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LAHORE - Pakistan Football Federation President Faisal Saleh Hayat has approved Pakistan WAPDA's winger Jadeed Khan as captain of the Pakistan U21 team which will take on Malaysia in Qualifying Phase of the 30th Olympic Games Football Tournament on February 23 at Kuala Lumpur.
Rizwan Asif (KRL) will act his deputy. The return leg will be arranged by PFF on March 9. It will be the seventh international event for Jadeed, who played the last Pakistan Premier League as Afghan FC's

LAHORE - After humiliating defeat in the first one day international against Black Caps, former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz has again asked the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to dump Shahid Afridi as skipper.
Talking to a private television channel on Sunday, Sarfraz Nawaz said, "Afridi clearly failed to live up to the expectations and PCB shouldn't take risk with him in the upcoming mega event like cricket World Cup," he added. Pakistan lost the first one-day international

ISLAMABAD - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Salman Siddique submitted in the SC on Thursday a list of 58 officials who from January 01,2007 to December 24,2010, caused a whopping loss of Rs 19 to Rs 37 billion to the national exchequer over the last four years because of pilferage of containers which entered Pakistani territory in the garb of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT).
The list sent to the registrar's office through FBR's counsel Raja Irshad includes the names of former

LAHORE - The Pakistan Football Federation has hand over the reigns of the national team for the Olympics qualifying round to former coach Tariq Lutfi. He replaced Akhtar Mohiuddin as the head coach for the national team which started its preparation for the Olympic qualifiers against Malaysia on Saturday at the Model Town Ground in Lahore. Lutfi (PIA) will remain with the team for one year. His last spell for Pakistan was Pak-India Series six years ago. His first assignment in 2011

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board is likely to appoint Misbahul Haq as the one-day captain after his impressive show in Test format of the game. Sources in the PCB claimed that many top PCB officials and selection committee members were not happy with the performance of Shahid Afridi as a player and case for Misbah is very strong now for the forthcoming ODI series on trial basis before the World Cup.
If he proved a success, he would be asked to continue to lead the team in the

LAHORE - Lahore's well-known Raiders Football Club has announced the Local Organising Committee (LOC) to run All Punjab Raiders Football Cup at the Raiders Football Club Ground, Faisal Town, from Sunday, 16 January 2011. Model Town FC's President Mian Rizwan Ali, former Pakistan football team manager and Pakistan Premier Football League Match Commissioner, will act as Chairman while Kabir Ahmed Chaudhry has been designated as Organising Secretary.
The LOC will be comprised of

DAYTONA BEACH - Australian veteran Karrie Webb, a World Golf Hall of Fame player, was elected to the LPGA Board of Directors for a three-year term, the women's golf tour announced Tuesday. Webb, who has 36 career LPGA triumphs and three season money titles plus two Player of the Year awards, and American Allison Fouch were elected by their peers to the directors spots.
Australian Michelle Ellis was re-elected as president for a third year and American Kim Hall was elected vice

ROME: Leonardo on Friday crossed the great San Siro divide, the former AC Milan coach being named as the successor to Rafael Benitez as boss of Inter Milan.
The appointment makes him a unique commodity as the first person to have coached both Milan giants. Long on personality, short on managerial experience, Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo was appointed AC Milan manager in May 2009, as successor to Chelsea-bound Carlo Ancelotti still lacking the required managerial badges.