Pakistan Military’s Jehanara Nabi (centre) poses for an image after successful Nationwide Video games gold medal in 400m particular person medley in Karachi on December 9, 2025. — Reporter
KARACHI: Pakistan Military tightened their grip on the medal desk on the thirty fifth Nationwide Video games on Tuesday, finishing a half-century of golds as competitors heated up throughout a number of disciplines.
Offering context on a busy competitors day, officers stated the observe and discipline schedule alone featured selections in 12 gold-medal occasions on the Pakistan Sports activities Board (PSB) facility within the metropolis.
Pakistan Military’s Faryal Farooq delivered one of many standout performances in athletics, producing a 38.21-metre file throw to win the ladies’s discus title.
“This record was my target all year,” she stated after securing gold for her division.
Within the ladies’s javelin, Water and Energy Improvement Authority’s (Wapda) Fatima Hussain maintained her dominance with a 42.38-metre throw to say yet one more gold.
The observe occasions noticed Faiqa Riaz dash to victory within the ladies’s 200 metres, incomes her second gold of the Video games, whereas WAPDA’s Iram Shehzadi topped the ladies’s 800 metres.
In hurdles, Wapda’s Musarrat Shaheen clinched the ladies’s 400m title, with Military’s Mohammad Naeem successful gold within the males’s 110m hurdles.
Pakistan Military loved additional success in endurance and discipline occasions, with Qasim Faiz taking gold within the 20km race stroll, Asif triumphing in males’s pole vault, and Waqas Akbar successful the lads’s 800 metres.
Within the ladies’s 5km stroll, Wapda’s Amara claimed high honours, whereas Increased Schooling Fee’s (HEC) Ummat-ur-Rehman secured gold within the triple soar.
Weightlifting commenced at Scout Headquarters, with 4 ladies’s classes determined. Gold medals went to Shafaq Waheed (48kg, Wapda), Nida Fatima (53kg, Military), Arjumand Khan (58kg, Military) and Noor Fatima (63kg, Military).
HEC added one other fencing gold via Karima Parveen, who defeated departmental teammate Faryal Shahid 15-13 within the ladies’s class.
Wrestling additionally started, with Pakistan’s star grappler Inam Butt securing gold on the opening day; Wapda’s Junaid (57kg), Military’s Asadullah (79kg) and Punjab’s Abdullah (70kg) additionally topped their divisions.
In squash, Pakistan Military captured each the lads’s and ladies’s workforce titles, beating Wapda and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, respectively.
Swimming opened with Pakistan Military successful 5 ladies’s golds, whereas Sindh’s Hareem Malik added yet another for her province.
In males’s swimming, Pakistan Military claimed 5 gold medals, whereas Wapda earned one.
The capturing enviornment noticed Pakistan Military’s gold tally climb to 11, with Navy following intently on 9.
Islamabad lastly opened its account as its ladies’s tennis workforce defeated Wapda 2-1 to safe the capital’s first gold of the occasion.
On the conclusion of the day, Pakistan Military lead medal standings with 71 golds, coupled with 29 silver and 18 bronze.
Wapda remained second within the standings with 27 golds, adopted by Pakistan Navy with 10.
Total, the competitors intensified throughout Karachi as departments continued their push for supremacy in Pakistan’s premier multi-sport spectacle.
