ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) will send the athletics, volleyball and women’s swimming squads for training abroad before the March 30-April 8 South Asian (SAF) Games.

The SAF Games squads of these sports will be sent abroad for training in collaboration with 9th SAF Games Secretariat.

The athletics contingent is likely to be sent to a South East Asian country for training as the track-and field activities and international competitions are confined indoors in the European and North American countries in the winter.

The volleyball squad is also likely to tour China or South Korea while women swimmers, who had already been to Singapore last September, will resume training in that city-state.

Pakistan Sports Board will shortly finalise the training schedule of these squads in collaboration with respective foreign officials.

The squads which had been abroad for training before the SAF Games, originally scheduled for October 6-15, were postponed, were those of boxing (Kazakhastan), wrestling, weightlifting (Bulgaria), karate, taekwondo (Iran) and women’s table tennis (China).—APP