Cleaning Up the Playing Field: Why K P Sports Directorate Needs a Thorough Accountability
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa's Sports Directorate is rife with mismanagement and corruption, and
a comprehensive accountability process is long overdue. This isn't just about
the current PTI regime; it's about the past two decades. Everyone involved,
from employees and contractors to PMS officers and journalists, needs to be
under the microscope. Ministers who used the ministry to benefit their cronies
must also face scrutiny.
We
need to investigate the financial trajectories of all individuals associated
with the directorate for the past 20 years. Where did their wealth come from?
Did their lifestyles inflate suspiciously during their time in sports? We must
also examine the so-called "big players" – coaches who enjoy hefty
privileges but deliver abysmal results.
The
current state of affairs is shameful. Employees haven't received their November
salaries yet, while some officials flaunt fleets of cars fueled by government
quotas. Meanwhile, a special person's car engine mysteriously vanishes, and the
driver suffers a three-month salary suspension, but no further action is taken.
This culture of impunity needs to end.
No
one knows the exact number of registered sports associations, their members, or
their facilities. District Sports Officers seem oblivious to the 2018 sports
policy's implementation. How many clubs and associations have been registered?
How many elections have been held fairly? Which associations operate solely on
nepotism, and for how long have unqualified individuals clung to power?
Sports
directorate employees with forged documents, who never competed at
inter-district level but somehow became "international players", need
to be exposed. Individuals whose credentials are rejected by federations yet
occupy permanent, even promoted, positions must be held accountable. Are these
employees puppets of various associations, milking both sides for gain? Is
their contractual status even valid?
What
about the employees who joined 20 years ago? Their current salaries barely
cover basic expenses. How can they afford luxury cars, businesses, foreign
trips, and Haj pilgrimages? Even debt-ridden servants manage Umrah, so
something clearly isn't adding up.
Finally,
the accountability net must ensnare sports journalists as well. What were their
lifestyles like 20 years ago? How many faced bans for inappropriate behavior at
girls' colleges? How many athletes have they exploited? How many players have
they blackmailed or cheated out of prize money? Are they affiliated with
businesses or government agencies? Are they even legitimate journalists, or
just empty titles?
Only
a thorough, unbiased accountability process can answer these questions, expose
the culprits, and clean up the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sports Directorate. The true
stakeholders, the athletes who deserve better, are the ones who suffer most
from this systemic rot. It's time to give them the fair playing field they
deserve.
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