U16 Talent Hunt for Girls & Boys Begins in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Oct 01 (APP): Director Female Games Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rashida Ghaznavi formally inaugurated the girls and boys trials in Peshawar Sports Complex on Thursday.
Talking to media men after inaugurating the trials, Rashida Ghaznavi said that the government was keen to provide and ensure equal facilities to the female players. She said trials of the athletes under the Talent Hunt Scheme in age group U16 would be completed by Thursday to bring out female and male athletes under qualified coaches of the Directorate of Sports Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She said the trials were aimed at finding out new faces at grassroots level in four female and seven male disciplines.
She said Bushra Khan, a former Badminton player, headed the selection committee of the females with other members of the selection committee comprising Amna Khan, and Saira Khan. District Sports Officer Tehseen Ullah Khan also accompanied Rashida Ghaznavi. She also appreciated Tahseen Ullah for making the best arrangements for the trials. Rashida Ghaznavi thoroughly monitored the performance of the players before short-listing the names of the selected probables.
She said like other districts across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the trials of the girls and boys are being organised in Charsadda District, Nowshera and Peshawar District. She disclosed that 200 females were taking part in Athletic, Badminton, Table Tennis and Volleyball (Female) and 350 male players turned up for seven males games including volleyball, table tennis, athletics, badminton, hockey, squash, and football.
She said the short-listed players would be groomed, trained under qualified coaches and given opportunities to represent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the National Junior and Senior Championships. She said that Chief Secretary KPK Dr. Kazim Niaz and Secretary Sports Abid Majeed have clear instructions to ensure equal opportunities to the women players.
She also lauded Additional Secretary Sports and Tourism Junaid Khan and DG Sports Asfandyar Khattak for providing true patronage to female athletes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She said that only male football trials were being organised in Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, and the rest of the trials of seven male and four female continued in Peshawar Sports Complex.
She said women coaches Amna and Saira along with other coaches supervising the trials while Syed Jaffar Shah and Zafran (Athletics), Nadeem Khan (Badminton), Wajid Khan (Volleyball), Tariq Iqbal, Muhammad Waseem, Alam Zeb, Niamat, Munawar Zaman (Squash), Faisal Javed (Football), Zia Ur Rehman and Yasir Islam (Hockey) are supervising the male trials of different Games.
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