Promoting sports: Capital to get more rugby grounds

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad will get more rugby grounds, said Islamabad Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz on Sunday. Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad of (MCI) has formulated a strategy for promotion of sports including traditional, regional and new emerging sports in the federal capital, he said talking to the players and spectators at the league match of Fourth Service Rugby League played between Islamabad Jinns and Lahore Rugby Federation Club. Aziz, who is also Capital Development Authority (CDA) chairman, said this while Existing sports grounds would be up-graded and more grounds would be developed particularly in the thickly populated sectors, so that provision of recreational and sports facilities could be provided to all residents of the city.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 21^st, 2016.