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Haroon Rahim: The greatest tennis player Pakistan has ever produced
He not only appeared in the main draw of three of the four Grand Slam tournaments: Wimbledon, US Open and French Open but
he also has the honour of winning matches in all three of them ... read more
Published in THE NEWS (a leading Pakistani English daily) October 28, 2007
Once upon a time, Pakistan did have world class athletes
It might seem unbelievable to most of us but there was a time when Pakistan athletics had world class performers ... read more
South Asia’s Own King of the Channel
Fifty-one
years after his first channel swim, Brojen Das remains South Asia’s greatest-ever swimmer and Bangladesh’s greatest
sporting hero ... read more
Published in the May 2009 issue of the Swimming Times (the official journal of the Amateur Swimming Association
and the Institute of Swimming, Great Britain)
A Sports Fanatic’s Sheffield
The city of Sheffield
is very well equipped to welcome a sports buff, new to the city. The town has a great sports culture and boasts top teams
of almost all the major disciplines ... read more
Published on the Sheffield website www.artfullodger.co.uk
Hissam is an unsung hero
Pakistan
may not be regarded as a major hub of the sport as compared to Argentina and England, but it boasts great polo tradition going
back many centuries. And, in my opinion the game of kings is responsible for the country’s best sporting ambassador
of today ... read more
My feature published in Polo Times (world’s leading polo magazine) in its April 2011 issue
Amir Khan British
Pakistani boxer Amir Khan successfully defended his light welter-weight title in style against American boxer Zab Judah last
week. Amir Khan is presently the most popular British Asian sports person and the highest profiled boxer in Britain ... read more
Published in The News (a leading
Pakistani English language national daily on 31/7/11)
Sports’ greatest tragedy
On the seventh
of September this year, a Yak-42 plane carrying 45 people collided with a communications mast seconds after taking off from
an airport near the Russian town of Yaroslavl before plunging to the ground in a ball of flames .. read more
Published in The News (a leading Pakistani English language national daily on 18/9/11)
Denmark’s Fairytale
In the Euro 1992 Denmark
had shocked the continent and startled the soccer followers of the world. Immediately after the final, the city centre of
Copenhagen was crowded with people making it impossible even to walk ... read more
Published in the June 2008 issue of ‘Football’, the only print magazine on soccer in Pakistan
English Premier League
The
Premier League virtually rose from the ashes if one considers the state of English football in late 1980s. This remarkable
transformation to the most watched sporting league is one of the greatest success stories of recent times ... coming
soon
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