ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC), Fehmida Mirza ensured that her team will successfully stage the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Pakistan Open International Taekwondo Championship.
The championship is all set to start from November 6 here at Liaquat Gymnasium Islamabad. Over 500 local and international players and officials will be in action during the three days international fixture.
Players and officials from Afghanistan, Albania, Nepal, Jordon, Kazakhstan, Oman, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Morocco, United Arab Emirates (UAE), El-Salvador, Croatia, and WT Refuge Team have reached here to participate in the event.
Fehmida will appear as the chief guest in the opening ceremony of the extravaganza. “I and my team have worked tirelessly to make this event happen. We will make sure to make it a successful one,” she said.
ISLAMABAD: Teams have started arriving here for Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Pakistan Open International Taekwondo Championship, scheduled to start from November 6 here at Liaquat Gymnasium, Pakistan Sports Complex.
Players and officials from Oman, Jordon, Kazakhstan, Egypt, El-Salvador, Iraq and Nepal have reached here for the competition.
As many as 15 countries will be participating in the martial arts events which will be held under the supervision of the Pakistan Army.
Other teams include Afghanistan, Albania, Iran, Turkey, Morocco, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Croatia, and WT Refuge Team.
Sixteen gold medals will be decided in male and female competitions during the three-day mega event. Over 550 players and officials will be part of this event.
Bahawalpur: All Pakistan Triathlon Competition 2021 concluded in Bahawalpur where 552 Triathletes representing all provinces of the country including Azad Kashmir & Gilgit Baltistan enthusiastically participated.
Government departments, Pakistan Army, Civil Armed Forces, Students of Colleges/ Universities, Professional athletes from Pakistan triathlon federation and Athletics Federation of Pakistan were also part of this event.
The Competition comprised of three sports events, which included 300m Swimming followed by 20km Cycling and 10km cross country running in the end.
Corps Commander Bahawalpur Lieutenant General Khalid Zia, was the chief guest. Olympian Shahbaz Senior was the special guest of honor at the occasion. Corps Commander distributed medals and prizes among the winners.
A large number of notable dignitaries including Olympian Arshad Nadeem, Hockey Coach Khwaja Junaid, Mountaineer Saima Baig, Olympian Boxer Asghar Changezi attended the ceremony. Presidents of Pakistan Tri-Athletics Federation, Athletics Federation of Pakistan, Pakistan Sports Board were also present on the occasion.
Sohail Amir declared best Athlete in open category by completing the competition in 1 hour 15 minutes and clinched Gold Medal while Muhammad Bilal and Amir Abbas achieved 2nd and 3rd positions respectively.
Cultural delegates and floats from Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan & Azad Kashmir were the highlighted features of this ceremony. Pakistan Punjab Rangers displayed mesmerizing rifle drill during the ceremony.
ISLAMABAD: Egypt’s Moustafa El Sirty and Salma ElTayeb clinched Chief of the Air Staff Serena Hotels International Squash Championship here at Mushaf Squash Complex.
World Number 69th, Moustafa beat Auguste Dussourd (France) in the final contest by the scores of 10-12, 6-11, 7-11, and 11-9. The high-anticipated match was attended by the CAS Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu who later distributed prizes among the winners.
On the other hand, Salma defeated her counterpart Marie Stephan of France by the scores of 10-4, 11-6-12-11.
Both the winners received trophies and cash prize from CAS in a glittering closing ceremony.
Peshawar: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has approached Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Sports Directorate for separate cricket coaching of women cricketers.
According to sources, men cricketers only train at the Peshawar Sports Complex but PCB wants women cricketers to be trained there too.
PCB’s women wing has also contacted its coaches and got information from the Sports Directorate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regarding the working hours and charges of the academy so that women cricketers can start training after a formal agreement.
Cricketers will be trained by the coaches of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)’s chairman Ramiz Raja said he will not talk about changes in the national team for T20 World Cup.
While talking to the media on Thursday, Ramiz said he is excited about the mega event and hopes that the national team will do wonders.
“I will not talk about changes. I am looking forward to the event and I hope Pakistan will play strongly in the event,” he said.
“It’s not about any particular match. I am excited about the whole world cup. Yes, Pakistan vs India is always a much-awaited contest,” he responded.
Meanwhile, in his appearance before Senate Committee, PCB chairman briefed on his plans to make cricket financially strong in the country.
“We need to change the whole system. We need to make things financially strong for us,” Ramiz told the committee.
“India is playing a major role in getting revenue for ICC. We get fundings from ICC, which means we are also running our things with Indian money,” the chairman added.
Ramiz said domestic cricket needs to be strong in Pakistan. “We increased players’ salary up to one lac. We aim to give 40 lacs each to players in domestic cricket yearly. I hope no player will be forced to do odd jobs to meet their ends,” he concluded.
Rawalpindi: Balochistan’s captain Imam-ul-Haq has been advised to have three-day rest by the doctors after he suffered scratches on his rib cage yesterday.
Imam is not part of the side today against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the 15th match of the National T20 Cup. Bismillah Khan is leading Balochistan in his absence.
Imam will leave for Lahore and join the side during second leg, scheduled in Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium from October 6.
It must be noted that Imam was admitted to a hospital after he suffered an injury while colliding with the boundary boards as he tried to stop a boundary.
He was taken away on a stretcher after the team’s physiotherapist treated him initially. Later in the day, the injury was not serious as the X-ray had shown that Imam’s ribs were not fractured.
ISLAMABAD: Sirbaz Khan became the first Pakistani climber to summit nine mountains above 8000M, Alpine Club of Pakistan confirmed.
Hails from Hunza, Sirbaz recently summitted Dhaulagiri (8167-M) to complete his nine climbs to the highest mountains.
List of Summits
1- Nanga Parbat 8125-M 2017
2- K2 8611-M 2018
3- Broad Peak 8047-M 2019
4- Manaslu 8163-M 2019
5- Lhotse Peak 8516-M 2019
6- Anapurna 8091- M 2021
7- Everest 8848 – M 2021
8- Gasherbrum II 8035-M
9- Dhaulagiri 8167-M
RAWALPINDI: Sohaib Maqsood took a break from captaincy in National T20 Cup to concentrate more on his batting before the all-important T20 World Cup.
Maqsood, who was captaining Southern Punjab (SP) in the event, wants to feel fresh before the mega multi-nation event.
“Sohaib Maqsood has withdrawn himself from the captaincy position as he wants to keep his mind fresh and relaxed ahead of the T20 World Cup,” SP’s management said in a statement.
It must be noted here that Maqsood gained his form back in the previous match against Northern by scoring 47-ball 75. Currently, SP is playing against Balochistan and Maqsood is leading the charge, nearer to his yet another half-century in this event.
