Gold Coast: Pakistan received news to cheer from the Commonwealth Games on Friday after Arshad Nadeem qualified for the finals of the javelin throw event with a national-record throw. Arshad’s throw in Group B qualifier was 80.45m, which is also a new national record by any Pakistani in men’s javelin throw competition. He improved his previous record which was 78.33m. ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s only World Boxing Council (WBC) title winner Muhammad Waseem will take on South Africa’s Moruti MThalane in the International Boxing Federation (IBF) flyweight world title bout on July 15 in Malaysia. This is also the first time any Pakistani will be going for the IBF world title. According to Waseem, the fight is as big as it gets since ...

GOLD COAST, Australia: Five more African athletes may have vanished from the Commonwealth Games, organizers said Thursday, after eight competitors from Cameroon were suspected of fleeing a day earlier. Gold Coast organizers confirmed reports that athletes from Rwanda and Uganda were thought to have gone missing, while they were also looking to verify the whereabouts of two squash players from ...

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA: Indian athletes Rakesh Babu and Irfan Kolothum Thodi are being sent home from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games after a needle was found in a cup in their bedroom at the Athletes’ Village, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) said on Friday. Triple jumper Babu, race walker Thodi and three Indian team officials had appeared before a CGF ...

LAHORE: Pakistani weightlifters returned home after winning bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Weightlifters Nooh Dastagir Butt and Taha Talib won bronze for Pakistan at this year games. Twenty-year-old Nooh Dastagir Butt won the Bronze medal in +105kg weightlifting competition while Taha Talib won a Bronze in men’s 62kg weightlifting competition. After lifting 173kg in snatch, Nooh successfully ...