Pakistan’s Junior World Cup snub
In another blow to a inhabitant sport, a youth hockey group mislaid a berth for a World Cup that starts in India this month after a general physique of a competition (FIH) announced that a former champions unsuccessful to endorse their appearance before a deadline.
The FIH, it seems, succumbed to a vigour from a contest organisers who were penetrating on avoiding Pakistan in a tournament. The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) claims that they had finished all applicable support in time nonetheless weren’t handed out visas by a Indian government. The ongoing domestic and tactful event between dual neighbours is carrying an inauspicious outcome on sporting ties and Pakistan continues to suffer. Hockey is temperament a brunt of a Indian highhandedness that is corroborated by a ruling physique of a sport. The financial poke that India enjoys in a sporting attention is vouchsafing them off a offshoot and Pakistan sporting authorities don’t seem to have a plain opposite yet.
The general bodies like FIH, International Kabaddi Federation etc., haven’t corroborated Pakistan and toed a Indian line while a International Cricket Council recently docked Indian women group 6 points for refusing to play Pakistan in 3 ODI games. While a Indian opinion is deplorable, Pakistan sporting consider tank needs soul-searching of a own. In new years we have witnessed a joyless model change and a sporting standards have plummeted so dramatically that a teams and athletes aren’t in direct anywhere! Pakistan sat out of both, a 2014 Hockey World Cup and a Olympics progressing this year hence a PHF’s explain of ‘revival’ in a inhabitant sports sounds biting and even foolish during times.
Despite carrying a mythological Shahbaz Ahmed as a Federation’s secretary, a PHF unsuccessful to remonstrate a FIH on a scrupulous stance, a fact is that amid a benefaction fuzz Pakistan is unfortunate for sporting administrators who can travel their talk.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 3rd, 2016.
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