ISLAMABAD - Shifa International Hospital Islamabad cricket team beat Brothers XI by 22 runs in the Islamabad Amateur Cricket League T20 Tournament Gold Cup in the second semifinal played here at Margahzar Cricket Ground Islamabad to book a place in the final. Put into bat first, Shifa International ...

ROMERafael Nadal set up a potential Rome Masters final with Swiss rival Roger Federer after dominating Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-finals on Saturday. Berdych had caused the first major upset of the tournament when he ousted world number one Novak Djokovic on Friday.However, despite an ...

MADRID - The world's two top female players, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova, will battle it out for the number one ranking when they meet in the Madrid Open final on Sunday after both came through Saturday's semi-finals in straight sets.Current number one Williams sealed her place in the final ...

LAHORE - Pakistan rugby team won their first semi-final against Laos 31-25 at Sharjah in Asian Five-Nation Division IV Rugby Tournament. Pakistan players played exhibiting their prowess played superb rugby. In the first half, captain Arslan Zahid scored first try for his country. Tahir then came ...

LAHORE-Lahorewill take onSialkotin the 2nd Motorway Police U-16 Boy’s Hockey Championship final after both the teams winning their respective semi-finals here on Monday at the National Hockey Stadium.Lahorehad to struggle before overcoming spiritedFaisalabad7-6 in a penalty shoot out ...

LAHORE:- Top seeds Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands reached the final of the Portugal Open (ATP 250) on Saturday. Aisam and Rojer, who are defending their title, defeated fourth seeds Italian pair of Daniele Bracciali and Fabio Fogmini, ranked 25th and 41st, ...

MUNICH - Veteran Tommy Haas rolled back the years on Saturday to enjoy a straight sets semi-final win over Croatia Ivan Dodig and set up an all-German final at the ATP clay-court tournament in Munich. Haas, 35, needed just 89 minutes to claim a 6-4, 6-3 win over the 28-year-old Dodig and will now ...

 ISLAMABAD- Aamir Atlas Khan brushed aside M Asyraf Azan ofMalaysiain straight games in the FMC 17th Asian Individual Squash Championship 2013 semi-final here at Mushaf Ali Mir Squash Complex on Saturday. Aamir now will vie against Abdullah Al-Mezayne of Kuwait in the final of the prestigious ...

  LONDON     Chelseareached the Europa League final for the first time in their history after surviving a first-half scare to defeat Swiss champions FC Basel 3-1 in the second leg of their semi-final on Thursday. Leading 2-1 from last week's first leg inSwitzerland,Chelsearisked ...

ISLAMABAD Top seed Saba Aziz will take on second seed Sara Mansoor in the final of the Subh-e-Nau Clay Court Tennis Championship today (Friday) here at Islamabad Club.  Both the players faced no resistance from their respective opponents as Saba defeated Meheq Khokhar in the first semi-final ...

KARACHIFormer world No 2 Saleh Muhammad of Afghanistan advanced to the final of Jubilee Insurance 29th Asian Snooker Championship when he came from behind to topple reigning IBSF World Junior Champion Zhao Xin Tong of China 6-3 in the first semi-final on Thursday. Veteran cueist of world and Asian ...

ISLAMABAD- Thanks to unbeaten 53 byRaheel Majeed,PakistanTelevision (PTV) finished the day one of their Patrons Trophy Grade II 2012-13 final against Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) strongly at Mirpur Cricket Stadium, AJK on Monday. PTV close the day at 125 for the loss of three wickets in ...

ISLAMABAD-UniversityofNew Mexico(UNM) Lobos, in their best win of the season, upset the No 1 seed San Diego State Aztecs 4-3 in the semifinal contest at the United States Air Force Academy Tennis Facility to advance to the championship match against defending championsBoiseStateUniversity.New ...

    BARCELONA     Rafael Nadal kept alive his hopes of an eighth title at the Barcelona Open on Saturday as he waited out a rain delay before hammering Canadian Milos Raonic 6-4, 6-0 in their semi-final. The second seed will face Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro on Sunday ...

