ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) on Monday named its under-construction gymnasiums at five different centres after former boxers and a prominent boxing official. Azam Dar, a spokesman for the PSB said that the boxing gymnasium in Karachi has been named after Prof. Anwar Chowdhry, who heads the International Amateur Boxing Association as well as the Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF).
The gymnasium in Quetta will be known as the Abrar Gymnasium while the one in Lahore was named after Samad Mir.
The fourth centre in Peshawar will be called the Khyber Gymnasium with the one in Islamabad associated with Hussain Shah.
Almost 40 percent work on the gymnasiums has been completed with each being built at a cost of Rs4 crore.
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