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		<title>Iran&#8217;s girls&#8217; football team banned from Olympics for wearing hijab</title>
		<link>http://irpmail.com/2010/04/06/irans-girls-football-team-banned-from-olympics-for-wearing-hijab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s girls&#8217; football team has been kicked out of the Youth Olympic Games because FIFA rules prevent players wearing an Islamic headscarf.
Thailand was nominated on Monday to replace the barred Iranians, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said.
&#8220;FIFA decreed that the wearing of Islamic hijab was not in accordance with the laws of the game,&#8221; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Iranian woman skier ready for Canada slopes</title>
		<link>http://irpmail.com/2010/02/08/first-iranian-woman-skier-ready-for-canada-slopes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIZIN, Iran: Marjan Kalhor, who never imagined she would one day become the first Iranian woman to take part in the Winter Olympics, insists her moment of history will not fall foul of her country’s conservative rulers.

Kalhor will compete in the Alpine slalom and giant slalom categories at the Vancouver Olympics from February 12 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan’s Naseem becomes fastest woman in South As</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DHAKA: Pakistan’s Naseem Akhtar created history on Monday by becoming the fastest woman of the region when she won the 100-metre sprint gold medal at the South Asian Games.

The 22-year-old from Rawalpindi clocked 11.81seconds, 0.12seconds ahead of Sri Lanka’s Pramila Priyadarshani, to bag her first gold medal before a strong crowd at Bangabandhu National Stadium.
Wearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan squad for T20 matches announced</title>
		<link>http://irpmail.com/2010/02/08/pakistan-squad-for-t20-matches-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: Pakistan on Monday left out coach Intikhab Alam and wicket-keeper batsman Kamran Akmal from its 14-man side to face England in two Twenty20 matches.
There is speculation Alam will be sacked over Pakistan’s humiliating 3-0 Test and 5-0 one-day series whitewash in Australia last month, but a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official denied he had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani skier qualifies for Vancouver 2010</title>
		<link>http://irpmail.com/2010/02/07/pakistani-skier-qualifies-for-vancouver-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Pakistani skier Mohammad Abbas became the first man in the country&#8217;s history to qualify for the the Winter Olympics, to be held from Feb 12 in Vancouver, Canada.

A ceremony was arranged at the Canadian High Commission in Islamabad to honour Abbas.
Canadian High Commissioner Randolph Mank, office-bearers of the ski federation, Abbas, politicians and diplomats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brilliant Pakistan pip India to win SAG hockey gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DHAKA: Defending champions Pakistan retained their gold medal in the 11th South Asian Games hockey competition when they came from behind to overpower arch-rival India 4-3 in a penalty shootout at Maulana Bhasani Stadium on Sunday.

The match ended in 1-1 stalemate in regulation and extra time and had to be decided in a shootout.
Half-back and captain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Komal Feroze smashes ton, makes U19 women&#8217;s history</title>
		<link>http://irpmail.com/2010/01/28/komal-feroze-smashes-ton-makes-u19-womens-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Young Komal Feroze’s bat produced fireworks at the South End Club here on Wednesday when the Lahore team opener registered the first century in any domestic U-19 cricket event for women in Pakistan.
 
Winning the toss, Lahore elected to bat first and put on 259 runs on the board while losing no wickets in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Female squash player from Waziristan defies the odds</title>
		<link>http://irpmail.com/2009/11/19/female-squash-player-from-waziristan-defies-the-odds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Top Pakistani squash players Aamir Atlas Khan and Maria Toor have been nominated for Professional Squash Association Young Player of the Year and Women&#8217;s International Squash Players Association (WISPA) Young Player of the Year, respectively, by the World Squash Federation. 
 

Both Aamir and Maria belong to the North West Frontier Province, home also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afridi says Younis welcome to T20 cricket</title>
		<link>http://irpmail.com/2009/10/29/afridi-says-younis-welcome-to-t20-cricket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi says test captain Younis Khan is more than welcome to make a return to the national Twenty20 team.
‘If he wants to play (Twenty20) he is more than welcome. I will even step down from the captaincy and play under Younis Khan,’ Afridi said in an interview Wednesday on a private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great occasion but showpiece fails to prove NFL’s point</title>
		<link>http://irpmail.com/2009/10/26/great-occasion-but-showpiece-fails-to-prove-nfl%e2%80%99s-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night’s clash of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New England Patriots at Wembley was supposed to be the occasion when American football began to break out from its once-a-year North London residency to capture the hearts and minds of the rest of the British sporting public. 
Unfortunately, Wembley Stadium was about the worst [...]]]></description>
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