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Peshawar: Ufone Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Football Tournament’s city qualifiers have concluded in all the 21 cities. City champions from Swabi, Chitral and Bannu have been decided in addition to Swat, Buner, Kohat, Hangu, Karak, Upper and Lower Dir, Nowshera, Charssadda, Lakki Marwat, D.I. Khan, Tank, Mansehra, Haripur, Abbottabad, Peshawar, Mardan and Malakand. The 21 city champions will face each other within ...

Lahore: With Fatima Fertilizer Company Limited’s support, Arwa Afridi of Pakistan Railways wins 2 gold medals at the 2nd World Alpagut Championship- a martial arts tournament held in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 22-24, 2019. The tournament brought together 600 participants from over 24 countries in the competition according to age and weight categories, where 9 were from Pakistan including 2 ...

In his pursuit for the place for Tokyo 2020, while playing in Osaka Grand Slam, Olympian Judoka Shah Hussain Shah ascended to 39th position in recently updated Olympic ranking list. This is ever highest any South Asian judoka could earn. He lost against world number 4 Aron Wolf from Japan in pre quarterfinal. He secured 160 points in this highest ...

LAHORE : Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti inaugurated 36th National Junior Hockey Championship at National Hockey Stadium on Thursday. President Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) Brig (retd) Khalid Sajjad Khokhar, Secretary PHF Asif Bajwa, Chief Selector Manzoor Junior and other officials were also present on this occasion. Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and ...

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti said Punjab govt as per the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan will continue to extend every kind of cooperation for the holding of sports activities across the province; he said this while talking on the closing day of 2-day 4th National Youth and Junior Athletics Championship ...

LAHORE: Secretary Sports Punjab Nadeem Mehboob said athletics is rightly portrayed as mother of all sports. And the countries which excelled in athletics usually produced wonderful results in other sports as well; he said this while talking on the inaugural day of 2-day 4th National Youth and Junior Athletics Championship at Punjab Stadium on Monday. President Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) ...

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has extended their support to the normalization committee of Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) following “fruitful discussions” between the officials of the federations. The two-member delegation of the PFF normalization committee — comprising of Chairman Hamza Khan and Col (rtd) Mujahidullah Tareen — met with the secretary-general of AFC, Dato Windsor John and other officials in ...

CARDIFF: Aaron Ramsey scored twice to lead Wales to Euro 2020 with a 2-0 victory over Hungary in Cardiff on Tuesday. The Juventus midfielder struck early in both halves to ensure Ryan Giggs’s men secured second place in Group E behind World Cup finalists Croatia. Wales reached the semi-finals of the European championships in 2016 and while matching that run ...

Rafael Nadal was confirmed as the year-end world number one for the fifth time after the ATP released its season-closing rankings on Monday. The Spaniard did not make it beyond the group stage of last week’s ATP Finals in London but Novak Djokovic’s failure to reach the semi-finals meant Nadal closed the year with 9,985 points, 840 clear of the ...

Denmark and Switzerland secured spots at Euro 2020 at the expense of the Republic of Ireland on Monday as Roberto Mancini’s Italy completed a perfect qualifying campaign by scoring nine. Ireland needed to beat Denmark in Dublin to clinch qualification for next year’s 24-team European Championship finals, but Matt Doherty’s late header was only enough to earn Mick McCarthy’s men ...