Kathmandu,
Dec. 21:
Paanch Pokhari Cricket Club has won the Nepal-Pakistan
Friendship T-20 Cricket Tournament organised by the Embassy of Pakistan
Kathmandu.
Royal Indoor
Cricket Club finished the runner-up.
Chairman of the National Assembly Ganesh Timilsina
gave away the prizes to the winners of the tournament.
A total of 16 Nepali cricket clubs participated in the
10-day tournament in the fourth annual event of its type.
Timilsina lauded the efforts of the embassy in
organising the sports event and underlined the huge potential to develop
bilateral relations between Pakistan and Nepal through organiing such sports
events.
Pakistani Ambassador to Nepal Mazhar Javed said that
he would further energise the embassy's effort to bring the youths of two
countries closer together. "This is an important pillar of the
people-to-people contacts between Pakistan and Nepal," he said.
The winners received the Pakistan-made cricket kits.
Mayor of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City Bidya Sunder
Shakya had inaugurated the tournament on December12.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 22 December 2018.
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