{"id":45278,"date":"2024-08-17T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=45278"},"modified":"2024-08-17T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T08:00:20","slug":"punjab-governor-awards-rs2-million-car-to-olympian-arshad-nadeem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-governor-awards-rs2-million-car-to-olympian-arshad-nadeem\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab governor awards Rs2 million, car to Olympian Arshad Nadeem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>LAHORE: Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pm-shehbaz-announces-rs-15-crore-cash-prize-for-arshad-nadeem\/\">awarded<\/a> Olympic gold medalist Arshad Nadeem with a cheque of Rs2 million and a car to honor his achievement in the recently held Paris Summer Olympics 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/coas-asim-munir-honours-olympian-arshad-nadeem-with-grand-ceremony\/\">special ceremony<\/a> was organized at the Governor House by Governor Sardar Saleem to honor Arshad Nadeem on winning Pakistan&#8217;s first individual Olympic gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, the Punjab governor congratulated Nadeem and his family for bringing joy to the nation. Governor Saleeem hailed Arshad for securing a record-breaking victory in the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fbua4aJk4j0?si=WwaztlQPal_VfYrm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>27-year-old Olympian expressed gratitude to the Punjab governor for acknowledging his success and hosting a ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am grateful to the Governor of Punjab who honored me, I got the gold medal in the Olympics with the prayers of my parents and the nation. I will get the award for the country in the future too,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, COAS General <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Syed Asim Munir hosted a grand\u00a0ceremony\u00a0to<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u00a0honor Olympic gold medalist\u00a0Arshad Nadeem\u2019s\u00a0historic achievement\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">at the P<\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">akistan<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> Army Auditorium in GHQ, Rawalpindi.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-473dfed elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"473dfed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>On August 8, Arshad Nadeem made the nation proud by securing the country\u2019s first-ever medal in 32 years and a gold medal in 40 years. He also etched his name in history books with a javelin throw of 92.97m which broke the previous Olympic record of <span class=\"sc-lcyjGK jMzSxx\" data-cy=\"result-row-1\"><span data-cy=\"result-info-content\">90.57m set by Norwegian A<\/span><\/span>ndreas Thorkildsen in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider awarded Olympic gold medalist Arshad Nadeem with a cheque of Rs2 million and a car to honor his achievement in the recently held Paris Summer Olympics 2024. A special ceremony was organized at the Governor House by Governor Sardar Saleem to honor Arshad Nadeem on winning Pakistan&#8217;s first individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8586,12210,20524],"class_list":["post-45278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-arshad-nadeem","tag-punjab-governor","tag-punjab-governor-sardar-saleem-haider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45278","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=45278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45280,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45278\/revisions\/45280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}