Aamir Bilal

  • Sports in the time of Dharna

    The politics of “Dharna” started with the mass movement and siege of Islamabad by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leadership in 2014. The slogan of...

  • Tribute to a sports ‘ashiq’

    Ashiq, as his name describes his loving personality, was a lover of Prophet and humanity and was an ardent sportsman who devoted a great part of...

  • Ehsaas, sports and SDGs

    Despite its 130th ranking out of 162 countries, Pakistan was among the first few to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals as part of its national...

  • Need for a broader view

    Whenever I listen to some cerebral at a sports function, he never forgets to mention an age-old and perhaps the only dictum he knows: healthy mind...

  • Developing elite sports pathways

    The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo where more than 11,000 world-class athletes will participate in 339 events of 33 elite sports....

  • Sports and tolerance

    There are several sport education and sport development programmes which if incorporated in education system at appropriate levels can bring...

  • A system collapse

    The most hyped Cricket World Cup match between Pakistan and India had a result which was well anticipated. The team developed in a better system won...

  • Learning from Hungarian sports

    While going through the history of nations and sports, one comes across many success stories. Stories of human triumph and achievements that show...

  • How to deal with the chaos

    The former Pakistan skipper and legendry batsman Javed Miandad, the undisputed squash king Jahangir Khan and former hockey Olympian Islahuddin...

  • Brain science and sports

    Whenever we discuss different aspects of sports development with experts in Pakistan, the discourse ends in frustration because sports in Pakistan...

  • Sports, character and emotional intelligence

    Over the decades the moral fibre of our society has deteriorated. Our education systemhas produced high achievers scoring over 90 percent marks in...

  • System vs chance

    While Pakistan sports touch the rock bottom there is a silver lining that one can see in the formof new Pakistan Sports Board which, reports...

  • Peace through sports in the Sub-continent

    Kashmir has been the bone of contention between India and Pakistan since independence from British rule. The two countries have fought full-scale...

  • Under fire

    Cricket had always been a “Gentlemen’s Game”. Dressed in white attire and floppy hats, the cricketers of pre-Kerry Packer era were true...

  • Step in the right direction

    According to the editorial of The News dated 19th Jan 2019, the Punjab Minister for School Education Dr Murad Raas has put forward the idea of...

  • Reviving hockey in Pakistan

    Pakistan Hockey Federation was founded in 1948. The first president of PHF was Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan, hailing from an influential family of...

  • The Zen philosophy

    After suffering fourth-innings batting collapse two times on batting wickets in the UAE, Pakistan team under Sarfraz’s capatincy and Micky...

  • A legend departs

    It was school summer vacations of 1974 and I had nothing much to do except the dreary, laborious homework. My mind was more at basketball than the...