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| April 28, 2003 | Monday | Safar 25, 1424 |
Ahsan, Asma struggle to win singles crowns
 KARACHI, April 27: Ahsan Qamar and Asma Butt struggled before clinching men’s and women’s singles crowns in the Hush Puppies national ranking badminton championship at KPT Sports Complex on Sunday....
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Wapda retain title
LAHORE, April 27: Defending champions Wapda made a clean sweep to win the Golden Jubilee national wrestling championship at the Railways Stadium on Sunday....
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Laser Lass completes hat trick
LAHORE, April 27:Chestnut English filly, Laser Lass completed a hat trick when she won the Attock Oil Cup run over 1600m during the extra Lahore Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday....
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Pakistan’s greatest sportsman still getting a raw deal
KARACHI, April 27: Jahangir Khan, arguably the greatest sportsman this country ever produced, is still being given a raw deal by his old employers, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), although being associated...
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Qualifying round starts today
LAHORE, April 27: The two-day qualifying round of the Pak Telecom international squash championship will begin at the Punjab Squash Complex Courts on Monday....
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Faheem excels
LAHORE, April 27: Twenty more matches were decided in the third Punjab Under-16 Inter-District football championship in Sargodha on Saturday and Sunday....
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Queen Elizabeth II Cup
HONG KONG, April 27: Favourite Eishin Preston landed the Queen Elizabeth II Cup for Japan for the second successive year on Sunday, the first race of the world series horse racing...
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Sattar slams equaliser
LAHORE, April 27: Abdul Sattar’s last-gasp goal helped National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) hold PIA 2-2 in the 46th national football championship at Jinnah Sports Stadium, Bannu on Sunday....
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Shah Khan races to third straight win
KARACHI, April 27: Shah Khan, a bay four-year-old colt, completed a splendid hat trick of victories for beaming owner Mohammad Ali Khan, when the Summer Gymkhana Meeting got under way at...
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Adams sends Bangladesh spinning to innings defeat
 CHITTAGONG (Bangladesh), April 27: Paul Adams finished with a 10-wicket match haul as South Africa inflicted an innings defeat on Bangladesh in the first Test here on Sunday....
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Hussain wants to be England’s best captain
LONDON, April 27: Nasser Hussain has set himself the target of becoming England’s most successful Test captain....
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Tillekeratne leads by example as Lankans fight back
 COLOMBO, April 27: Sri Lanka’s new captain Hashan Tillekeratne struck an unbeaten 71 to help his team recover from a stuttering start in their first innings reply on the third day...
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United five points clear after win at Spurs
LONDON, April 27: Manchester United moved five points clear of Arsenal at the top of the premier league after second-half goals from Paul Scholes and Ruud Van Nistelrooy beat Tottenham Hotspur...
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Lee and Higgins reach last eight
SHEFFIELD (England), April 27: Defending champion Peter Ebdon was joined by Stephen Lee and John Higgins in the quarterfinals of the World Snooker Championship on Saturday....
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Couples edges ahead
HUMBLE (Texas), April 27: Fred Couples birdied the 18th hole to take a one-shot lead over Mark Calcavecchia after three rounds of the Houston Open on Saturday....
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Sam keeps title
BERLIN, April 27: European heavyweight champion Sinan Samil Sam retained his title late Saturday after stopping Britain’s Julius Francis in the seventh round of their contest at Schwerin in northeastern Germany....
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Agassi becomes oldest No 1
HOUSTON (Texas), April 27: Andre Agassi became the oldest player to top the world rankings after crushing Jurgen Melzer to reach the final of the US Clay Court Championships on Saturday....
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Flower’s mixed emotions over tour
LONDON, April 27: Former Zimbabwe captain Andy Flower has said he has “mixed emotions” about the African country’s forthcoming tour of England....
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