Nadal fires back at injury cover up claims
INDIAN WELLS: Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal hit back Saturday at a claim that he faked an injury in 2012 to cover up a failed drugs test...
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ArchiveCroatia need Modric back to his best for playoff against Greece
ZURICH: Croatia need Luka Modric to get back to his best...
”Real were in turmoil following the back-to-back losses, with Modric playing in both games...
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SportAjmal just a game away from getting back to his best: Moeen Ali
Pakistan's spin king may be out of favour with the national selectors but England batsman and Worcestershire team mate Moeen Ali believes Saeed Ajmal is just a “four-day game away from getting back to his best”...
The 37-year-old Ajmal, back playing competitive cricket after remodelling his bowling action, started a third spell with Worcestershire, starting with the T20 Blast last week...
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ArchiveIllarramendi back to best in second stint at Sociedad
Two years later, he was sold back to Sociedad for less than half of what he cost...
Illarramendi, 26, is back to being the same quiet, yet confident player who shares both defensive and attacking tasks...
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MagazinesCOVER: The China-Pakistan Axis by Andrew Small
DRAWING a broad picture and bringing local narratives into context, Andrew Small has provided a lucid account of how the rather unequal friendship between Pakistan and China has developed over the last decades in his book, The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics...
After the heightened tension in the city, which the Chinese state blamed on Uighur Muslim extremist groups and which they claim are largely trained in Pakistan, I...
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PakistanBringing Pakistan and India together, one taxi seat cover at a time
The back of a taxi cab is like your shower cubicle; it's where you daydream about what your wedding will look like, where you indulge in some deep-thinking and self-reflection, where you plan out the rest of your day...
To memorialize Pakistan's Independence Day, the team of designers partnered up with graphic designer Samya Arif of Karachi and unveiled their collaboration aptly on 14 August...
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MagazinesCOVER: Muslim Architecture in Pakistan by Khurshid Hasan Shaikh
In this vein, Muslim Architecture in Pakistan: Aspects of Public Welfare by Khurshid Hasan Shaikh provides the reader with an ingenious amalgam of concept and fact...
The research encompasses territory that now constitutes Pakistan, and is based on the writer’s site-based documentation, archival data, literature, and extensive cross-referencing from available scholarship on the subject...
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ArchiveCoronavirus: Pakistan’s efforts to procure vaccine will cover just 20pc population
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s federal government seems least bothered about the protection of its 220 million population as it has made arrangements to procure just 1...
While many world nations are actively looking to get coronavirus vaccine doses to make their population immune against the virus, Pakistan is waiting for the United Nation’s Covax mechanism to receive around 45 million free vaccine doses that will cover...
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ArchivePattinson eyes back-to-back Tests against Pakistan, NZ
MELBOURNE: Australia paceman James Pattinson is targeting back-to-back Tests in the upcoming series against Pakistan and New Zealand as he savours a rare run of fitness heading into the home summer...
“When I got back from England I sort of didn’t know what to do because I’d usually be nursing a stress fracture or something like that,” he told reporters on Monday...
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SportShabbir makes it back-to-back titles at Pakistan Open
That meant the country’s top-ranked player could afford to sit back and coast to a successful title defence at the UMA-Pakistan Open Golf Championship here on Sunday...
He’s been imperious in his regal stranglehold over golf tournaments in Pakistan...
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ArchiveCOVER: For the love of Rumi: A Mirrored Life by Rabisankar Bal
I was a few pages into the book when I decided to go back to the bookstore and purchase a copy of the previous novel by this author...
The reputed Bengali author Nabaneeta Dev Sen is quoted on the back of the book saying “the power and beauty of Rumi’s love and philosophy come alive in this sensitively created book,” and one agrees with her endorsement...
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PakistanIrregular import of LNG gets ECC cover
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Saturday provided cover to ongoing irregular import of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) through spot purchases and temporary pricing mechanism for three months until a formal supply agreement is signed with Qatar...
The meeting, presided over by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, also allowed Pakistan State Oil (PSO) to induct private sector ships for import of petrol and Low...
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MagazinesCOVER: The Art of the Matter
A 1954 Pakistan Publications edition, Art in Pakistan by Jalaluddin Ahmed, updated and republished in a bigger edition in 1962, and Ahmed’s monthly journal Contemporary Art in Pakistan (1960-64), surface as the earliest record of publications on Pakistani art...
Aijazuddin reviewing the book in 1991 for Libas magazine states, “Ahmed’s pioneering introduction to the state of art in Pakistan up to the 1960s had covered the work of 60...
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ArchiveUber paid hackers $100,000 to cover up massive data breach: CEO
Discovery of the US company’s cover-up of the incident resulted in the firing of two employees responsible for its response to the hack, said Dara Khosrowshahi, who replaced co-founder Travis Kalanick as chief executive in August...
A board committee had investigated the breach and concluded that neither Kalanick nor Salle Yoo, Uber’s general counsel at the time, were involved in the cover-up, another person familiar with the issue...
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PakistanChinese varsity gets legal cover thru’ ordinance
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Friday promulgated an ordinance to give legal cover to a Chinese technical education university being established in Lahore...
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