{"id":65477,"date":"2018-05-15T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65477"},"modified":"2018-05-15T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T12:33:04","slug":"punjab-open-boxing-championship-amir-khan-lands-in-lahore-to-attend-closing-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65477","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Open Boxing Championship: Amir Khan lands in Lahore to attend closing ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lahore, May 15 (TNS):<\/strong> Star boxer Amir Khan arrived in Lahore on Tuesday along with his wife Faryal Makhdoom to participate in the closing ceremony of Punjab Open Boxing Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan will be a Chief guest at the ceremony and will distribute prizes to the winners of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media on Friday, Punjab Sports Board Chairman Jahangir Khanzada announced that Khan will be the chief guest at the closing ceremony and it will be a source of inspiration for young athletes and boxers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Amir Khan vowed that he will work on the development of boxing in Pakistan so that one day they bring laurels to the country.<\/p>\n<p>The boxer received a warm welcome at the airport by the by Khanzada and also director of sports Anees Sheikh.<\/p>\n<p>The closing ceremony of the Open Boxing Championship will be held in the Nishtar Park Sports Complex in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>While addressing the media in London, the star boxer stated that Pakistan is a paradise for investors and businessmen and he intends to establish numerous training academies for budding boxers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, May 15 (TNS): Star boxer Amir Khan arrived in Lahore on Tuesday along with his wife Faryal Makhdoom to participate in the closing ceremony of Punjab Open Boxing Championship. The British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan will be a Chief guest at the ceremony and will distribute prizes to the winners of the competition. Speaking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65477","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=65477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65479,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65477\/revisions\/65479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}