Judo team for South Asian Games announced

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Judo Federation (PJF) Tuesday announced a 19-member national team for participation in the South Asian Games.Talking to APP, Secretary PJF Masood Khan said seven male and eight female players along with four officials would participate in the games scheduled in India from February 6 to 16.The male players include Mudassir Ali, Babar Hussain, Imtiaz Hussain, Qaiser Khan, Karamat Butt, Fazal Bashir and Shah Hussain Shah while the females include Irum Shehzadi, Humaira Ashiq, Maryum Shumaila Gull, Ambreen Maseeh, Sonum Barkat, Beenish Khan and Fozia Mumtaz.The secretary said the national judo team had earned three gold, three silver and five bronze medals in previous South Asian Games and hopefully the team would perform well in these games as well.A training camp was also underway in Peshawar to train the players for the event so that they could bring medals for the country, he added.Meanwhile the Embassy of Cuba has issued visa to the national playerShah Hussain Shah for the Grand Pre scheduled at Hawana from January22 to 26.’Masood said the event was a qualifying round for participation in aJudo event to be played in Brazil.He said Shah Hussain had already applied for an NOC from Ministryof Inter Provincial Coordination and Pakistan Sports Board to participate inthe event and hopefully he would be issued the required NOC soon. (APP)’