The Ascent of Muhammad Waseem, Pakistan’s First Professional Boxing World Champion In a country where boxing rarely commands the spotlight and cricket claims nearly every headline, one man from Quetta forced the world to notice a Pakistani fighter. Muhammad Waseem, known to fans as the Falcon, is a professional boxer, a distinction that set him...
How Pakistan’s Athletics Federation and Its Olympic Body Are Failing the Athletes Between Them In August 2024, Arshad Nadeem stood on the infield in Paris and threw a javelin 92.97 metres, a distance that broke an Olympic record and gave Pakistan its first individual gold medal in the history of the Games. The country celebrated...
At every Olympic Games, one venue quietly decides more medal races than almost any other. The swimming pool does not draw the crowds that the main stadium draws, yet it hands out more gold than nearly every sport on the program. At the Paris Games in 2024, thirty seven gold medals were up for grabs...
There is an old truth that cultures across the world have said in different ways. You are what you eat. The Greeks said it. The ancient physicians of the subcontinent understood it. Modern science has now conrmed it with a precision those early thinkers could not have imagined. But the science of our time has...
A Nation’s Game, Finally for Everyone Pakistan has long carried a proud hockey tradition. The green jersey has inspired generations, and the sport runs deep in the country’s collective memory. Yet for all that history, one truth has remained stubbornly unchanged: the women who play the game have done so largely in the shadows of...
There is a kind of greatness that arrives not from privilege but from hunger. Hashim Khan, the Pakistani squash master who rose from a village near Peshawar to win seven British Open titles, embodies that kind of greatness in its purest form. His story is not merely one of athletic dominance. It is a testament...
Pakistan’s internal sports tribunal holds promise on paper. Whether it can deliver fair, swift, and respected decisions depends on reforms that are long overdue. A Forum Born of Necessity Pakistani sport has long been shadowed by disputes: selection controversies, federation elections contested in court, disciplinary actions challenged on procedural grounds, and athletes left in limbo...
“In polo, as in leadership, you cannot control everything. But you can learn to ride complexity with clarity, trust, and purpose.” The Moment Everything Changes There are sports that challenge you. Then there is polo. When I first stepped onto a polo field, I brought years of experience in demanding disciplines, including judo, which teaches...
School sport is disappearing from timetables across the world. The cost to health, to character, and to an entire generation’s readiness for life is one we can no longer ignore Every generation produces its share of young people who discover who they are not through a textbook, but through a first sprint, a team victory,...
The Enduring Legacy of Abdul Khaliq — Pakistan's Greatest Sprinter “He did not merely run — he soared. Every stride was a declaration that greatness knew no borders.” Nation’s Fastest Son In the sun-scorched plains of undivided Punjab, a boy from Gujranwala was born with wings on his feet. Abdul Khaliq (1933–1988) would grow to...