{"id":109257,"date":"2026-06-06T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/kp-dominate-pakistan-junior-squash-tournament-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:18:02","slug":"kp-dominate-pakistan-junior-squash-tournament-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/kp-dominate-pakistan-junior-squash-tournament-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"KP dominate Pakistan Junior Squash tournament  | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n                                                                                            <strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\n                                        PESHAWAR: <\/p>\n<p>        <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa players produced a commanding performance at the All Pakistan National Junior Squash Championship 2026, sweeping both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s titles in the event organized by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Directorate General of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The closing ceremony, held here on Friday afternoon, was graced by Adviser to the Chief Minister on Sports and Youth Affairs, Taj Muhammad Khan Tarand, who distributed prizes among the winners. Director General Sports Tashfeen Haider, Director Operations Jamshed Baloch, former World No 2 Mohibullah Khan, Deputy Director Kashif Farhan, Assistant Director Ashfaq Ahmad, Senior Coach and Organizing Secretary Manawar Zaman, Wazir Khan, Administrator Yousaf Afridi and other dignitaries were also present.<\/p>\n<p>In a thrilling women\u2019s final, Sehrish Ali of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa displayed remarkable resilience to overcome Mah Noor Ali 3-2 and claim the national championship title.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s final was an all-K-P affair, with Danish Sikandar defeating Muhammad Fawad Khan to secure the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Sehrish Ali had earlier reached the final by defeating Punjab\u2019s Faiqa Fida in the semi-finals, while Mah Noor Ali advanced after beating Ayesha Shahid, also of Punjab. On the men\u2019s side, Danish Sikandar defeated Muhammad Mamoon Khan of Pakistan Air Force, and Muhammad Fawad Khan got the better of Faizan Ali Khan of army.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the ceremony, Adviser Taj Muhammad Khan Tarand expressed delight over Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s clean sweep. \u201cIt is highly encouraging to see our players winning both titles,\u201d he said, adding that the province has always been a breeding ground for squash talent and has produced players who brought laurels to Pakistan on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p>The Adviser announced cash prizes of Rs100,000 each for the champions and Rs50,000 each for the runners-up.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa players produced a commanding performance at the All Pakistan National Junior Squash Championship 2026, sweeping both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s titles in the event organized by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Directorate General of Sports. The closing ceremony, held here on Friday afternoon, was graced by Adviser to the Chief Minister on Sports and Youth Affairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/11780748415-0\/11780748415-0-640x480.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}