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LAHORE (August 10, 2022): Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Taimoor Masood visited Sports Board Punjab office and presided over an important meeting here on Wednesday.   Vice-Chairman Sports Board Punjab Rao Zahid Qayyum, Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz, Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi, Director Admin Syed Omair Hasan, Deputy Director Rauf Bajwa, ...

LAHORE (July 29, 2022): Leading hockey players of the country Ali Shan and Azfar Yaqoob called on Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz at Punjab Stadium on Thursday.   Talking on this occasion, Secretary Sports Punjab Asadullah Faiz said that Sports and Youth Affairs Department Punjab will resolve all the problems of national hockey heroes.   Secretary Sports ...

Imran Khwaja, Pankaj Khimji and Neil Speight have been elected as ICC Associate Member Directors following an election process at the ICC Annual Conference in Birmingham, UK.   In line with the Associate Members’ Meeting Terms of Reference, the voting was conducted at the Formal Associate Members meeting by way of a weighted secret ballot in which all voters (each Voting ...

PESHAWAR: Under the auspices of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Teqball Association (KPTA) Teqball academy established for women in Qayyum Sports Complex, Peshawar. In the first phase, 12 female player of Teqball game will be given training in the academy while the number will be increased with passage of time. Aziz Ullah, Director Sports Operation was chief guest of the inaugural ceremony of ...

LAHORE (July 21, 2022): Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz has announced that Sports and Youth Affairs Department Punjab will extend financial support to para-athlete Naeem Masih for his participation in the Islamic Paralympic Games 2022 scheduled to be staged in Turkey.   Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz made this announcement on Thursday when para-athlete ...

Last week the IWF Athletes’ Commission opened a vote among its members to fill the position of Vice Chair after the previous Vice Chairwoman Hiromi Miyake (JPN) was elected to the IWF Executive Board at the 2022 IWF Electoral Congress in Tirana, Albania. Due to this recent activity, the IWF Athletes’ Commission has now officially elected Dora Tchakounte from France ...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has transferred the governance of Para biathlon to the International Biathlon Union (IBU) as of 13 July 2022. The decision follows the unanimous approval of the transfer from the IPC Governing Board during its meeting on 31 May 2022. Para biathlon will be managed by the IBU in cooperation with the International Ski Federation and ...

Awards in honor of International Athletes and Sports Journalists to be held in September: Asim Shiraz   PESHAWAR: The General Body Meeting of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sports Writers Association was held under the chairmanship of President Asim Shiraz in which General Secretary Shahid Afridi, Senior Vice President Imran Yousafzai and other officials and members were present. The President of the Association ...

Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi inspected construction work of newly-refurbished hostel at National Hockey Stadium on Tuesday.   Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi was accompanied by Director Sports Nadeem Qaiser, Deputy Director Planning Rauf Bajwa, Assistant Director Zahoor Ahmed, Bilal Akram and Administrator National Hockey Stadium Malik Nasir during his inspection visit.   Talking on this ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – The region’s best Under-19 women’s cricketers will assemble in Trinidad for the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Women’s U19s Rising Stars T20 Championship, with matches be played from Tuesday 5 July to Wednesday 13 July at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy (BLCA) and the Diego Martin Sporting Complex (DMSC). ​ The six regional franchise teams will be participating, as well ...