POA finalises voter list for polls

KARACHI: Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) has prepared the list of the persons who are eligible to attend its electoral meeting to be held on February 4 at a hotel in Lahore. As per the list, 102 voters will cast their votes to elect the office-bearers of the Pakistan’s top sports body, the POA, for a four-year term.
Lt General (retd) Syed Arif Hassan, hockey Olympian Qasim Zia and former international athlete and the president of the Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) Major General (retd) Mohammad Akram Sahi are contesting the elections for the presidential slot.
Interestingly, the AFP secretary Khalid Mehmood, who had decided to contest the election for the post of secretary from the panel of Arif Hassan, will represent Pakistan Karate Federation (PKF) as voter because both his department WAPDA and his federation AFP had not sent his nomination.
Sindh Sports Minister Mohammad Ali Shah will cast his vote from Sindh. Pakistan Badminton Federation (PBF) and Pakistan Basketball Federation are ineligible to cast votes because their cases are pending in the courts. Pakistan Equestrian Federation, being suspended, is also ineligible to vote.
Olympic sports disciplines have three votes each, while non-Olympic sports disciplines have two votes each. The provincial Olympic associations, affiliated departments Army, PAF, Navy, Railways, WAPDA, HEC and Police have one vote each while Islamabad Olympic Association and FATA Olympic Association have a half vote each.
Athletes Commission of Pakistan has two votes while four votes are for the female members.
Lt General (retd) Syed Arif Hassan (President POA), Syed Shahid Ali (IOC member in Pakistan), Abdul Khaliq Khan (POA secretary general), Major General Mohammad Akram Sahi, Brigadier Iqtidar Naseeb Ahmad, Nabeela Kamran (athletics), Shaukat javed, Khawar Shah (baseball), Mohammad Shehbaz, Pervez Ahmad (bodybuilding), Doda Khan Bhutto, Mohammad Akram Khan, Mohammad Yousuf Butt (boxing), Tariq

Alvi, Syed Azhar Ali Shah, Faiza Tariq (cycling), Col Ahmad Yar Khan Lodhi, Major (retd) Jehangir Khan Lodhi, Fareshta Ali (football), Major General Tariq Salim Malik, Taimur Hassan Amin (golf), Khwaja Farooq Saeed, Painda A Malik, Rubina Farooq (gymnastics), Syed M Abid Qadri, Mohammad Shafiq, Professor Abida Fayyaz (handball), Qasim Zia, Rana Mujahid, Barrister Shahida Jamil (hockey), Rana Shujaat Ali, Masood Ahmad, Shaheen Khan (judo), Khalil Ahmad, Waqar Ilyas Khan (ju jitsu), Mohammad Sarwar, Bad Shah Gul (kabaddi), Mohammad Jehangir, Mohammad Khalid Mehmood (karate), Zafar Iqbal Awan, Mudassir Arain (netball), Razi Ahmad Khan, Rahila Hameed Khan Durrani, Javed Lodhi (rifle-shooting), Rizwan-ul-Haq, Shahid Nazir, Sumaira Sattar (rowing), Fawzi Khwaja, Arif Saeed (rugby), Cdr Shahid Azmat Wain, Lt Commander Zahid Rauf, Shaista Arshad (sailing), Zafar Ahmad, Squdron Leader Leader Attia Mohammad Sharif, SM Arsalan Mashwani (ski), Mohammad Afzal Awan, Fareed-uddin Qureshi (softball), Wing Commander Abdul Wahab Marwat, Tariq F Rana (squash), Shehbaz Qureshi, Majid Waseem, Nargis Rahimtoola (swimming), Riaz Ahmad, Hafeezullah Khan, Ambreen Kazmi (table tennis), Iftikhar Ahmad Tabassum, Lt Col Waseem Ahmad, Saba Shamim Akhtar (taekwondo), Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain, Major Nabeel Ahmad, Mrs Tanzeela (tennis), Zafar Abbas lak, Mohamamd Jamil Ahmad Rana (tug of war), Chaudhry Mohammad Yaqoob, Abdul Khaliq Khan, Shabana Shaikh (volleyball), Mohammad Rasheed, Hafiz Imran Butt, Anjum Asif (weightlifting), Syed Aqil Shah, Mohammad Asghar, Mohammad Abdul Mubeen (wrestling), Mian Masood Ahmad, Malik Iftikhar Ahmad (wushu),Shahnawaz Marri (Balochistan Olympic Association), Zulfiqar Ali Butt (KP Olympic Association), Idrees haider Khwaja (Punjab Olympic Association), Dr Mohammad Ali Shah (Sindh Olympic Association), Nadeem Afraz (Islamabad Olympic Association), Shahid Khan Shinwari (FATA Olympic Association), Col Qaisar Mustafa (Army), Group Captain Syed Farahat Ali (PAF), Cdr Akbar Naqi (Navy), Saeed Iqbal Khan (Railways), Mohammad Imtiaz Tajwar (WAPDA), Ahmad Yahya Khan (HEC), Ali Raza (Police), Wajid Ali Chaudhry, Rehan Butt (Athletes Commission of Pakistan), Fatima Lakhani, Veena Masood, Tania Mallick, Parveen Sikandar Gill (lady members).