RSO Peshawar 2025: Sports Promotion or Administrative Spending Game?

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 Musarrat Ullah Jan , KikxNow , Digital Creator

The 2025 financial record of the Regional Sports Office (RSO) Peshawar raises a fundamental question: is this budget actually being spent on sports promotion, or is it just paperwork?

The data suggests that a large portion of funds allocated under the label of “sports promotion” is being consumed by salaries, allowances, and vague expenditure heads, while the athletes themselves are nowhere to be seen.

A closer look at salaries and allowances makes the picture clear. More than 5.2 million PKR has been spent on basic pay alone, while allowances such as house rent, conveyance, and medical have exceeded their original allocations by wide margins.

For example, house rent was budgeted at 580,000 PKR, but actual spending crossed 1 million PKR. Conveyance and medical allowances show similar patterns. This is not a minor discrepancy. It either reflects poor financial planning or a deliberate practice of under-budgeting and overspending later.

The biggest red flag is A05270 (To Others), typically used for sports promotion activities.

Allocated: 3 million PKR

Spent: over 3.8 million PKR

There is no breakdown, no event list, and no record of beneficiaries. In simple terms, this appears to be a dumping head where funds can be spent without clear accountability.

Another highly questionable head is A03970 (Others).

Budget: 100,000 PKR

Expenditure: nearly 1.8 million PKR

That is a 17-fold increase, which is far from normal. Either funds were shifted into this category without transparency, or it is being used to conceal expenditures.

Spending on printing and workshops also raises serious concerns. Printing costs jumped from 50,000 PKR to over 500,000 PKR, while workshops had zero initial allocation but still saw spending of more than 400,000 PKR.

This leads to obvious questions:

Where were these workshops held? Who attended? Is there any report?

Such patterns often indicate paper activities, inflated billing, or ghost events.

Telephone and trunk call expenses also show an unusual spike.

Budget: 1,000 PKR

Spent: over 110,000 PKR

In 2025, such expenditure is highly unusual and demands explanation.

 

More importantly, the areas where actual sports development should occur show little to no spending. Furniture, buildings, registration, and other essential heads either recorded zero expenditure or negligible amounts.

This strongly suggests that direct investment in athletes is almost non-existent.

Overall, the numbers present a troubling picture:

Total Budget: 16.5 million PKR

Total Expenditure: 18.6 million PKR

Not only was the budget exceeded, but several heads also show negative balances.

The core issue is structural. There is no visible link between spending and sports outcomes.

There is no data on:

How many athletes benefited

How many events were conducted

Whether performance improved

The final question remains simple:

If the money is being spent, where are the sports?

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