{"id":26443,"date":"2025-03-15T00:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=26443"},"modified":"2025-03-15T00:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:59:41","slug":"prime-minister-vows-to-ensure-full-support-for-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=26443","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister vows to ensure full support for athletes."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250315-WA0018-1024x699.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250315-WA0018-1024x699.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250315-WA0018-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250315-WA0018-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250315-WA0018-1536x1049.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250315-WA0018-2048x1398.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad : Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed commitment to providing athletes with all necessary facilities and resources for international competitiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a meeting with football player Muhammad Riaz, who hails from Hangu, he said the youth are the country&#8217;s precious asset. He said the youth should actively participate in sports and other healthy activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister said outstanding sportsmen should be provided jobs in government institutions according to their abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shehbaz Sharif directed to accelerate efforts to promote sports in the country. He emphasized that a strategy should be formulated for the well-being of athletes representing Pakistan internationally and for providing them with sustainable employment opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister encouraged Muhammad Riaz to continue his game and play an active role in promoting football in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shehbaz Sharif directed that Muhammad Riaz be given a job at his preferred federal institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He presented a cheque of 2.5 million rupees to Muhammad Riaz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muhammad Riaz expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for the measures taken for the welfare of athletes and the promotion of sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad : Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed commitment to providing athletes with all necessary facilities and resources for international competitiveness. During a meeting with football player Muhammad Riaz, who&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[411,58],"class_list":["post-26443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pakistan-football-federation-pff","tag-prime-minister-of-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26445,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26443\/revisions\/26445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}