Football fraternity seeks more time to secure their voting rights before PFF elections.

LAHORE -- The FIFA's Normalisation Committee (NC) proposes the PFF district elections from May 15, 2023 but Pakistan football community demands more time to comply with the PFF statutes to secure their voting right before the PFF elections kick off.

The development came during the second meeting of representatives of the football community belonging to varied school of thoughts from across the country, here at a local hotel, where PFF NC Chairman Haroon Malik has shown a strong will to kick off the PFF elections from May 15. Welcoming the participants, Haroon Malik, flanked with NC members Barrister Haris Azmat, Saud Hashimi and Shahid Niaz Khokhar, said that the PFF election process is well underway as the club registration has been completed through a massive technology-based drive while the club scrutiny will be completed in April, after which the PFF District Elections will be held. In response, the participants of the clubs urged PFF NC to provide more time to the clubs in order to register themselves on the list of active clubs.

'For now, we do not want to miss the voting opportunity.' After several requests by the participants of the meeting for enabling the clubs to fulfill statutory requirements by extending the timelines for clubs' registration, the Chairman NC has requested the football fraternity members present in the meeting to nominate their representatives having legal expertise to form a committee, which should then work closely with the FIFA NC so that the election process can be carried out at a speedy pace in accordance with the PFF statutes. The house has also emphasized...