Khan KOs Judah in 5th Round

WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan dropped Zab Judah with a right uppercut to the abdomen at 2:47 of the fifth round Saturday night, and Judah, who complained later that it was a low blow, was counted out, unable or unwilling to get up.

Pakistan blind cricket team makes world record against RSA

   

In the second ODI in Cape Town Pakistan scored 517 runs while batting first. national blind Team broke its own record by scoring 517 runs.

Pakistan win hockey gold after 20 years

Pakistan win the Asian Games men’s hockey gold medal after 20 years with a convincing 2-0 win over Malaysia in the final.Veteran Sohail Abbas put Pakistan ahead with his team’s first penalty corner in the 26th minute, before striker Rehan Butt increased the margin three minutes after half-time.

Pakistan Women Team win first gold at Guangzhou

Pakistan created history crushing Bangladesh by 10 wickets to win the first-ever Asian Games women’s cricket tournament.
The victory handed Pakistan their first gold of the Guangzhou Games and prevented Bangladesh from claiming their country’s first ever at an Asiad.

Pakistani Girl Becomes the Fastest Woman in South Asia

Naseem Hameed, a 22-year old girl from Karachi has won the 100-metre race in 11.81 seconds to become the fastest woman sprinter in South Asia. She returned to a tumultuous welcome here after a historic performance at the South Asian Games in Dhaka, Bangladesh and hoped her feat would inspire other female athletes from the country to do well at international stage.

First Pakistani Winter Olympian

Skier Muhammad Abbas made a little sporting history by registering Pakistan in the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The 24-year-old Abbas came in ranked 3,764th in the world in giant slalom. He was hardly a medal threat, and wound up third-to-last among the 81 skiers who finished both runs.

Aleem Dar wins ICC Umpire of the Year

Aleem Dar, the Pakistan umpire, has been named Umpire of the Year at the ICC Awards ceremony in Bangalore. He has won this award – named the David Shepherd Trophy – for the second time in successive years. The other nominees in the category were Steve Davis, Tony Hill and five-time winner Simon Taufel.

Aisam’s emotional speech brings upon a change!

Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi’s emotional speech after losing in the doubles final at the US Open may be making a difference for Pakistani sports.
Because of violence and terrorism last year, Pakistan has been stripped of its right to co-host next year’s cricket World Cup. International tennis and field hockey federations also have been struggling to get other teams to agree to visit the country for matches or tournaments.
But it looks like things are changing. “After what happened in Lahore last year, it will be first time when a team of ITF security officials will be visiting Pakistan in the coming months,” Qureshi told The Associated Press, referring to a deadly attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team’s bus en route to a test match. “Maybe it’s because of my speech at the US Open.”
Qureshi and Rohan Bopanna, from India, reached

Pakistani female cop gets international award

Pakistani police officer Shahzadi Gulfam, serving in a UN peace operation, has received the 2011 International Female Police Peacekeeper Award. Shahzadi holds the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police and is the first Pakistani female officer to receive this award. She is deployed in the UN Mission in Timor-Leste as the UN Police (UNPOL) Team Leader in the Timor-Leste National Police Vulnerable Persons Unit in Dili.

Special Olympics: Pakistan come back bearing 56 medals

Pakistan bagged 17 gold medals, 25 silver and 14 bronze medals while competing in a week-long event that featured 7,500 athletes from 180 countries around the world.The 82-member contingent participated in eight sports including athletics, aquatics, badminton, basketball, bocce, cycling, football and table tennis.

According to the delegation head Ronak Lakhani, while it was important that the country managed to secure 56 medals, however, the Special Olympics of Pakistan’s aim was to encourage all athletes and ensure that every member of the squad was treated like a winner.

Hassan sad-para conquers Mount Everest with no oxygen kit

Mountaineering Team structured by Alpine Club of Pakistan had recognized their base camp III at 7200 meter in the Everest Mountains.
Popular climber from Baltistan, Hassan Sad-para has occupied the highest peak of the world Mount-Everest in Nepal without Oxygen kit and become the second Pakistani to achieve such achievement after Nazir Sabir. According to details Hassan sad-para was in good health. Hassan started his climb to 8000 m high Camp IV on 11 May 2011.Hassan reached the top of Mount-Everest in the early morning at 6.00 a.m Thursday.

First Pakistani to win the Formula BMW Race

Madrid: Pakistani Yastoor Mirza won the BMW formula race in Madrid and stood the winner. Different drivers from all around the world take part in this formula race. Pakistani Yastoor Mirza showed great performance and won the race. Ahmad Yastoor Mirza has been taking part in differ racing events since five years. After winning the race Yastoor Mirza was very delighted.Before him drivers like Nur Ali, based in Dallas, Texas and UK-born and raised Adam Khan have represented Pakistan on world stage, most notably in the now defunct A1GP World Cup of Motorsport. Mirza is the first home grown talent to record racing success in International competition.

Pakistani IT firm ”on top of the world” in Blackberry apps

Photo editing software developed by Pakistani technology firm Five Rivers became the best selling paid-for application for the Blackberry.  Lahore-based Five Rivers said its Photo Editor Suite had hit the top spot across all sectors on Blackberry’s AppWorld store.
“This is extremely good news for us and especially for the Pakistani IT industry,” Mahe Zehra Husain, the head of operations and product management at Five Rivers Technology, told AFP.

