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Pakistan accomplished a stunning 3-2 victory over Thailand in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Zone Group-1 when Aisamul Haq Qureshi, the world No 206, sprang a big upset by squeezing past the world No 33 , Paradorn Srichaphan 3-1 in the first reverse singles at the Cosmopolitan Club on Sunday. Aisam, among top six in [...]

A lengthy and tricky card of ten events was decided at the Lahore Race Club on the Pakistan Derby Day when the country’s most prestigious race – the Pakistan Derby 2005 – was won by Mr Pervaiz Iqbal’s four-year-old colt ‘Moment of Love.’ A well-backed favourite lay close to the leader over the first seven [...]

US adventurer Steve Fossett was approaching the coast of Pakistan late Tuesday after overcoming a navigation equipment problem that threatened to derail his historic bid to make the first non-stop flight around the world without refueling. The GlobalFlyer was over the Arabian Sea heading east towards Karachi, Pakistan at speeds of around 340 knots (390 [...]

Field Touring Alpine has released details of a new schedule through the midst of the Karakorum Himalaya this season – a near 350km hike inside the deepest and most spectacular recesses of the fabled mountain range. The trip will essentially complete the “Grand Traverse” going from the states of Baltistan to Hunza in NW Pakistan, [...]

The car took 25 minutes for the warm-up and after that thousands of spectators present on both sides of the main Boulevard Gulberg witnessed a spectacle, which they only have seen on a TV screen before. The loud nose of the sports car not only made the spectators to close their ears but the prominent [...]

PAKISTAN hockey officials have unveiled a blueprint to revive their country’s fortunes, having not won a major tournament since the 1994 World Cup. Pakistan, three-time Olympic and four-time world champion, has remained empty-handed for 11 years since winning the World Cup and the Champions Trophy in the same year. Kirmani said the new plan, which [...]

Hello Pakistan – time to go climbing! Adventure Tours Pakistan has released the schedule for unguided expeditions in Karakorum this spring. There is one K2 expedition, 2 Broad Peak expeditions, a K2/BP double header, 3 expeditions for Gasherbrum 1, two expeditions for Gasherbrum 2, one to Nanga Parbat, 2 to Spantik and one for Muztagh [...]

Pakistan-born Nur Ali, a professional driver settled in United State of America, will represent A1 Team Pakistan along with other 25 countries in the mega motor sports event which is the most prestigious motor race in the world. The races will also take place at some of the best known circuits around the globe.

Zafar Gill, a boxer from WAPDA, has got his name registered in the Guinness Book of World Records by lifting 51.7 kilogrammes by one ear on May 26, 2004. He broke the earlier record of China’s Li Jian Hua who lifted a column of bricks weighing 50 kilogrammes by one ear for 9.3 seconds on [...]

While Iranian coach Safee has taken eleven karatikaz to Iran on a training tour, four coaches – Sengli from China, Tarik Lutfee from Egypt and Won and Soe, both from South Korea – are hectically administering the training of the athletes for the mega event. Pakistan are scheduled to participate in 11 of the 15 [...]