📰 Lala Ayub Hockey Stadium in Ruins: Over Rs 120 Million Wasted, No Accountability

musarrat ullah jan -

 


The Lala Ayub Hockey Stadium in Peshawar, a flagship sports facility funded with over Rs 100 to 120 million of public tax money, stands in a state of complete disrepair—barely a year and a half after its completion. The project, overseen by the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB), was initially planned to be finished in six months but dragged on for over a year. Now, it's falling apart.

The base layer of the turf has deteriorated

Water sprinklers and fountains are non-functional

Water supply machines are completely broken

For over a week, the turf has been bone-dry, causing damage

A single hole drilled for a water pipe cost Rs 9,000 – and it’s already useless

From day one, Kikxnow reported signs of mismanagement and poor materials. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Hockey Association later raised similar concerns.

In response, the Pakistan Sports Board sent a fact-finding team led by Shahid Islam, who discouraged bringing the issue to the media. Despite their inspection, no further action was taken.

Then-Sports Director Ms. Rashida Ghaznavi of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sports Directorate officially declared the project substandard. As a result, PSB never handed the stadium over to the provincial directorate.

But former Administrator Jafar Shah later claimed:

“We were told to accept the stadium, but we said the Works & Implementation Wing must deal with it.”

What happened next? Silence. No inquiry, no follow-up, no file movement.

 Unanswered Questions:

Was this stadium really meant to last just 18 months?

Why is no one being held accountable for Rs 120 million in public funds?

Why has the RTI (Right to Information) law failed to bring transparency?

Are such mega sports projects just a front for corruption?

The situation is so dire that hockey is dying, and the capital’s key sports ground is disappearing before our eyes.

#LalaAyubScandal  #KhyberPakhtunkhwaSports  #TaxMoneyWasted  #HockeyFieldRuined

#RTI_ignored #NoAccountability  #KikxnowInvestigates  #PSB_Negligence  #SportsCorruption

#WhereIsTheMoney  #PublicFundsMisused  #AuditTheGrounds  #StopLootInSports

#JusticeForPlayers  #SportsInfrastructureCrisis #kikxnow #musarratullahjan

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Govt urge open wedding halls in KP, owners

musarrat ullah jan -
    PESHAWAR, (kikxNow) Representatives of Wedding Halls Association Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (WHA-KP) expressed their regret over still closure of wedding halls and demanded of the government to open halls. Speaking at a news press conference here at Peshawar Press Club (PPC) on Tuesday, president of WHA Khalid Ayub said that livelihood of hundreds of thousands workers were associated those wedding halls but it depends of their running business of marriages in the concerned halls. He said that there were 120 registered and 170 unregistered wedding halls in the provincial metropolis (Peshawar) while in the province there approximately 600 marriage halls, which were closed for four months due to COVID-19. Accompanied Arbab Farooq, Rahat Akbar and others, the president said that as long as the lockdown had been clamped by the government, the wedding halls were completely locked, resulting loss of Rs2.5billions across only in head of expenditures.   “As per our capaci...
Read more

Mohmand Bajaur Aman Cycle Race Promotes Peace and Local Talent

musarrat ullah jan -
    The Mohmand Bajaur Aman Cycle Race, aimed at spreading the message of peace, is set to take place on November 17, 18, and 19. Cyclists hailing from all four provinces and Islamabad are gearing up for the three-day championship, with participation from various teams, including those from Pakistan Army, Higher Education Commission, WAPDA, and Railway.   The event, under the watchful eye of technical officials, boasts a distinguished lineup, featuring Colonel Retd Jahanzeb Niazi from Balochistan, Gul Muhammad Kakar from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Nasir Khan Mohmand, and Amjad Nawaz Khan from WAPDA. Further, key figures such as Mumtaz , Secretary Waqar Ali from Punjab, and representatives from Sindh, Kaleem Awan Railway, Haider Ali, and Abdul Aziz are actively involved.   Organized by Pakistan Army's 22nd Brigade Mohmand and facilitated by Moazzam Claire and Khawaja Idris Haider, the race will span from Ghulnai to Mammadghat, then to Bajaur, Cadet College, and b...
Read more

Demand for an inquiry into the contracts and contracts awarded in the previous regime

musarrat ullah jan -
  Constituencies associated with sports appealed to the caretaker chief minister including Governor Ghulam Ali to take notice. PESHAWAR ... The circles related to sports have demanded an inquiry into the various contracts given in the sports sector during the PTI regime and have said that a transparent inquiry should be made into all the contracts given by the Provincial Sports Directorate of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Similarly, the contracts given for the purchase of sports equipment, including the hockey grounds built in the 1000 sports facilities project, including the squash courts built in various colleges, should also be checked so that not only the element of transparency is brought out, they also made the contract in the form of color. Action should also be taken against the contractor because most of the projects taken only for their own benefit have become non-standard which the previous political rulers did not pay attention to. Due to this reason, the officials of sport...
Read more