The finals of Jashan Azadi inter-provincial basketball championship will be played tomorrow, the women’s final will be played between Punjab and Islamabad-A while in men’s final will be contested Punjab and KPK.The ongoing championship organized by the Pakistan Basketball Federation and supervised by the Federal Basketball Association. In the first Women semi-final, Punjab defeated Sindh 64-32. The half-time score was 40-13 in the favour of Punjab. For the winning side, Khadija Mushtaq scored 17 points and Aiman Mahmood scored 16 points, while Maryam scored 10 points and Aqsi scored 9 points for Sindh. In the second semi-final, Islamabad A defeated Islamabad-B by 36-24 after an interesting match. Maria scored 12 points and Amani scored 7 points from Islamabad- A, while Shanzey scored 9 points and Shahbano scored five points from Islamabad-B. In the men’s first semi-final, Punjab beat Islamabad-A by 81-56.
The score at half-time was 41-28 in favor of the winning team. Muhammad Taimur scored 22 points and Muhammad Saifullah scored 21 points for the winning team, while Ali Hamza Kazmi scored 23 points and Muhammad Usman scored 7 points for Islamabad-A. Second Semi final was played between KPK and Islamabad-B which was won by KPK. The final score was 70-51. Top Scorer were Abdul Wahab 23, Bilal Khan 10 from KPK. While Haroon Rashid 15, Behram Raees 10 from losing side Islamabad-A. Matches were supervised by Muhammad Praim Shahzad, Moazzam Naveed Rao, Muhammad Mudassar, Yasir Ghafoor, Umar Mehmood, Adeel S Raza, Gul Jamal, Naveed Ahmed Beeda and Saadat Jahangir.
Brig Muhammad Iftikhar Mansoor, President Pakistan Basketball Federation and sizeable spectators also witnessed the matches.
