{"id":44987,"date":"2018-01-17T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T09:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44987"},"modified":"2018-01-17T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T09:24:43","slug":"pakistan-baseball-founder-khawar-shah-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44987","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Baseball founder Khawar Shah passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON Jan 17 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan Federation Baseball (PFB) founder and president Syed Khawar Shah has passed away. He was 68.<\/p>\n<p>Under Shah\u2019s leadership, the PFB was founded in 1992, allowing Pakistan to compete at the international level while helping to grow the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tremendous loss for our sport in Pakistan, Asia and worldwide,\u201d said Riccardo Fraccari, president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) \u2013 the world governing body for the two sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory will always remember President Shah\u2019s important legacy and milestones in baseball,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>During Shah\u2019s presidency, the PFB launched annual men\u2019s and women\u2019s national championships, helping develop and identify players for Pakistan\u2019s national teams, which have currently risen to 26th in the world in men\u2019s baseball and 12th in women\u2019s baseball.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Pakistan Women\u2019s National Baseball team debuted in the WBSC Women\u2019s Baseball World Cup, while the Pakistan Men\u2019s team played in its first-ever World Baseball Classic Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Shah initiated his career as a divisional sports officer Gujranwala and progressed to the seat of managing director sports board. Later, he assumed office as Director General Sports Punjab and retired in the same capacity.<\/p>\n<p>He has left behind a widow, three sons and four daughters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Jan 17 (TNS): Pakistan Federation Baseball (PFB) founder and president Syed Khawar Shah has passed away. He was 68. Under Shah\u2019s leadership, the PFB was founded in 1992, allowing Pakistan to compete at the international level while helping to grow the game. \u201cThis is a tremendous loss for our sport in Pakistan, Asia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-44987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44989,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44987\/revisions\/44989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}