Pakistan open medals comment in Baku
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KARACHI: Pakistan cumulative their initial lectern finishes of a 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan as Saadi Abbas grabbed a china award in a -75kg karate category, followed by shooter Muhammad Khalil Akhtar bagging a bronze.
Abbas, a former US Open and Asian champion, done it to a final of a -75kg kumite foe though fell during a final jump conflicting a hosts’ Rafeal Aghayev, who triumphed 4-0 and combined to his country’s burgeoning total of 24 medals.
Abbas had progressing suspended Indonesia’s Sandi Firmanseh 3-0 and Uzbekistan’s Daston Otabolaev 2-0 en track to a final.
In a women’s karate events, South Asian champion Kulsoom Hazara mislaid to Turkey’s Eda ElTemur 6-0 in a -68kg quarter-final, since Nargis was edged out 1-0 in a +68kg semi-final by another Azerbaijan athlete, Farida Aliyeva.
Meanwhile, Akhtar finished third in a men’s 25m centre-fire pistol event, following a home nation’s first-placed Ruslen Lunev and Turkey’s silver-medallist Yusef Dikec.
Pakistan’s tennis team, however, stays on march to adding to their 3 2005 Islamic Games bullion medals as a Aqeel Khan-led section occupies tip mark in Pool B, interjection to their 3-0 mastery of Qatar.
Awais applauded for gutsy win over India’s Panwar
After Aqeel outplayed Shannan Mubarik Zayid 6-3, 6-4 and Abid Mushtaq degraded Shanan Muosa Zayed 7-6, 6-2, Abid and Muzammil Murtaza teamed adult for a doubles rubber and brushed aside a pairing of Shanan and Abdullah Al Harrasi 6-1, 6-3.
The 3-0 brush follows their progressing 2-1 and 3-0 triumphs over Azerbaijan and Jordan respectively.
But a women’s tennis organisation is a frigid conflicting of men, carrying mislaid 3-0 in both their ties conflicting Turkmenistan and Turkey, occupying a final mark in their organisation as a result.
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