MSAP looks to promote competitions

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KARACHI, May 14: The Aga Khan Foundation is joining hands with the Mind Sports Association of Pakistan (MSAP) to promote bridge, chess and scrabble in the country.

“We are working on plans to conduct mind events on different locations of the country,” MSAP director Tariq Rasheed Khan said on Tuesday.

“We are highly encouraged by the response of the Aga Khan Foundation,” he commented.

Tariq said the events would be staged in Karachi, Hyderabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Peshawar and Northern Areas.

He said a large number of players were keen to spread the games and the MSAP was looking to support and encourage them.

The MSAP director said their focus was to promote the games among school, college and university students.

Rasheed said a large-scale programme was launched by holding Mind Sports Olympiad a few years ago but due to lack of funds the second edition of these games could not be held.—APP

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