Tag: Womens

GREENSBORO - Alissa Czisny, who pondered retirement after a poor 2010 season, won her second women's crown in three seasons by taking Saturday's free skate at the US Figure Skating Championships. Czisny brought spectators to their feet with a spectacular performance that enabled her to win the long programme with 128.74 points and finish on 191.24 points, 7.86 points ahead of runner-up Rachael Flatt, who won the 2010 title.
"It was awesome," Czisny said. "I'm just so happy to

LAHORE - Kinnaird, Garrison and Ravi clubs won their matches of the 5th Regional Inter-district Seniors Women's Cricket Tournament here on Thursday. Kinnaird Club overwhelmed Garrison College by 149 runs at the Government College University ground. Kinnaird made 228 runs.
Sidra top-scored with 64 runs, while Nimra made 30 runs. Garrison's Mahlaqa bagged three wickets while Sadia took two. In reply, Garrison could only score 79 runs and were bowled out in 22.1 overs. Hina Imran

LAHORE - Mahlaqa Mansoor, Asma and Nimra Imran gave sparking performance on day two of the 5th Regional Inter-District Women Cricket Championship (seniors) here on Wednesday. In the first match, Mahlaqa Mansoor went all out in her maiden unbeaten 133 in the record total of 413 runs scored by Garrison College in 38 overs for the loss of five wickets. Her team beat Central College Gulberg by 369 runs.
Mahlaqa's inning also included 11 fours and was supported by Shagufta Akhtar 82

LAHORE - The PCB Women Wing has confirmed the Nepalese cricket team tour dates here on Tuesday for the four-match series as part of the national team's preparation for the World Cup qualifying round.
The Nepal women cricket team will be touring Pakistan to play a friendly series comprising four T20 matches against the Pakistan women team. The Nepal team will arrive in Lahore on Feb 9 with the first T20 set to be played on Feb 11.
The Nepal women team's tour is in line with

LAHORE - The 5th Regional Inter-District Women Cricket Championship (Seniors) will be played from January 24 to 31 at different venues of the city. In all 12 teams are taking part in the championship which are divided into two groups.
Pool A: Kinnaird Cricket Club, Shahdara, Samanabad school (SS Club), Garrison college, C.K Club, Barki Club. Pool B: Ravi Club, Model Town, Apwa College (MA Club), Wahdat Road College Cricket Club, Comprehensive school, Kot Khawaja Saeed College

LAHORE - The 5th Regional Inter-district Senior Women's Cricket Tournament 2010-11 will roll into action from Monday here at different venues of the city. Bushra Aitzaz, chairperson PCB women's wing, will inaugurate the championship at 12.30 pm at the Kinnaird College ground.
Twelve teams of the city are participating in the tournament. The final will be played on January 31.

ISLAMABAD - The government is opposed to the grant of citizenship to the foreigners who are married to Pakistani women as it believes the permission would pave the way for back-door entry of anti-state elements into the country.
Interior Secretary Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior on Monday that the same kind of proposal was rejected by the then standing committee on interior and the law ministry in 2005 on similar grounds of

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 - Provided with nominal facilities, most of the prisons in Pakistan are overcrowded and the prisoners, including women and children, are at the mercy of the state for the provision of basic necessities of life, attendees of a consultation workshop to finalize the toolkit on rights of juvenile detainees organized by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) said.
Even though the law does not permit imprisoning female juveniles, it is being blatantly

LAHORE - The civil society has criticised the Federal Shariat Court's decision to declare sections 11, 28 and 29 of Woman's Protection Act 'a violation of the Constitution'.
A statement issued here on Thursday said: "We, the members of civil society, strongly condemn the Federal Shariat Court's attempt to revert, the Women's Protection Act's Clause 11, 25, 28 and 29 back to Hudood Ordinances". It said that it was after a long struggle that resulted in the repealing of Hudood

LAHORE: The Lahore region women cricket representatives announced Tuesday that trials to select the Lahore team for participation in the Lahore Region Inter-district Cricket Tournament will be held today. According to coach of the Lahore region women wing Irfanullah, the trials will be held today at 9 am and talented players of schools, clubs and institutions would be allowed to take part in the trials.

ISLAMABAD: A three-member bench of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC), headed by Chief Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan, will announce its judgement on a set of identical petitions challenging the Women's Protection Act 2006 today (Wednesday). Earlier on November 23, the same bench, also comprising Justice Afzaal Haider and Justice Shahzado Sheikh, had reserved the judgement.
Various provisions of the Women's Protection Act 2006 and the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) had been challenged in

LAHORE: Pakistan Inter-Varsity Women's Athletics Championship rolled in to action here at the Punjab Stadium on Monday, with the host Punjab University dominating the opening dayof the event.
Abida Tanveer, President Punjab University Women's Sports Tournament Committee, inaugurated the championship. On the opening day, PU's Sobia Sultana finished the 400m distance in one minute and 13 seconds to win the gold medal. Sameera Pervaiz of PU and Sana Ikram of Karachi University

LAHORE - Monitoring and supervision of routine immunisation of pregnant women and children against different diseases and making the polio campaign a success is prime responsibility of the executive district officers (EDO) Health, Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said.
He made these remarks while chairing a meeting on Saturday to review progress of routine immunisation and polio campaign in Punjab. He said that stern action would be taken against officers who would fail

LAHORE: Pakistan, led by Sana Mehmood, snatched semi-final spot when they put up a fine display to overwhelm Afghanistan 3-0 in their second Group B match of the first SAFF Women Football Championship at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on Thursday.
Pakistan will now face either India or Bangladesh in the semi finals.
The Afghan side, captained by Khalida Popal, failed to put up much resistance conceding three goals, one of them scored by Women Wing chairperson Robina Irfan's

LAHORE: Lahore and Karachi qualified for the final of the National Women's Under-19 T20 Cricket Championship 2010-11 on Saturday. Lahore beat Sialkot by 108 runs while Karachi defeated Multan by 19 runs in the semi-finals. The final will be played on Monday, December 13 at the Lahore Country Club, Muridke.
Pakistan national player Bisma Maroof hammered an unbeaten 92 in Lahore's 168-run innings while Sidra Amin also contributed handsomely. Later Lahore bowlers reduced Sialkot to

LAHORE: Sialkot on Friday stunned Faisalabad by 44 runs on the eighth day of the National Women's Under-19 T20 Cricket Championship 2010-11, being played at the Lahore Country Club, Muridke. Batting first, Sialkot managed 110 runs for seven wickets in 20 overs. Iqra Rehmat and Nida Naseem shone with bat for Sialkot.
Faisalabad's Marriam Shafiq and Sherish Arif took three and two wickets, respectively. Later, Sialkot restricted Faisalabad to just 66 runs and sent eight of their