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Pakistan junior squash team wins World Team Junior Squash Championships 2016

Pakistan Junior Squash Team upset top seeds and defending champions Egypt 2-1 to lift the World Team Junior Squash Championships 2016 on August 16. The event, held in Poland, saw the second-seeded Pakistan regain the title they had last won back in 2008. The Pakistan junior squash team comprised Ayaz Ahsan, Israr Ahmed and Shoukat Abbas with the latter two winning their respective matches against their Egyptian counterparts in the…

Victorious Pakistan snooker team members return home

Pakistan win IBSF World 6-Red Team Snooker Championship 2017

Pakistani cueists put up a stupendous show at the IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championship 2017, winning both the gold and silver medals at the team event, and the bronze medal in the individual championship. The 36-team event, held in Hurghada, Egypt, saw Pakistan fielding two teams, with both the national outfits winning their respective semi-finals to reach the final of the World Team Snooker Championship, held on August 10. This…

Pakistan thrashes England to reach CT final for 1st time

Pakistan beat England in the semi-final of ICC Champions Trophy 2017

The ICC Champions Trophy semi-final between Pakistan and England saw the hosts receive a thorough trouncing as the tourists romped home by eight wickets at Cardiff on Wednesday, June 18 to reach the final of the mega event for the first time. The Pakistan vs England encounter had started off with the home side deemed favourites, but the national team upset expert opinion in some style, chasing down the 211-run…

Pakistani becomes world number one boxer in flyweight category

Pakistani boxer Muhammad Waseem tops WBC flyweight rankings

Pakistani boxer Muhammad Waseem, the current World Boxing Council (WBC) silver flyweight champion, has become the world’s top-ranked boxer in his category for the month of June. Waseem has become the first Pakistani to top the monthly world rankings. The country’s only professional boxer will now head to Panama to participate in two training fights that will be held under the aegis of the WBC. According to The Express Tribune,…

Col (retd) Abdul Jabbar becomes fourth Pakistani to scale Everest Pakistan shining

Colonel (retd) Abdul Jabbar Bhatti becomes fourth Pakistani to scale Everest

Accomplished Pakistani mountaineer Colonel (retd) Abdul Jabbar Bhatti became only the fourth person from the country, and the first from outside the Gilgit-Baltistan region, to scale the world’s highest mountain peak, Mount Everest, on May 22. Nazir Sabir, Hasan Sadpara and Samina Baig have been the other mountaineers from Pakistan to have this achievement under their belts. Mohammed Saad, another mountaineer who was part of Colonel (retd) Bhatti’s expedition, also…

42 million soccer balls have been exported from Sialkot Pakistan so far ahead of the FIFA Football World Cup 2014. Pakistan Achievements Pakistan Shining

42 million soccer balls exported from Sialkot ahead of FIFA World Cup

SIALKOT: Over 42 million soccer balls worth Rs17.473 million have been exported from Sialkot so far ahead of the FIFA Football World Cup 2014. Sources in Sialkot Dry Port told APP on Monday that adequate arrangements have been made for prompt clearance of export consignments at dry port to facilitate timely delivery. Sialkot made soccer ball “Brazuca” will be used in upcoming FIFA Football World Cup matches in Brazil after…