Karachi : The Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) has invited light welterweight world champion Aamir Khan, a British national of Pakistani origin, as a special guest during the Benazir Bhutto Cup International Boxing Tournament to be held in Pakistan in October this year.
“PBF president Doda Khan Bhutto, vice-president Iqbal Hussain and general secretary Muhammad Akram Khan talked to Amir’s parents by telephone in England and extended the invitation to their son,” said a spokesman for the PBF on Wednesday. “The PBF officials also congratulated Amir on becoming world champion in his respective weight category,” added the spokesman. The PBF spokesman said Sajjad Khan, father of Amir, expressed his confidence that his son would visit Pakistan. “However, a formal acceptance of the invitation and schedule of his visit will be intimated to the PBF in August after adjustments in the professional boxer’s itinerary.”
Amir’s parents originally belong to Rawalpindi and moved to Bolton near Manchester some decades back. Amir, who won Olympic silver in lightweight as a 17-year-old in Athens in 2004, won the light-welterweight world title after defeating Ukraine’s Andreas Kotelnik on July 18, 2009. The result made him Britain’s third-youngest world champion after Naseem Hameed and Herbie Hide. The PBF has also announced a gold medal for Amir who is expected to visit Pakistan during the October 22-29 boxing tournament in Karachi, in which pugilists from 35 countries are likely to take part.
“PBF president Doda Khan Bhutto, vice-president Iqbal Hussain and general secretary Muhammad Akram Khan talked to Amir’s parents by telephone in England and extended the invitation to their son,” said a spokesman for the PBF on Wednesday. “The PBF officials also congratulated Amir on becoming world champion in his respective weight category,” added the spokesman. The PBF spokesman said Sajjad Khan, father of Amir, expressed his confidence that his son would visit Pakistan. “However, a formal acceptance of the invitation and schedule of his visit will be intimated to the PBF in August after adjustments in the professional boxer’s itinerary.”
Amir’s parents originally belong to Rawalpindi and moved to Bolton near Manchester some decades back. Amir, who won Olympic silver in lightweight as a 17-year-old in Athens in 2004, won the light-welterweight world title after defeating Ukraine’s Andreas Kotelnik on July 18, 2009. The result made him Britain’s third-youngest world champion after Naseem Hameed and Herbie Hide. The PBF has also announced a gold medal for Amir who is expected to visit Pakistan during the October 22-29 boxing tournament in Karachi, in which pugilists from 35 countries are likely to take part.
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