Olympian Arshad Nadeem has been ruled out of the Asian Athletics Championship due to a knee injury, the Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP)'s president Akram Sahi shared in a press conference today.
According to the AFP chief, Arshad has sustained an injury in his right knee now. The javelin thrower went through left knee surgery last year.
"Arshad is not fit to participate in the Asian Athletics Championship," Sahi told reported in Lahore. "
Sahi blamed WAPDA for forcing Arshad to participate in the recently concluded National Games where he bagged a gold medal.
"Arshad was forced to participate in the National Games. We had told WAPDA to not take any risk in Arshad's case as he just recovered from knee injury," he said.
"But, just for a medal, Arshad was forced to participate in the event in Quetta where the track is also not up to the mark," the AFP boss added.
Sahi asked WAPDA's chairman to take care of national assets. "Questions should be asked from higher authorities. We need to take care of our players," he emphasised.
AFP spent around PKR10 million on Arshad's knee surgery in England. He recovered from the injury before taking part in the 34th National Games last month.