PCCB threatens protest if demands not met

PESHAWAR Peshawar Cricket Club of the Blind (PCCB) on Thursday threatened to stage a protest demonstration if their demands were not met by March 25, a date scheduled for commencing 31st National Games in Peshawar.
The protest will be held outside the Qayyum Sports Complex, the main venue, where the most of sports events of the National Games will be held. Time and again, we have brought our demands in notice of the high ups of the provincial government but to no avail, the PCCB General Secretary Habibullah Khattak said while speaking at a 'Meet the Press Programme. He claimed that NWFPs position in sports events for blinds especially in cricket was on top. Unfortunately, due to lack of resources and support on the part of the provincial government, it had now failed to retain that rank anymore. We are swiftly losing that of our remarkable glory in blinds sports, thus, there is need that the government should patronise us, he maintained. He said that blinds sports activities had totally been ignored and that was way the activities were on the decline.
To excel in blinds sports, the government should first organise a mega sports gala, especially for blinds, release maximum funds, besides establishing separate playgrounds for them.
Regarding the PCCB, he informed that they had a total of 50 members of the association across the province. The blind sportsmen, he said, were also needed jobs, thus, the government must provide them job so that they could spend a better life. Pakistans blind cricketers had won blinds World Cricket Cup twice and once remained runner-up, besides, cricket, he was confident enough to obtain gold medals in other international blinds sports events for the country, he concluded.