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he Champions Trophy headlines Pakistan’s home 2024-25 season but doubts remain whether neighbours India will make the trip across the border for the elite 50-overs tournament, which is being held for the first time since 2017. Thanks to their soured political relations, India have not visited Pakistan since 2008 and the cricket-mad countries play each other only at multi-team events. Pakistan hosted the Asia Cup last year but eventual winners India were allowed

  Pakistan’s snooker team has secured a place in the semi-finals of the Asian 15-Red Team Snooker Championship by defeating arch-rival India 3-0. According to reports from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the national cueists Asjad Iqbal and Owais Munir led Pakistan to an easy victory in the quarter-finals on Thursday. The winning team clinched the first frame 63-35, followed by another victory in the second frame with a score of 75-22.

In a significant development for cricket fans in the subcontinent, Cricket Australia’s Chief Executive Nick Hockley has expressed a strong desire to facilitate a high-profile tri-series involving India and Pakistan. This move comes amidst growing excitement for the long-awaited clash between these traditional rivals, which has always been a major attraction in the cricketing world. During an online press conference, Hockley highlighted the immense enthusiasm that surrounds India-Pakistan encounters. “Pakistan

LAHORE: Pakistan’s white-ball coach Gary Kirsten has submitted a “confidential” assessment report on the national side’s disastrous performance in the recently concluded T20 World Cup 2024 to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), sources told Geo News on Wednesday. The report, the sources added, has been sent to PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi who will review the document highlighting players’ fitness, discipline and game awareness among other things that led to the team’s early

Another Japanese climber, Onishi Hiroshi, died after falling into a crevasse on the 7,027-metre Spantik Peak, also known as Golden Peak in the Gilgit-Baltistan district Nagar region. Confirming the tragic incident, Deputy Commissioner Nager Attaur Rehman Kakar said that Hiroshi, 64, was part of a four-member Japanese team that had hired two porters to climb the 7,027-meter peak. “The team had reached the summit on July 1 and was descending

Cristiano Ronaldo, the legendary Portuguese footballer, has recently confirmed that the ongoing Euro 2024 in Germany will be the final edition of the tournament he participates in during his playing career. The 39-year-old Al Nassr striker is currently competing in his record sixth edition of the European Championship. He will be 43 years old when the next edition of the Euros takes place in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and

KARACHI: Novak Djokovic, a 24-time Grand Slam champion with over 100 career trophies, has set his eyes on one specific target in 2024 to complete his Greatest of All Time (GOAT) legacy. According to a tennis commentator, Nick Lester, the Serbian star will concentrate on winning a gold medal at the Paris Olympics to achieve one of the few remaining milestones in his career. Among the modern greats, such as

KARACHI: The Kansas City Chiefs have secured their second consecutive Super Bowl title, becoming the National Football League’s (NFL) latest dynasty, after defeating the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, in overtime, USA Today reported. They have won three Super Bowls in five years and are the first repeat champions since the New England Patriots in February 2005. The Chiefs’ victory marks the ninth time in history that a team has won back-to-back Super