The Elections of 2013 are indeed memorable in the history of Pakistan. On this day a record turnout of voters was observed. This massive turnout proved that the people of Pakistan love their country and want to bring positive changes through democratic means. These elections were a huge ...

    ISLAMABAD   Former world squash champion Qamar Zaman has said thePakistanmale players chances of winning are more than 70 percent in the 17th FMC Asian Senior Individual Squash Championship as all three players Aamir, Nasir and Farhan Mahboob are very good and technically very ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s broadband segment is making rapid progress and posted steady growth during the year 2012, asserts the annual report of PTA. The segment is led by country’s leading integrated telecommunication services provider, Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL), ...

PERTH  - Australia coach Mickey Arthur insisted Tuesday his contentious punishment of four players for not completing a feedback review had galvanised the team on their disastrous tour to India.The South African said he had no regrets at axing the players for the third Test against India for ...

MUMBAI - A Sri Lankan player was paid Rs 100 million for fixing an IPL match, a bookie named Sonu Yogendra Jalan alias Malad has told Mumbai police, the Times of India reported today. In his statement, Sonu has claimed that some Indian cricketers were involved in match-fixing, says the TOI report. ...

LAHORE (Agencies) - The national federation (PHF) on Tuesday expressed confidence that Pakistani players would stay away from the unsanctioned World Hockey Series in India in the wake of the organiser's claim that all those who have signed for the multi-million event will certainly play. The WSH, a ...

Veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid today became the second player in the history of Test cricket to compile 13,000 runs, besides completing 1,000 runs this calendar year. Dravid, already the second highest run-scorer in the longer format of the game, drove West Indies skipper Darren Sammy for a ...

LONDON (Agencies) - Young West Indies batsman Darren Bravo has admitted to being surprised over his short-listing for the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Emerging Player-of-the-Year award, but is now backing his chances of walking away with the honour. The 22-year-old, a stylish left-hander, ...

Rescue workers on Thursday recovered the bodies of all 43 people killed in a plane crash some 300 kilometers west of Moscow. The Yak-42 jet was carrying the ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) on Wednesday. The team was heading to Belarus for the season ...

SAN DIEGO (AFP) - Serbian teen tennis player Bojana Jovanovski had two days to forget after she went to Carlsbad, New Mexico instead of Carlsbad, California for the WTA San Diego Open. The 19-year-old Serb, ranked 53rd in the world, almost missed her Monday first-round match after she was somehow ...

India's cricket chiefs have doubled the cash bonus for each member of the World Cup winning team amid reports that the players had complained about being poorly rewarded. "The cash incentive to the members of the World Cup winning Indian team has been increased from 10 million rupees ($A208,000) ...

The Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has broken with tradition and named only four cricketers of the year for its 2011 edition because of the Pakistan spot-fixing scandal, editor Scyld Berry said on Friday. The publication has named five players since 1926 but this year only Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal and ...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said Tuesday it would not suspend top players accused over a betting scam while the claims are probed, but reports suggest they will not play the rest of the tour in England. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has promised "prompt and decisive action" if the ...

LAHORE The Pakistan Table Tennis Federation has nominated a British-convicted former Pakistan player for countrys top civil award. It has been learnt that the PTTF nominated former champion Farjad Saif for the civil award to be announced on August 14. Farjad, a former national champion, was ...

LAHORE Former Pakistan hockey forward Mumtaz Haider has blamed former federation officials for the decline of the sport and praised the present set of hockey. In an exclusive interview with the Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation on Tuesday, he praised Asif Bajwa and Qasim Zia for promoting the game . He ...

CHITRAL Former-legendary polo player Ghayasuddin of Reshoon has demanded of the Khyber PK Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti as well as Minister for Sports and Tourism Syed Aqil Shah to expand the existing Reshoon Polo Ground by further 10x120 feet. Ghayasuddin said that the area of the Reshoon ...

LAHORE (PR) - LG Electronics has introduced the BD57O, a Wi-Fl equipped Blu-ray player. LGs BD57O is no ordinary Blu-ray player. The new models built-in Wi-Fi allows it to connect to the internet or a home network to bring a wider variety of entertainment options to the living room. People should ...

MIAMI (AFP) World number one Serena Williams was named the 2009 WTA Player of the Year and shared Doubles Team of the Year with sister Venus at an awards ceremony on Wednesday. Serena Williams won last years Australian Open and Wimbledon singles titles while also reaching the US Open semi-finals ...

World number one Serena Williams was named the 2009 WTA Player of the Year and shared Doubles Team of the Year with sister Venus at an awards ceremony on Wednesday. Serena Williams won last year's Australian Open and Wimbledon singles titles while also reaching the US Open semi-finals and French ...

PESHAWAR (AFP) Pakistans squash champion Maria Toor Pakay cut her teeth fighting boys in a tribal district synonymous with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, defying convention to become a trailblazer in her sport. She hails from South Waziristan, part of Pakistans tribal belt branded by Washington as the ...

HOUSTON (Texas) (AFP) Anna Nordqvist won the LPGA Tour Championship Monday as Lorena Ochoa seized her fourth straight Player of the Year award by one point over Jiyai Shin. Nordqvist, 22, fired a final-round 65 to finish at 13-under 203 in the tournament reduced to 54 holes because of heavy rain ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Air Force (PAF), national champions in 1986, have been docked three points for fielding an ineligible player in ongoing Pakistan Premier Football League (PPFL). The outcome reduced PAF's points from 17 to 14 in nine matches. The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) punished the ...

Brazilian star Kaka remains hopeful he will be crowned the best soccer player in the world again. For now, he acknowledges Lionel Messi deserves that title. "He is a player who makes a difference," Kaka said, just two days before meeting Messi in a World Cup qualifier between South American rivals ...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced Rs 2.5 million for each player of national cricket team for winning T20 World Cup title. In a reception hosted by Speaker National Assembly Dr. Fehmida Mirza for cricket team, Chairman PCB Ijaz Butt has announced the reward of Rs. 2.5 million for each team ...

PREGNANT mothers will soon be able to play their favourite songs to their unborn children with the invention of an MP3 players for babies. Named the BLABY, the device consists of a contoured belt that wraps around a mothers waist with three inbuilt vibration speakers playing music into the womb. ...

LAHORE - Medium pacer Muhammad Talha, who was rated very highly by the Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed and coaches Intikhab Alam and Aaqib Javed, Sunday became the 192nd player to receive a test cap from Pakistan. The 20-year-old Faisalabad born, right arm, Talha replaced out of sorts Sohail Khan ...

Pakistan Hockey star Rehan Butt has been named the Best Player of Asia for the year 2008 by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) at its congress in Malaysia on Saturday. Secretary, PHF Asif Bajwa received the award on behalf of Rehan Butt. The AHF also awarded the Life Time Achievement award to late ...

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Wednesday conveyed growing concern of Pakistan government as well as of the public to British Foreign Secretary over attacks from across the border into Pakistan territory. The British Foreign Minister, David Miliband, who is on a one day visit to Pakistan and ...

The dasher from Delhi India v Bangladesh, Karachi With 78 off 44 balls against Hong Kong and a thumping 119 off 95 against Pakistan, the dasher from Delhi is enjoying a purple patch. And Bangladesh better send him to the hut early, when he is slightly vulnerable, or you can bet he would send ...

DUBLIN (APP) - Pakistan's agile right winger Rehan Butt was declared best player of a 4-nation tournament here, a distinction he achieved for the second in 42-day tiring tour of national team for the build up of Beijing Olympics. Rehan scored five goals in four matches to remain the top scorer ...