{"id":68053,"date":"2025-03-14T20:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=68053"},"modified":"2025-03-14T20:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:06:21","slug":"pm-shehbaz-offers-rs2-5-million-support-to-footballer-muhammad-riaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pm-shehbaz-offers-rs2-5-million-support-to-footballer-muhammad-riaz\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz offers Rs2.5 million support to footballer Muhammad Riaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_18 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_18\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday met <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-football-player-dies-in-traffic-accident\/\">football player<\/a> Muhammad Riaz and offered him financial support worth Rs 2.5 million along with an employment opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Riaz, who hails from KP&#8217;s Hangu district, went viral on social media after his video selling funnel cakes (Jalebi) surfaced online.<\/p>\n<p>After the issue was highlighted, the premier invited him to the PM House and praised his courage and determination as a football player, state-run <em>APP<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are the country\u2019s talented player, and we will not let your talent go to waste,&#8221; the prime minister told the football player.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister directed that Muhammad Riaz be given a job in his preferred federal department. He also instructed that national players should be provided jobs in government institutions according to their abilities.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, the prime minister presented a cheque worth Rs 2.5 million to Muhammad Riaz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>He said Pakistani youth were a valuable asset to the country, and providing them with all types of facilities and resources for international competitiveness was the top priority of the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYouth should actively participate in sports and other healthy activities,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>PM Shehbaz\u00a0urged Muhammad Riaz to continue playing and play an active role in promoting football in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>&#8220;A strategy should be formulated for the welfare of players representing Pakistan internationally and to provide them with sustainable employment opportunities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Riaz thanked the prime minister for the financial assistance and praised PM Shehbaz for his efforts towards the welfare of the players and the promotion of sports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday met football player Muhammad Riaz and offered him financial support worth Rs 2.5 million along with an employment opportunity. Riaz, who hails from KP&#8217;s Hangu district, went viral on social media after his video selling funnel cakes (Jalebi) surfaced online. After the issue was highlighted, the premier invited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":68054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5476,27176],"class_list":["post-68053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pm-shehbaz","tag-footballer-muhammad-riaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68053","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=68053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68055,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68053\/revisions\/68055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}