Tag: Girls

LAHORE - Kinnaird Club won the 5th Regional Inter-District Senior Women's Cricket Tournament beating Garrison Club in the final here on Monday. KC took full advantage of the home conditions to overpower Garrison Club by five wickets.
Garrison Club decided to bat and gathered 114 runs in 35.1 overs. Sidra Nawaz scored 36. Zeba 10 and Sabahat 13 were the other players who reached double figures. Mehwish with two wickets was the pick of the bowlers while five girls were run out.

LAHORE - After a break of more than a decade, the Pakistan women's tennis team has left for Bangkok to feature in the Fed Cup. The Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, and is considered the equivalent of the Davis Cup.
Just before their departure, K-21 Club, which assisted the team in their training, hosted a dinner reception in honour of Nousheen Ehtisham (non playing captain), Rashid Malik (coach), Ushna Sohail, Sara Mehboob, Sara Manzoor and Saba Aziz.

LAHORE - The second Chief Minister's Sports Competitions (intermediate inter-district level) are in full swing and have entered the final stages. In Sahiwal, the final girls hockey matches were held and won by Government College for Women Cheechawatni. The winning team for final boys athletics competitions was Government Faridia Post graduate College Pakpattan.
Government College for Women Pakpattan was victorious for girls final athletics competitions while in girls final

LAHORE - The Punjab U-16 girls athletics team won the PSB Inter-Provincial Youth U-16 girls Athletics Championship held from January 24 to 25 in Karachi. They secured 68 points to clinch the title while Sindh secured 55 points and KPK declared third with 35 points.
The Punjab team won five gold, two silver and three bronze medals. Sahbe Asra from Punjab was declared the best athlete of the events. Dr Mohammad Ali Shah was the chief guest. In the final girls athletics events, Sara

PESHAWAR - Some unidentified armed men blew up a girls' school on Monday in Khyber Agency. Khyber Agency's administration said the armed men planted explosives in the girls' school in Landi Kotal, Sub-Division of Khyber Agency and added that the explosion damaged three rooms and the boundary wall of the school. It said the attack did not cause any causality and no militant group had taken the responsibility of the attack.
It further said various militant groups were involved in

LAHORE - The athletic team of the Sports Board Punjab has excelled in the PSB-Inter Provincial U-16 Girls Athletics Championship held at Karachi on Monday. Saib-e- Asra of Punjab stood first in the final of 800 meter race while Perveen Fiaz of Punjab stood third. Musurrat of Punjab was the winner and Sidra Hameed was declared third in long jump final.

ROME - Sordid details of the grasping ambition of parents of young girls caught up in Italy's latest sex scandal emerged on Thursday as excerpts from wire-taps were splashed over the country's papers.
As part of evidence from Milan magistrates alleging Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hooked up with prostitutes and held debauched parties, parents were caught on tape encouraging their daughters to compete for the 74-year old. "The sad army of aspiring parents-in-law" is "a symbol

LAHORE - The 5th session of the ASC Netball Coaching, Development and Tournament Program for girls (U-16) was held at Govt. Post Graduate College for Women, Wahadat Road.
Mudassar Arain, Secretary General, Pakistan Netball Federation informed that the programme was organized in collaboration with the Australian Sports Commission and Punjab Netball Association. The technical officials comprising Khalid Parvaiz, Yasir, Adeel Khan, Umer Farooq, Abdul Wahab, Asad Mehmood and Ajaz Ul

LAHORE - Faisalabad girls and Sargodha boys won the athletics titles and Sohrab Zohra of Sahiwal won gold medal in the 100 metres race of the Chief Minister Sports Competition (high school, divisional level) here at different venues of the city.
The gold medalist team in girls athletics events was Faisalabad followed by Sahiwal who got second place and Gujranwala got bronze. The team from Sargodha got gold medal in boys final athletics, Lahore won silver medal and Faisalabad

LAHORE - As many as four matches were decided in the Lahore College for Women University All Pakistan Girls Inter-board Basketball Tournament here on Tuesday.
Bahawalpur Board beat Rawalpindi Board by 39-2.
Federal Board beat Karachi Board in the second match 14-8. In the last game of the day, Bahawalpur Board beat Federal Board Islamabad 35-10.
According to an official of the organizing committee the matches are being played on league system and its final will be

PESHAWAR - Khwendo Kor, a non profit non governmental organization, is vigilant to the plight of women and children, this was stated by Rohi Bano, the regional manager of Khwendo Kor while talking to Pakistan Today.
She said the organisation has been cautious to monitor the human rights situation in the country, especially the problems being faced by the woman and children in the backward areas of KP and FATA.
She said the Khwendo Kor has carried out surveys to assess the

LAHORE - A group of girls have adopted a novel way to loot people; they marry men, fly abroad seeking refuge supposedly from their family and then deceitfully divorce, appropriating the groom's money.
MODUS OPERANDI: Senior police official tells about the group's working: the girls work separately and each member as an individual hunts her prey. The girls are educated and hail from suburban areas of Lahore. The first girl traps the man posing to be in love and then marry him.

ISLAMABAD: Seventy-two percent girls' schools in Pakistan don't have any protection against militancy, despite the government's claim for providing security to educational institutions, a Free and Fair Election Network report revealed. The report said that FAFEEN checked the security arrangements of 106 schools situated across the country and found that 72 percent girls' middle schools lacked security arrangements.
It said that the security arrangements for female students and

GUJRANWALA: After Punjab Police Inspector General Tariq Saleem Dogar ordered arrest of the suspended Garjakh Police Station SHO Mian Abdul Jabbar for releasing the culprit involved in molestation and killing of a three-year-old girl, the SHO has been arrested.
Dogar directed the RPO Tariq Masood Yasin to ensure the arrest of the accused that SHO let go after initial investigations. The SHO also showed negligence in tracing the girl. Dogar said, "Incident is alarming and

LAHORE: Victoria Girls High School is a government girl's school inside the walled city of Lahore and is housed in a nineteenth century Sikh period haveli of Naunihal Singh, the son of Maharajah Ranjeet Singh.
The haveli is one of the few remaining royal residences from the Sikh period in Lahore. It is an intact structure of over forty rooms with most elements of its original ornamentation preserved on the two main elevations and the interior courtyard facades.
The most

TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the best age for girls to get married was between 16 and 18, Iranian newspapers reported on Sunday.
Analysts say such announcements could be part of the government's efforts to gain support among young voters. Iran's parliament in 2004 raised the legally acceptable age of marriage for girls to 15 from nine. "The best age for marriage is between 16 to 18 for girls and 19 to 21 for boys," the Mardomsalari newspaper quoted

KARACHI: Bhooro Menghwar, a landless peasant belonging to the Dalit caste of Hindus (so-called untouchables), sold his last pair of goats and a cow after having sold everything else in his house to save the life of his six-year-old daughter Veena, who is suffering from severe aplastic anemia.
"The cure is bone-marrow transplant," doctors told him, which he cannot afford.
"What can I do? I have sold almost everything I had," said Menghwar, adding, "I have no option left but