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LAHORE - The four-day Annual Royal Palm Floodlit Cricket Tournament endorsed by Coke, Highland, GNC and FR Cables took off at the superbly lit cricket arena of the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club.
At the end of the first day, four out of the 16 teams, Warriors, Lahore Eagles, Giants and Punjab Warriors stood eliminated after some fascinating battles with the winning teams, like Lahore Strikers, Punjab Kings, Lions and Royal Eagles.
Dejection was visible among the losers

LAHORE - The Punjab National Junior Squash Championship 2011 rolled into action here at the PSA Complex on Wednesday. On the opening day, qualification round matches were played after Tariq Rana, Honorary Secretary Punjab Squash Association, took out the draws.
Sixty-four matches in different age groups of under-11, 13, 15 and 19 were held. On day two, some of the third round qualification matches will be played, followed by the main round matches.

LAHORE - The Punjab Sports Board has organized an Athletics Training Camp for the Inter-provincial level, Chief Minister's Sports competitions 2010-2011 in the Punjab Stadium from January 16, 2011. A team comprising officials and athletes will travel to Karachi on January 22, where the inter-provincial athletics competitions will be held on January 24 and 25.

LAHORE - Guard Group/Diamond Paints, The President's Bodyguard and Ciro's Pomodoro won their opening day matches of the Caanchi & Lugari Pakistan Polo Cup here at the Lahore Polo Club ground on Monday.
Guard Group/Diamond Paints defeated Lahore Garrison 8-5, The President's Bodyguard beat Mac & Rains 8-4 and Ciro's Pomodoro defeated Master Paints (Black) 8- 4.

LAHORE - The Punjab University Inter-collegiate Badminton Championship rolled into action here at the PU Gymnasium Hall on Tuesday.
The newly-constructed four courts are equipped with all the basic facilities of the game complete game's equipment and state of the art fitness centre while timings for training and practice has also been ear-marked.
Dr Zafar Rasheed, PU Director Sports, formally inaugurated the championship. Dr Rasheed, who is a former international table

LAHORE - The 26th National Women's Hockey Championship is in progress at the Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium, Karachi. To spot talented female players, the PHF has constituted a Committee comprised of Mrs. Tanzeela
Aamir Cheema, Secretary PHF Women's
Wing, Mr Iftikhar Syed and Mr Jan
Mohammad. The Committee will
observe the performance of players
during the Championship and forward
its recommendations to PHF, soon after
the conclusion of the

LAHORE - The district level competitions of the Chief Minister's Cup Sports will roll into action from today at various venues of the province.
After the completion of the competitions at the Tehsil level the next competitions will start today.
The tehsil level events were held from December 20 to 25 and after the district level, events the competition will be played at division and provincial level till February 09, 2011.
The schedule is as under:
High School

LAHORE: The Punjab Tennis Championship sponsored by Service Industries rolled into action here at the Bagh-e-Jinnah's courts on Thursday. Tournament Director Rashid Malik said that keeping in view the extensive interest in the championship, they have decided to hold the men's singles event on the opening day and many seeded junior players have made it to the next round. The championship will be featuring players of the under-12, 14, 18 categories.
Men's and women's categories

LAHORE: The Pakistan cricket team started training at a camp here at the Gaddafi Stadium to prepare for the upcoming tour of New Zealand.
Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad was seen giving tips to Shahid Afridi as PCB chairman Ijaz Butt ended all the rumours regarding the former batting maestro.
Pakistan is to play three twenty20 international, six one-day international and two Test matches during the tour.
Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi and

Provincial govt will settle for nothing less than 50% share as US provided funds are solely for developing terror-hit areas of KP, FATA
PESHAWAR
Efforts are underway to amicably resolve the issue of the distribution of funds granted by the US to Pakistan under the Kerry-Lugar Bill, as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has publicly denounced the 11 percent funds share allocated to it by the federal government, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to provincial