Jamali unhappy with new PHF management

Former hockey president has called a meeting to review appointments.

KARACHI: Former Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) president Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who is also the head of the probe committee set up by the Prime Minister to uncover the reasons for Pakistan hockey team’s inability to qualify for the 2016 Olympics, expressed his discontent with the recent changes in the sport’s management.

According to a PHF official, newly-elected PHF president, Khalid Sajjad Khokhar, along with secretary Shahbaz Ahmed, met Jamali during their visit to Karachi where the former president expressed his dissatisfaction with the management’s overhaul.

Jamali also informed the duo that the Prime Minister is also unhappy with the new appointments.

“We have met him [Jamali] and he has some suggestions to ensure the placement of a foolproof system at the PHF,” informed Khokhar. “We will be discussing the matter before taking any further decisions.”

The probe committee was tasked with the responsibility of unearthing the reasons for the Greenshirts’ poor showing in recent events and the Prime Minister had asked Jamali to select the new management and give the PHF a new direction.

However, as the high officials were busy reviewing the report containing the findings of the probe committee, Akhtar Rasool resigned from his post as the president of PHF, thereby paving the way for Khokhar to be elected as the new chief of Pakistan hockey’s governing body.

Jamali has now called up both Khokhar and Ahmed to the next PHF meeting in Islamabad and, according to the official, major changes are expected in the management once again.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 8^th,  2015.

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