Tag: Pakistan
Wasim Khan, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), said on Wednesday that the reports of captain Babar Azam being unhappy with the squad for the ICC T20 World Cup were "factually incorrect". He also said that Azam is fully behind the "direction that is being taken". ....
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that the well-being of the Afghan people must remain the focus, as they have suffered enormously due to prolonged conflict and instability for decades. ....
Arrest warrants have been issued in Lahore against actress Saba Qamar and singer Bilal Saeed in connection with a case pertaining to the shooting of a music video in the historic Wazir Khan mosque. ....
England's tour of Pakistan next month was thrown into doubt on Friday after New Zealand abandoned their international series there on security grounds. ....
Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has slammed New Zealand Cricket (NZC) for abandoning the white-ball tour of Pakistan. On Friday, minutes before the first ODI at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium could begin, the NZC released a statement saying that they were calling off the tour entirely due to security concerns. New Zealand were on their first tour to Pakistan after 18 years. ....
New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson has called Pakistan a 'special place' for cricket and is hoping that the pullout of the Kiwis from the white-ball series in the country won't have a lasting impact. ....
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ramiz Raja was left fuming after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that the tour of Pakistan in October by their men's and women's teams had been cancelled due to "increasing concerns about travelling to the region." ....
Nine people were killed and 20 others injured in a firing between two groups while attending a session of a Jirga, the local tribal court, in Pakistan's Upper Dir district, police sources said. ....
Pakistan's Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Fawad Chaudhry, implied on Tuesday that the withdrawal of England and New Zealand cricket teams from their scheduled series in Pakistan was a result of Prime Minister Imran Khan saying "absolutely not" to the US on using Pakistan as a base for the latter's Afghan operations, the Express Tribune reported. ....
There would be around five million Chinese nationals working in Pakistan by 2025, The News has reported. ....