Squash stars Mehwish, Sehrish, and Mahnoor Ali, sisters from Pakistan, won two golds and one silver on Sunday at the Hungary Junior Open. After winning gold, silver, and bronze at the Danish Junior Open last month, the trio maintained their dominance of the European Junior Circuit. Mehwish defeated Hungary’s top seed Tamara Pescarescu in straight sets, winning 11-5, 11-2, 11-2, to win the Under-17 championship. The 15-year-old, who is ranked first in Pakistan, never lost during the tournament. Her sponsor, the Bilquis and Abdul Razzak Dawood Foundation, claims that this was her 25th gold medal in Budapest.
Author: Raja Zahid Khanzada
Although Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Shikara did not do well at the box office, it managed to connect with Oscar-winning director James Cameron, who saw the Hindi film and was reminded of his favorite movie, Doctor Zhivago. During a session on day one of IFP Season 14, the 12th Fail director talked about how he became close to the Avatar director over a glass of wine. Shikara depicted a Kashmiri couple’s love story against the backdrop of the 1990s exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. Chopra said that although he was focused on his next project, his team asked him if he had…
A state funeral will be held for the leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Baba Siddique, who was shot to death in Mumbai on Saturday night. Bollywood symbol Salman Khan, who imparted a nearby cling to Siddique, has arrived at the late lawmaker’s home, in front of the memorial service this evening. As he entered, Salman, his brother Sohail Khan, and his sister Arpita Khan made an obvious emotional display. Numerous other Bollywood big names, including Pooja Bhatt and Sajid Nadiadwala, were spotted showing up to offer their appreciation to the three-time MLA and previous Maharashtra serve. Salman can…
The murder of Baba Ziauddin Siddique, leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and former Maharashtra legislator turned minister, has shocked not only state residents and members of his party but also leaders and activists of rival organizations. He was getting into his car after leaving his son’s office on Saturday evening when he was shot dead by three people in Bandra East. The involvement of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, the main suspect in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in 2022, in Siddique’s death has been confirmed by Mumbai police. Interestingly, six months prior to Siddique’s death, members…
The Pakistan Cricket Board said in a press release on Sunday that former captains Babar Azam and Sarfaraz Ahmed, ace pacers Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah, spinner Abrar Ahmed, who was suffering from dengue fever, were resting for the Green Shirts’ remaining two games of the three-match series Test against England. The Green Team’s poor record in Test matches continued on Friday when they were defeated by the visitors in Multan by an innings and 47 runs. Multan and Rawalpindi will host the remaining two games. The Green Team has lost its previous six Test matches, their last victory…
According to AFP, England captain Ben Stokes appears to be on track to return for the second Test against Pakistan, which begins in Multan on Tuesday. The 33-year-old had been injured during the first Test, which England won on Friday by an innings and 47 runs under Ollie Pope, who took over as captain. Stokes participated in practice with the England team on Sunday, according to a spokesperson. Chris Woakes will likely be replaced by Stokes if he is deemed fit. Today, Ben bowled approximately four overs at full speed. The spokesman added, “He has done some intense running and…
Economic jargon occasionally frightens people, and Pakistani politicians, like those in most other nations, frequently exaggerate difficult statistics to present a false picture. For the majority of us, a comparable circumstance happened following the arrival of the typical month to month expansion rate for September, which showed a 44-month low. Everyone seems to be happy that inflation has been controlled, which has led to lower prices, from the upper echelons of the government that is currently in place to party workers. The typical month to month expansion rate in September was 6.9 percent, the most minimal since January 2021 (5.7pc).…
In 1980, Australia’s pace legend Dennis Lillee referred to a Pakistani pitch as a “graveyard for bowlers,” but little has changed since then. Lillee vented his resentment in the wake of working for 21 wicketless overs in Faisalabad in a bloated draw. Every one of the 11 Australian players, even wicketkeeper Pole Bog, had a turn bowling in Pakistan’s second innings of 382-2 in answer to Australia’s 617 all out as the game diminished into close to joke. England rewrote the record books last week when they scored 823-7 declared in response to Pakistan’s 556 in the first Test in…
The government and the military establishment (ME) have decided to label Imran Khan a “fitna” (conspiratorial, divisive, violent). The majority of anti-Khan individuals view him as obstinate, narcissistic, and egotistical, rendering him unfit for any significant political position. Not long before he became state leader in 2018, and during his residency as PM, Khan’s jokes and manner of speaking were either seen as being ‘splendid’ and ‘charming’ by his allies, or were essentially parodied by his rivals. However, nuclear physicist and author Pervez Hoodbhoy wrote in Dawn in 2015, three years before Khan became PM, that Khan was actually “dangerous.”…
RAWALPINDI: After the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) raised concerns regarding the project’s cost increase from Rs32 billion to Rs39 billion, the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has sent a revised PC-I of the Rawalpindi Ring Road project to the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) in Lahore. The revised document is likely to be discussed on Monday by the PDWP. A senior RDA official let First light know that the CDWP protested the heightening in the expense of the Rawalpindi Ring Street and requested that the authority change the heightening by lessening other above charges, while guaranteeing that general venture cost…
