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  • Hyderabad’s Niaz Stadium longs for revival of cricket activities

    HYDERABAD: As the glitz and glamour of the HBL Pakistan Super League returns for an eighth edition from next week with hi-octane action across four venues, Niaz Stadium’s agonising wait for revival of national and international cricket continues...

    Once an important centre for hosting international and domestic cricket as the only stadium in Sindh after Karachi’s National Stadium, Niaz Stadium now lies in ruins...

  • Hyderabad to have another museum as culture dept gets possession of Mukhi House

    HYDERABAD: Mukhi House, built in 1920 by prominent figure of Hyderabad, Mukhi Jethanand, has been handed over to the Sindh government, which will convert it to Hyderabad Museum...

    Speaking to the media, she said that an amount of Rs25 million was being allocated for the repair, rehabilitation and renovation of the proposed museum now when the Mukhi House had formally been handed over to the department...

  • Scores booked a day after mob attack on mukhtiarkar’s guest house over boy’s ‘murder’ in Hyderabad

    HYDERABAD: Qasimabad police on Saturday registered a case against 17 members of the Soomro community along with 25 to 30 unknown people over allegedly obstructing police in the discharge of their official duty during disturbances a day earlier in Tahir Soomro village of Qasimabad taluka...

    The mob attack on the two brothers in their guest house in the village was followed by the death of a teenage employee, Usman Soomro, whose was...

  • Rest house upgraded to circuit house

    GUJRAT: The district council rest house has been upgraded to the level of a circuit house and additional bedrooms and other infrastructure will now be built there for temporary stay of government officers and other functionaries...

    The rest house was established by the Gujrat district council around four decades ago and was under its control since then...

  • Avenfield House or ‘tax haven’ house?

    LONDON: The family of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is not the only resident of Avenfield House on London’s Park Lane who bought their properties through offshore companies incorporated in tax havens...

    According to the UK Land Registry record, the majority of flats in Avenfield House are owned by offshore companies incorporated in tax havens like Panama, the British Virgin Islands and Guernsey...

  • Construction of 2020 Olympics stadium to start next year

    TOKYO: Construction of the new National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will begin in January or February...

    The government will choose a new design and builder through an international competition with the aim of completing the stadium by the spring of 2020, Sports Minister Hakubun Shimomura said on Tuesday...

  • Luzhniki Stadium’s renovation completed

    MOSCOW: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Tuesday that renovation work on the Luzhniki Stadium, which will host the 2018 World Cup final, has now been completed...

    “The reconstruction of the Luzhniki Stadium is finished...

  • Watertight security sees Gaddafi Stadium slowly fill up to capacity

    Yet when the World XI squad took an open-top rickshaw ride around the stadium before their first Twenty20 International against Pakistan, the Gaddafi Stadium was only half-full...

    Fans turned up at the stadium with messages of “thank you” and “welcome” on placards for the cricketers whose involvement in this three-game series they hope will herald the return of international cricket to the cricket-crazy country...

  • World XI Tour: Tales of tragedy, triumph from Qadhafi Stadium

    Groundsmen are rolling down the pitches, welders are repairing barbed wire, and workers are splashing on a new coat of paint at Pakistan's centrepiece Qadhafi Stadium, which has witnessed both history and controversy — and is now preparing to retake cricket's world stage...

    The three-match T20 series will be played under tight security but it is, officials hope, a new chapter for Pakistani cricket — and for the Qadhafi Stadium's...

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