Delegates for lifting ban on flights over India
RAWALPINDI, Jan 9: The delegates of the 28th South Asian Sports Federation (SASF) meeting Thursday called for a temporary lifting of ban on Pakistani flights over India in order to facilitate...
Ferrero eyes prize after Safin pulls out
SYDNEY, Jan 9: Marat Safin pulled out of the Sydney International with an injured shoulder on Thursday to leave Juan Carlos Ferrero as the last remaining men’s seed in the final...
Qualifying rounds start from Sunday
LAHORE, Jan 9: The 15-team qualifying round of the 50th national hockey championship for the departmental teams starts from Dec 12 at National Hockey Stadium....
Colourful ceremony marks SAF Games launch
ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: With just 78 days to go, Islamabad set the clock ticking to mark the start of the final countdown to the 9th SAF Games at a spectacular launch...
Narrow Triumph for Rangers
LAHORE, Jan 9: Rangers defeated Guard Rice by a slim margin 6 1/2 -6 by virtue of their 1 1/2 goal handicap....
NBP team for Lahore
KARACHI, Jan 9: Led by Olympian Muhammad Nadeem, National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) hockey team left here for Lahore to take part in the National Hockey Championship....
SSGC take advantage of nine-man 36 B Centre
KARACHI, Jan 9: Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) had smooth sailing as nine-man 36 B Centre caved in 3-1 in the All-Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto football tournament in an ill-tempered league...
Driver’s ‘life in danger’
SABHA, Libya, Jan 9: Former Paris-Dakar rally winner Kenjiro Shinozuka was in a coma and fighting for his life after a crash on Thursday’s eighth stage of the 2003 event....
Zimbabwe ties should go ahead: IOC official: ICC may shift matches
MELBOURNE, Jan 9: International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Kevan Gosper says a boycott of World Cup matches in Zimbabwe next month will hurt ordinary citizens and not mean Australia condoned President...
Sri Lankans demolish world champions
SYDNEY, Jan 9: World champions Australia conceded their highest ever total in a One-day International as they slumped to defeat by 79 runs against Sri Lanka on Thursday....
Azhar, Kashif in big stand
LAHORE, Jan 9: Pakistan Customs’ left-handed opening pair of Kashif Siddique and Azhar Shafiq shared a partnership of 235 to help their side reach 271 for one on another curtailed day’s...
Match hit by bad weather
LAHORE, Jan 9: Servis Industries were 127 for five against National Bank as only 25 overs were bowled on the second day of the Quaid Trophy Group-I fixture at Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday....
Astle ruled out of sixth ODI
AUCKLAND, Jan 9: New Zealand batsman Nathan Astle has been ruled out of the sixth One-day International against India in Auckland on Saturday after suffering a recurrence of a patella tendon...
Mesmerizing spell by Faizan
KARACHI, Jan 9: GBSS Korangi No.8, Royal Academy and GBSS Model Colony won their respective matches of the Siemens Inter-schools cricket tournament played at various grounds on Wednesday....
Lara back to full fitness
PORT-OF-SPAIN (Trinidad), Jan 9: Double world record holder Brian Lara hopes he can regain full fitness for next month’s World Cup in the West Indies training camp which begins in Antigua...
PIA strongly placed
RAWALPINDI, Jan 9: PIA tightened their grip on their Quaid-i- Azam Trophy Group-IV match against Karachi Blues on the second day after amassing 460 for nine before declaring their first innings...