Islamabad to host world jr squash
ISLAMABAD, May 19: Islamabad will host the World Junior Championship next year in August at a brand new complex that will hopefully be ready for this big event, a top official...
Rampant Real Madrid back to winning ways
PARIS, May 19: Real Madrid, who were knocked out of the Champions League last week, returned to winning ways in style on Sunday when they crushed Malaga 5-1 to keep their...
IOC does limit tenures: Chaudhry
ISLAMABAD, May 19: The President of International Boxing Federation (IBF) prof. Anwar Chaudhary, insists that International Olympic Committee (IOC) does set a rule for limiting the tenure of its office-bearers....
Second PGA title for Singh
IRVING (Texas), May 19: Vijay Singh ended a difficult week by hitting a four-under-par 66 on Sunday to win his second PGA title of the season at the Byron Nelson Championship....
Shahab IV taste defeat
KARACHI, May 19: Eastern Federal Union (EFU) with two regular pairs of Hasan Sajjad Rizvi-Zafar Zaki, Ghufran Ashraf-Shahab Khan won the week-end duplicate bridge on Sunday....
Funny Cide heads for Triple Crown
BALTIMORE, May 19: After victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Funny Cide now hopes to conquer the graveyard of recent Triple Crown dreams — Belmont Park....
Impressive NBP
KARACHI, May 19: In the inaugural match of All Karachi City Government football tournament, National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) overwhelmed Mangupir Combined Eleven 5-0 at Mangupir Star Ground on Sunday....
Alavi bags trophy
KARACHI, May 19: Second seed Humayaun Zafar and Imran Ahmed received walk over in the semifinal of doubles 35 plus veterans event in Corprate and Tennis Business Classic here on Sunday....
Vettori spins New Zealand into final
DAMBULLA (Sri Lanka), May 19: Daniel Vettori gave Sri Lanka a dose of their own medicine as he led New Zealand to the final of the triangular one-day series with an...
Wasim was one of most natural fast bowlers: Imran
KARACHI, May 19: Famed Pakistani pacer Wasim Akram was showered with praise by former colleagues on Monday following his decision to retire from a 19-year international cricket career....
Australia go 2-0 up in one-day series
KINGSTON (Jamaica), May 19: Skipper Ricky Ponting scored an unbeaten 57 as Australia coasted to an eight wicket win over West Indies on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the...
Roddick overwhelms Martin
ST POELTEN (Austria), May 19: Top seed Andy Roddick warmed up for next week’s French Open by beating Alberto Martin in the first round of the Austrian Grand Prix claycourt tournament...
Indians shower accolades on an outstanding paceman
NEW DELHI, May 19: The man who terrorised cricket batsmen — be it in the one-dayers or Tests — will be missed by teammates, opponents and fans alike. No less by...
Altaf slams century
ISLAMABAD, May 19; Five more matches were decided in the ICA-PTV Cricket League Championship on Sunday with XI Star scoring the most impressive win of all, crushing Millat by 202 runs....
Old rivals to play in Holland
NEW DELHI, May 19: Arch-rivals India and Pakistan will take part in the Champions Trophy field hockey tournament to be held in Amsterdam in August, officials said on Monday....
South Africa axe Klusener
JOHANNESBURG, May 19: Lance Klusener was left out of both the South African one-day and Test squads on Monday for their forthcoming tour to England....
PCB officials face overage boys problem
HYDERABAD, May 19: The PCB’s six-week coaching clinic for under-19 cricketers could not begin on Monday as officials of the board were trying to sort out the problems of overage boys,...
Waqar likely replacement for Bond
LONDON, May 19: Former Pakistan captain Waqar Younis is set to sign for English county Warwickshire as a replacement for injured New Zealand paceman Shane Bond....
Fine knock by Shafiq
KARACHI, May 19: Opener Shafiq hit 93 to help Nabeel Sports inflict a crushing 176-run defeat on Usmania CC in the Habibullah memorial cricket tournament match at Landhi Friends Ground here...
CDGK record third success
KARACHI, May 19: City District Government Karachi (CDGK) notched-up their third successive win in the 12th HinoPak KCCA inter-firm cricket league after defeating Central Police by six wickets at TMC Ground...
PSB under-16 volleyball
MUZAFFARABAD, May 19: Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Under-16 volleyball championship will begin in the southern AJK city of Rawalakot from Tuesday....