President inaugurates PN water sports gala

KARACHI: President Pervez Musharraf has emphasised the need of encouraging water sports in the country. He was speaking as chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of the Pakistan Navy Water Sports Gala at Marina Club here on Friday evening. The President described water sports as one of the most relaxing and pleasurable sports possible. He pointed out that in the past years while our country was good in many of the sports, "we have gone down in all these events so much so that we need to put in extra efforts to improve our standards at the Asia level, South Asian Federation Games level and then obviouslyat the Olympics level". "We have to put in a lot of effort to make this possible", the President remarked.