LAHORE: Pakistan’s tennis star Aisamul Haq Qureshi has added another feather in his cap as the ‘Peace and Sport World Forum of Monaco’ has named him ‘Champion for Peace’. The forum is a high profile organisation set up in 2007 by Olympic gold medallist and world champion of modern pentathlon Joel Bouzou and is run under the high patronage of Prince Albert II of Monaco. Aisam is the first Pakistani and only sport person from the Asian region to receive this recognition.
The forum is a neutral organisation that aims to build sustainable peace throughout the world by promoting sport as an instrument of reconciliation and social stability. Prominent and extra ordinary sport figures are chosen by the organisation to become the ‘Champion for Peace’ based on his or her excellent repute as a top sports person and on his or her contribution towards creating a harmony and understanding between different religions and nationalities through sport.
Backed by more than 50 countries, 30 national Olympic committees, 30 international federations, 25 NGO’s and 30 members of International Olympic Committee, ‘Peace and Sport’ is the world’s largest and most prestigious forum of its kind and its recognition of Aisam is a great honour for Pakistan. It is pertinent to mention here that Aisam is also the only Pakistani, Muslim, and Asian to have ever received ‘The Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award’ from ATP Tour USA.
Source:dailytimes.com.pk/
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