Pakistan not sending team to India for Asian Fencing Championships

Pakistan volition not nonstop its fencing squad to the Asian Senior Fencing Championships successful New Delhi aboriginal this month, contempt receiving an authoritative invitation from the organisers. India is hosting the continental lawsuit for the archetypal time, with athletes from much than 30 countries crossed Asia and Oceania expected to vie astatine Bharat Mandapam from June 19.According to Fencing Association of India (FAI) Secretary General Rajeev Mehta, invitations were sent to some Pakistan and Afghanistan, but neither state entered participants earlier the deadline. The determination comes adjacent though India had clarified that athletes from Pakistan would beryllium allowed to instrumentality portion successful multilateral events contempt the ongoing prohibition connected bilateral sporting ties.

"We sent an invitation to Pakistan, arsenic good arsenic Afghanistan, to enactment successful the championships but they chose not to nonstop their fencers.

The deadline for sending entries is agelong implicit and we are present successful the process of procuring visas for the athletes and officials," Mehta said, arsenic quoted by quality bureau PTI.The championships volition besides diagnostic the General Assembly of the Fencing Confederation of Asia, marking the archetypal clip the body's apical enactment volition conscionable successful India. International Fencing Federation interim president Abdelmoneim El Husseiny is besides expected to attend.

While preparations are mostly connected track, immoderate participating countries person faced visa-related hurdles. More than 200 jock and authoritative visas were cleared aboriginal connected Thursday, but issues stay for a fewer delegations."Preparations for the title are progressing smoothly, with coordination being undertaken alongside planetary and nationalist authorities to guarantee world-class lawsuit absorption and jock experience," Mehta said.He added that officials from Hong Kong are struggling to unafraid visa appointments, portion immoderate Australian visa applications were rejected. Authorities are moving to resoluteness the issues earlier the contention begins.