{"id":34554,"date":"2024-04-27T17:41:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T12:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=34554"},"modified":"2024-04-27T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T12:58:47","slug":"amir-khan-boxing-academy-shuts-down-in-islamabad-due-to-fc-officials-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/amir-khan-boxing-academy-shuts-down-in-islamabad-due-to-fc-officials-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Khan Boxing Academy shuts down in Islamabad due to FC officials&#8217; stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ISLAMABAD:\u00a0<\/span>Former light-welterweight world champion Amir Khan has expressed concern over the closure of his boxing academy, aimed at training\u00a0underprivileged\u00a0and poor boxers, in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Former world champion lamented officials&#8217; non-seriousness over<\/span> the absence of boxing culture in Pakistan.\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Amir Khan Boxing Academy in the federal capital has been closed due to the illegal stay of Frontier Corps (FC) for the last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">British-Pakistani boxer stressed help from the government to vacate the FC officials from the premises of the academy otherwise the dream of young boxers and his efforts to support them would go in vain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/boxer-amir-khan-says-model-sumaira-blackmailed-him-to-extort-money\/\">Boxer Amir Khan says model Sumaira \u2018blackmailed\u2019 him to extort money<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In a video message, a<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">British former boxer said, \u201cI keep coming to Pakistan; initially, there was an academy here. Now, children message me that they need training and boxing classes. Why isn\u2019t there boxing in Pakistan? I\u2019ve spoken to officials and the government, but nothing happened. My gym was brand new and very clean, but it got shut down.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;I\u2019m in Pakistan; tomorrow I\u2019m going to England, and I\u2019m very disappointed. I\u2019m very upset that over a hundred thousand dollars I spent on the gym is now wasted,&#8221; he said in a video message.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amirkingkhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amirkingkhan<\/a> Boxing gym and academy in islamabad is under illegal occupation of FC since last one year . This gym was built for underpriviledged and poor boxers and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amirkingkhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@amirkingkhan<\/a> paid thousands of dollars from his pocket to establish this academy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oml3ApTtZH\">pic.twitter.com\/oml3ApTtZH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ahmad Farhad (@AhmadFarhadReal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AhmadFarhadReal\/status\/1783884609089835174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He inaugurated his Boxing Academy in Islamabad&#8217;s Pakistan Sports Complex in 2016 under his Amir Khan Foundation campaign to nourish young boxers and produce champions for the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2016, the Director General Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Akhtar Nawaz Ganjera confirmed that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with Amir Khan for the academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Under the agreement, Amir would provide coaches and boxing equipment for the academy, while PSB would extend all necessary support to run it efficiently.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD:\u00a0Former light-welterweight world champion Amir Khan has expressed concern over the closure of his boxing academy, aimed at training\u00a0underprivileged\u00a0and poor boxers, in Islamabad. Former world champion lamented officials&#8217; non-seriousness over the absence of boxing culture in Pakistan.\u00a0The Amir Khan Boxing Academy in the federal capital has been closed due to the illegal stay of Frontier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15912,15913,15914],"class_list":["post-34554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-amir-khan-boxing-academy","tag-boxing-academy-islamabad","tag-why-amir-khan-boxing-academy-shuts-down-in-islamabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}