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LAHORE – Punjab Football Association (PFA) congress on Saturday suspended its president Naveed Haider Khan for 5 years under the article 25 (M) of the PFF Statutes.
“Sardar Naveed Haider is no more the president of PFA; 23 out of 37 members of PFA has voted in favour of suspension of Naveed Haider for five years. In fact, he was already suspended till next congress by the PFA EXCO on 28 November 2018, however, the PFA Congress, with an overwhelming majority, has not only ratified the suspension but has increased the period of his suspension to five years,” said PFA Vice President Khalid Sheikh, the longest serving president of PFA.
A committee has been formed – comprising three vice presidents and headed by Khalid Sheikh – to run the affairs till the election of a new PFA President. “The house has decided to form a committee which will run the affair of PFA, it will be headed by PFA vice president Khalid Sheikh. Myself and Sheikh Iqbal (PFA vice presidents) are the other two members, till a new president is elected. PFF statutes duly approved by FIFA are being followed in true letter and spirit in the whole process,” Rana Shaukat, one of the PFA vice presidents said and added that Asghar Khan Anjum will act as coordinator with the committee.
Earlier in year 2018, while suspending Sardar Naveed till next congress, serious allegations were framed by the PFA executive body against its chief, as serious as the changing of the names of PFA representatives without the approval of PFA EXCO for the PFF Elections 2018, not holding the PFA Congress, not appointing the PFA General Secretary, joining the group of illegal people, who has played a key role to destroy the football in Pakistan by making a parallel PFF body, appointing two additional PFA vice presidents illegally again without the approval of PFA EXCO so on and so for, said PFA vice president Sheikh Iqbal.
Published in The Nation, 5 May 2019
Dawn adds:
Sardar Naveed removed from PFA presidency, banned for five years
LAHORE: The Punjab Football Association (PFA) Extra-ordinary Congress has removed its president Sardar Navid Haider and banned him from football activities for five years.
“Navid Haider is suspended for five years, by virtue of which he stands removed; PFA Congress ratifies the decision of PFA Executive Committee made on 28 Nov 2018 and takes a step ahead. Extra-Ordinary Congress is convened on the request of more than one third members of PFA,” a press release by the body stated on Saturday.
“According to the details, already suspended President of Punjab Football Association, Navid Haider Khan the tenure of his suspension has been extended to five years under the article 25 (m) of the PFF Statutes by the Punjab Association’s Congress in its meeting held here at Lahore today on 4 April 2019. He (Navid) is no more the president of PFA; 23 out of 37 members of PFA has voted in favour of suspension of Navid Haider for five years,” it added.
The statement said the provincial football body will now be lead by its vice presidents Sheikh Iqbal, Khalid Iqbal and Rana Shaukat Ali until a new president is elected.
PFA said it has removed Naveed after ‘serious allegations’ were framed against him by the association’s Executive Body.
The allegations included “changing of the names of PFA representatives without the approval of PFA Executive Committee for the PFF Elections 2018, not holding the PFA Congress, not appointing the PFA General Secretary, joining the group of illegal people who has played a key role to destroy the football in Pakistan.”
Sardar, in response has termed PFA’s step illegal and has claimed the Executive Body’s tenure has ended on March 30 and that new elections are yet to be held. He said, until then, he is the PFA president.
Sardar said the PFA meeting was unconstitutional as no requisition was tabled to convene the meeting, which was necessary 15 days before its holding. He said it was all the drama staged by Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat (head of Sardar’s opposite group) to show to the FIFA delegation, which is set to tourPakistan on May 28 and 29, that Punjab was with him.