Faded Glory: The Shadow Over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Sports Associations

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Within the wild landscape of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where athletic spirit should flourish, a disturbing tale is revealed. Thirty-eight sports associations, which should be the foundation of sporting prowess, are empty shells, their potential growth halted by a network of nepotism, complacency, and institutional neglect.

The tale starts under the illusion of strong club organisations. In practice, the sports scene in the province is an empty field with a few hardcore martial arts clubs fighting against oblivion. The province's crowded capital, Peshawar, reflects the same emptiness, its sports dynamism shrinking to a bare flicker.

These clubs, charged with developing talent and brokering important sponsorships, have become stagnated lakes, controlled by entrenched family dynasties. Elections, in theory the foundation of democratic government, are turned into farcical rituals, rubber-stamping the status quo. The provincial sports directorate, responsible for oversight, looks the other way, its officials happy to make ceremonial appearances and take pictures, while the real problems fester.

The 2018 sport policy, aimed at rationalizing and validating the industry, has fallen victim to bureaucratic apathy. District Sports Officers, overwhelmed with club verification, settle for paperwork alone, ignoring the inherent deficiency of grassroots exercise. The associations, huddled in a small number of the province's districts, are dominated by elderly leaders, unwilling to change and fixated on traditional ways. Their attention is not on developing a lively sports culture, but on raising money for a privileged few to compete abroad.

There is no strong sports calendar. Inter-district, district, and provincial competitions, the backbone of athletic development, are relegated to paper plans. Family-controlled associations create a culture of nepotism, giving relatives jobs as officials and coaches, suppressing the development of true talent.

Compliance with the law is a foreign idea. Most associations function without registration, their leaders calling for affiliation with state institutions while avoiding their obligations under the law. The call for transparency and accountability is rejected, revealing an inherent dislike for democratic values.

The answer is plain: the Pakistan Sports Board and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sports Directorate have to impose tough controls, directing resources only to legally registered bodies. This would bring long-overdue accountability, destroying the entrenched monopolies and bringing about an era of true sports development.

Until that time, the vision of a thriving sporting future in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is stuck in locked rooms, where elections are conducted in secrecy and the ethos of fair play is an abandoned ideal.

 

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