TSE Exclusive: Another British boxer set to fight for Pakistan
KARACHI: Another Pakistan-origin British boxer is all set to represent the Green Flag after Haroon Khan, younger brother of Light Welterweight World Champion boxer Amir Khan, made his mark in the international boxing arena while representing the South Asian country.
Pakistan Boxing
Sources in the Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) told The Sports Encounter exclusively here that Pakistan-origin British boxer Hassan Mehmood Raja will represent Pakistan in the next month’s Commonwealth Youth Olympic Games.
The Commonwealth Youth Olympic Games 2011 will be held at Isle of Man in England from 7th to 13 September, 2011.
Hassan Mehmood Raja
Haroon Khan had represented Pakistan in the last year’s New Dehli Commonwealth Games and won bronze medal on Indian soil. Following his footsteps, now many other Pakistan-origin British boxers have contacted Pakistan Boxing Federation to represent their homeland.
Sources told TSE correspondent that the Pakistan Boxing Federation has chosen one more British boxer Hassan Mehmood Raja who will represent Pakistan in Commonwealth Youth Games boxing event in 56kg.
Apart from Hassan Mehmood Raja, Razzaq Balach will represent Pakistan while Arshad Hussain will perform duties as team coach during the tour.
Raja, whose forefathers are from Pakistani city of Abbottabad, was born at Bolton in 1995 after his parents had migrated to United Kingdom. Raja has played 78 bouts and lost only three of them. He took training at World Champion boxer Amir Khan’s academy in his childhood and now he is taking training at Pakistan’s ongoing national camp in Islamabad.
Lyari-born Razzaq Baloch will register his first appearance on international level and will fight in the 60kg weight category. Razzaq was twice crowned National Junior champion in 2007 and 2008 and he was national youth champion in 2010.
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