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KARACHI (Web Desk) Pakistan’s former Olympic boxer Hussain Shah, who won a bronze medal at the South Korea Olympics in 1988, was announced to have a plot, but despite the passage of 35 years today, he could not get it.
Hussain Shah was the first Pakistani boxer to win any international medal in the individual category. But unfortunately, they were promised a reward by the former Pakistani government and it was not fulfilled.
The former Pakistani boxer, who has been living in Japan for the past few years, told a British news agency that even after 35 years, he did not get the plot that was promised to me. Expressing his regret, he said that I had also paid the registration fee of Rs 15,000 for the plot I was going to get.
Hussain Shah said that when I reached the office worried about the information about the plot, I came to know that someone has occupied my plot.
Hussain Shah, who belongs to the Malir area of ​​Karachi, said that the Pakistan Sports Federation gave him 25,000 rupees, and a Pakistani citizen personally gave 25,000 rupees to help him.
The former Pakistani boxer further said that Karachi Electric Supply Corporation had also announced that it would give him prize money but that too was not given to him.
According to Independent Urdu, Hussain Shah was born in Lyari district in Shahr Quaid, his mother died when the son was young, after which his father remarried. Later, Hussain Shah separated from his home and spent nights on street corners. He then got a job in Pakistan Railways after which he got a chance to participate in national level boxing competitions for the first time in 1983, where he defeated a senior boxer.
The then Pakistan Boxing Federation chief invited Hussain Shah to attend the national camp, after which he participated in the South Asian Olympics and won various medals, including bronze in the first Olympics in 1988. He won the medal.
It should be noted that the Pakistani athlete Arshad Nadeem, at the Paris Olympics 2024, won the gold medal in the javelin throwing competition, which was welcomed upon his arrival in Pakistan.
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