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Pakistan Olympic Asso­ciation to call an emergency general council meeting within 15 days, says general secretary.

Unless the PSB, POA and the sporting federations work together, Pakistan’s sporting fortunes can't be revived.

Pakistan Olympic Asso­ciation to call an emergency general council meeting within 15 days, says general secretary.

KARACHI: The rift has widened; the differences having grown. Sardar Naveed is no longer with the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) led by Ashfaq Hussain Shah. Naveed, the vice-president of Ashfaq’s PFF which came to power through an election held by the Supreme Court in December 2018, said he was walking away because the ideals had changed. A few weeks ago, Naveed had raised several objections to plan by the group to sign an agreement with a company, Global Soccer Ventures Limited, which eff...

Pakistan football team players pratice during a training session. — AFP/File KARACHI: Ashfaq Hussain Shah says he’s keeping his word. Sardar Naveed Haider Khan says the plan to give rights to a company to hold the Pakistan Football League is a ‘15-year sellout’. The court-elected Pakistan Football Federation president Ashfaq and his vice-president Naveed, who are not recognised by FIFA and whose takeover of the PFF headquarters in March saw Pakistan suspended by the global football bod...

Pakistan was suspended by FIFA in April. — Reuters/File KARACHI: Global football body FIFA isn’t flinching. Nor is Ashfaq Shah, the court-elected president of the Pakistan Football Fed­era­tion, whose takeover of the PFF headquarters from the FIFA-appointed PFF Normalisation Committee forced a suspension on Pakistan. Something will have to give, most likely a fresh round of discussions, to see an end to the crisis that has plagued Pakistan football for the best part of the last decade. ...

Saqib set to return from Maldives July 1, 2021 KARACHI: Pakistan’s premier football goalkeeper Saqib Hanif is lucky to have been playing in the Maldives League for the last six years — a time when the country’s other footballers suffered a lot for lack of activities because of the conflict among officials. “Yes, I am the lucky one as I have played in the Maldives’ Dhivehi Premier League for the last six years. It gives you confidence and keeps you fit,” Saqib told ‘The News’ f...

The Ashfaq group has also announced it will hold the National Under-23 Championship in June this year.

A long-running tussle between rival factions of PFF have led to Pakistan’s suspension by Fifa

Sports May 23, 2021 KARACHI: The FIFA-installed Normalisation Committee claimed on Friday that due to the positive steps taken by it any further sanctions were avoided. It issued the statement after FIFA Congress ratified Pakistan’s suspension. But Ashfaq Hussain Shah-led PFF on Saturday said that NC had nothing to do with the matter. “Despite these persons being exposed the negative forces including certain elements within the NC, who have also been exposed as either having gross co...