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ISLAMABAD: The Asian Hockey Federation has postponed next month’s Champions Trophy in Malaysia after South Korea pulled out and Pakistan lost its entire team and management staff in the wake of a disastrous World Cup campaign this month. “We received a fax message from the AHF today and they have postponed the event,” Pakistan Hockey [...]
NEW DELHI: Power-packed Australia proved third time lucky as they won the men’s field hockey World Cup after a 24-year hiatus with a 2-1 win over defending champions Germany on Saturday. Luke Doerner scored the winning penalty corner 11 minutes from the end after Edward Ockenden had put the Kookaburras ahead in the sixth minute [...]
NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Thursday sacked its manager, coach and selectors, while the entire squad offered to retire, after the four-time champions finished last at the men’s field hockey World Cup. Pakistan, who won the World Cup in 1971, 1978, 1982 and 1994, had finished 11th in the 1986 edition in London. They were sixth [...]
NEW DELHI: Four-time champions Pakistan slumped to an embarrassing 3-2 defeat by Canada on Thursday to finish last for the first time in the men’s field hockey World Cup. Scott Tupper scored a golden goal two minutes before the end of extra-time in the play-off for the 11-12 positions to hand Canada their first win [...]
Pakistan entered the second round of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group II after defeating home side Hong Kong, China 3-1 in a tie that concluded on Sunday. The win came with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi’s straight-set drubbing of Hiu-Tung Yu and gave Pakistan an unassailable lead in the rubber. Qureshi beat Yu 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the [...]
MADRID: Doubles specialists Michael Llodra and Julien Benneteau combined to fire France into the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup on Saturday with a battling four-set win over Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber and Christopher Kas in Toulon. The victory gave the nine-times winners an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five tie and set up a last-eight clash [...]
NEW DELHI: Captain Barry Middleton and Jonty Clarke scored twice each to lead England over Pakistan 5-2 in the field hockey World Cup. Ashley Jackson also scored for England, which blew a 2-0 halftime lead when Shakeel Abbasi and Rehan Butt scored in a four-minute span to level. Middleton broke the deadlock in the 52nd [...]
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first Winter Olympian returned home on Wednesday to a warm welcome after participating in the 2010 Vancouver Games. Skier Muhammad
MEMPHIS: Top seed Maria Sharapova dismantled Shenay Perry 6-0 6-2 in the opening round of the Memphis Championships to record her first victory on tour this year. The former world number one needed just 51 minutes to dispatch her American challenger, breaking Perry’s service six times. The Russian will play American Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the [...]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday appointed gold-winning Pakistan women athletes Naseem Hamid and Sara Nasir sports ambassadors to honour their extraordinary success. The 22-year-old Hamid became South Asia’s fastest woman by winning the 100-metre in the South Asian Federation Games (SAF) in Dhaka, while Nasir returned with a gold medal in Karate. “President [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan’s Naimatullah clinched the bantam-weight gold medal by beating his Bhutanese opponent Sigyel on points in the final of the 11th South Asian Games boxing event at Muhammad Ali Boxing Stadium on Monday. The 20-year-old from Quetta, displayed superb technique and punching power to grab gold. He dominated the bout throughout the three rounds [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan’s Naseem Akhtar created history on Monday by becoming the fastest woman of the region when she won the 100-metre sprint gold medal at the South Asian Games. The 22-year-old from Rawalpindi clocked 11.81seconds, 0.12seconds ahead of Sri Lanka’s Pramila Priyadarshani, to bag her first gold medal before a strong crowd at Bangabandhu National [...]
DHAKA: Indian showed their firepower in the kabbadi final on Thursday when they outplayed Pakistan 29-11 at the 11th South Asian Games at Kabbadi Stadium here. Playing before a jampacked arena, Indians showed superior technique and powerplay to overcome Pakistan without facing any real challenge. Like their men, Indian women also won the kabbadi gold [...]
DHAKA: Pakistani wrestler Muhammad Ali, who is strong contender for gold medal in South Asian Games, had to spend an agonizing night in detention at Zia International Airport after being for mistaken for a wanted Bangladeshi criminal. Chief of Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) Lt.Gen. (Retd) Syed Arif Hasan when contacted on Thursday told APP that [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan chances of winning a volleyball gold in the 11th South Asian Games were shattered on Thursday when they were beaten 1-3 at the hands of arch-rivals India at the Mirpur Shaheed Sohrawardy Indoor Stadium. Pakistan got off to a brilliant start by winning the opening game but the Indians came bouncing back by [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan’s top squash player Aamir Atlas Khan clinched gold in South Asian Games when he beat his compatriot Farhan Mehboob in three straight games in the final before a jam-packed crowd at Dhaka Club’s centre court. Twenty-year-old Aamir, who contented with a silver medal in Colombo Games after losing to compatriot Mansoor Zaman in [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan quartet of Nasrullah, Azhar Khan, Muhammad Shahid Pervez and Naseer Ahmed shared 25 goals between them to lead Pakistan to stunning 33-31 victory over India and a place in the semi final in the handball event of 11th South Asian Games at the newly raised Dhaka Handball Stadium. Shooter Nasrullah and Azhar emerged [...]
DHAKA: Defending champion Pakistan strengthened their position to retain the gold medal by beating a strong Bangladesh team 17-11 in the Kabbadi event of the 11th South Asian Games at the Kabbadi Stadium on Tuesday. Pakistan, which won the Kabbadi gold in Colombo in 2006, put up another fine display and kept their opponents under [...]
DHAKA: Pakistan will take on holders India in the gold medal match of 11th South Asian Games Kaddadi event on Thursday after defeating Nepal 44-16 in the last league match at the Kabbadi Stadium here on Wednesday. Pakistan, who lost to India in their league encounter 19-15 will be pitted against their arch-rivals for regional [...]
Dashing the hopes of a British win in over seven decades, Swiss legend Roger Federer beat Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (13-11) to win the 2010 Australian Open Men’s title on Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Sydney Sunday. This was 28-year-old Federer’s fourth Australian Open crown and 16th Grand Slam title. Federer had defeated Murray [...]
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Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
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Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
