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By MALIK ABDUL HAMEEDPublished 10 months ago 3 min read
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Sports builds courage, discipline, leadership qualities, and a sense of unity in an individual thus leading to a prosperous nation. It doesn’t matter what sport: it could be the conventional physical sports we’ve been playing since the dawn of history or it could be e-sports which have just recently taken birth. In Pakistan, sports have been at a decline, not from the ones who play them but from the ones who should encourage, fund, and organize them.

Pakistan’s Sporting Glory

There is no doubt of the Pakistani youth’s talent, inbuilt physical potential, and mental robustness for every sport. When the youth were provided the resources and motivation, Pakistan made some of the greatest sporting legends, and still many of the talented people of Pakistan are making a name for themselves regardless of having financial support from the government such as Muhammad Asif (Snooker) and Jahangir Khan in Squash.

Pakistan’s Kabbadi team also won the Kabbadi World Cup in 2020. The Sports Board of Pakistan handles 41 federations under it. Due to corruption, mismanagement, politics, and indifference by the government, it has never been able to function properly. Rather, it ultimately caused the sports federations to be dragged down.

Hockey

The Pakistan Sports Board has been a victim of so much corruption and politics which has abysmally permeated into the sports federations to the extent that factually it is at a stand-still and has worsened over time. Let’s start with our country’s national sport hockey. Pakistan has triumphed countless times in hockey in the past, bagging 4 world cup titles to its name, which, too, are the most titles won by a country to this day.

Unfortunately, dark days were to come for our national sport when our team failed to qualify for the hockey world cup in 2014; it is equivalent to imagining a FIFA world cup without Brazil or other great teams of football. Although Pakistan did qualify in 2018, the country could not perform well. The organizing structure is still in shambles, the governments of the past decade have given no attention whatsoever to the sporting bodies as a whole.

Football

Football has been destroyed completely due to political scuffles and the vested interests of certain individuals and groups since the set up of its Pakistan Football Federation (PFF). Although Pakistan may be the largest producer of footballs which are used at the international level in matches conducted by FIFA, the irony of that is its own team’s footprint seems to have vanished completely.

Just recently, the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has been banned by FIFA due to a take-over by a group headed by Syed Ashfaq Ahmed. FIFA had already installed a normalization committee in PFF, but the Supreme Court of Pakistan interfered and advised to hold an election, and due to the results of those elections, Ashfaq Ahmed had the mandate to be PFF president till 2022.

This group was not recognized by FIFA, as FIFA already had its own normalization committee functioning. This resulted in the suspension of the PFF. The normalization committee was set up by FIFA to bring stability into the federation after its previous suspension. It was instructed to carry out elections but, unfortunately, even the normalization committee failed to deliver on time.

This resulted the Ashfaq-led group taking over the PFF by forced means. What does the suspension result in? Firstly, the suspension means that the Pakistan National Football Team would not be allowed to participate in any International events organized by FIFA. No qualifiers, no friendly matches, no technical support, no funding, nothing.

Second, the domestic matches and events being organized by PFF will not be recognized by FIFA, which means that the players playing in them are literally playing for nothing, their records are not accounted for, and they will not be given any future opportunities. While the powerful people fight for their greed to secure their personal interests, the dreams of thousands of football players across the country have been crumbled.

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