. The protesters disputed the…

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will address the World Government Summit’s 7th edition on Feb 10 during his day long visit to United Arab Emirates on the invitation of Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid…

NEW YORK: A New York developer and a partner plan to demolish the Grand Hyatt New York, the hotel that launched US President Donald Trump’s real estate career in Manhattan decades ago, the two companies said on Thursday. Developer TF…

Apple on Thursday rolled out software updates to iPhones to fix a privacy issue in its FaceTime video calling service, and said it would contribute toward the education of the Arizona teenager who discovered the problem. The software…

WASHINGTON: Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon.com Inc, has accused the owner of the National Enquirer of trying to blackmail him with the threat of publishing “intimate photos” he allegedly sent to his girlfriend unless he said in…

ISLAMABAD: With a huge repayment of over $5 billion approaching in the next six months, Pakistan may be compelled to take a bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to sources, repayment of over $700 million…

By M J Hayat LAHORE: The government if implements its Economic Reform Package in letter and spirit, it can prove instrumental in the economic growth and development of the country. The decision of early reimbursement of Rs 200 billion…