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Last year, the Basque climbers Iker and Eneko Pou changed their mind only days before departing for Pakistan, where they planned to free climb ‘Eternal Flame’ on the Trango Towers: This year though – it’s a go. The brothers will go to Trango Towers in July, to free-climb Eternal Flame, on the Nameless Tower. The [...]

A BRITISH horse rider is all set to kick off the second phase of his journey – from Lahore to Beijing – on a fundraising campaign for education. Stephen McCutcheon, 25, who started his journey from New Delhi in late 2004, arrived here in December the same year. Now after six months of preparation, he [...]

The Karakorams in Pakistan contains some of the most spectacular mountains in the world. Here you’ll find Laila Peak (6614 m), which is said to be the most beautiful mountain in Asia. No one has ever skied that mountain. Fredrik Ericsson and Jörgen Aamot are, this summer, taking on that challenge, as the first in [...]

Aisamul Haq created history when he booked a World Group playoff berth for Pakistan after a thumping straight set triumph over Taiwan’s Lu Yen in reverse singles in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group-I on Sunday. With brilliant passing shots, anticipation and court coverage, Aisam prevailed over the Taiwanese. Both Aisam and Yen were tied [...]

As the Karakorum season approaches, a surprising number of teams are looking to tackle Nanga Parbat, the isolated 8125m peak in western Pakistan. At least ten expeditions will head for the mountain starting in mid May. Some of those might consist of different teams sharing the same climbing permit, so the total number will surely [...]

It takes 10 minutes to decide a fight between two roosters, but it requires at least 20 months to prepare a super fighting rooster. This traditional sport has no association or federation at the national level, but still there are thousands of diehard followers of this game in Rawalpindi. Like in boxing, there are different [...]

The General Presidency of Youth Welfare has fielded a Pakistani expatriate in the war against terrorism. His style of spreading the message is simple. He moves around in military fatigues to symbolize his campaign against terror. Armed with messages of support from top government officials and escorted by police, Bakhsh becomes an instant draw wherever [...]

Dutch Company Royal Ten Cate has entered into collaboration with a Pakistani firm Nayyar Carpets. The joint venture is for production of artificial grass for hockey fields in Pakistan. Pakistan will have its own artificial grass production if the test run is successful, as Pakistan will also have a new product for export that would [...]

Aisamul Haq Qureshi played quality tennis on Tuesday and was instrumental in helping Pakistan earn two gold medals on the penultimate day of the first Islamic Games at the Taif University hard courts. Pakistan’s chances to make a clean sweep in tennis have brightened as they have already qualified for the doubles’ semi-final and will [...]

While India and Pakistan slug it out on the cricket pitch, there was another Indo-Pak clash that took place today. Except that it was on astro-turf and featured 40-year old veterans. But here too, the visitors appeared the better side as the Pakistan veterans’ hockey team took an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the four match [...]