Mumbai, Feb 10 (IANS) The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has failed to get any major concessions from the International Cricket Council (ICC) for agreeing not boycott the match against India in the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup, scheduled to be played on February 15 in Colombo.In its negotiations with the ICC, the PCB has sought a higher share of revenue from ICC and had also asked the sport’s governing body to ask BCCI to approach the Indian government seeking the restart of bilateral cricket ties be…
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New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) The sale of Pakistan International Airlines has actually fetched the Pakistan government only Rs 10 billion, which is a fraction of the Rs 135 billion sale value that it has publicly announced, a Pakistani media report said.”The most misleading economic decisions are not dishonest. They are technically correct, structurally complex and publicly celebrated, yet deliver almost nothing a treasury can use,” according to an article in the Pakistani daily The News Internationa…
New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) The calm that was restored in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) in October is all set to end with talks being called off between the PoK’s Joint Awami Action Committee and the government. In September, protests had erupted in the region during which several organisations had made multiple demands relating to development. The government of Pakistan intervened and agreed to fulfil all their demands.However, now, the committee has accused the government of orchestrating an e…
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the Pakistan government to reduce its spending on incentives given for foreign remittances, a move that has raised concerns among experts about a possible shift of money flows back to informal channels. According to a report by Nikkei Asia, analysts fear that cutting these incentives could weaken official banking routes and push more remittances towards backstreet networks such as hawala and hundi.The IMF’s recommendation…