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AMIR Khan glanced at his dad and then his manager as he sought the right words for the answer to the question that could shape the rest of his life. Four years from now he could be an Olympic gold medallist or a multi-millionaire. Which would he prefer? We were sitting in a suite at [...]

Pakistan has received a trophy for being the fairest field hockey team in this year’s Athens Olympics, where it finished fifth in the actual event, an official said yesterday. The award, which Pakistan won for getting the least green, yellow and red cards and playing clean hockey, was announced at the 38th annual International Hockey [...]

Pakistan punjab’s volleyball team defeated their indian counterparts in the first volleyball test match of the indo-pakistan punjab volleyball cup held in shaheed bhagat singh stadium here today. The visitors beat indian team 16-25, 25-21, 21-25, 26-24, 15-13. India were one game up initially but the pakistani spikers came back strongly to win the next [...]

Organizers of the Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally have finalized holding of the 413-kilometre-long rally from Jan 7 to 9, 2005. Besides, a week-long Camp Bazaar will also be set up near Derawar Fort to highlight Cholistan culture and handicrafts to generate economic activity for native ‘Rohillas’. To make it culturally more colourful, camel races, bullcart [...]

Rakaposhi, the Shining Wall, is also known as Dumani, the Mother of Mist. Towering as an impressive massif with several points, the highest of them is 7,788 m (25,550 feet) high. The mountain, as beautiful as her names, poses well visible from the Karakorum Highway, her silhouette dominating the Hunza Valley, West of K2 in [...]

A record number of 12 teams are taking part in the CJ-Lysine Polo Cup, which is starting at Lahore Polo Club (LPC) ground here on Tuesday (today). ‘This is the first-ever tournament of the club to be participated by such a large number of teams,’ said a LPC spokesman yesterday. ‘The six-day long activity has [...]

Pakistan will be making its debut in international rugby on Wednesday when it takes on Sri Lanka in the 19th Asian Rugby Football Tournament. The biennial tournament will feature 12 teams split into three tiers vying for the Cup, Plate and Bowl Championships. Pakistan is in the Bowl competition along with Sri Lanka, India and [...]

The winter is approaching but no news yet of winter expeditions to Karakorum. Mountaineering challenges are scarce these days some say, yet the fierce Pakistan mountains offer just that – and with a stunning view. Pakistan holds at least five big dares, as none of its 8000ers has been climbed in winter! Up until now [...]

Sharif Khan is accustomed to breaking new ground. Now he can add another accomplishment to a long list. Recently, the Mississauga squash great was inducted into the United States Squash Racquets Association’s Hall of Fame, becoming the first non-American to be conferred the honour. “It’s the highest honour a squash person can receive, so I’m [...]

He has scaled Mt Everest without bottled oxygen, crossed Antarctica and travelled solo across the Gobi desert. Now controversial Italian climber Reinhold Messner, called the most famous mountaineer alive, wants to rebuild two villages of Pakistan devastated by an earthquake. The 60-year-old, who has climbed all the 14 mountain peaks in the world towering above [...]