Islamabad, August 30, 2021 (PPI-OT):23rd Meeting of the Pakistan Sports Board was chaired by Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial coordination Dr. Fahmida Mirza The meeting was attended by all board members except POA’s president. Mr. Akeel Karim Dhedhi participated via video link. POA did not attend the meeting despite the invitation to participate.

In the meeting two key agenda items were discussed including Olympic failure Analysis. Participants of the meeting agreed that miss management was done by POA at Tokyo Olympics. The relevant coaches was not sent as they were not given accreditation. Admin officials were sent to Tokyo for Joy Wright. All behaviour of all members and athletes was the responsibility of POA. Racist comments were made over there. Untrained athletes were sent.

Covid SOPs were not followed which defamed Pakistan’s name. All this showed the failure of the Olympic Committee. It was decided in the meeting that no one would be allowed to do anything in future that would defame the country or bring disgrace to the government.

All the participants agreed that a National Sports Policy should be implemented in the country which would regulates all sports institutions/entities. Chairman and all board members expressed regret over not attending the meeting by POA’s president. They said that POA should have attended the meeting.

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