The government has been ignoring a discipline in which the country has been winning international laurels consistently Pakistani wrestlers made an attempt to earn Olympics berths in the Asian qualifying round in Almaty the other day but failed. It was a tough event in which the country fielded three grapplers: seasoned Mohammad Inam, Mohammad Bilal and Haroon Abid, in the 97kg, 57kg and 125kg categories, respectively. Bilal lost his first fight, which was the quarter-final, while Haroon fell in both his fights, the qualification and repechage contest. Inam lost his 97kg quarter-final against a tough grappler of Uzbekistan, who was also the 2016 Rio Olympics bronze medallist. He was given a repechage bronze medal fight against a player from Kyrgyzstan whom he beat to earn bronze medal. This was the first bronze for Pakistan in any Asian qualifying round.