Karate
Pakistan has many karate clubs of different styles and they are holding their regular tournaments at national and regional levels. Karate is also a regular part of school sport programmes. Grand Master Muhammad Ashraf Tai is the first and only martial arts Master Pioneer in Pakistan who developed his unique system of karate named bando having scientific approach and Olympic spirit. Due to natural talent and hard training Ghulam Ali and Saadi Abbas have won gold medals at the SAF Games.
Nadeem Azhar Lone was technical official of ninth SAF games with Pakistan karate team. Farman Ahmed of Rawalpindi won double crown in this championship along with other karate players. Pakistan won seven golds and one silver on first attempt in the history of any international karate tournament. After that the success story is not ended Pakistan have participated in Asian Karate championship and also won number of gold medals in karate tournament held in Iran. Pakistan Karate Federation's Mr Jahangir is striving hard to promote this sports in Pakistan.
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