{"id":98359,"date":"2026-06-01T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=98359"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:05:54","slug":"malaysia-edge-pakistan-3-2-in-thrilling-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/malaysia-edge-pakistan-3-2-in-thrilling-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia edge Pakistan 3-2 in thrilling encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U-18 Asia Cup<br \/>\nISLAMABAD<br \/>\nMalaysia defeated Pakistan 3-2 in a thrilling encounter of the Men\u2019s Under-18 Asia Cup 2026 being played in Kakamigahara, Japan. The tournament, organized by the Asian Hockey Federation, is being held from May 29 to June 6.<br \/>\nIn a closely contested match, Malaysia secured a hard-fought 3-2 victory over Pakistan.For Pakistan, Muzammil opened the scoring in the 42nd minute, while Muhammad Farhan netted the second goal in the final minute of the match.<br \/>\nMalaysia\u2019s Dhiresh played a key role in his team\u2019s success by scoring two consecutive goals, while Israf added another to complete the victory. Pakistan will play their third match of the tournament against Bangladesh on June 3.<br \/>\nPakistan\u2019s national junior hockey team is receiving support from PTCL and Alaska Batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-18 Asia Cup ISLAMABAD Malaysia defeated Pakistan 3-2 in a thrilling encounter of the Men\u2019s Under-18 Asia Cup 2026 being played in Kakamigahara, Japan. The tournament, organized by the Asian Hockey Federation, is being held from May 29 to June 6. In a closely contested match, Malaysia secured a hard-fought 3-2 victory over Pakistan.For Pakistan, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":98374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98359","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\/98359","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=98359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98378,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98359\/revisions\/98378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}