ISLAMABAD - KESC qualified for the final of the Patron’s Trophy Grade-II 2012-13 on the first innings lead basis against Omar Associates in the semi-final played here at Pindi Cricket Stadium on Friday. Earlier, KESC resumed their first innings at the overnight score of 116-3 in 36 overs and ...

LAHORE- Suzuki Master Motors Engineers (SMME) defeated Unifoam by three wickets to enter the Corporate Premier League (CPL) 2013 final. SMME were on top in the points table with 10 points while Unifoam and PEMRA gained six points each but Unifoam by having better net run rate qualified for the ...

  MUNICH   Bayern Munich are on the verge of their third Champions League final in four years after routing Barcelona 4-0 in Tuesday's semi-final, first leg at the Allianz Arena. It was the Spanish giants' worst Champions League defeat since the 4-0 loss to Dynamo Kiev in the group stage ...

    MILAN   Roberta Vinci securedItaly's fifth Fed Cup final appearance in eight years on Monday after battling past Lucie Safarova of theCzechRepublicto give the hosts an unassailable lead on the red clay ofPalermo. Vinci's 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 win over Safarova handedItalya 3-1 lead ahead ...

ISLAMABAD  - Pakistan Tehereek-I-Insaf issued the final list of its candidates contesting polls for national and provincial assemblies across country.As repeatedly announced by its chairman Imran Khan, the list clearly shows that Punjab was the main focus of this fast popularizing political ...

MOSCOWItaly and Slovakia are one win away from reaching the Fed Cup final after sweeping both singles matches in their respective semi-finals against the Czech Republic and Russia on Saturday.The Czechs, looking for a third consecutive title in the competition, were outplayed in Palermo where ...

ISLAMABAD  - ECP Saturday issued final list of minority candidates.According to the list, 71 candidates would be contesting for 10 minority seats reserved in the National Assembly. These candidates include: Lal Chand PTI, Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani PML-N, Ramesh Lal PPPP, Tariq Christopher ...

MULTAN The Election Commission of Pakistan will set up 1,752 polling stations here in the district for election to six National and 13 Provincial assemblies constituencies, The Nation has learnt. A total of 16,400 personnel will be deployed at these polling stations as election staff and 90 buses, ...

KARACHIA third successive century from Rafatullah Mohmand and a four-wicket spell from Junaid Khan helped Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) storm into the final of the President's One-day Cup, by crushing National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) by 119 runs here at the National Stadiu. Wapda ...

LAHORE A dominant bowling display from Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) handed them an eight-wicket victory over Habib Bank Limited (HBL) in the President's Cup semi-final in Karachi. HBL were put into bat and lost wickets from the outset, reduced to 22-4 in the 10th over. Younus Khan and ...

LAHORE - Islamabad will take on Sialkot in the Zone B final of National Women Cricket here at the Lahore Country Club, Muridke today (Saturday). Umpires Farooq and Riffat Mustafa will supervise tie while match referee will be Anwar Khan and Sajjad ul Hasan scorer.  The notable performers of ...

LAHORE - The seat-adjustment agreement with PML-Likeminded had ceased to exist the day the Likeminded leaders activated PML-Junejo and People’s Muslim League as PML-N had entered into a pact with the PML-Q Likeminded and not the latter political entities, claimed the sources at Raiwind. The ...

ISLAMABAD – In pursuance of the directives of Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has issued final show cause notices to the owners of agro farms in federal capital who failed to meet the terms and conditions of defined criteria of allotment.If the owners of the ...

LAHORE – The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is ambivalent about awarding ticket and taking time to unveil final list of its contestants for the elections.Sources in the party say that 90 percent of the candidates have been finalised but the remaining 10 percent pending nominations is holding ...

CHARLESTON  - Serena Williams crushed her older sibling Venus 6-1, 6-2 to reach the final of the Family Circle Cup in the most lop-sided match of their WTA Tour careers between the American sisters.In the first match between them in four years, Serena needed just 54 minutes to send Venus ...

COLOMBO - Skipper Kunal Mahajan led from the front with a half-century as DAV College, Chandigarh beat Karachi University by 49 runs to win the Red Bull Campus Cricket T20 World Series championship, on Saturday.Put in to bat, Chandigarh rode on Mahajan's 36-ball 73 and some fine contributions from ...