Aisam’s historic run

It was an unbelievable run. They were amazing records set in terms of Pakistan tennis history. In the end, the finals were awesome. And the cherry on top was the message in the speech. Aisam you truly made us proud and in no way you let us down in the last two days. If anything, [...]

Aisam ul Haq making us proud!

Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) and  Kveta Peschke (CZE) have reached the finals of the US Open Mixed Doubles. It’s a proud moment for Pakistan as it’s the first time any Pakistani has qualified for the final of a Grand Slams event. They’ll face either number 1 seeded Liezel Huber(USA)-Bob Bryan (USA) or the 4th seeded Bethanir [...]

Aisam-Bopana news from US Open

Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) and Rohan Bopanna (IND) seeded 16th are through to the Quarter Finals of Men’s Doubles of the US Open Championship, 2010. They beat second seeded Daniel Nestor (CAN) and Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 in the third round to reach the QF stage. They’ll face 10th seeded Wesley Moodie [...]

Love all

There’s a saying that Love means nothing in tennis! It doesn’t seem to be the case in Shoaib-Sania story. Watching a re-run of the match on Geo Super on 29th march, I came across the running slide about Shoaib Malik announcing his engagement to Sania Mirza. However, the first thing that came to my mind [...]

R.I.P Pakistan Hockey

If passing through the qualifying round for the world cup by 4-times champions wasn’t humiliating enough, the dismal performance at the world cup  was the last straw. And when PHF chief Qasim Zia can give comments like they didn’t have any hopes of winning but had no idea we’ll lose in this way, it makes [...]

Boycott IPL!

A few days back, I came across Aman ki asha ad on Geo and thought what’s the use apart from some concerts held here and there achieving no lasting objective? Then I got to know the ads were even biased towards Indians and it infuriated me that we could have done a better job at [...]

Hum yeh bhi hain :)

Note: This post is a bit late but better late then never in appreciating what’s amazing in our part of the world:)! While attending a training session, I receive a text message from a friend informing me that Aisam has beaten Federer. The Federer fan that I’m I knew he had a doubles match at [...]

Rooting for Aisam

Aisam ul Haque Qurieshi, Pakistan tennis star won the opening round of his doubles match with Parkash Amritraj of India at Wimbledon. They won in a 5-set match after managing to beat 16-seeded Stephen Huss (Australia) and Ross Hutchins (Germany). Both of them has played in Grand Slams events before but have never progressed to [...]

Team Pakistan

Your heat races as the bowler covers the ground. You have a funny feeling in the pit of your stomach because the results can go either way. You cheer every run made by your team; groan when they miss and scream with joy when they hit a boundary. You feel depressed when your team player [...]

Memories of Swat

It was summer of 2004 marking the beginning of an end to our university life. At last moments, 9/10 of us in the gang decided about going on Pakistan Tour arranged by our dear alma mater FAST. The itinerary included traveling in train from Karachi to Islamabad and then going up to the northern areas. [...]