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Daily Times
April 10, 2021
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) President Ashfaq Hussain Shah, who led an attack on the association’s headquarters in Lahore last month, has claimed he is ready to hold talks with FIFA after the national body was suspended. FIFA suspended the PFF earlier this week after the former leadership, including Shah, had stormed PFF headquarters and forcibly removed a Normalisation Committee established to run its affairs. The officials were claimed to have demanded Normalisation Committee chairman Haroon Malik hand over accounts and cheque books. Malik told media a “mob” organised by Shah had “barged into my office and asked me to hand over charge of the PFF and all bank accounts”. The dispute comes amid continued delays to the PFF elections. Malik has claimed Pakistan being banned by FIFA could “kill football in the country”.
FIFA to extend Pakistan ban to five years if PFF dispute continues
Alam Zeb Safi
FIFA likely to extend Pakistan ban to five years if PFF dispute continues / Photo: File
FIFA is considering imposing a lengthy ban on Pakistan if stakeholders of the game fail to sort out the ongoing Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) dispute.
Credible sources on Friday said that senior officials of the world governing body are furious over the recent events that took place at PFF headquarters and are considering extending the PFF suspension to five years if the matter is not resolved in a few days.
Hajra urges PM Imran to intervene over PFF suspension
Pakistan captain believes sports should be ‘a priority’ during former cricket captain’s tenure
KARACHI:
Is it not ironic to have a former sportsman as the Prime Minister of a country but still the country’s football federation receives suspension from Fifa, despite football being the sport of the people, the sport that has been most diverse in its way with the Pakistanis.
Pakistan women’s football team captain Hajra Khan has urged former cricketer and now PM Imran Khan and the President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi to intervene and convince a group of former Pakistan Football Federation(PFF) officials to leave the headquarters that they took over on March 27, which prompted Fifa to suspend Pakistan’s membership on Wednesday.
The national women s team captain said athletes have nowhere to go.
Hajra Khan, the Pakistan women s national football team captain, is disheartened by the Pakistan Football Federation s (PFF) recent suspension by FIFA due to third-party interference. In a video posted on social media, the captain was visibly distraught with the recent updates. This is the second such suspension for the nation s football governing body in the last four years.
Khan felt embarrassed and ashamed by the news. Today I speak in utmost sadness. PFF was banned by FIFA today for the second time in the last five years, she said.