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Will a franchise league arrest Pakistan hockey’s declining standards?

KARACHI: As India ended a 41-year medal drought in Olympic hockey, picking bronze at the Tokyo Games last month, thoughts inevitably shifted to Pakistan’s long wait which will stretch to 32 years come Paris 2024...

The Pakistan Hockey Federation, though, remains hopeful Pakistan’s Olympic medal drought wouldn’t stretch to four decades even if things seem bleak at this point in time with Tokyo marking the second successive Games in...

McDonald's to close 169 outlets in India over franchise row

McDonald's India has announced it will close nearly 170 McDonald's outlets in northern and eastern India after the American fast food giant decided to terminate a franchise agreement with its Indian partner...

McDonald's said its partner Connaught Plaza Restaurants violated the terms of the franchise agreement, including reneging on payment of royalties...

DAWN Franchise Expo from today

LAHORE: The two-day 4th DAWN Franchise Expo 2015 opens today (Tuesday)...

Dawn Franchise Expo opens

LAHORE: A number of international and local franchisers held one-on-one active interactions on the first day of the 4th Dawn Franchise Expo 2015 on Tuesday...

BPL franchise signs Champions Trophy hero Hasan Ali

Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) franchise Comilla Victorians has signed Pakistani pacer and Champions Trophy 2017 hero Hasan Ali for its upcoming season later this year...

Hasan Ali, who first emerged on the Pakistan cricket scene after being picked for Peshawar Zalmi in the first season of the Pakistan Super League, took 13 wickets to help Pakistan achieve Champions Trophy glory...

Female franchise

The local government elections in Punjab on Thursday were edifying in several respects where female franchise is concerned...

Meanwhile, a rather different scenario was observed in the Paikhel union council of Mianwali where women are also prevented from exercising their right of franchise as a matter of course...

Women denied franchise: LHC restrains ECP from notifying results

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday restrained the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from notifying results of two union councils of Sargodha’s Lalyani tehsil, where women were allegedly not allowed to cast their votes...

Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan rejected the arguments and observed that every citizen of Pakistan was an aggrieved party if women were not allowed to cast votes in any constituency of the country...

McDonald’s franchise spin-offs tamp down earnings

The company, which is in the middle of an effort to sell off 4,000 company-owned stores to franchise operators, said that comparable sales globally rose 3...

Mobile phone franchise looted

2 million cash from a mobile phone franchise in a broad daylight and managed to escape...

Police sources said the man, wearing a black helmet posing himself as customer, entered the mobile phone franchise located on G...

Mickey Arthur named coach for PSL Karachi franchise

Former South Africa and Australia coach, Mickey Arthur, has been named the head coach of the Karachi side for the upcoming Pakistan Super League (PSL), team owner Salman Iqbal announced on Friday...

Iqbal, the CEO of the ARY Group, who purchased the Karachi franchise for a reported amount of $26 million, picked former leg-spin great Mushtaq Ahmed as Arthur's deputy...

PSL’s Peshawar franchise dedicated to APS terror victims

KOLKATA/KARACHI: The Peshawar franchise of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) – to be called Peshawar Zalmi – will be dedicated to the children and teachers of the Army Public School (APS), who lost their lives in a brutal attack by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) last December...

This is our cause, the city’s cause, KPK’s cause,” franchise owner Javed Afridi, CEO of Haier Home Appliances, said...

Jazz, Warid consolidate franchise network

KARACHI: More than a third of the nearly 700 franchise outlets of both Warid and Jazz will shut down as the two entities consolidate their franchise network after a merger last year...

Peshawar Zalmi's foreign players ready to play final in Lahore, says franchise owner

Peshawar Zalmi owner Javed Afridi confirmed on Thursday that the team's foreign players are ready to play the Pakistan Super League final in Lahore scheduled for March 5...

"All five of our foreign players have received Pakistani visas and they will play the final in Lahore when we qualify," said the franchise owner...

Comment: Karachi Kings — the PSL franchise hated by many of its own

On day one, at least, no franchise has disgruntled fans...

They came into being on December 3, 2015 when the Pakistan Cricket Board sold the Karachi franchise to the ARY Group...

PCB forms governing council to address issues of PSL franchise owners

LAHORE: A 13-member governing council of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) has been formed, comprising seven members of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and one each from the six franchises of the league in order to move forward with mutual understanding...

The PCB also issued a press release regarding the formation of the council which said: “All six team franchise owners congratulated PCB Chairman and Pakistan Cricket Board on the...