By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Aamir Ashraf Khawaja, Federal Secretary of Health, is about to get the axe for allegedly godfathering a slew of malpractices that nearly maimed the medical regulatory authority, sources said.
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COMPOSITE IMAGE: Credit, Wikimedia Commons and right, Pakistan Alpine Club
Pakistan’s Abdul Joshi summits Mt Everest
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Abdul Joshi has summited Mount Everest along with an elite international team of mountaineers, the Pakistan Alpine Club has said.
OVERWHELMING REPONSE: Women cricketers flocked to the trials. Photo courtesy PCB
Women cricketers flock to trial for association teams
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: If anyone had any misgivings about how much Pakistani women love cricket, they now stand corrected. In what the officials have termed as an overwhelming turnout, no less than 1,118 young young women showed up in the trials organised by five of the country’s six cricket associations, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said.
Shahbaz Senior hopeless of hockey’s future in Pakistan
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, the multiple-time world field hockey champion, is now considered a constant loser at the game it once ruled, because no one wants to bet on a sport that cannot generate revenues like cricket.
Sure Shot: Lahore Qalandars cricket trials on May 17
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Players Development Program (PDP), spearheaded by Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) top cricket franchise Lahore Qalandars to give aspiring cricketers their big break, is back, organisers announced on Thursday.
Curveballs: US baseball coach here to help Pakistan hit home runs
By Staff Reporter
GUJRANWALA: Randall Arms, ace US baseball coach, has landed in Pakistan to help the country’s team step up their game for the coming world tourneys, officials said on Wednesday.
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Mountaineer Sirbaz Khan scales world’s 10 highest peaks
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Sirbaz Khan on Saturday became the first Pakistani climber to summit 10 of the world’s highest 14 peaks above 8,000 metre after scaling Kanchenjunga 8,586 metre, Alpine club of Pakistan said.
Federal Minister for Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal. Photo courtesy of APP
Govt plans summit to review Single National Curriculum
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The new government is likely to axe Imran Khan’s cherished Single National Curriculum (SNC) initiative.
Asian Games postponed until 2023 over Covid
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Games 2022 have been postponed until next year as China, the host country, is once again reeling under a renewed Covid-19 threat, the governing Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said on Friday.
Interview: Kicking high without a leg-up
Pakistan Taekwondo Federation (PTF), country’s apex body governing one of the most popular Korean martial arts in the world, has kicked up some high milestones in the last one decade without much resources or support, proving passion can overcome the tyranny of underfundedness.