Awais, Amir reach boxing championship quarters

KARACHI: Pakistan’s highly talented boxers Awais Ali Khan and Amir Khan blasted their way into the quarter-finals which meant Army, Navy and WAPDA reserved most of the seats in the next round of All Pakistan Amir Khan Boxing tournament here at Ustad Abdullah Baloch gymnasium at People’s Sports Complex on Wednesday.

Awais of Army, who impressed the experts with his talent in the Asian Championship in Bangkok recently, got the better of Noor Ali of Rangers 3-0 in the pre-quarter-final of light heavyweight category.

International Amir Khan of WAPDA faced little problem in prevailing over Farrukh Khan of Islamabad in the 69kg bout to move into the quarter-final.

Discarded international Dur Mohammad of Navy also won his pre-quarter-final, whacking Qadir Khan of Karachi Port Trust (KPT) 3-0.

Sindh Rangers’ second-in-command Maj Asamuddin Qazi witnessed the bouts. A two-minute silence was observed to pay tribute to those children of Peshawar’s Army Public School who lost their lives in an attack last year. Pre-quarter-finals results: 60kg: Kamran Khan (Army) bt Hamza Rahim (KP) 3-0, Raees Khan (WAPDA) bt Babar Ali (Sindh Police) 3-0, Mohammad Arshad (Punjab) bt Faisal (KE) 3-0

64kg: Salman Baloch (Army) bt Amir Khan (Islamabad) 3-0, Noor Mohammad (Railways) bt Sarfraz Ali (Sindh Whites) 3-0, Shahid Afridi (Sindh Greens) bt Nouman Arshad (Gilgit-Baltistan) 2-1, Sajid Farman (Rangers) bt Amir Masood (KP) 2-1, Qadir Khan (Navy) bt Omar Khan (FATA) 3-0, Adnan Hussain (PAF) bt Zohaib (KE) 3-0, Mohammad Iqbal (Sindh Police) bt Jamshed (KPT) 3-0

69 kg: Naeem Jan (Sindh Greens) bt Tahir (KPT) 3-0, Amir Khan (WAPDA) bt Farrukh Khan (Islamabad) 3-0, Abdur Rauf (Army) bt Zahid Abbas (Punjab) 3-0, Mohammad Ahmed (KP) bt Tajdar Hussain (Gilgit) 3-0, Khurram (Rangers) bt Muzammil Hussian (FATA) 3-0, Mehboob Shah (Balochistan) bt Ali Reza (Sindh Police) 3-0

75kg: Tanveer Ahmed (Navy) bt Adil (Punjab) 3-0, Ubaidullah (Sindh Greens) bt Abid Hussain (Sindh Whites) 3-0, Afzal Khan (Gilgit) bt Jehangir Jamali (PAF) 2-1, Faraz Ahmed (Islamabad) bt Abdul Majid (FATA) 3-0

81kg: Wali Khan Tareen (Sindh Greens) bt Irfan (Punjab) 3-0, Dur Mohammad (Navy) bt Qadir Khan (KPT) 3-0, Awais Ali Khan (Army) bt Noor Ali (Rangers) 3-0, Shabbir Baloch (Sindh Whites) bt Taimur Shah (FATA) 3-0

91kg: Mohammad Yousuf (Sindh Greens) bt Waqas Salim (Sindh Whites) 3-0

91+: Tariq Nawaz (Navy) bt Mustafa Tareen (Rangers) 3-0, Mohammad Shehbaz (Army) bt Umar Mughal (KP) 3-0