BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Brig (r) M Iftikhar Mansoor and Muhammad Khalid Bashir unanimously re-elected as President and Secretary General of Pakistan Basketball Federation (PBF) for the next term of four years during the general council meeting held at Olympic House.
Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) representative Muhammad Jehangir (Deputy Secretary General POA) also attended the meeting, which was presided over by Brig (R) M Iftikhar Mansoor. The house unanimously elected Brig (R) M Iftikhar Mansoor as president, M Khalid Bashir as General Secretary and Din Muhammad as Treasurer.
Imtiaz Rafi Butt was elected as senior vice president, Ghazi M Salahuddin, Ch Al-Mustansar Cheema, Ch Sagheer Ahmed, M Rajmil Khan as elected vice presidents while the elected associate secretaries were M Yaqoob Qadry, M Faqeer Awan and Ouj E Zahoor. The executive committee comprises representatives from Quetta, Hyderabad, Faisalabad and Karachi.
The selection committee consists of Col (R) Shujaat Ali Rana, M Riaz Malik, Syed Moudood Jaffry, Malik Ijaz and Imran Afzal. The referee’s board includes Siraj Ul Haq Qureshi (Secretary), Tariq Nawaz, M.Yaqoob Qadry, Ouj E Zahoor and Saadat Jehangir Khan.
The coaches board has M Riaz Malik (Secretary), Emmanuel Nazarat Lal, M Khalid Ch, Munawar Hussain and Umer Mahmood. The house also constituted committees to look after various affairs that needed immediate attention.
The house endorsed the last annual general council meeting minutes and agreed on taking drastic measures to improve the game of basketball all over the country as well as championships, tournaments, coaches and referees courses were also allotted to various interested Units.
Various disciplinary cases were also discussed in the meeting and the house unanimously ruled on the judgment for these cases while offering fateha khawani for the recently passed veteran Basketball legends Mian Iqbal Fareed (former President), Maj. (R). A W Qureshi (former Army and National Coach). Ghulam Fareed, Mahmood butt and Mr. Zubair butt.