Pakistan women’s bridge team, comprising Rubina Agha, Najam Abid, Shahnaz Pirzada, Qudsia Dossa, Rubina Hai and Fatima Ahmed, won gold medal for their country through adept play in the 20th BEFAME 2019 Bridge Championship which concluded at Amman, Jordan on Sunday after four days of competitive bridge. In the finals, this Pakistan women’s squad outplayed the Team India to emerge as the superb ones and bring home the much sought after gold medal. In this Asia and Mid East Bridge Championship (BEFAME), Pakistan were also represented in the mixed team event, the open team event and the event for seniors. The Pakistan mixed team comprised of Ahsan Qureshi,Rehana Saigol, Zia Hyder Naqi, Neelofar Aslam, Saeed Pirzada and Fehmida Sarfraz. This whole combination used their all encompassing bridge playing skills to good effect and ended up as silver medalists. In the open team event, champions like Farooq Alvi, Jahangir Ahmed, Khaled Mohiuddin, Mubasher Puri and Arsalan Mansoor managed to secure bronze medal for Pakistan .Another bronze medal was also secured by the seniors team, comprising Ghalib Bandesha, Izzat Khalil, Ghias Malik, Safdar Mehmood and Anwar Kizilbash. Besides Pakistan and India, other teams that participated in this championship were from Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Jordan.