Former cricketer Basit Ali has emphasized the importance of maintaining stringent security measures as Pakistan prepares to host the ICC Champions Trophy in 2025. This will be the first ICC event in Pakistan since the 1996 ODI World Cup, which the country co-hosted with India and Sri Lanka. Ali highlighted that any security lapses during…
Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Faiz Hameed was arrested by Pakistan military in connection to a housing scheme scandal and the process for his court martial was initiated, the army said on Monday. It is for the first time in the country’s history that court martial has been initiated against a former intelligence chief, according…
Pakistan‘s Olympic gold medalist Arshad Nadeem received a unique gift from his father-in-law, Muhammad Nawaz, in the form of a buffalo. This traditional and heartfelt gift celebrates Nadeem’s incredible achievement in winning the javelin throw event at the Paris Olympics with a record-breaking throw of 92.97 meters. Nawaz explained that gifting a buffalo is considered…
A young girl was killed by her brother in the Atari Road area of Hujrah Shah Muqeem, Pakistan after she failed her ninth-grade exam.According to initial reports, the brother, in a fit of uncontrollable rage, shot his sister after learning that she had not passed her school examination. The girl sustained fatal injuries and died…
NEW DELHI: He may be the first gold medalist for India in athletics and one of the best sportspersons the country has produced, but Neeraj Chopra remains humble and modest as ever.Though Neeraj failed to defend his Tokyo gold medal in the javelin final in Paris, losing to Pakistan‘s Arshad Nadeem, he didn’t let the…
Pakistan‘s first individual Olympic gold medalist, Arshad Nadeem, was celebrated with great enthusiasm upon his return from the Paris Olympics. His historic victory in the javelin throw event, marked by a record-breaking throw of 92.97 meters, earned him a grand homecoming at the airport, greeted by hundreds of cheering fans.Nadeem’s plane received a water salute…
PARIS: By hurling the spear so effortlessly past the 90m mark in the Olympic final here, Arshad Nadeem has actually thrown Neeraj Chopra the gauntlet he had been looking for, presenting him with the greatest challenge of his already illustrious career. For a change, as Neeraj chases Nadeem, this, like they said before the credits…
Arshad Nadeem did for Pakistan what no other athlete from the country had done ever before in individual events at the Olympics — winning a gold medal. But the 27-year-old Nadeem not just defied one of the strongest fields in the 12-man javelin throw final at recent editions of the Games, but went on to…
Neeraj Chopra‘s season-best not enough to defend javelin title as Nadeem settles issue with monstrous second throw in finalPARIS: It was hot and humid at the Stade de France on Thursday night. The air was still, and heavy with anticipation. Not the best of conditions for an athlete to give his best. But that would…
PARIS: Star athlete Neeraj Chopra won India’s sole silver medal in the Paris Games with a season’s best throw of 89.45m in javelin on a day the hockey team had snatched its second successive Olympic bronze.While Chopra became the first Indian to win an Olympic gold and a silver in athletics, the event was dominated…
