u/Strange_Cartoonist14

Honestly more then I expected. Last asian games we won only 3 medals; 1 silver in Squash Team event, 1 bronze in Kabaddi and 1 bronze in shooting.

This Asian Games:

1. We not only retained the Squash Team events silver, but won two bronze medals in the Men's individuals and also made the quarterfinals of the Mixed Doubles event too which was a nice breakthrough. Squash this year gave us 1 silver and 2 bronze.

2. Unfortunately our Kabaddi team couldn't medal this time. The first time ever they failed to step on the podium.

3. In shooting in 2022, Kishmala Talat won a bronze. Unfortunately she missed the games this year due to delay in clearances which must be investigated as she is a medal contender. GM Bashir snatched a bronze which was unexpected so we retained our shooting medal "haul".

6 out of 9 shooters actually missed the Asian Games due to delay in clearances by PSB. Which includes the Asian Trap champion Farrukh Nadeem and reigning Asian Games bronze medalist Kishmala Talat.cOnly two shooters competed, Rabia Kabir and Ghulam Mustafa Bashir. We potentially missed out on 2 more medals in shooting.

4. Hockey team finally back on the podium with a bronze, it really should have been a silver and maybe even a gold but we'll take it. Last time they went through utter humiliation when they couldn't even make it to the semis and lost to India 10-2 but there are clear signs of resurgence. The target for 2030 should be gold medal definitely.

5. Volleyball is such a breath of fresh air after the slump they have been in for the past year. Defeating 28th ranked China 3-0 in the bronze medal match is the highlight for us. We have equalled our best ever volleyball finish at the Asian Games as we last won a bronze medal in 1962 Jakarta!

6. Won a silver in mens cricket, ig this was expected or kind of even above our expectations 😂✌️ but we'll take it. Bronze in Women's Cricket, that's good too ig.

7. No medals in athletics, only hope was Arshad Nadeem and he finished fourth. That's that. Shajar Abbas made it to semis in the 200m and we had a guy in the finals of long jump ig. No good prospects or anything really. Just Arshad Nadeem and In Sha Allah.

8. Boxing, one of our historically strongest contingents, a relic of the past. Sent just 4 boxers ig. Had hopes from CWG bronze medalist Fatima Zahrah but she lost her first bout.

9. In eSports we won a bronze in PUBGM. Could have been a gold or silver too tbh. This is an area where we can really bring in medals as can definitely medal in the fighting game category as we only made it to the quarters there. Didn't field our strongest squad, Maybe Arsalan Ash could have been brought in here for us to have a chance in KOF aside from Tekken.

10. We won a bronze in MMA. I think this was the debut of the sport. We can definitely get a few medals here in the future.

11. Weightlifting. Omg we definitely missed out on two medals here. Nooh dastagir Butt got injured. And Talha Talib wasn't sent due ban on PWF. These two aren't just asian level contenders but Olympic level medal contenders. We are wasting their careers due to turmoil in the PWF.

Slightly underwhelming campaign. I wished for atleast a silver and who knows even a gold was on the cards after that performance against India but the Malaysia match really cost us.

Pakistan beat China 3-0

Always believed in my GOAT Abdul Samad Arshad. Ali Khan x Abdul Samad is so peak. Both actually know how to finish and solve our goal scoring problem

Bright future for Pakistan. 198 ranked Pakistan drawing with 138 ranked Philippines!!

Atleast one medal confirmed for Pakistan in worst case scenario.

Ashab Irfan beat Veer Chotrani of India 3-1 today and will face Abhay Singh tomorrow in the Semis.

Noor Zaman looked scary today 😳 beat his opponent 3-1 aswell and will face either Eain Yow Ng or Alex Lau in the semis tomorrow.

Best case scenario: both Noor and Ashab win their semis and we get an all Pakistan gold medal match and the first ever squash Olympian is from Pakistan.

Outstanding result from the squash contingent so far.

Lost in almost all sports which was expected. One bronze in MMA, One bronze in women's cricket.

In boxing, only two boxers are remaining with Fatima Zahra set to start her campaign tomorrow.

Lost all the games in soft ball tennis (whatever that is) and table tennis.

The only two sports we are competitive at are producing results; Pakistan reached the quarter finals of the mixed doubles (beating home country Japan in RO16) but lost to Hong Kong. This was a great result actually, Pakistan does not have a doubles glass court and the pair of Asim Khan and Mehwish Ali did not play together before ever. So good results there and a future medal pairing for Pakistan, they also gave us cold asf pics

In the men's singles, both Pakistan entries; Ashab Irfan and Noor Zaman have reached the quarter finals. Ashab is getting ready for his quarter finals as I'm writing this post. If both win their quarters and semis, we could have an all Pakistan gold medal final. Remember that the gold medalist will be squash's first ever Olympian.

Both entries in Women's singles; Sehrish Ali and Sana Bahadur are out.

Medal is also expected from the team squash event.

Pakistan has won 3/3 games in the field hockey event and is on top of their group, it's looking like a medal finish but the real question will be what colour. Gold means direct Olympic qualification, a Pakistan India gold medal match is on the cards.

Athletics events started, but uska tou sabko pata hi hai.

Absolutely disgraceful behavior especially coming from an elite team like india. The tournament officials reviewed the footage and have suspended the indian player after a disciplinary hearing today. Kudos to the AHF for acting swiftly 👏🏻

On another note, it's absolutely amazing to see Pakistan Womens team playing hockey, this is our first time every participating in women's hockey seriously and the girls made it to the quarter finals of the Asian Championships. This team was only formed a few weeks ago. Credit to PHF, they are working tirelessly to revive Pak Hockey.