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LAHORE: Chairman Steering Committee Sports Punjab Hanif Abbasi, Punjab Minister for Sports Jahangir Khanzada and Secretary Sports Punjab Muhammad Aamir Jan visited State of the Art Punjab International Swimming Pool in Nishtar Park Sports Complex on Monday. Director Admin Javed Rasheed Chohan, Divisional Sports Officer Nadim Qaiser and other top officials were also present on this occasion. The above-mentioned dignitaries ...

MELBOURNE  – World number five Venus Williams and US Open champion Sloane Stephens were high-profile casualties on day one of the Australian Open Monday, but Roland Garros winner Jelena Ostapenko survived. Williams, who lost in the final to sister Serena last year, was stunned by Swiss star Belinda Bencic, fresh from winning the Hopman Cup with Roger Federer. The seven-time ...

AJ Styles became a two-time WWE Champion last year What’s the story? Current WWE Champion AJ Styles has added another award to his illustrious list of achievements as The Phenomenal One has been named as Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Wrestler of the Year award for 2017. In case you didn’t know… After a successful debut year in the WWE, AJ Styles ...

11th National Tenpin Bowling Championship 2018 will start from 16th January here at Leisure City Bowling Club Safa Gold Mall Jinnah Super Market F-7 Markaz Islamabad under the supervision of Pakistan Tenpin Bowling Federation. It will be 5 days event in which a huge number of national players along with women from different professions will take part in this mega ...

LAHORE: Secretary Sports Punjab Muhammad Aamir Jan presided over an important annual meeting at Punjab Stadium on Saturday. Departmental achievements of archeology, tourism and youth in 2016-17 were also reviewed during the meeting. MD TDCP Ahmer Malik, Deputy Secretary Planning Tehmina Habib, DG Archeology, Director Sports Muhammad Anees Sheikh and Director Admin Javed Rasheed Chohan also attended the key meeting. ...

Last November Angelique Kerber was reduced to tears after losing to Ashleigh Barty in China, willing a terrible 2017 to be over. Skip forward two months and the German former world No.1 believes she’s well on the way back to her best, after turning the tables on Barty to win the Sydney International. Saturday’s 6-4 6-4 victory at Sydney Olympic ...

Dr. Niaz Ali Abbasi, Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs, Govt. of Sindh on Wednesday announced cash reward for Sindh men and women netball teams who captured gold medals in the recently concluded 2nd Quaid-e-Azam Games held at Pakistan Sports Complex, Islamabad. The Secretary Sports met the two teams in his office and congratulated them for capturing the national titles. Director ...

By;Asghar Ali Mubarak Islamabad;The International hockey is coming back to Pakistan after a long time and in a big way. Pakistan Hockey Federation has announced a World XI hockey team tour to Pakistan, comprising stars from hockey’s top nations. The two match series will be taken place in Karachi and Lahore on January 19 and 21 respectively. Globally recognized players ...

If Johanna Konta wants to win her first grand slam title in the country where she was born – and she is among a slew of contenders hoping the absence of the title holder, Serena Williams, will open up the draw over the next fortnight – she may have to beat the 2008 champion, Maria Sharapova, to reach the final. ...

70% of the 1,616 adults asked for their opinion adjudged golf to be the dullest  LONDON: Golf has emerged as Britain´s dullest sport in a survey confirming the historic phrase wrongly attributed to Mark Twain that it is “a good walk spoiled”. The YouGov poll — published in Thursday´s edition of The Times — found 70% of the 1,616 adults ...