KARACHI: The exchange rate has been stable for more than 100 days now, but experts in the inter-bank market see a bubble that may burst in the next two months, experts and currency dealers said...
Experts see no demand for the US dollars in the open market, but are of the view that primary dealers in the inter-bank market are under pressure from the State Bank to keep the exchange rate stable...
KARACHI: Trade and industry on Friday expressed its reservations over rupee devaluation and the increase in interest rate to 10 per cent...
The general consensus was that the hike in interest rate and weakening of the rupee would send negative signals to both foreign and local investors...
As tennis greats Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams prepare to take part in the Australian Open, the New Zealanders next door are bracing for some hard-hitting cricket entertainment when the Kiwis take on the Shahid Afridi-led Pakistan side in a series of T20s and ODIs...
Pakistan's top tennis player Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi is flying the country's flag at the Australian Open, and the star linked up with...
SYDNEY: The pay dispute negotiations between Cricket Australia (CA) and the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) fell apart on Friday, Sydney Morning Herald reports...
Cricket Australia has informed that they were shocked by the ACA’s claim and had not been formally notified of the ACA’s position...
Being Australia's cricket captain is widely seen as the second most important job in the country behind prime minister...
Everyone from former Test greats, to the Australian Sports Commission, and the public condemned what happened, with the story dominating front pages, television news and coffee shop chatter...
SYDNEY: The cheating confession that scandalized a nation has triggered an investigation destined to go way deeper than merely scratching the surface of the culture within Australia’s cricket team...
It was the scratching of a cricket ball’s leather surface that sparked the problems...
SYDNEY: Australian cricket must move on from the damaging ball tampering scandal and the team could not have found a better coach to help them achieve that than Justin Langer, his predecessor Darren Lehmann has said...
Langer was named on Thursday as the replacement for Lehmann, who resigned in the wake of the Cape Town scandal even though he was cleared of wrongdoing by Cricket Australia...
The Australian cricket team was once held in such high esteem that former prime minister John Howard joked he held only the second most important leadership role in the land, after the national Test captain...
But the sandpaper-gate scandal has changed perceptions of the men in the famous baggy green cap, perhaps irrevocably, while the image of governing body Cricket Australia has also been seriously tarnished...
ISLAMABAD: Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is arriving here on Wednesday on a two-day visit...
During her stay in Pakistan, Ms Bishop will meet the Prime Minister’s Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, Minister for Planning, Development and Reform Ahsan Iqbal, Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif...
MELBOURNE: Reeling from successive first-round losses alongside Jonathan Marray in the Australian Open warm-up events in Brisbane and Auckland, Aisam-ul-Haq will hope for a change of fortunes on Thursday...
But a stern test lies in wait for Pakistan’s tennis ace and Briton Marray in the first round of the first Grand Slam of the year...
KARACHI: People travelling to or from Pakistan can now carry Rs10,000 in cash after the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) raised the limit on Tuesday by more than three times...
A passenger can carry up to $10,000 or equivalent notes of another currency while going abroad, according to SBP’s foreign exchange rules...
LAHORE: The first of the three international T20 matches between Pakistan and Bangladesh women’s teams will be held here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday...
“This is the first time we will be playing at home and the girls are pretty charged up for the match,” said Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof...
Upon arrival at the Defence Forces Headquarters in the Australian capital, the COAS was given a tri-service Guard of Honour...
Gen Bajwa called on Australian Army Chief Lieutenant General Angus J...
ISLAMABAD: Australian Foreign Minister Ms Julie Bishop’s will arrive in Pakistan on May 6 on a two-day official visit...
"During her visit, Minister Bishop will hold meetings with Advisor to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal," a spokesman for the Australian High Commission to Pakistan told DawnNews...
ISLAMABAD: A three-member Pakistan squad will proceed to Australia on July 22 to feature in Victorian Open and Australian Open, Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) secretary Group Captain Aamir Nawaz said on Tuesday...
“We will send three players — Nasir Iqbal, Farhan Zaman and Tayyab Aslam — to represent the country in Victorian Open and Australian Open events,” Aamir said...