BB Boxing Tournament From Today; India Arrive

KARACHI: Pakistan sports got a big boost on Thursday when a seven-member India squad landed at the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport to participate in the inaugural Benazir Bhutto International Boxing Championship to be held at the KPT Sports Complex here from Jan 1 to 9.

The boxing tournament, to be opened by prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday.

Afghanistan, Cameroon, Kenya, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen and Iraq are already in the city for the international event.

The boxers are the first Indian sports team to cross the border since India stalled sporting links with Pakistan after the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai, which New Delhi blamed on militants based in Pakistan.

India refused to allow its cricket team to tour Pakistan late last year, citing security fears. This will be the first international sporting event in Pakistan after attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore in March last year.

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