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javelin ace Arshad Nadeem, who set a new Olympic record in Paris and won Pakistan first gold medal in 40 years, was given a hero’s welcome as he landed at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore on Saturday night.
Top officials including the provincial and federal ministers, the Olympic hero’s family and his fans in large number arrived at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport to receive Nadeem.
The javelin superstar, whose flight departed 27 minutes late from Istanbul Airport, returned home via a Turkish Airlines flight TK-174, which landed at the Lahore airport at 1:25am.
According to Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority sources, the flight adopted a routine route and entered Lahore via Balochistan and Karachi.
The flight took 5 hours and 23 minutes to reach Lahore from Istanbul.