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.
The power play between Ashfaq’s group of officials and the PFF NC will go on at least for three more months after FIFA on Thursday announced the extension of the mandate of the committee until September.