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  • Three Pakistan Hockey Players Slapped With Lifetime Ban For Seeking Asylum In European Country | Other

    Three Pakistan hockey players and a physiotherapist have been banned for life for attempting to seek asylum in a European country after slipping away without the knowledge of the Pakistan Hockey Federation. PHF secretary-general Rana Mujahid confirmed on Thursday that Murtaza Yaqoob, Ihtesham Aslam and Abdur Rahman, along with physiotherapist Waqas, had gone to the Netherlands and Poland last month for the Nations Cup.

    “When the team returned home and we announced a training camp for the Asian Champions Trophy, the three informed us that due to domestic issues they wouldn’t be able to attend the camp,” Mujahid said.

    “Later we came to know that they had flown out to Holland once again on the same Schengen visas issued to the team and sought political asylum there,” he added.

    Mujahid said it was a “disappointing” episode for Pakistan hockey, which would make it difficult to apply for visas to European countries for international competitions.

    He said that the PHF Congress had approved the lifetime ban and asked the PHF president to make efforts through the Pakistan consulate to bring them back for disciplinary action.

    “We have already notified the interior and foreign ministries for further action,” he added.

    The former Olympian acknowledged that while the PHF’s financial situation was challenging and that players had faced delays in their travel allowances and daily subsistence payments, these issues did not justify abandoning the national team and bringing disrepute to the country.

  • Pakistan’s Dutch hockey trainer resigns after now not getting paid for one year

    Pakistan’s Dutch hockey trainer, Siegfried Aikman has resigned from his publish after now not getting paid for the remaining one year.

    Aikman, who had joined the nationwide staff remaining 12 months, took to social media to announce he had formally resigned as head trainer.

    Regardless that Aikman had returned house from Pakistan overdue remaining 12 months over a wage dispute, he didn’t relinquish the publish looking ahead to his arrears to be cleared. However with out a answer in sight, he has made up our minds to renounce.

    Across the time Aikman despatched in his resignation to the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), every other Dutch trainer, Roelant Oltmans, arrived in Pakistan and can fly out with the nationwide junior squad to Muscat for the Asia Junior Cup on Sunday evening.

    PHF showed that Oltmans had arrived in Lahore and brought rate of the junior staff for the continental match.

    PHF has now not indicated who pays Oltman’s wage or whether or not Aikman’s dues will probably be cleared.

    Aikman were employed by way of PHF after the Pakistan Sports activities Board (PSB) mentioned it might pay the Dutch trainer’s wage. A standoff between the PHF and PSB over elections and constitutional problems ended in a state of affairs the place the state-controlled frame has stopped investment to the PHF.

    “Even the (investment of the) staff we now have despatched to Oman has been achieved by way of elevating cash thru personal donors and sponsors,” mentioned a PHF authentic.