PCB blasts BCCI for stopping retired cricketers from playing in Kashmir Premier League on August 1, 2021LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has expressed its displeasure over reports of the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) forcing retired cricketers not to participate in the Kashmir Premier League (KPL), saying that it will raise the issue with the relevant International Cricket Council (ICC) forum.The PCB was reacting to a tweet from […]
Pakistan won its lone Olympic boxing medal in Seoul 1988 on July 25, 2021LAHORE: Pakistan had always won medals at the Summer Olympic Games because of field hockey. But in 1988 at the Seoul Olympics in South Korea, it was not happening and the Pakistan hockey squad was supposed to return home without a medal. But then Syed Hussain Shah, from boxing ring, created history when he reached […]
Pakistan’s performance at the Olympic Games since 1948 on July 24, 2021LAHORE: The Olympic Games is the world’s biggest sporting festival. Biggest in the numbers of its competitors, its spectators, the global reach and television coverage. During its brief history of just 120 years, the world’s great cities have sought right to host it and generations of men and women have willingly dedicated years of their […]
‘Asian Don Bradman’ celebrates his birthday today, turns 74 on July 24, 2021LAHORE: Classical strokemaker Zaheer Abbas celebrates his birthday on Saturday (today). He turns 74. Zaheer is Pakistan’s iconic cricketer who always played the game with skill, flair and in the true spirit. Born on 24 July 1947 in Sialkot, playing in glasses for much of his career, Zaheer played or Pakistan from 1969 to 1986 […]
Khalil, Mahoor to carry Pakistan’s flag at Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on July 20, 2021LAHORE: National shooter Muhammad Khalil Akhtar and national badminton star Mahoor Shahzad will be Pakistan’s flag bearers at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23. Khalil qualified for the Tokyo Olympics shooting competition with his performance in the 2019 Shooting World Cup at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Mahoor got the invitation […]
Pakistan won its lone wrestling Olympic medal in Rome 1960 on July 19, 2021Mohammad Bashir remains the only wrestler in Pakistan’s sports history to have won an Olympic medal. He won bronze at the Rome Olympics 1960 and contributed to Pakistan’s best ever Olympics performance in which the country took two medals, the other being gold in field hockey. Bashir won bronze in freestyle wrestling in the welterweight […]
Pakistan and India pooled together as ICC announces groups for T20 World Cup on July 17, 2021LAHORE: Traditional rivals Pakistan and India have been drawn in the same group of this year’s T20 World Cup to be hosted by the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) in United Arab Emirates and Oman from October 17 to November 14. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the groups of the tournament on […]
Pakistan get lessons in professionalism and execution from England on July 15, 2021In the end professionalism and determination prevailed. After the hosts main team members were diagnosed with COVID-19, Pakistan had the opportunity to overwhelm England’s ‘B Team’ in a three-match one-international series. But the ‘B Team’ proved much more professional and clinical than skipper Babar Azam and his charges. Though England won the series after claiming […]
14th South Asian Games to be held in Lahore, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Islamabad in March 2023 on July 14, 2021LAHORE: The 14th edition of the South Asian Games (SAG) will be held in Pakistan’s cities of Lahore, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Islamabad in 2023. The 14th South Asian Games had originally been expected to take place in 2021 but the coronavirus pandemic has delayed those plans. Pakistan has hosted the event twice before in […]
Pakistan won their first gold medal at Rome Olympics in 1960 on July 13, 2021After division of British India in 1947, new country Pakistan first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948 in London, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Soviet Union. Pakistan athletes have won a total […]