Tahir Jamil Khan is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Lahore.
Thousands of Pakistani fans came to welcome Olympic winner Arshad Nadeem early on August 11 as he was arriving from Paris at the airport in Lahore, in his native Punjab Province. Nadeem was the best javelin thrower at the Paris games. He earned the first Olympic gold for Pakistan since 1984.