Sport in Pakistan

Major sports of Pakistan

• Cricket
• Field Hockey
  
• Kabaddi
• Squash
• Football (Soccer)
• Polo

Pakistani Sporting Success

• winner of the 1992 Cricket World Cup
• three gold medals at the Olympics in Field Hockey.

Athletes from Pakistan

• Wasim Akram (cricket)
• Javed Miandad (cricket)
• Imran Khan (cricket)
• Carla Khan (squash)
• Jahangir Khan (squash)
• Arshad Khan (hockey)

Pakistan Sports trivia

• Pakistan first competed at the Olympic Games in 1948

Pakistan at major events

• Pakistan at the Summer Olympics
• Pakistan at the Commonwealth Games

Past sporting events hosted in Pakistan

• 1987 Cricket World Cup hosted by India & Pakistan
• 1996 Cricket World Cup hosted by India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka

Upcoming sporting events in Pakistan

• 2011 Cricket World Cup to be hosted in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka

Annual sporting events held in Pakistan

Sporting Facilities in Pakistan

• The National Stadium - a cricket stadium in Karachi