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Kabaddi is a popular contact sport in Southern Asia that first originated in Ancient India. It is played across the country and is the official game in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra. Outside of India it is a popular activity in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Iran, is the National Sport of Bangladesh and is also one of the National Sports of Nepal as well where it is taught at school level. Kabaddi is also popular in other parts of the world where there are Indian and Indian and Pakistani communities such as in the United Kingdom where the sport is governed by the England Kabaddi Federation, England Kabaddi Association, England kabaddi Union, British Kabaddi Federation etc. in UK and Canadian Amateur Kabaddi Federation.
Canada Kabaddi Association etc. and there are also multiple Kabaddi Federations in India but Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India which is oldest and supreme body but struggling from lot of politics due to long term (several decades) family-owned business but Kabaddi Federation of India working towards the development in India. At the International level, there are multiple bodies named International Kabaddi Federation but was Registered under Company Act (For-Profit Company Act is not eligible for Olympic/IOC Membership) another one World Kabaddi Federation (2005 Private Company), World Kabaddi LTD (2020-2022), World Amateur Kabaddi Federation (since 2022 as under Company Act) but International Amateur kabaddi Federation, IAKF (Since 2017 under Canadian Not-For-Profit Act) is the only eligible International Federation (IF) eligible for the Olympic (IOC) Membership and we need your cooperation. Since 2023, IAKF also legalized in the United States of America in the State of Kansas under Non-Profit-Act to have its HQ in United States.
The overall object of the game is to simply score more points than the opposition team within the allotted time. To do this, each team must attempt to score points by both attacking and defending. When attacking, the offensive team sends across a raider into the opposition’s half who must touch one of more members of the opposition to score a point. When defending, the objective is to capture the raider by wrestling them to the ground or simply by preventing them returning to their own half by the time their breath is up.
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