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Rizwan, Abwaab on a mission to promote education

Pakistan cricket star announces scholarship for up to 100,000 students through learning app KARACHI: Pakistan cricket team’s talismanic wicketkeeper-batsman and one of the nation’s most loved cricketers, Muhammad Rizwan has announced a scholarship for up to 100,000 deserving students of Matric and Intermediate grades across Pakistan. Earlier in the year, Rizwan after winning ICC’s ‘Men’s …

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Pakistan qualifies for knock-out stage of World Jr Squash Championships

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Pakistan squash team. — Provided by the reporter -Pakistan finishes on top of Group C with three wins in three games. -Pakistan overpowered the Netherlands, and Hong Kong on day two of the group stage to qualify for the next round. -The Knock-out stage of the championship will start on Friday. KARACHI: Pakistan has qualified …

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Arshad Nadeem bags gold medal at Islamic Solidarity Games

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Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem celebrates winning and taking the gold medal in the men’s javelin throw final athletics event at the 2022 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey, on August 12, 2022. — Photo by author The athlete has bagged his second gold medal in the last 6 days KONYA: Arshad Nadeem on Friday won the …

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Arshad Nadeem tears record books to win javelin gold at CWG

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Gold medallist Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan (centre), silver medallist Anderson Peters of Grenada (left), and bronze medallist Julius Yego of Kenya pose after the javelin throw final at the Alexander Stadium, in Birmingham.—AFP BIRMINGHAM: The gold delivered in record-smashing style, a 56-year medal drought in track and field for Pakistan at the Commonwealth Games ended, …

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Pakistani weightlifter Nooh breaks CWG records for gold

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Lifts 173kgs in snatch, 232kgs in clean and jerk to finish with cumulative 405kg lift. Nooh Dastgir Butt brought home Pakistan’s first gold in the +109kg weighlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games later on Wednesday night. Nooh earlier told The Express Tribune that he wanted to do one better than Bronze from his last …

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Two teams of foreign climbers conquer Nanga Parbat

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GILGIT: Seven climbing members of two foreign expedition teams on Friday scaled Nanga Parbat, the world’s ninth highest mountain, also known as The Killer Mountain, making it the first summit of eight-thousanders in Pakistan this summer. Two women namely Kristin Harila, 36, from Norway and Grace Tseng, 29, from Taiwan were leading the two teams, …

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FIFA lifts suspension on Pakistan Football Federation

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FIFA on Tuesday lifted with immediate effect the suspension it had imposed on Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) last year and reinstated ‘all of PFF’s membership rights’. The PFF had been embroiled in internal power struggle and legal wrangling the last few years, following which the Lahore High Court (LHC) had appointed an administrator to oversee the federation. …

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