NEW YORK: Robert Downey Jr is a penny-pincher! The actor - who has amassed a fortune north of $100 million after turning his junkie life around - recently phoned his wife in near panic.. over his mobile phone contract! “Robert told her he’d just realized his cell phone contract was up ...

 WAH CANTT - Zeeshan Khan clinched the POF Chairman Trophy by defeating Ahsan Ayaz 3-2 in U-17 final of National Junior Squash Championship played at Jahangir Khan Squash Complex Wah Cantt on Saturday. In U-15, Ali Karamat defeated Mansoor Zaman 3-1. POF Board chairman Lt Gen M Ahsan Mehmood ...

LONDON ES - Robert Downey Jr will return for ‘Iron Man 4’.The 48-year-old actor has thus far refused to confirm if he will make another movie in the successful franchise but director Shane Black is confident Robert will return for at least one more outing as Tony Stark/Iron Man.Speaking ...

ISLAMABAD DICR and member Pakistan Ordinance Finance (POF) board Riaz Ahmed inaugurated the National Junior Squash Championship for Chairman POF Trophy at Jahangir Khan Squash Complex, Wah Cantt on Wednesday. Junior players from U-15 and U-17 categories are participating in the ...

LOS ANGELES GNROBERT Downey Jr has revealed that he has been paid $50 million for The Avengers. The Hollywood Reporter first suggested after the film’s release that Downey Jr’s pay could be close to $50 million, factoring in both box office business and the specifics of his contract ...

ISLAMABAD – Ali Bukhari will take on Tayyab Aslam in the CAS National Junior Squash Championship U-19 final at the Hashim Khan Squash Complex, Peshawar today (Friday). In the first U-19 semi-final, Ali Bukhari played well against Bilal Zakir and won the first game 11-5. After the first game, ...

LAHORE – Iman Qureshi, Ahmad Babar, Hafiz Arbab and Huzaifa Abdul Rehman clinched titles in the first Lahore Hotel Junior’s Tennis Tournament which concluded here at the PLTA Academy Bagh-e-Jinnah on Saturday. In under-18 men’s singles, Ahmad Abrar thrashed Ahmad Chaudhry in ...

RAWALPINDI - It was a day of upsets as first Under-18 top seed M Mudassar was humiliated in the semi-final by relatively new player on the circuit Raja Shahid 6-3, 6-0 and Under-14 top seed Syed Nofil Kaleem Imam also lost the final in straight sets 7-5, 6-4 in the National Juniors Ranking Tennis ...

ISLAMABAD - Second Seed Adil Kohari from Karachi caused the biggest upset of the tournament by beating favourite M Mudassar in straight sets in the Boys U-18 final of the first Coca Cola National Junior Ranking Tennis Championship 2012 here at PTF Tennis Complex on Thursday.Adil defeated his far ...

KARACHI – The fourth Pakistan-Arab Refinery (PARCO) Roshan Khan Junior Open Squash Championships recognised by the Asian Squash Federation (ASF) will be played at PN Roshan Khan Jahangir Khan Squash Complex Karachi from tomorrow (Wednesday) till February 29.  The five-day event carries ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's shinning young star Maheen Dada partnering with Nitmi Waduge (Sri Lanka) reached the doubles final of the ITF Asian Tennis Championships Division II which is being played in Vietnam on Friday.Maheen and Nitmi managed to beat their far superior opponents Sri Lankan pair of ...

LAHORE - Pakistan squash team returned home on Tuesday after participating in British Open Junior Squash Tournament with Israr Ahmad of Punjab clinching the Under-15 title. It was encouraging performance on part of our five-member team as one of its member Israr won a title while Kashif Asif lost ...

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HOUSTON (AFP) - Unbeaten Mexican star Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr kept his World Boxing Council middleweight crown on Saturday by stopping US challenger Peter Manfredo in the fifth round. Chavez landed a stunning right to Manfredo's head and followed with 30 unanswered punches as the American tried in ...

KARACHI - Tom Phillips, Chief Executive Nick Faldo Asia Junior Golf Series, watched 39 Pakistani juniors playing in the Pakistani series here on Saturday at Karachi Golf Club. He met the youngsters and informed them about the aims, objective and importance of the inaugural Nick Faldo Asia series. ...

