Olympic javelin gold medalist Arshad Nadeem received a total of 250 million rupees ($897,000) on Tuesday, Aug. 13, as Pakistan continued to celebrate his record-breaking throw at the Paris Games.
BYOlympic javelin gold medalist Arshad Nadeem received a total of 250 million rupees on Tuesday, Aug. 13, as Pakistan continued to celebrate his record-breaking throw at the Paris Games.
“You have doubled the delight of 250 million Pakistanis because we’ll also celebrate our Independence Day tomorrow,” Sharif said while announcing the money for Nadeem, whose father is a daily wage laborer. “Today every Pakistani is happy and the morale of the whole country is sky high.” “The heights that parents’ prayers take a person to,” Nawaz said in her post on X, formerly known as Twitter, while sharing a picture with Nadeem and his mother Razia Parveen.
Pakistan is predominantly known for cricket in the sporting world with the country winning the 1992 World Cup.
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