Times of Islamabad

In a surprise, British Pakistani boxer Amir Khan takes a dig at PM Imran Khan

In a surprise, British Pakistani boxer Amir Khan takes a dig at PM Imran Khan

ISLAMABAD – In a surprise, British Pakistani boxer Amir Khan takes a dig atPM Imran Khan, media report has revealed.

British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan, in a recent interview has allegedincumbent Prime Minister Imran Khan did ‘nothing for sports in Pakistan’after assuming power.

The boxer said that he would himself like to take up the task of promotingsports in Pakistan adding that “I had ex-PM Nawaz Sharif that give me landand I will open a boxing academy there”.’

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The boxer praised PM Imran Khan as a ‘great sports player and a greatpolitician’, however, saying that he has ‘not done much for sports’.

“So you know even though he is a great person but for sports he has notdone nothing. Being a sportsman, he has not done anything for sports,” saidthe boxing star.

Amir Khan went on with saying, “all the people in Pakistan are crying”. Theboxing champion credited himself for being “the only person that doesanything for sports” adding that he was taking Pakistani boxers ‘around theworld to put them in fights’.

Amir Khan revealed that on several occasions in Pakistan he wanted toestablish more boxing academies, but he was not getting the help to do so.