{"id":14495,"date":"2023-02-02T22:47:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=14495"},"modified":"2023-02-02T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T17:47:55","slug":"sports-help-empowering-girls-australian-hc-neil-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/02\/02\/sports-help-empowering-girls-australian-hc-neil-hawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports, help empowering girls: Australian HC Neil Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Sports, help empowering girls: Australian HC Neil Hawkins<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Australian High Commission to Pakistan Neil Hawkins said that the sports can help tear down barriers and stereotypes. Every time these girls hit a boundary of take a catch, they\u2019re building their confidence and inspiring others.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian High Commission and Kinnaird College for Women, with the support of the Pakistan Cricket Board, hosted the 4th Girls\u2019 Cricket Cup with the objective to promote gender equality and empower girls through sport.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s High Commissioner to Pakistan, Neil Hawkins congratulated the girls and schools on their participation and thanked Kinnaird and Pakistan Cricket Board for their valuable support.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare for the tournament, top coaches led the girls on a three-day coaching clinic.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are very grateful for the participation of first-class women\u2019s cricket coaches and members of the Pakistan National Women\u2019s Team, who took time out to build the girls\u2019 skills and encourage them to push beyond the boundaries\u201d Hawkins said.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Pakistan Women Cricket, Tania Mallick said that it was great to see young girls coming forward and making this tournament a success. We have been working for the growth of women\u2019s cricket in Pakistan for quite some time. Recently, our talented Pakistani team performed quite well in the inaugural ICC U19 Women\u2019s T20 World Cup. We hope tournaments like this will help us explore more talent at the grassroot leve\u201d, she expressed.<\/p>\n<p>Principal of Kinnaird College for Women, Rukhsana David said, \u201cWe are delighted to host this tournament for young girls. Kinnaird aims for gender empowerment through participation in sports. We are excited to have Pakistan\u2019s national women cricketers as mentors to the participants. This helps foster confidence, team spirit, and inspiration among the girls. We hope this tournament will go a long way in developing women\u2019s cricket in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: APP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports, help empowering girls: Australian HC Neil Hawkins The Australian High Commission to Pakistan Neil Hawkins said that the sports can help tear down barriers and stereotypes. Every time these girls hit a boundary of take a catch, they\u2019re building their confidence and inspiring others. The Australian High Commission and Kinnaird College for Women, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2298,2305],"tags":[2656,2809,2808],"class_list":["post-14495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-high-commission","tag-neil-hawkins"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14497,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions\/14497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}