In the 1950s, a tall young man from Lahore gave Pakistan its first Test victories against India, England, Australia, and the West Indies. Seven decades later, his record still reads like the founding charter of the country’s cricket. A Choice Made at Partition Fazal Mahmood was born in Lahore on 18 February 1927 and began...
For decades, sport has carried messages that the law would not allow on their own. Around the world, regulators are now closing one door after another. For Pakistan, where faith, the Constitution, and the law already speak clearly on intoxicants and gambling, the question is not whether surrogate marketing works. It is whether our game...
Sports rights are worth more than ever, the buyers have changed, and the fan now pays in more places than one. Inside the business that decides what the world watches, and how it watches. The Last Appointment on the Screen On the evening of 19 July 2026, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Ferran Torres scored...
Behind the glamour and the celebrity lies a sport of brutal physical demands, relentless engineering, and quiet sacrifice. We look past the glamour to find what truly drives Formula One (F1). Under the floodlights of Singapore’s Marina Bay, 22 cars scream past the city skyline at more than 300 kilometres per hour. From the harbour...
The Ace Centre Forward at the point of Pakistan’s golden attack Between 1982 and 1984, Pakistan held the hockey World Cup, the Asian Games title, and Olympic gold at the same time. At the point of that attack stood a forward from Karachi whose balance, timing, and calm in front of goal placed him among...
After six years of postponements, the 14th South Asian Games are set to open in Pakistan in April 2027. Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar carry a promise to the region: that the long wait will end in a Games worth waiting for. There is a particular silence in a stadium on the night before a Games begins....
For more than a century, some athletes have looked to the pill, the syringe, and the blood bag for an edge that training alone could not give. The methods have grown smarter, the stakes higher, and the damage wider. This is the story of that shadow race: what it costs, why it persists, and what...
Football’s Biggest Gamble Pays Off, Mostly For nearly a century, the World Cup held a simple shape. Thirty two teams, eight groups of four, a clean and familiar path to the knockout rounds. That shape ended this summer, when the tournament expanded to forty eight teams across three host nations and set out to answer...
A soldier from a small Punjabi village turned distance running into a national triumph, and he did it twice at the same Asian Games. In August 1962, the newly built Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta hosted the fourth Asian Games, a gathering meant to announce Indonesia’s arrival on the world stage. No one could...
Pakistan once ruled world hockey outright. This year, the sport it invented for itself is fighting simply to stay in the room. On a humid evening in Egypt during March 2026, a Pakistan side that had not seen a World Cup pitch in eight years scored its way into one. The team fell short of...