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.
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Pakistan surprised by FIFA ban on PFF, says decision taken in haste
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PSB DG Col Zaman says they were not expecting such a hasty decision from FIFA.
Zaman says he was expecting FIFA to carry out a detailed and thorough review of the prevailing situation.
PDB DG says FFIA s decision would serve no good to the future of the game.
ISLAMABAD: The suspension of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) by FIFA has surprised the government as newly-appointed director general of the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Col (retd) Asif Zaman said that the football governing body took the decision in haste.
Pakistan govt ‘shocked’ over FIFA’s decision to suspend PFF
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Pakistan govt ‘shocked’ over FIFA’s decision to suspend PFF / Photo: File
The director general of Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Col (r) Asif Zaman has said that the decision of FIFA to suspend Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) took the government by surprise.
Zaman said that Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) Dr Fehmida Mirza had requested for patience during her press conference held a couple of days back.
“We were not expecting such a hasty decision from the football’s governing body,” the DG PSB said. “It has surprised rather shocked us as the game of football will be the ultimate sufferer after such decision. The minister had assured her help for resolving the issue in the best interest of the game.