British High Commissioner H.E.Mr.Thomas Drew vowed to support revival of international cricket in Pakistan. Boxer Amir Khan has announced Super League in Pakistan to promote boxing By.Asghar Ali Mubarak

British High Commissioner Thomas Drew vowed to support revival of international sports in Pakistan. Boxer Amir Khan has announced Super League in Pakistan to promote boxing
By.Asghar Ali Mubarak

Islamabad ;The British High Commissioner, H.E.Mr.Thomas Drew during the visit to Amir Khan boxing visiting the academy on Monday said that ‘’we wants to see international cricket come back to Pakistan. He said that the former British Prime Minister David Cameron played important role to bring back international cricket in Pakistan. Talking to Asghar Ali Mubarak chief reporter ‘’The Daily Mail international Islamabad’’ H.E.Mr.Thomas Drew stated ‘’I wished that the English cricket team visits Pakistan as soon early as possible’’. British High Commissioner to Pakistan Thomas Drew said the United Kingdom and Pakistan shared deep relations during the last 70 years, and they were looking forward to further strengthen them. British envoy who said he will try to get the British cricket team to Pakistan, in an attempt to promote sports at an international level in the country. The sports and culture links underpinned by strong people to people links were central to these bilateral ties, he added. British High Commissioner, H.E.Mr.Thomas Drew vowed to support revival of international sports in Pakistan. He said a sport men are always likes an ambassador ‘’ Amir Khan is Pakistan’s ambassador in Britain and a British ambassador in Pakistan” he added. Further he stated that “Amir Khan is Pakistan’s Mohammad Ali”. British High Commissioner lauded the World XI’s tour to Pakistan. “We want to see revival of sports in Pakistan and for that we would play our role,” he said. More over the British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Thomas Drew wishes Eid Mubarak to all those who are celebrating the festival in Pakistan, the UK and around the world H.E.Mr.Thomas Drew CMG was born on 26th September 1970 is British High Commissioner to Pakistan; H.E.Mr.Thomas Drew attended Charterhouse and then Trinity College, Oxford where he read Classics, graduating in 1993. He worked for McKinsey & Company for two years before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a Second Secretary in 1995. After one two-year posting, he learnt Russian and was posted to Moscow in 1998 as a Second, and later a First Secretary. In 2002 Drew returned to London to head a unit running the UK’s engagement with the EU inter-governmental conference that led to the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. Once the conference was held in 2004, he continued in the Foreign Office’s EU Enlargement group until 2006, when he was posted as the Political Counselor in Islamabad. In 2008, Drew was appointed on loan to the Home Office as their Director of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism for three years. Drew returned to the Foreign Office in 2011 as Director of National Security, before replacing Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby as Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary in 2012. In 2014 he left this post,[1] and in the Queen’s Birthday Honors’ in 2015 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) “for services to British foreign policy interests.”[2] In 2015 he was a Visiting Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute. He was appointed High Commissioner to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from February 2016.Soon after his appointment he inaugurated the Amir Khan boxing academy Islamabad.
Mean while the International Boxer Amir Khan has announced to launch Super Boxing League in Pakistan to promote boxing and provide exposure to local talent. Addressing a press conference along with British High Commissioner, H.E.Mr.Thomas Drew in Islamabad he said that professional boxing league was to be held under the World Boxing Council. Amir Khan said eight teams will participate in the League. He said that women can also participate in the competitions. He said Pakistan has great talent in boxing and the event will prove beneficial for country’s boxers. Amir Khan said franchised-based teams would be participating in the league. “There will be eight teams and each team will comprise eight boxers,” he said.”The teams include of Multan, Faisalabad, Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Quetta, Sialkot and Karachi,” he said. Amir said he is hopeful that SBL would prove valuable for Pakistani boxers.”The idea to create this league came from India’s league which was a good one but we have more talent in Pakistan and hopefully SBL would be a big hit,” he said. Amir said he will not bring international boxers in the first edition of SBL as he wants to promote Pakistan’s local talented boxers first. He said he wants to show the talent present in Pakistan to the world. “This league would prove beneficial for the future of boxing in Pakistan,” he said. He said the venue for the event is not finalized yet. “The title of this championship will be owned by World Boxing Council (WBC) and the league will provide Pakistani boxers to win a WBC belt,” he said.”I want to do this for Pakistan. Only Pakistani boxers are going to be involved in this Championship. So we are going to localize it to see the local talent,” he said and added that women boxers would also be a part of this league. He said Amir Khan Boxing Academy in England had been performing well. British High Commissioner, Thomas Drew who was also present on the occasion termed Amir as Pakistan’s Muhammad Ali. He also lauded World XI’s tour to Pakistan. “We want to see revival of sports in Pakistan and for that we would play our role,” he said. British-Pakistani boxer, Amir Khan speaking to the media regarding the boxing league he has decided to launch in Pakistan, Amir said he has taken the idea from his partner in India who started something similar there. “If India can host boxing tournaments then Pakistan has more talent for the sport.”Also present with Amir was a British envoy who said he will try to get the British cricket team to Pakistan, in an attempt to promote sports at an international level in the country. About the boxing league, Amir said it will be a professional platform as he wants to the sport to flourish in Pakistan. Moreover, he added, each city of the country will also have academies to train people for boxing. Amir maintained that he will be stating the league either in December or earlier next year.