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Following impressive performance in Tent-pegging World Cup Qualifiers, Pakistan, after a drought of ten years, has qualified for Tent-pegging World Cup 2018 scheduled to be held in Russia later this year. Pakistan’s Tent-pegging team won two gold and two silver medals in the Qualifiers, which were held in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. The tournament featured teams from Australia, United ...

KARACHI: Ahmad Baig, Pakistan’s fast-rising golfer from Lahore, out-shined all his opponents to win the 7th Faldo Challenge Pakistan Golf championship with an impressive score of 11-underpar at Karachi’s DHA Club. 19-year-old Ahmad, now a regular feature in Pakistan’s golf circuit, was competing in the U-21 age group category of the tournament. He proved himself too good for the opponents, ...

Pakistan Wapda clinched double crown in Men and Women team events beating by National Bank of Pakistan in the men event and SNGPL in women event. The results are as under: Team Event Men Final Pakista Wapda beat National Bank by 3-2 Irfan Saeed (Wapda) beat Rizwan Azam (NBP) by 17-21, 21-16, 21-10 Rizwan & Kashif (NBP) beat Irfan & ...

LAHORE: Punjab University’s team has won 36th All Pakistan Inter-University Higher Education Commission Women’s Hockey Championship 2017-18 by 1-0. According to details, PU’s team beat Lahore College for Women University Lahore’s team in final match at Johar Town Hockey Stadium. PU’s central forward Noreena Khalil scored one goal in the match which led to success. University of Sargodha obtained third ...

Pakistan’s 18 member women hockey team for the Asian Games Qualifiers to be held in Bangkok, Thailand from January 12-20 has been announced, along with six officials. Rizwana Yasmin is the captain of the team with Ambreen Arshad as the vice captain GOALKEEPERES:   Rizwana Yasmeen   (WAPDA)              Rushna Khan (Punjab) FULL BACKS: Ishrat Abbas  (WAPDA)                 Taskeen Kausar   (Army) ...

BRISBANE, Australia – World No.6 Elina Svitolina became the first champion of the 2018 season on Saturday evening, defeating qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich to win the Brisbane International, 6-2, 6-1. The Ukrainian No.3 seed claimed the first Premier-level title of her career, after winning three Premier 5 titles in 2017 – the first player to ever do so in a single ...

SHENZHEN, China – World No.1 Simona Halep won her first title of 2018 on Saturday, coming through a delayed three-set final against Katerina Siniakova to win the Shenzhen Open 6-1, 2-6, 6-0. The final was moved indoors after repeated rain delays and began six hours after its scheduled start time. The two players were squaring off to see who would ...

Switzerland’s Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic beat Germany’s Alexander Zverev and Angelique Kerber to win the Hopman Cup for the first time since 2001. Federer went a set down to Zverev in the opener, but the 19-time Grand Slam champion recovered to win 6-7 (4-7) 6-0 6-2 and give Switzerland a 1-0 lead. Kerber then beat Bencic 6-4 6-1 to ...

Islamabad: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has named the former captain and the country’s legendary center forward Hasan Sardar as the new head coach of Pakistan Hockey team. The announcement came following the congress meeting of PHF held here on Thursday. “The congress approved the appointment of Hassan Sardar as the new head coach of Pakistan and manager of the ...

LAHORE: Punjab University is hosting 36th All Pakistan Inter-University Higher Education Commission Women’s Hockey Championship 2017-18. Punjab University, University of Sargodha, University of Lahore, UVAS, Lahore College for Women University, Imperial University, Superior University, Kinnaird College and GCU Faisalabad’s teams are participating in the event. On the inaugural day PU, UoS, LCWU, GCU Faisalabad and Superior University have won their ...