{"id":23829,"date":"2025-01-11T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=23829"},"modified":"2025-01-11T01:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T01:56:01","slug":"asif-wins-3rd-saarc-snooker-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=23829","title":{"rendered":"Asif wins 3rd SAARC Snooker Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/19860032101736517585.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/19860032101736517585.jpg 856w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/19860032101736517585-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/19860032101736517585-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombo :&nbsp; Pakistan\u2019s world amateur snooker champion, Muhammad Asif, displayed a flawless performance to clinch the title at the third SAARC Snooker Championship in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He defeated Sri Lanka\u2019s Thaha Irshath in the final with a commanding 5-0 victory, without dropping a single frame throughout the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SAARC Snooker Championship title is Asif\u2019s eighth career title, highlighting his status as one of the most successful amateur players in the region.<br>President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif&nbsp; congratulated Pakistani cueist Muhammad Asif on winning the third SAARC snooker championship.<br>In separate congratulatory messages, the president and prime minister lauded Muhammad Asif for demonstrating his best game in the entire championship particularly the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo :&nbsp; Pakistan\u2019s world amateur snooker champion, Muhammad Asif, displayed a flawless performance to clinch the title at the third SAARC Snooker Championship in Colombo. He defeated Sri Lanka\u2019s Thaha&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[1210],"class_list":["post-23829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-sports","tag-asian-snooker-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23831,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23829\/revisions\/23831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}