PSF’s request for place in seeding committees turned down
Sports
April 17, 2021
KARACHI: Pakistan Squash Federation’s (PSF) request to include the country in the seeding committees of international squash events has been turned down.
According to the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting of the World Squash Federation (WSF), a motion was moved by PSF’s Tahir Sultan in this regard.
He presented the rationale for this motion to the house and requested that “Pakistan may be included in the Seeding Committee for events conducted under the umbrella of the WSF”.
But the delegate for Belgium raised the point that this was not an AGM decision and was the purview of the WSF Board.
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