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Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
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Thank you, Tina, for your support and encouragement.
I think this is great for Pakistan! Unfortunately, the country has been struggling and is constantly painted in a poor light by the media. This brings hope and is a testament that dreams really do come true!
Are we doing anything for preparing for the next Olympics. I imagine not!
I think Wrestling (Since Kabbadi is already popular), boxing (physique of the people esp. Pathans) and maybe long distance running.
Focussing on sports as we see again and again in different places can have huge social benefits and a sense of pride in country. For that reason alone I think it is a good investment for Pakistan. We should focus on a few sports and put serious resources in becoming competitive in them over the next 20 years (you cannot do this overnight).
I think good candidates are:
Hockey
Boxing (lighter weights)
Shooting
Midde distance running
Also, I do think that both cricket and squash will make it to the Olympics soon and that will also add to Pakistan’s interest in this.