PARIS: Defending champion Maria Sharapova was sent packing from the French Open at the fourth-round stage on Monday, but top seed Serena Williams survived a scare to seal her quarter-final place...
BULAWAYO: Zimbabwe’s spinners sparked a West Indies collapse on day one of the first Test, with the tourists 219 all out in their first innings after being 174-3 on Saturday...
Zimbabwe captain Graeme Cremer took four wickets for 64 runs and fellow slow bowler Sean Williams claimed three scalps for 20 as West Indies lost their last seven wickets for 45 runs after deciding to bat first at the Queens Sports Club
GALLE: Ravichandran Ashwin claimed six for 46 in a fine display of spin bowling as India skittled out Sri Lanka for 183 in two sessions on the opening day to take upper hand in the first Test at Galle on Wednesday...
Twelve wickets fell on the opening day and India were themselves reduced to 28-2 before they recovered to post 128 without further loss by stumps at the Galle International Stadium
LAYYAH: Police raided a pesticide packing unit in connection with 26 deaths and recovered a huge quantity of banned selfonyl urea with the brand name of Drown in Chowk Azam on Tuesday...
Police also seized the packing machinery...
Doing well at the club level, Shah found a job with Pakistan Railways where, he said, he was being paid around Rs300 or 400 a month...
It was during a fight in 1984 that he was noticed by the then secretary of the Pakistan Boxing Federation, a very influential figure on the international boxing scene —Anwer Chaudhry...
DUBAI: Islamabad United denied Lahore Qalandars a place in the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) play-offs, eliminating Azhar Ali’s men from the competition following a five-wicket win at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday night...
UMPIRES: Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and J...
INDIAN WELLS: Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber dropped out of the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday and two other top-seeded women also exited in the second round at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden...
World No 2 and second seed Kerber from Germany crashed out of the joint WTA and ATP event, losing in straight sets 7-5, 7-5 to Czech Denisa Allertova in the opening match of the day on the main stadium court
With this win, United has qualified for Pakistan Super League (PSL) final...
It was an all-round show by United’s batsmen and bowlers as they send a strong, star-studded Zalmi packing...
TORONTO: Nick Kyrgios turned in a patchy performance to exit the Toronto Masters 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, 6-3 on Monday at the hands of Wimbledon junior winner Denis Shapovalov...
The 17-year-old Canadian set up a match point with his 12th ace, then calmly closed out the upset over the 19th-ranked Australian
INDIAN WELLS: World number one Andy Murray was stunned in his opening match at the BNP Paribas Open by a man ranked 128 places below him, losing 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) to Canadian qualifier Vasek Pospisil on Saturday night...
Pospisil delivered the knockout punch in style, whipping a crosscourt winner on his fourth match point in front of the near capacity crowd at Indian Wells that included former boxing champion Mike Tyson
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ousted racquet-smashing teenager Alexander Zverev at the Shanghai Masters on Thursday, denying the young German a potential match-up with his elder brother, Mischa...
Zverev, 19, pushed the ninth seed all the way until he was broken for 5-6 in the third set, prompting a furious racquet-battering which earned him a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct
Pakistan Television had broken news that after just 20 months in power, Benazir Bhutto and her government had been dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan...
After administering oath to Jatoi, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan spoke to the media and explained the background and causes that led to the sacking of the PPP government led by Pakistan’s youngest-ever prime minister...
UMPIRES: Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and R...
Khowaja, the provincial government sent him packing on Saturday by appointing another grade-21 police officer already working in the province in his place...
The decision is being viewed as a strategic move the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party badly needs ahead of next general elections...
Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams was knocked out of the Australian Open in straights sets by Swiss 20-year-old Belinda Bencic on Monday...
The fifth seed and last year's finalist was shocked 6-3, 7-5 in the first round by the world number 78 in just under two hours on Rod Laver Arena