{"id":22044,"date":"2025-01-11T01:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T01:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=22044"},"modified":"2025-01-11T01:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T01:56:46","slug":"asif-wins-3rd-saarc-snooker-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=22044","title":{"rendered":"Asif wins 3rd SAARC Snooker Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"478\" data-id=\"22045\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/19860032101736517585.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/19860032101736517585.jpg 856w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/19860032101736517585-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/19860032101736517585-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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":4,"featured_media":22045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7],"tags":[1210],"class_list":["post-22044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-sports","tag-asian-snooker-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22046,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions\/22046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}