PHF Congress to convene for voting

Khokar nominated for presidency after Rasool resigned.

KARACHI: Major changes are expected to take place at the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) when Brigadier (retd) Khalid Sajjad Khokar is selected as the president of Pakistan hockey’s governing body as the PHF Congress convenes on Thursday to cast their votes for the presidency.

A PHF official informed The Express Tribune that the posts of the chief selector, head coach and secretary would be the most affected once Khokar takes over.

According to the official, Olympian Shahbaz Senior will take up the position of the chief selector, head coach Shahnaz Sheikh is expected to be replaced by either Tahir Zaman or Qamar Ibrahim, while Brigadier (retd) Salim Nawaz is favourite for the secretary’s post.

Khokar was nominated by the Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) Ministry on the instructions of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is also the patron-in-chief of the body, after Akhtar Rasool resigned from the post following the debacle which saw the Greenshirts fail to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in history.

The new chief will now have to take a vote of confidence form the congress member to be legally eligible for the post.

The PHF has invited 105 members for the meeting who are being accommodated at the Pakistan Sports Board facility in Islamabad as the PHF themselves did not have the funds to accommodate them on their own.

All the members have been pre-informed on the one-point agenda of the meeting — vote of confidence for Khokar — while other concerns would also be addressed depending on the direction of the discussion.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th,  2015.

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