“ I am thankful to Mr Zaka Ashraf for offering me this post.... “ But, I know I can deliver in this role and I will try to do better than I did the last time.... Despite the paucity of time, we will announce the best possible sides.” The PCB said Inzamam’s replacement in the CTC — which comprises of former captains Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez — “ will be announced in due course ”....

NEW YORK( AFP)-Solar power could account for nearly half of the United States' electricity supply by the middle of the century, according to a government study released on Wednesday( Sept 8). The report, released by the Department of Energy, said solar could account for much as 40 per cent of the power supply by 2035 and 45 per cent by 2050, up from its current level of just 3 per cent. However, reaching this level would require the United States to quadruple its annual solar capacity additions,

BRUSSELS( Reuters)-The European Union will not change its safe travel list this week, an EU official told Reuters on Monday, allowing non-essential travel from the United States to continue for the time being despite a surge in COVID cases there. The list currently comprises two dozen countries, including the United States, Japan and Australia, which are considered safe from a health perspective under the ongoing pandemic.... Last week, an EU official said the inclusion of the United States in

QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court( BHC) on Monday suspended Kech Deputy Commissioner Hussain Jan, Assistant Commissioner Aqeel Ahmed and Naib Tehsildar Rasool Bakhsh for negligence in the Hoshab incident.... A division bench of the Balochistan High Court, comprising Chief Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Justice Hameed, while hearing a petition on the Hoshab incident ordered an inquiry against the suspended officers.... The court asked heirs of the children, who staged a sit-in in the Red Zone

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KHYBER: Pakistan and Afghan border officials agreed on Tuesday to devise a mechanism to enhance bilateral trade via the Torkham border.A meeting to this effect was held at the customs compound attended by officials of Frontier Corps, National Logistics Cell, Federal Investigation Agency, State Bank of Pakistan, Khyber and Sarhad chambers, local traders and customs clearing agents. From Afghanistan side, their border officials — Maulvi Mustafa, Maulvi Ubaidullah and head of Afghan customs Abdul H

KUALA LUMPUR( Bernama): The Malaysia Census( MyCensus) 2020 ended on Sunday( Oct 31), with 32.3 million, or 99.2% out of the country’s 32.6 million population were successfully enumerated amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Census Commissioner Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said 9.5 million living quarters and 8.1 million households were counted during the census, which began in July 2020." Following the outbreak of Covid-19, the implementation of MyCensus 2020 was also affected and the face-to-face ce

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court( IHC) on Wednesday issued a stay order on the transfer of the suspended director news and two other senior officials of the state-run PTV to the far-flung area of Turbat, Balochistan, by the previous government. Suspended Director News Rashid Baig and reporting head Shahid Ajmal Malik from the PTV’s Islamabad centre and Purchase Officer Nasir Hussain from the Quetta office were transferred to the PTV booster in Turbat on March 4. The channel’s administration h

KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be officiating the 2021 World Chinese Economic Forum( WCEF), to be held on Monday( Dec 27). The Pekan MP will be delivering a keynote address during the event, which will be held at Sheraton Hotel in Petaling Jaya. Najib's keynote address is entitled" Building a community with a shared future for mankind". WCEF is a yearly one-day event which is organised to discuss the world’s future, with China leading the way. This year’s event w

KARACHI: A division bench of the Sindh High Court has allowed the Defence Housing Authority( DHA) to not share the record of land with a court official until a single bench decides its application about the maintainability of a lawsuit challenging the misuse of cantonment land and land reclaimed from the sea. The suit filed by Farhan Wazir and five other plaintiffs, mostly residents of the DHA, had approached a single bench of the SHC under the Whistleblower Protection and Vigilance Commission O