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Promotion of sports: Malik Saad Shaheed Memorial Trust gets Rs one million grant PESHAWAR (February 09 2010): NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani has highly appreciated the pragmatic approach of the Malik Saad Shaheed Memorial Trust towards promotion of sports especially to train and encourage teenage players in the province and FATA and declared to provide a grant of Rs one million.
Presiding over the quarterly meeting of the Trust at Governor's House, Peshawar, here on Monday, the Governor who is also the Patron-in-Chief of the Trust said, the way, the office bearers and members of this dedicated organisation were working, was highly encouraging and appreciable.
"The achievements of the Trust, itself will prove an effective mean to convince the sports lovers especially the philanthropists to contribute significantly for making the Trust a beneficial organisation," he added. It may be worth mentioning here that the Governor provided Rs one million as grant-in-aid to the Trust in 2009.
The Inspector General Police, Malik Naveed who is the Chairman and the renowned sports writer, Amjad Aziz Malik who is also the Secretary of the Trust, highlighted the agenda points, achievements and future plans. Paying rich tributes to the sacrifices of Malik Saad Shaheed and his companions while performing their professional duty of protecting people, the Governor said, in fact the Police Force of the province deserves due appreciation for its courageous role and services in curbing terrorism and militancy.
Even today, he added, the jawans and officers of the force are performing their duties in an exemplary manner, despite being fully cognisant to the expected threats. He said, "We, as a nation are confronted with a war like situation, especially for the last two years wherein security forces and public have been offering tremendous sacrifices and the Police Force can rightly be described as the Frontline Force in this respect."
Keeping in view the current situation, the Governor said, there was a dire need to gainfully and positively involve the youth both from the province and FATA in the sports activities.
He expressed the confidence that the Trust will come upto the expectations in achieving the desired goals. Malik Naveed and Amjad Aziz Malik while apprising the meeting about the achievements of the Trust said that its seed money was touching the initial target of Rs ten millions and the main office would be opened shortly.
Side by side, it was added, sports academies have been established in two districts, which have already started training and coaching activities for the teenagers. Presently, it was stated, tournaments of different games are in progress, which also includes a cricket tournament in Charsadda. Besides, the Trust is also providing sports kits and uniforms to the players.
The Trust would open its academies in six more districts shortly. Similarly, it was stated that the Trust would also encourage holding of mega sports events at district level and one such event is being arranged at Abbottabad in near future. Sportsmen from Mansehra and Haripur districts would also be offered opportunities of participation. The winners, it was added, will be awarded with cash prizes of upto Rs one lac.
The meeting also discussed various proposals for promotion of sports activities especially through development of sports facilities in the provincial metropolitan and at the district level. The patron-in-chief was requested to help in materialisation of the ideas, which also include establishment of hockey turfs in certain areas of the province and FATA.-PR
Presiding over the quarterly meeting of the Trust at Governor's House, Peshawar, here on Monday, the Governor who is also the Patron-in-Chief of the Trust said, the way, the office bearers and members of this dedicated organisation were working, was highly encouraging and appreciable.
"The achievements of the Trust, itself will prove an effective mean to convince the sports lovers especially the philanthropists to contribute significantly for making the Trust a beneficial organisation," he added. It may be worth mentioning here that the Governor provided Rs one million as grant-in-aid to the Trust in 2009.
The Inspector General Police, Malik Naveed who is the Chairman and the renowned sports writer, Amjad Aziz Malik who is also the Secretary of the Trust, highlighted the agenda points, achievements and future plans. Paying rich tributes to the sacrifices of Malik Saad Shaheed and his companions while performing their professional duty of protecting people, the Governor said, in fact the Police Force of the province deserves due appreciation for its courageous role and services in curbing terrorism and militancy.
Even today, he added, the jawans and officers of the force are performing their duties in an exemplary manner, despite being fully cognisant to the expected threats. He said, "We, as a nation are confronted with a war like situation, especially for the last two years wherein security forces and public have been offering tremendous sacrifices and the Police Force can rightly be described as the Frontline Force in this respect."
Keeping in view the current situation, the Governor said, there was a dire need to gainfully and positively involve the youth both from the province and FATA in the sports activities.
He expressed the confidence that the Trust will come upto the expectations in achieving the desired goals. Malik Naveed and Amjad Aziz Malik while apprising the meeting about the achievements of the Trust said that its seed money was touching the initial target of Rs ten millions and the main office would be opened shortly.
Side by side, it was added, sports academies have been established in two districts, which have already started training and coaching activities for the teenagers. Presently, it was stated, tournaments of different games are in progress, which also includes a cricket tournament in Charsadda. Besides, the Trust is also providing sports kits and uniforms to the players.
The Trust would open its academies in six more districts shortly. Similarly, it was stated that the Trust would also encourage holding of mega sports events at district level and one such event is being arranged at Abbottabad in near future. Sportsmen from Mansehra and Haripur districts would also be offered opportunities of participation. The winners, it was added, will be awarded with cash prizes of upto Rs one lac.
The meeting also discussed various proposals for promotion of sports activities especially through development of sports facilities in the provincial metropolitan and at the district level. The patron-in-chief was requested to help in materialisation of the ideas, which also include establishment of hockey turfs in certain areas of the province and FATA.-PR