Pakistan offers to host South Asian athletics event

KARACHI: Pakistan has offered South Asian Athletics Federation (SAAF) in Maldives that it would hold an athletics event of the region in 2025.

“We offered them that Pakistan would host a SAAF level athletics event in 2025 and the representatives of all countries present in the meeting were very happy to hear this,” Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) secretary Mohammad Zafar told  the media  after returning from Maldives.

Zafar in the SAAF general council meeting in Male was also elected as secretary general of the body.

The AFP president Major General (retd) Mohammad Akram Sahi was elected as SAAF chairman.

Sahi is also the vice-president of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA).

In the meeting the president and secretary general of the AAA were also present.

“Pakistan is passing through deep economic crisis and therefore we offered them that we could host a major regional event in 2025. It will be an added event and it will further boost Pakistan’s athletics. You know Pakistan is also set to host South Asian Games next year in which an athletic event will also be there,” Zafar said.

He said it’s great news that two Pakistanis were given key seats in the SAAF.