ISLAMABAD: A senate committee on Wednesday decided to invite Talha Talib and Arshad Nadeem, who failed to win medals during the recent Tokyo Olympics but still performed well.The Senate Standing Committee on Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC), headed by Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, discussed Pakistan’s dismal performance at the Games. The committee, however, appreciated the performance of Talha and Arshad, while deciding to honour them in the next meeting. It also decided to invite the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) for a briefing on the functioning of the body and performance in Tokyo.
The committee also directed the Ministry of IPC to share the draft National Sports Policy for an input, and that in-camera meeting shall be conducted to review and discuss the policy in detail.The committee decided that in the next meeting a sub-committee shall be constituted and mandated to invite major sports organisations, including the POA, in order to understand their working and functions as well as to review their constitution under which these have been established. The sub-committee shall submit its report to the main committee….
Source: dawn.com
