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Islamabad/Pakistan: President Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) Lt. Gen ® Arif Hassan praised the efforts of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) towards promotion of the game in the country.
A letter written to President PHF Qasim Zia he said that Pakis
Read Full StoryIslamabad/Pakistan: Ministry of Interior is playing delaying tactics for the issuance of NOC to Ministry of Sports regarding the visit of foreign teams of Boxing to Pakistan for the preparation of Commonwealth Games 2010.
Pakistan Boxing Fe
Read Full StoryIslamabad/Pakistan – Sri Lankan boxing coach Jolio Sanlana said that our focus is on Common Wealth Games and players are working hard to prepare for this mega Event.
In an Exclusive interview given during the ongoing joint Camp here at Liaquat Gymnasium,
Read Full StoryLondon : Pakistan Test batsman Yasir Hameed revealed that his team mates are cheats and have been fixing “almost every match.”
In a sting operation conducted by The News of the World, Hameed said that he had refused bribes worth 150,000 pounds from a co
Read Full StoryLondon, Sep 4 : Three Pakistani cricketers — captain Salman Butt and pacers Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Asif — have reportedly admitted before the Scotland Yard inquiry that the British currency recovered from their hotel rooms was given to them by bookie Maz
Read Full StoryIslamabad/Pakistan: Ministry for Sports declared Pakistan Kabaddi Federation as a genuine and recognized Kabaddi Federation of Pakistan.
A letter written to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Sports stated that real Kabaddi Federatio
Read Full StoryIslamabad/Pakistan: Former Pakistan cricket team Captain Rashid Latif has criticized on the Pakistani High commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hassan over his views on cricket affairs.
“He has no authority to talk on cricket”, said former captai
Read Full StoryUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday strongly condemned the terrorist bombings which struck the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Quetta this week and claimed the lives of dozens of civilians and wounded scores more.
At least 42 people have r
Read Full StoryQuetta, Sep 3 : At least 53 people were killed and hundreds, including several scribes injured, in the Quetta blast on a Shia Muslim rally, officials sources informed on Friday.
About 197 people were injured after a suicide bomber blew himself amid a Shia M
Read Full StoryPakistan High Commissioner Wajid S Hassan on Friday attacked the International Cricket Council (ICC) saying that the three accused players were “innocent” and also gave a new twist to the spot-fixing scandal by announcing that Indian bookmakers were involved i
Read Full StoryVeena Malik, ex-girlfriend of Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif, has handed over the evidence on his involvement with Indian bookies in recent times and also engaging in spot fixing to International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (
Read Full StoryPakistan High Commissioner Wajad S Hasan said on Thursday that the country will defend its three cricketers accused of the no-ball conspiracy as they maintain they are ‘innocent’.
Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Amir were que
Read Full StoryThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Thursday ruled out the tainted trio of captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer for the rest of England tour with team manager Yawar Saeed declaring that reinforcements will be called next week.
“The s
Read Full StoryThe World Bank said Wednesday it was raising its support for flood relief in Pakistan to $1 billion, from $900 million.
The announcement came after a meeting in Washington between World Bank president Robert Zoellick and Pakistani Finance Minister Hafeez Sh
Read Full StoryA series of blasts ripped through a religion procession in Pakistan’s Lahore killing at least 29 people and injuring over 200 on Wednesday, officials said.
Police said at least three powerful explosions took place during a Shiite religious precession.
Read Full StoryTainted Pakistani cricketers captain Salman Butt, fast bowlers Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Amir will face an internal inquiry of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday at the Pakistan High Commission here.
The three players were barred from practicin
Read Full StoryFormer Pakistan captain and cricketing legend Imran Khan said the youth of Pakistan do not have role models and that the people in the country need moral revolution to avoid the crisis the country is undergoing.
“Youngsters do not have very good role mode
Read Full StoryPakistani players plunge deeper into the spot-fixing scandal as the Scotland Yard on Tuesday summoned team captain Salman Butt and fast-pacers Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Amir for questioning.
The three players, along with wicket keeper Kamran Akmal, were a
Read Full StoryThe Lahore High Court Tuesday issued summons to Pakistani Sports Minister Ijaz Jakhrani and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt over the match-fixing allegations against the country’s cricketers.
The petitioner, advocate Ishtiaq Chaudhry, told t
Read Full StoryThe match fixing scandal could hit aid for victims of floods that have ravaged Pakistan, feared a British MP who added that it was “absolutely the worst thing that could have happened now”.
Khalid Mahmood, a Labour MP from Perry Barr in Birmingham, said: “I
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