Resources limited, foe tough, though karatekas confident

PHOTO COURTESY: KULSOOM HAZARA

KARACHI: Pakistan’s 12-member karate team, featuring a creme de le creme of a country’s masculine and womanlike talent, will be competing during a arriving Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan — a theatre that group member and 2016 South Asian bullion medallist Kulsoom Hazara is anticipating to use to make her mark.

To make that happen, Kulsoom, who will be competing in a -68 kg event, has been training tough in Lahore for 3 months along with a rest of a team.

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“Our credentials is good and I’m really vehement about a Islamic Games,” a 28-year-old told The Express Tribune. “It’s a feeling of honour that I’m removing to contest there, nonetheless we know that it will not be easy; in fact karatekas from Egypt, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan are really gifted and tough, so my aim will be to be as tactical as we can be.

“I wish to repeat my opening from India. we was a usually womanlike karateka who managed to win a bullion award there so we have high hopes and I’m confident.”

A member of a Hazara community, Kulsoom is a inhabitant women champion who not usually had to quarrel her opponents though also mangle stereotypes to turn a veteran karateka, interjection to her regressive surroundings.

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Beenish Akbar is another member of a travelling 12 and will be participating in a 50kg event, since Naz Gul, Sana Kausar, Nargis and Shahida will contest in 55kg, 61kg, -68kg and kata competitions respectively.

Among a boys, 2014 US Open leader and former Asian champion Saadi Abbas will be a categorical weapon, and he will be upheld by Muhammad Kashif in 60kg, Naseer Ahmed in 67kg, Imtiaz Ali in -84kg, Muhammad Ramzan in 84kg and Muhammad Jawad in kata event.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Karate Federation (PKF) secretary Andleeb Sandhu, a initial women to conduct a martial humanities organization in a country, feels that expectations from a patrol should be kept in check due to a singular inlet of their training camp.

“We have to be picturesque since a athletes do not get a same comforts as a ones abroad do,” she said. “In fact, a stay also started a small late since of a miss of resources; we did a best we could.

“There is still a prolonged approach to go. I’ve also been an contestant so we know that we can’t not give players high-level training and design results. Good formula come with good investment. However, I’m certain that any of my players will give their best.”

Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1406380/resources-limited-competition-tough-karatekas-confident/