Cricket is Pakistan's second language. A last-over finish in a PSL night game can empty the streets of Lahore and fill the drawing rooms of Karachi, and a Pakistan–India clash stops the country altogether. The TaazaPulse cricket desk is being built to cover all of it: the national team's tours and home series, the Pakistan Super League, domestic cricket, and the records and stories that connect today's stars with the heroes of 1992.
Our match centre — fixtures, live results, points tables and player coverage — launches with the coming season. In the meantime, our newsroom's explainers on the money and paperwork of everyday life are live below, and the Morning Brief will carry the cricket headlines the day the desk opens.
Every driver watches the petrol price, but few know how the number on the pump is built. This explainer walks through the OGRA formula, the taxes and margins inside every litre, the review cycle — and the official way to check today's rate.
Your bank app shows one dollar rate, the money changer down the road quotes another, and the news reads out a third. All three can be right at the same time — this explainer shows why, and which rate actually applies to your transaction.
No office visit, no agent, no fee. If your household is in the BISP system, your eligibility and latest payment can be checked in two minutes from any phone — here is the official way, and what every result message actually means.