HYDERABD: The seven-day annual flower show organised by the Cantonment Board Hyderabad (CBH) got under way at Ziauddin Park, next to the old Eidgah ground, Saddar, on Friday...
Representatives of different organisations including the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry attended the opening ceremony...
CARY (North Carolina): Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum is “optimistic” a rematch between his fighter and Jeff Horn will be confirmed in the next few days, he told Reuters on Thursday...
Arum said the parties in Australia were eyeing a November date in the same Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane where Horn beat Pacquiao in controversial circumstances last month...
BRISBANE: Former schoolteacher Jeff Horn stunned world champion Manny Pacquiao to win the World Boxing Organisation welterweight crown with a unanimous points’ decision in Brisbane on Sunday...
Given no chance by most observers, the 29-year-old Horn’s ultra-aggressive style proved too much for Pacquiao, with the three judges scoring the fight 117-111, 115-113 and 115-113 to the Australian after 12 rounds...
HANOI: Vietnam destroyed a huge stockpile of ivory and rhino horn on Saturday, urging the public to stop consuming illegal wildlife products driving several species towards extinction...
The ivory and rhino horn trade is officially banned in Vietnam, but its use in traditional medicine and for decoration remains widespread, especially among the communist country’s growing elite...
Master Motors, a company already active in the assembly and sale of commercial vehicles in Pakistan, was upset with the decision as it hurts its business...
Jahanzeb Khan, the company’s senior general manager, argues that granting privileged status to Foton JW Auto Park gives the company an unfair 30 per cent edge in the cost of commercial vehicles that Master already assembles and sells in Pakistan...
LEEDS: Andy Flower, coach of the ICC World XI team, is looking forward to being involved in a series that enables Pakistan fans to “see their heroes” after years of being “starved” of international cricket, he told AFP on Friday...
The former Zimbabwe batsman and ex-England coach was named on Thursday as the man who will oversee a World XI that will play three T20 Internationals in Lahore next month in a bid to revive international...
The event marked the launch of the Pakistan chapter of the World Flower Council (WFC)...
Pakistan is the 35th country to join the WFC...
Pakistan batting coach Grant Flower has raised serious questions on the national sides’ players’ ability to maintain the level of fitness which is required in the modern day game...
A disastrous World T20 campaign, which followed Pakistan’s dismal show in the limited-over versions of the game since the last couple of years, spoke volumes of the players’ lack of fitness and intensity to catch up with the fast-changing game of...
ISLAMABAD: Batting coach Grant Flower feels Pakistan batsmen are very inconsistent with their effort in training for maintaining the required fitness level...
According to Flower, the Pakistan batsmen remain in the illusion that whatever they have been doing in order to keep themselves fit is enough for them to excel on international circuit...
DUBAI: Former Zimbabwe captain and ex England coach Andy Flower said on Sunday the Pakistan Super League (PSL) Twenty20 competition can benefit the country’s budding players in the same way Indians have benefitted from their league...
The 47-year-old, who is now looking after England’s youth side and is serving as Peshawar Zalmi coach in the PSL, said: “I think this tournament will be very good for Pakistan’s youngsters in the way...
WELLINGTON: In a frank post-mortem after the 70-run loss in the first ODI, Pakistan’s batting coach Grant Flower said the visitors “didn’t use [their] brains” towards the end of New Zealand’s innings, in which 71 runs were plundered off the final five overs...
Pakistan had used the short ball well, to have New Zealand 99-6 by the 23rd over...
Pakistan batting coach Grant Flower says his side is looking forward to a return of the red ball and a hard Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) pitch for the second test against Australia beginning Monday...
Former Zimbabwe star Flower believes the Melbourne conditions will give his side a better chance of taking early wickets and exposing Australia's middle-order with reverse swing...
A day earlier, Ms Butt, the social secretary to the Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK, made two trips to the official residence of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to deliver large bouquets of flowers as a congratulatory gesture from High Commissioner Nafees Zakariya and Prime Minister Imran Khan...
While the Pakistan mission’s gesture this week was one of many congratulatory notes and gifts being sent to Number 10 by...
KARACHI: A number of Pakistani companies have been facing a temporary ban on exports of fish and fish preparations to China since January after detection of coronavirus in their shipments...
Qadri Noori Enterprise chief executive officer Manzar Alam told Dawn that around 50 companies have been exporting fish to China...
KARACHI: A four-day flower show opened on the lawns of Karachi University’s botanic garden on Monday, featuring a number of seasonal ornamental varieties, mostly by commercial nurseries...
Flower shows that touch our aesthetics and imagination indicate that we are a healthy society,” he said...