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    5 September Pakistan Day 2016

  • Sri Lanka team to tour Pakistan in September in first visit since 2009 attack

    Sri Lanka's cricket board has approved a tour to Pakistan, eight years after a deadly militant attack on the team brought top international games in the country to a standstill, officials said on Monday...

    Leading cricket nations have shunned playing in Pakistan since the 2009 assault, in which gunmen ambushed the Sri Lankan team bus en route to the Lahore stadium, wounding at least seven players...

  • England to tour Pakistan in September for T20s and Tests

    England will tour Pakistan in September for the first time in 17 years to play seven Twenty20 and three Test matches, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Tuesday...

    England pulled out of their Pakistan tour last year soon after New Zealand had abandoned their tour of the South Asian country over security concerns...

  • Nawaz to return to Pakistan in September: Javed Latif

    Federal minister Javed Latif on Monday claimed that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif — who is in a self-imposed exile in London on medical grounds — would return to the country in September...

    He alleged that Nawaz was disqualified on the instructions and directions of former chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar...

  • Pakistan women’s team to host South Africa in first-ever home series in September

    The South Africa women’s cricket team will undertake their first-ever tour to Pakistan beginning this September for three one-day-internationals (ODIs) and three T20Is that will kickstart a busy 2023-24 international cricket season for Nida Dar’s team, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said in a press release on Friday...

    The PCB said that the South African side will be the fourth high-profile national women’s side to tour Pakistan in...

  • Traffic plan for four-day IDEAS-2016 announced

    KARACHI: To insure smooth flow of traffic during the four days of 9th International Defence Exhibition and seminar IDEAS-2016, to be held at the Expo Centre later this month, the office of the deputy inspector general of police (traffic) on Saturday unveiled its traffic plan for all public, commercial and private vehicles from Nov 22 to 25...

    But due to security reasons on day one of the international exhibition, Nov 22, both tracks...

  • Zilhaj moon not sighted, Eidul Azha on September 13

    KARACHI: The first day of Eidul Azha will be celebrated across Pakistan on September 13, Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman announced after no reports were received of credible sighting of the Zilhaj moon on Friday...

    "We have reached a consensus that the moon for Zilhaj was not sighted, and Eidul Azha will now be celebrated across the country on September 13," said the chairman of Ruet-i-Hilal Committee... ...

  • Trade deficit surges on, September data shows

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit widened nearly 30 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday...

    09 billion between July and September from $7bn over the previous year...

  • Education expenses up by 153pc in September

    KARACHI: The latest report of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) shows how costly education is in the country, with expenses witnessing a 153 per cent hike in September on a year-on-year basis...

    After house rent, education is the biggest contributor to CPI-based inflationThe Pakistan Education Statistic 2015-16 launched by the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) — a subsidiary of the Ministry of Federal Education...

  • JI announces 'accountability march' starting mid-September

    Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq on Monday announced that his party will launch an 'accountability march against corruption' from Lahore to Islamabad between September 12 and 16...

    Haq reminded the media that JI began its movement against corruption on March 1, 2016, when the country's structure and its institutions were being destroyed...

  • Petrol price raised for September

    ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday increased the price of petrol by Rs2 per litre, however, the rates of other petroleum products remained unchanged for September...

    40, kerosene and light-diesel oil (LDO) at Rs44 per litre would be maintained for September...

  • A normal September

    SEPTEMBER has acquired a colloquial connotation of ruthlessness (sitamgar) in Pakistan, mainly due to the way political events have unfolded during this month over the years past...

    As in the past, this September too has a great deal of political and diplomatic frenzy in its fold: the Panama hangover is not yet over, the NA-120 by-election continues to heat up political debate on TV screens, and the BRICS declaration has revived...

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