AFGHANISTAN: The social media has been rife with reports and pictures of a kid wearing a plastic with the football star Lionel Messi’s name written on it. The photographs of the kid hailing from southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan went viral on social media today with earlier speculations suggesting that the kid is an Iraqi Kurd. He has been identified ...

Afghanistan opener Mohammad Shahzad slammed a magnificent 118* as he broke several records during the Twenty20 match against Zimbabwe in Sharjah. SHARJAH: Mohammad Shahzad’s nickname is MS, in tribute to his idol Mahendra Singh Dhoni. On Sunday, Shahzad lit up Sharjah with a knock which would have made the Indian limited-overs skipper proud. On Sunday, in the second Twenty20 international ...

ZURICH: Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi is targeting an unprecedented fifth Ballon d’Or award in Zurich on Monday, with the Argentine heavily favoured to reclaim the prize from three-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo. Brazil striker Neymar, who plays alongside Messi at Barca, is also in the running to be crowned world player of the year after he was included on the three-man ...

INDIA: A court in India has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for appearing in an 2013 advertisement which depicted the 34-year-old as a Hindu deity , Indian media reported. Dhoni, who was presented as the Hindu God ‘Vishnu’ on the cover of a magazine under the title ‘God of big deals’, is been ordered ...

AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe in the 5th and final ODI in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday in a thrilling match by 2 wickets with 2 balls remaining. Zimbabwe batted first and scored 248 in 49.5 overs setting a target of 249 for the Afghan cricketers. Afghan hero and Man of the Match Gulbadin Naib was there ...

Yet another year has passed with no success in the sport which Pakistan once dominated for nearly fifty years: squash. How many teenagers are growing up with the drive and ambition to be the next Jahangir Khan or Jansher Khan, I wonder. How much of this is related to a lack of resources and poor administration, and how much is ...

INDIA: India defeated the Afghan national football team during the final match of South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship final. Both Afghanistan and India ended the first half of the match with no goals scored but the Afghan player zubair Amiri hits first goal for Afghanistan during 70th minute of the game. However, the Indian player Jeje managed to level ...

BARCELONA: Barcelona was held to 0-0 at Espanyol to cede the provisional lead of the Spanish league to Atletico Madrid on Saturday, after Diego Simeone’s side got some late heroics from substitute Thomas Partey for the second time in four days. Partey went on in the 73rd minute with Atletico struggling to find the net at home against Levante after ...

The Afghanistan Football coach Petar Segrt has said the final match of South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship final between Afghanistan and India ‘will be a new day for both teams’, insisting that we have to win it for the people of Afghanistan. Segrt further added that Afghanistan will not take the Indian team lightly, admitting that “The Indian Team ...

BRISBANE: Maria Sharapova will open her Australian campaign with a match against Ekaterina Makarova following Friday’s draw for the Brisbane International. Defending champion and third seed Sharapova will play world number 23 Makarova in a rematch from last year’s Australian Open semi-final. “This was a grand slam semi-final last year in Australia,” five-time grand slam champion Sharapova told reporters. “For ...