Pakistan first Google™ Adwords Certified Partner

Mudassar Saeed Khan, a young online marketing professional from Islamabad, has become Google’s first certified advertising partner in Pakistan – a prestigious international status in the field of global internet marketing. Earlier, there was no individual or company in Pakistan with this status. The Google™ Adwords Certified Partner status is awarded by Google™ (world’s number one search engine) to an individual or company which has individually passed a minimum of two

Amjad Farooq Alvi Inventor of first PC Virus

Basit Farooq Alvi along with his brother Amjad Farooq Alvi are known for having developed the Personal Computer virus known as (c)Brain.
The virus is considered to be the first virus for the PC. At the time the brothers were developing medical software and intended for virus to protect their work from piracy by supposedly targeting copyright infringers only. They were reportedly helped by Muhammad Khaleeq from Sahiwal, Irfan Shahid & Rizwan Chand from Lahore. The brothers lived in Chah Miran, Lahore, Pakistan, and are still in business as internet service providers with their company, Brain Limited.

O level student scores record 23 As

A student in Islamabad, Ibrahim Shahid, set a new world record by scoring 23 As in Cambridge O level exams.
Shahid, a student of a private school in Islamabad, sat for 24 subjects and scored 23 As. Attributing his success to his parents, Shahid recalled an incident where his teacher in Australia had written him off, stating that he would “never excel”. He added that every child is special and everyone has their own capabilities. Earlier, Ali Moeen Nawazish, also a Pakistani student, had set a world record by securing 23 As in A level Cambridge exams.

Pakistani Qariah Won competition

Pakistani Qariah won the 52nd Annual International Qirat Competition in Malaysia. Ms. Samia Khanan, 35, from Pakistan has won the 52nd international Al-Quran Reading (Qirat) Competition 1431 Hijrah that took place at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 27th July to 3rd August 2010. The recitation Competition is the international Islamic Quran reading event that is held annually since 1961 in Malaysia founded by first prime minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.

The World’s Best Quran Recitation competition has been won by

Rouhan Abbas with Akansha Sharma Wins The ‘Chhote Ustaad’ Title

Star Plus has announced Akansha Sharma and Rouhan Abbas as the winner of ‘Amul Chhote Ustaad-Do Deshon Ki Ek Awaaz’. The 13- year-old Akansha Sharma belongs to Amritsar and 13-year-old Rouhan was from Lahore. The ‘Jodi’ of these two young singers beat the other two finalist pair of Sayantan Paul-Ahsan Ali and Rishabh Chaturvedi-Farrukh Ali Moon.

Pakistani Military Wins Gold Medal For Toughness

At an event organized by the British Army for world militaries to compete in toughness, with 750 soldiers participating from worldwide, Pakistani soldiers bagged the Gold Medal for being the toughest soldiers capable of patrolling in the most difficult conditions.
UK—Beating hundreds of soldiers from major armies of the world, Pakistan Army has won the coveted Gold Award at the prestigious Cambrian Patrol Exercise held in Wales with participation from armies of

Rubina Feroze Bhatti 2010 World Vision International Peace Prize Peacemaking Award

Rubina Feroze Bhatti, a human rights and peace advocate, was selected as a 2009 Women Peacemaker together with three other women from around the world by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. In 2005 Ms. Bhatti was one of 1,000 international women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to protect human rights and create a lasting Culture of Peace. in 2010 World Vision International Peace Prize Peacemaking Award.

Colourful Pakistani Beetle Takes Frenchman on Road Trip to Paris

A French doctor, Vincent Loos, is taking “Foxy Shahzadi” — a 25-year-old Volkswagen Beetle, ‘Foxy’ as they’re known in Pakistan — for a road trip from Islamabad to Paris to promote a “softer side of Pakistan”. The doctor has just finished three years’ work at a local hospital. Doctors without borders indeed – or perhaps doctors without sense. The “Foxy” should reach Paris

Pakistani Astronomers Bring Spectacular Science To Rural Masses

A grass-roots scientific association called the Khwarizmi Science Society (KSS) is gaining popular recognition for creating scientific awareness in far-flung areas of Pakistan. Using astronomy “astrofests” or “falakyati melas” (astronomy festivals) it is generating momentum and interest from people otherwise not exposed to such phenomena. The KSS decided to take part in the International Year of Astronomy 2009 with an idea to build a roving observatory and use astronomy as a means of promoting science education in distant and rural schools. To bring these heavenly bodies “live” to the enthralled audiences, they simply connected

Pakistan moves from 30th to 20th ranking in the global IT outsourcing survey

Deteriorating cost advantages and improved labor quality are driving a dramatic shift in the geography of offshoring according to the latest edition of global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney’s Global Services Location Index (GSLI), a ranking of the most attractive offshoring destinations.
While India, China and Malaysia retain the top three spots they’ve occupied since the inaugural GSLI in 2004, a fundamental shift in the index has taken place as once strong Central European countries have yielded ground to countries in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
The GSLI analyzes and ranks the top 50 countries worldwide

Pakistani book shortlisted for regional prize

Rana Dasgupta of Britain and Daniyal Mueenuddin of Pakistan have been adjudged the writers of best book and first best book, respectively, from the South Asia and Europe region by the jury of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.