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Abdul Khaliq, who died on March 10, 1988 in Rawalpindi, was the sole Pakistani athlete to raise the country's flag high on the tracks of Melbourne Olympics (1956) and Rome Olympics (1960).
He won 100 gold medals in the national meets, 26 gold medals and 23 silver medals in the international arena.
Be it the Asian Games of 1954 in Manila and in Tokyo 1958 or the first Indo-Pak Meet in 1956 in New Delhi, Khaliq not only grabbed the gold medal but also set new records.Khaliq's tremendous run in Manila, setting a meet new record in 10.6 seconds made chief guest, then Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru call him the Flying Bird of Asia'.