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The Pakistan Bodybuilding Federation on Saturday selected five musclemen for participation in the 8TH South Asian Bodybuilding Championship to be held at Bhutan on...

The Pakistan Hockey Federation on Wednesday distributed cheques worth Rs nine million among the winning team members who claimed the 11th South Asian Games...

The Pakistan Judo Federation (PJF) organised a colourful opening ceremony for the ninth South Asian Judo Championship on Tuesday here at the Liaquat Gymnasium...

The South Asia Judo Championship is scheduled to start at Islamabad from May 9 and the Pakistan players, who were given international exposure over...

Australia will play just two tests on their tour of South Africa in October and November as the two nations do not want to...

JOHANNESBURG - Coach Corrie van Zyl admitted Sunday that South Africa lacked the composure to go all the way after a shock 2011 Cricket World Cup quarter-finals loss to New Zealand.
Set 222 to win in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, the hotly fancied Proteas were bundled out for 172 and 'Choker' headlines littered weekend Johannesburg newspapers.
'Horrible! Super chokers do it again', 'What a choke' and 'Chokers' made painful reading for the likes of all-rounder Jacques

BIRMINGHAM - Before Imran Tahir left his native Pakistan in 2006 he was approaching 30 and international cricket was passing him by. But a chance meeting with a South African woman changed his life and the fortunes of Graeme Smith's team.
After following her to South Africa, he became a citizen there and soon came to the notice of the selectors. Now he could become their World Cup saviour, guiding the team to the title for the first time.

NAGPUR - South Africa are hoping for a repeat of Nagpur magic when they meet India in a World Cup Group B clash on Saturday as the Proteas attempt to get their campaign back on track. Last year, South Africa thrashed India by an innings in a Test, with paceman Dale Steyn playing a key role with 10 wickets in the match.
"I think our bowlers have had a good amount of success against India. We know each other pretty well after playing them the whole summer (at home). This is the

LAHORE - South Africa (SA) is keen to consolidate its partnership with Pakistan on the basis of cooperation and would like to ramp up interaction between the two governments and business communities. South-South cooperation is cornerstone of foreign policy of South Africa. These views were expressed by the South Africa Deputy High Commissioner Cassim Peer and former Minara Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Ebrahim Patel, while speaking to LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik at

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Monday passed a resolution unanimously demanding of the Sindh government to ensure implementation of the 60-40 percent ratio of quota in government jobs and promotions of employees in government departments as well as autonomous bodies.
PPP's Ghulam Mujadid Isran presented the resolution on Private Members Day of the assembly; the MQM, PML-F and other parties also supported the resolution.
Isran, while explaining his resolution, said that

LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), on Tuesday, wrote a new page in the history of Pakistan's trade and economic relations with South Africa and UAE, as an eight member LCCI delegation returned back after a 14 days visit to the countries with handfuls of business orders and signings of a number of Memoranda of Understanding (MoU). In both countries, the LCCI delegation, headed by LCCI Executive Committee Member Dr shahid Raza, received a warm welcome by their

KARACHI - Contractual workers of the Education Department returned to Karachi on Friday to protest the delay in turning their services permanent, but the police brutally crushed any attempts to demonstrate outside the Chief Minister's House - tear-gassing hundreds of lower-grade in protests that continued throughout the day.
On Friday morning, the Sindh Assembly had in fact unanimously passed a resolution to urge the Sindh chief minister to utilise his powers to regularise the

NEW DELHI - A B de Villiers' unbeaten 107 powered South Africa to a seven-wicket victory over West Indies in a World Cup Group B match on Thursday. South Africa's Pakistan-born leg-spinner Imran Tahir (4-41) dazzled on debut, sharing seven wickets with pace colleague Dale Steyn (3-24) to skittle out West Indies for 222 in 47.3 overs.
The West Indies total was built around Darren Bravo's assured 73 and a quick-fire 40 off 37 balls by his half-brother Dwayne before the twice

NEW DELHI - South Africa fans claimed their national anthem was "butchered" when it was cut short at the start of the World Cup match against West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium on Thursday.
Only half of the stirring anthem was played before the sound was abruptly halted, much to the consternation of the smattering of fans inside the stadium.
"As if the World Cup has not been boring enough, now our national anthem gets butchered. Another failure," wrote one fan on

CHENNAI - Morne Morkel grabbed three wickets and Jacques Kallis hit an unbeaten 49 as South Africa raced to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Zimbabwe in a World Cup warm-up match on Saturday. Paceman Morkel took 3-16 and Pakistan-born leg-spinner Imran Tahir bagged 3-35 as Zimbabwe were dismissed for 152 after electing to bat in the day-night match in Chennai.
South Africa achieved the target with more than 26 overs to spare in the one-sided contest, with Hashim Amla (45),

JOHANNESBURG - Cricket South Africa President Mtutuzeli Nyoka was ousted by the federation's members in a vote of no-confidence Saturday morning, the organisation said on its website. "With immediate effect, the position of Dr M. Nyoka as president of Cricket South Africa is terminated," the federation said.
Nyoka, who did not attend the meeting, was voted out by an "overwhelming majority" of Cricket South Africa's 11 affiliate presidents. Nyoka had locked horns with the

CHENNAI: Choking under pressure is a thing of the past for the new-look South Africa, wicketkeeper-batsman AB de Villiers said on Friday as his team attempts to win the World Cup for the first time. South Africa have been a formidable force ever since they made their World Cup debut in 1992, but have consistently fallen short on the biggest stage. They failed to clear the semi-final hurdle in the 1992, 1999 and 2007 tournaments despite starting among the favourites. "We've shown