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National Under-16 Football C’ship from June 7

ISLAMABAD, May 24 (APP): The Pakistan Football Federation has decided to hold National Under-16 Football Championship-2013 at Arifwala, District Pakpattan from June 7-17 instead of Okara Football Academy on May 31. A total of 12 teams will compete in this Championship in which eight teams are from Provincial and Regional Teams like Punjab Football Association, KP Football Association, Balochistan Football Association, Sindh Football Association, Islamabad Football Association, Azad Jammu and Kashmir Football Association, FATA Football Association and Gilget Baltistan Football Association) and 3 Youth Coaches Teams from (Karachi, Quetta, Lahore and Peshawar), said a press release here Friday.

ISLAMABAD, May 23 (APP): Chief of the Naval Staff Amateur Golf Cup will commence from Friday at Margalla Greens Golf Club (MGGC) Islamabad. The best amateur golfers around the country including senior, junior and ladies category will feature in the three-day event. The opening ceremony of the event was held on Thursday at Margalla Greens Golf Club Islamabad. Rear Admiral Athar Mukhtar, Patron PN Golf and Vice President Margalla Greens Golf Club was the chief guest on the occasion. The main match would be played amongst amateurs over 54 holes during the three days 18 holes each day. Amateurs with handicap 12 and below will participate in the match. It has been decided to give the participation rights to all those having the handicap up to 12 strokes.

ISLAMABAD, May 23 (APP): The Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) will pay tributes to former Director General Pakistan Sports Board, late Syed Zakir Hussain by holding the 45th National Athletics Championships in his memory. The National Athletics Championship will explode into action on Friday at Jinnah Stadium, Pakistan Sports Complex Islamabad. Speaking at a press conference President AFP Lt. Gen. (Retd) Akram Sahi said that late Syed Zakir Hussain was an outstanding sports administrator, sports lover and writer and throughout his life had a positive and principled approach towards the promotion of national sports in the country.

KARACHI, May 23 (APP): Newly crowned Asian Snooker Champion, Saleh Muhammad Muhammadi of Afghanistan has been top seeded for the Asian Snooker 6-Red Championship which goes into action in Qatar from Friday. Saleh, formerly of Pakistan earlier this month won the Jubilee Insurance 29th Asian Snooker Championship held in Karachi by beating Omar Al-Kojah of Syria in the final. Pakistan’s Muhammad Sajjad, a 2010 Asian Snooker Championship finalist is seeded four while Pakistan’s current World Champion Muhammad Asif is seeded sixth according to draws and seeding received from Asian Confederation of Billiards Sports (ACBS).

KARACHI, May 22 (APP): Reigning World Champion Muhammad Asif was confident of doing well in inaugural Asian Team Snooker and 6-Red Snooker Championship being held Doha (Qatar) from May 24 to 30. “All our players like Sajjad, Hamza and Majid are in a good nick and are in the best frame of mind to do well in Doha event”, Muhammad Asif told APP in an interview on Wednesday.
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 30 (APP): While condemning ransacking of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Election Offices in Sindh, PML-N Secretary Information, Mushahidullah Khan said on Sunday those people who carried out bloodshed on the roads of Karachi on May 12, 2007, were involved in this crime.In a statement issued here, he claimed that participation of thousands of people in the PML-N rally at Lahore was a no-confidence on the policies of the rulers.He said that their opponents were not ready to digest the ever increasing popularity of PML-N in the four provinces.

PM leaves for Pakistan

PERTH (Australia), Oct 30 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani left here for Pakistan on Sunday after attending the 54-member Commonwealth Summit.The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II was also attended by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and leaders from the member states.Prime Minister Gilani held bilateral meetings with several world leaders,on the sidelines of the three-day CHOGM-2011 Summit.The Commonwealth leaders meet every two years, represent two billion citizens of all faiths and ethnicities across world’s largest, smallest, richest and poorest countries.

PM supports extension in term of Kamalesh Sharma as SG Commonwealth

PERTH (AUSTRALIA), Oct 30 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has supported the Indian proposal of extension in term of Kamalesh Sharma as Secretary General of Commonwealth for a further four year term.The Prime Minister maintained that Pakistan fully supports the extension in term of Kamalesh Sharma,an Indian diplomat.

US awakening needed after Arab spring: Mowahid

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (APP): The West must reassess the status quo in the Middle East with respect to popular aspirations of the people, as existing uprisings show that the elite in the region are losing control, Mowahid Hussain Shah, attorney-at-law and noted expert on the region, said at a forum held on Capitol Hill, the seat of the US Congress.“Justice and truth are with the protesters and the untenable status quo - with power concentrated in the hands of the ruling elites - is not sustainable,” he maintained, at a colloquium on the Arab Spring and Bahrain.

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