Sports

Kainat Gul, who belongs to a small town, Bakhshali in Mardan, is a national football player from the Wapda team.

For the first time in the history of Khyber, a coaching camp has been organised for sportswomen in which 40 girls are participating.

Polo is a popular game in Chitral which is played with horses, but in Broghil Valley, the game is also played with yaks.

Directorate Sports of Merged Areas has initiated registration for sports trials in merged tribal districts under the Talent Hunt Program.

For the first time, an open chess tournament has been arranged in Chitral in which 52 players from different parts of the country are participating.

The KP government has decided to start sports projects in madrassas and in first phase, a badminton court will be established at Darul Uloom Haqqania.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is making all out efforts to ensure that some matches of Pakistan Super League (PSL) next year are held in Peshawar.

Most of sportspersons in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa often complain that media doesn’t give them coverage like cricket and cricketers.

The KP government has allocated Rs1.87 billion for two sports stadiums , while budget for rest of sports activities in the whole province is Rs1.58 billion.

Shahid Afridi said he was not feeling well since Thursday and then he went for coronavirus test which came back as positive.

Former Pakistan captain Shahid Khan Afridi has said that he has no intention of joining politics and his welfare work must not be given a political angle.

The International Cricket Committee (ICC) says the T20 World Cup will be held on schedule and there is no plan to postpone it.