LAHORE Ushna Suhail and Zixian Zhang lost their semi-final against Egyptian pair Marina Albert and Nour Tohamy by 3-6, 4-6 in the Junior ITF Tennis Tournament in Amman, Jordan, it was learnt here. The Sino-Pak pair played quite well but the other side was much better and did not provide any chance ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Promising Pakistani Hammad Ahmed Tarar has won the Milo All Star Junior Squash Championship, 2011, Under-11 Squash title defeating his Indian opponent Veer Chotrani 11-3, 11-1, 9-11, 11-2 in a well-contested match in Selangor, Malaysia, according to information ...

KARACHI Azher Abdul Qadir had the better of Maheen Dada 8-7 in the best-of-one-set semi-final of under-13 singles of the Sindh Junior Ranking Tennis here the other day. In the final, he will meet Hasan Farooq who defeated Marib Malik 8-5 in the other semi-final. In under-15 event, Talha Zubair ...

LAHORE Pakistan tennis sensation Samir Iftikhar stormed into the final of the ITF Junior World Ranking Oman International Tennis Tournament. Reports received here said that the Pakistans pride on ITF World Ranking Circuit displayed outstanding tennis to oust Italys Kevin Alboneti in straight sets ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The degree of PML-Q MNA Nauman Langrial has been declared as fake here on Sunday. According to a private TV channel, Nauman Langrial was elected on the National Assembly seat from NA-163, Sahiwal. He had obtained his BA degree from Punjab University, which now has been proven ...

LAHORE The World Junior Golf Championship commences at Fife in Scotland from July 13 and this time Pakistan has been allowed a slot in which Mubraiz Ahmed, a 15 year old O level student of Karachi, has earned the right to represent the country. He was selected for this world event by virtue of ...

KARACHI The two-day qualifying round of the first late Tughral Shah Junior Squash Championships will commence Saturday at Navy Roshan Khan Jahangir Khan complex. The Sindh Squash Association is organising the championship carrying Rs 300,000 with the support of the family of late Tughral Shah who ...

KARACHI As many as 150 boys and girls of 11 to 19-year-old from all over the country have gathered at Rashidabad, district Tando Allayar in Sindh to appear in Rs 300,000 prize carrying first Rehana Nazar National Junior Squash Championships which began there with qualifying rounds on Saturday, ...

LAHORE - The trials of six regional teams for PHF Junior Super Hockey League have been completed in respective centers on Wednesday. The two days trials in Lahore and Faisalabad started at National Hockey Stadium Lahore and Faisalabad Hockey Stadium respectively, while the trials in Quetta and ...

KARACHI - Noppon Saengkham eked out a narrow one frame victory in the final over his tough challenger Soheil Vahedi of Iran to win the IBSF World Junior Under-21 Snooker Championship crown at Kish Island (Iran) on Thursday afternoon, according to information received here. The Thailand won the ...

LAHORE - Waqas Mahboob and Zoya Khalid won the Jashn-e-Azadi National Bank of Pakistan Punjab National Junior Squash Championship here on Thursday. Though both won their matches but interestingly they were stretched to full length by their rivals. They came back into the game after one game each ...

KARACHI - Pakistan national junior champion Asjad Iqbal made his exit from the World Junior Under 21 Snooker Championship when he was suffered five frame defeat against Amir Sarkosh of Iran in the quarter final of the competition on Tuesday, according to information available here. The frame ...

ISLAMABAD - Kashan-ul-Haq thrashed Hamza Gondal in straight sets 2-0 in the first round of the Subh-e-Nau Under-17 National Junior's Tennis Championship Wednesday here at PTF Tennis Complex. The score-line was 6-3, 6-4. Kashan-ul-Haq proved too good for Hamza Gondal and beat him in straight sets by ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - Nasir Iqbal of PAF and Ali Bokhari of Punjab clinched Under-17 and Under-15 titles respectively in the All-Pakistan National Junior Squash Championship played here at Hashim Khan Squash Complex on Sunday. NWFP Minister for Sports Syed Aqil Shah was the chief guest on this occasion. ...

LAHORE - Pakistan and Indian junior hockey teams have qualified for the final match of the Four-Nation Invitational Junior Hockey Tournament at Johor Bahru, Malaysia on Thursday. According to the information received from Malaysia, Pakistan beat hosts Malaysia by 3-1 in the second league match. At ...