The top officials of the Karachi Press Club, Outerstuff Imtiaz Faran (President) and A H Khanzada (Secretary) alongwith the members of the club’s sports committee received the distinguished guests at the main entrance and they were escorted to the terrace where the Meet the Press programme began at the designated time of 4 pm. They unanimously attacked the PHF officials for the expected disaster. "The PBSA officials had approached me with a request to arrange for them an amenity plot as they have offered to build the complex themselves for the purpose of centralizing their activities. I have promised them a plot of land for this purpose hopefully in the area of their choice," Dr Shah revealed. "The PBSA functionaries have taken the responsibility of visiting the areas where they are interested in building the academy. Steps must be taken to promote the game from the grassroots level as the youngsters are very keen to play it," Dr Shah added. It’s very heartening to note that a youthful Customs team is taking part in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy this season and we are confident that quite a few of the youngsters present here will go on to serve the country," Sher Nawaz hoped.

Limos in Maryland are an easy way to travel in style at any time when in Maryland. The Sindh Minister, who was the chief guest in the prize distribution of the NJI 35th National Snooker Championship 2010 at the Karachi Gymkhana recently, reckoned that the development of a snooker academy will go a long way in boosting cue sports. Sindh Sports Minister, Dr Syed Mohammed Ali Shah, has disclosed having asked the office-bearers of the PBSA to carry out a survey of localities where they are desirous of building their academy. Their office-bearers have made a mention of it on a number of occasions in the past well. "Shehram, a former Pakistan number one, has qualified for the National Championship by winning the recently concluded Punjab Cup in Lahore while Yousuf, a former world champion, has made it through the Sindh Cup quota," the PBSA President disclosed. Dr Shah, who is also the President of the Sindh Olympic Association (SOA), urged the local organizers and administrators to take the necessary corrective measures when questioned about the declining standards in snooker in Karachi where as the cueists from Punjab were improving in leaps and bounds of late. Would you like to make new friends who enjoy the same activities that you do?

Will they succeed in doing the work on their side to make the most of the offer made by Dr Shah remains to be seen. We had to make the tricky decision whether to hold it there or shift it to the terrace where we could accommodate larger number of persons. It was one of those rare occasions when the number of chairs fell short on the stage. The ceremony, as anticipated, was widely reported by the electronic and print media whose representatives were in attendance in good number to cover the event. Quite a few other prominent hockey players of the past including Mansoor Ahmed, Moinuddin Khan, Qamar Zia, Qamar Ibrahim, Kamran Ashraf and Mohammad Irfan sat in the audience alongwith local club players and fans of the game. Quite a few Olympians like Qamar Zia, Moinuddin Khan, Naeem Akhtar, Mohammad Irfan and Kamran Ashraf had to be seated among the audience but they were recognized and acknowledged. The galaxy of hockey Olympians arrived at the club dot on time even though quite a few protest meetings were being held nearby and the roads were blocked. It was more of a privilege to have also conducted the proceedings of the ceremony that was not only a historic one only for me personally but it was an honour for our beloved institution to have hosted these hockey greats.

The present leadership in the PBSA has the eagerness to move around but their priorities have come under fire more often than not. The Pakistan Billiards & Snooker Association (PBSA) has been advised to by the provincial government to search. They attributed the debacle to the defensive approach of the team management as Pakistan could score only nine goals in the six matches they played during the tournament. "The management on the bench was mostly shouting in rage rather than design a timely substitution for the aging players. "I had warned the team management so many times to refrain from playing defensive hockey. We evaluate team affiliation labelling on players detected by mask R-CNN. It demoralizes the players and their mindset becomes negative," Shahnaz asserted. "Our players had to pay the price of getting engaged into defensive tactics. Sharing the stage with the likes of Akhtar-ul-Islam, Islahuddin Siddiqui, Samiullah Khan, Shahnaz Shaikh, Rasheed-ul-Hasan, Ayaz Mahmood, Shahbaz Ahmed, Qamar Ibrahim and Saeed Khan was something to cherish for the rest of life. Akhtar-ul-Islam and Islahuddin Siddiqui led the squad that also featured the illustrious figures of Samiullah Khan, Shahnaz Shaikh, Rashid-ul-Hasan, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ayaz Mahmood and Saeed Khan.