A Farce of Merit: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Reward Fraud

 

When rewards are promised by a government, special athletes cling to hope. Hope that at last, they will get the respect, recognition, and rights they have been deprived of. But what happened in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in early 2025 was nothing but a travesty. It was an open reminder of the conjunction of politics, the NGO mafia, the Social Welfare Department, and corrupt representatives.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister had promised awards to players who played in the Asian Cricket Championship. But when the time for action came, neither the news nor the vow of justice came true. A ceremony took place, but the actual sportsmen were left in the dark altogether. Special sportsmen with talent from Abbottabad, Mansehra, and other areas discovered their names ominously absent from the list.

Those invited to the government function, introduced as special sportspersons, were a majority who had never even picked up a cricket bat in their entire lives! Their only qualification appeared to be that they knew politicians or NGO activists. And the real deserving sportspersons? Those who had stood tall with the national flag, sweated through rigorous practice, suffered injuries, and had dared to dream? They got no notice, nor were their names included on any list. That wasn't carelessness; it was a malicious and willful fraud.

During the ceremony, it was declared that every player was to be given one hundred thousand rupees as compensation. But as soon as the cameras were away, those very "players" (not the actual ones) walked away content with just fifty thousand rupees. The rest of the fifty thousand? It probably disappeared into papers, classified as "special services." This was not only dishonesty on their part; it was state-sponsored humiliation.

Questions now hover large:

Who ordered the Social Welfare Department to draw up these bogus lists?

Who authorized NGOs to take decisions with no proper inquiry?

How long will the officers who misled the Chief Minister remain shielded?

And above all: In this nation, does one become entitled to the status of a renowned athlete only if they have a "sponsor" or "recommendation" behind them?

The Cry of the True Athletes: "We Are Not Begging for Charity"

The true athletes who took part in the Asian Cricket Championship protested strongly, insisting:

"We were not begging for charity. We asked for respect, our rights, and the worth of our blood and sweat. An FIR should be filed against those who cheated us, and we demand the Social Welfare Minister respond to the public!"

If, in this condition, only sycophants in offices and not the real players on the field are given rewards, then all discussion about motivating special people is just rhetoric. This incident is not just a minute act of corruption; it is the killing of the dignity, toil, and aspirations of a whole section of society.

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