LAHORE
\nPakistan secured a place in the semi-finals of the Asian U-16 Volleyball Championship and booked their berth in next year\u2019s FIVB U-17 World Championship after defeating Indonesia in straight sets in the quarter-final held in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand on Wednesday.
\nThe national side registered a 3-0 victory with set scores of 25-23, 25-20, 25-20. Key contributions came from Junaid, Faizan, Talha, and Saran, who were instrumental in maintaining Pakistan\u2019s unbeaten run in the tournament.
\n\u201cThis win is not just about reaching the semi-finals; it\u2019s about proving that Pakistan\u2019s youth has the strength and skill to compete at the highest levels,\u201d Pakistan head coach Kafiatullah said. \u201cQualification for the FIVB U-17 World Championship is a moment of national pride.\u201d
\nEarlier in the group stage, Pakistan had overcome South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Chinese Taipei to advance to the knockout round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAHORE Pakistan secured a place in the semi-finals of the Asian U-16 Volleyball Championship and booked their berth in next year\u2019s FIVB U-17 World Championship after defeating Indonesia in straight sets in the quarter-final held in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand on Wednesday. The national side registered a 3-0 victory with set scores of 25-23, 25-20, 25-20. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":83923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83932,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83900\/revisions\/83932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}