Pakistan Sports Board’s Audit-Report Gap Raises Questions Over Transparency

 

Musarrat Ullah Jan , KikxNow , Digital Creator

Islamabad: The Pakistan Sports Board’s failure to keep its publicly available record of federation audit reports fully up to date is raising questions about financial transparency, monitoring and record management in the country’s sports sector.

According to the available list, there are 32 entries under the 2023-24 section. However, one of those entries is a general document titled “Details of NSFs/Associations regarding Audited Statements and Bank Statements,” rather than an individual federation audit report. This means the list contains 31 actual federation or sports-organisation audit statements for 2023-24.

For 2024-25, the list contains audit statements of 25 federations and sports organisations.

The more significant issue is what comes next. The financial year 2026-27 has already begun, yet the supplied record does not show a corresponding collection of 2025-26 audit reports.

This raises a straightforward question: where are the latest audit reports of the national sports federations?

If the federations have completed and submitted their 2025-26 audited accounts, why have the reports not been made publicly available on the Pakistan Sports Board’s website?

If the federations have not submitted them, what action has the Sports Board taken to obtain the reports and enforce its reporting requirements?

And if the reports are already available with the Board but have simply not been uploaded, why has their publication been delayed?

The issue goes beyond website maintenance. National sports federations operate within a system involving public oversight, government support and, in many cases, public funding. Their audited financial statements therefore provide an important mechanism through which spending and financial management can be examined.

The available record does not by itself establish that the Pakistan Sports Board deliberately withheld information. That conclusion would require further evidence.

But the gap in the publicly available record raises a legitimate accountability question: are the latest reports unavailable because they were never submitted, because the Board has not obtained them, or because the Board has failed to publish documents already in its possession?

The Pakistan Sports Board should clarify how many federations were asked to submit their 2025-26 audited accounts, how many submitted them, how many reports remain pending or under review, and how many have been uploaded to the official website.

For a sports system dealing with public resources, audit reports are not merely administrative paperwork. They are part of the public accountability record.

The real question, therefore, is not simply whether the reports exist in official files. It is whether the public can access complete, current and timely financial information about the organisations representing Pakistan in sport.

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