Around 60 per cent work has been completed on the athletics stadium being built at Chak 101/15-L in Main Channu, the home village of Olympic Gold Medallist Arshad Nadeem, to fulfill a promise Punjab government had made after the national hero had brought home the Javelin Olympic crown. Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif had […]
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Arshad Nadeem returns to Pakistan
Arshad Nadeem returns to Pakistan. Pakistan’s star athlete, Arshad Nadeem, who won gold medals for Pakistan in the javelin throw events at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and the Islamic Solidarity Games in the Turkish city of Konya, has returned home on Tuesday. Arshad Nadeem arrived in Lahore late at night from Istanbul on board […]
Pak javelin throwers face visa delay to train in South Africa
ISLAMABAD: With a series of big international events looming, the Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) is still uncertain whether or not its potential javelin throwers will be able to get the much-needed elite training to claim medals at them. The World Athletics Championships are penciled in for July 15-24 in Oregon, followed by the […]