Former World Champion Mohammad Asif outshines challenger and former national champion Mohammad Bilal 8-5 in the best of 15 final to clinch his third national snooker title in the Jubilee Insurance 43rd National Snooker Championship at the Karachi Gymkhana.
43rd National Snooker Championship
The 43rd National Snooker Championship being held at Karachi Gymkhana under the supervision of Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF). Total 52 cueists will participate in the mega event eight in which qualifiers apiece from Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while six qualifiers from Balochistan, three from Islamabad, four juniors under-18, four under-21 and three wildcards.
The wildcards includes former Pakistan No.1 Imran Shahzad, Asif Toba and Mohammad Majid Ali while the Islamabad trio comprised Musaddiq Malik, Noman Javed and Raja Rashid.
The event carries total prize money of Rs 2, 72,000 with winner getting Rs 100,000 and runner-up Rs 50,000 while the cueists will earn Rs 2,000 per century break.
Participants are divided into eight groups and top two of each group will propel into knockout pre quarterfinals on completion of league matches. The winner and runner-ups of the event will qualify for the 34th Asian Snooker Championship being held at Tabriz, Iran from April 22 to 28.
Groups:
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
| Asjad Iqbal | Mohammad Asif | Mohammad Bilal | Shahid Aftab | Mubashir Raza | Zulfiqar A. Qadir | Khurram H. Agha | Babar Masih |
| Sheikh M. Mudassir | Umer Khan | Usman Ahmed | Mohammad Shahbaz | Mohammad Ishtiaq | Mohammad Ahsan Javaid | Abdul Sattar | Mohammad Ijaz |
| Mohammad Jahangir | Mohammad Naseem Akhtar | Agha Bilawal | Musaddiq Malik | Bahadur Baloch | Rambel Gul | Sohail Shahzad | Haris Tahir |
| Mohammad Imran | Raja Rashid | Tariq Ali | Akash Rafiq | Mohammad Faizan | Awaisullah | Amir Shahzad | Noman Javed |
| Haider Ali | Haris Nadeem | Amir Sohail | Farhan Noor | Mohammad Abdullah | Saeed Ahmed | Mohammad Sajjad | Sultan Mohammad |
| Ian Mark John | Srabuland Khan | Abdul Javaid | Umer Butt | Qadeer Bhatti | Umer Alam | Ahmed Shah | Samiullah |
| Mohammad Majid Ali | Mohammad Asif Toba | Imran Shahzad | Sharjeel Mahmood |
