ISLAMABAD: Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Riaz Hussain Pirzada on Monday said that the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had gifted 2,000 Snowber trees to the Sports Complex Islamabad, out of which 1,000 had been planted...
ISLAMABAD: Home players Anjum Bashir, Shoaib Riaz, Awais Zahid, Murad Ali, Amir Saeed were among early winners in the On the opening day of Pakistan International Series Badminton Tournament that stared at the Pakistan Sports Board’s Liaquat Gymnasium here on Thursday ...
Speaking briefing on the occasion, Pirzada welcomed the overseas players to Pakistan, while saying: “The participation of foreign badminton here proves again that...
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) on Thursday lifted a ban imposed on Pakistan from hosting international events, confirming that two PSA World Tours would be played in the country in December...
"The decision to impose the ban on Pakistan was made after extensive consultation with sports risk [management departments] in relation to security concerns but [the] PSA is now satisfied that there are no immediate security concerns...
LAHORE: Even Pakistan’s prime minister did not believe it could happen but when Sri Lanka visit the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday for a T20 match, the hosts will celebrate the end of eight years of isolation from international cricket...
Less than a year ago, none of this appeared possible for a nation that had largely been shunned by international teams since 2009 due to security risks...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hosted its first ever international rugby league match here on Saturday when the national rugby league teams of Italy and Pakistan met here at the Jinnah Stadium Sports Complex...
A portion of the stadium’s brightly coloured seating was already filling up by 12:30pm with schoolchildren who chanted Pakistan Zindabad while the teams went through drills before the game...
PAKISTAN lost two international arbitration cases in quick succession over the last two months, involving more than $900 million compensation payable to local and international business firms...
In the first case, the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) awarded around $800m compensation to Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim of Turkey in a rental power case and held that Pakistan “expropriated”...
LAHORE: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has welcomed the visit of the World XI to Pakistan to play three T20 matches against Pakistan in September which is big step towards resumption of international cricket in Pakistan...
Since the ghastly terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore back in 2009, the ICC has never made serious efforts for the resumption of international cricket in Pakistan despite forming a Task...
LAHORE: From Pakistan’s most popular fan Chacha Cricket to the Head of State, a nation of 200 million celebrated the return of international cricket in Pakistan for six years on Friday...
Hundreds of fans battled the 42 degree heat and stifling security checks in long queues hours before the start of the Twenty20 international against Zimbabwe at 7pm local time (1500GMT)...
LAHORE: With Zimbabwe cricket squad — putting for a while their security concerns aside — set to arrive in Lahore in the small hours of Tuesday, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and fans hope the African team’s visit for a short limited-overs series would prove a turning point for the international sport-starved country...
Zimbabwe in Pakistan are scheduled to play a couple of Twenty20 Internationals, starting from Friday, followed by...
LAHORE: Legendary paceman Wasim Akram on Friday declared cricket cannot be kept away from Pakistan after watching the passion and successful staging of a limited over series against Zimbabwe — the country’s first in six years...
“It’s unbelievable (to watch international cricket here),” said Wasim on the sidelines of second day-night match in Lahore...
LAHORE: Bemused players said they hoped to take the focus off security and put it back on cricket after authorities mounted an unprecedented operation to guard insurgency-hit Pakistan's first home international in six years...
The fixture is Pakistan's first on home soil since 2009, when militants launched a gun attack on Sri Lanka's team bus in Lahore, killing eight police and civilians and leaving seven players wounded...
Cricket commentator and former Test captain Ramiz Raja has described Pakistan's hammering at the hands of Bangladesh as "embarrassing" and the "lowest point in our international history"...
In an interview with ESPNCricinfo, Ramiz Raja expressed his disappointment in the "lack of direction" and the lack of "fresh ideas" from the Pakistan Cricket Board which had rendered the national cricket team as a "rudderless ship"...
axKARACHI: The vice-president of the International Billiards and Snooker Federation, Maxime Cassis, who is also the president of the European Billiards and Snooker Association, has submitted a positive report pertaining to security situation after visiting various places in the city...
“I’m happy with the arrangements made by the Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF) and hoped most of the countries would send their players...
Straight-shooting Pakistan all-rounder and Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi said it was time authorities in the country stopped using the absence of international cricket at home as ‘excuse’ for the team's shortcomings and focus on revamping the domestic structure...
The 35-year-old sounded the alarm bells over the fate of cricket in Pakistan, saying that he was worried more about the rot at the domestic level than the return of...
LAHORE: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has hired an international security company on a three-year term in order to aid the resumption of international cricket in Pakistan, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi said on Tuesday...
“It’s a step by the ICC for the revival of international cricket in Pakistan,” Sethi said...