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Life ban on Salim Malik revoked by civil court
LAHORE, Oct 23: Describing the last eight years of his life as nightmare, former Pakistan Test captain Salim Malik heaved a sigh of relief on Thursday after a Civil Court in...
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Hassan Sardar named chief selector, Qamar Ibrahim junior team coach: PHF announces new appointments
LAHORE, Oct 23: As was expected Olympian Hassan Sardar has been named the new chief selector of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) but as the two great Olympians Manzoor Junior and...
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England hires Mushtaq Ahmed as spin bowling coach
LONDON, Oct 23: Mushtaq Ahmed was named as the new England spin bowling coach by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) here on Thursday....
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WI offer Pakistan two Tests in Abu Dhabi
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: West Indies have offered to play Pakistan in two Tests in neutral Abu Dhabi next month, a top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Thursday....
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Squash legends Hashim, Azam and Hunt honoured
MANCHESTER, Oct 23: Pakistan’s Squash legends, brothers Hashim and Azam Khan, alongwith with Australian Geoff Hunt have been honoured with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the World Squash Awards held here on Wednesday evening....
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Headingley keen to stage Pakistan’s ‘home’ matches
LEEDS, Oct 23: Yorkshire have said they are keen to stage Pakistan ‘home’ matches at their Headingley headquarters ground....
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Barcelona, Chelsea, Inter win, Liverpool held: Champions League
BELGRADE, Oct 23: Barcelona put one foot in the Champions League last 16 with a 5-0 away drubbing of Basel on Wednesday which left them as the only team with a 100 percent record halfway through the group stage....
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Blake downs Kiefer to keep alive Masters Cup bid
BASEL (Switzerland), Oct 23: American fourth seed James Blake kept his Masters Cup qualifying chances intact after fighting back to avoid a first round Swiss Indoors defeat against unseeded German Nicolas Kiefer on Wednesday....
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Vadim to meet Syrym in ITF singles final
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: Eighth seed Alekseenko Vadim (Ukraine), and unseeded Abdukhalikov Syrym (Kazakhstan) will vie for top honours in the men’s singles final of the ITF Pakistan Futures International Tennis Championships...
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Changing riders on bookmakers’ demand evokes sharp criticism
LAHORE, Oct 23: Wednesday’s incident about a race horse owner and bookmaker challenging the Lahore Race Club (LRC) authorities to change the rider of a horse on the demand of a...
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PFF dishes out shabby treatment to Nigerian official
LAHORE, Oct 23: Nsibaba, a Nigerian marketing official of the Al-Nasr Football Club, Dubai, who is in Pakistan to help Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) earn funds through sponsorship has claimed that...
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Legend Trautmann to be honoured
BERLIN, Oct 23: Legendary German goalkeeper and World War II veteran Bert Trautmann, who celebrated his 85th birthday on Wednesday, will be the DFB guest of honour at next month’s friendly against England in Berlin....
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Afghan FC hold KPT to draw, KRL thrash PTV
KARACHI, Oct 23: Karachi Port Trust (KPT) drew 1-1 with Afghan FC in the Pakistan Premier Football League (PPFL) match played here at the Peoples Sports Complex on Thursday....
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Ijlal helps Beacon House enter semis: Ian Fyfe T20 cricket
KARACHI, Oct 23: A superb spell of pace bowling from Ijlal Mirza guided Beacon House Jubilee Campus into the semi-finals of the first KGA Ian Fyfe Memorial Twenty20 inter-school cricket tournament here at the KGA Ground on Thursday....
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Junior hockey trials from Sunday
KARACHI, Oct 23: Two-day trials to select national junior probables for the training camp being held in preparation of the Test series against Indian juniors will be held here at the...
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PAF bounce back to land boys’ team title: Hasan Musa Squash
KARACHI, Oct 23: After finishing runners-up in the league to second seed Punjab, top seed PAF stormed back when they took a sweet revenge by inflicting a 2-0 defeat on them...
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Nigeria not to host U-17 World Cup
ABUJA, Oct 23: The financial crisis has forced Nigeria to withdraw from hosting the 2009 Under-17 World Cup, the government said on Wednesday....
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Faculties bag basketball, tennis honours
KARACHI, Oct 23: Faculties won the Karachi University Inter-collegiate boys’ basketball championship outplaying Shipowners College 62-13 in the one-sided final played at the Karachi University gymnasium on Thursday....
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CNS squash to start from Nov 1
KARACHI, Oct 23: Pakistan’s Farhan Mehboob will be the top seed when the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) International squash championship commences at the Roshan Khan-Jahangir Khan Squash Complex from Nov 1....
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Swimming trials today
KARACHI, Oct 23: Selection trials to pick Sindh swimmers for the third Inter-provincial Youth Games will be held at Habib Public School pool on Friday at 4.00pm....
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Squash trials
KARACHI, Oct 23: Open trials to select Sindh men’s and women’s squash teams for the third Inter-provincial Youth Games will be held at the Sindh Sports Board complex, Nazimabad, on Oct 25, says an announcement....
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