FIFA-appointed NC’s irregularities to be highlighted: Dogar

KARACHI: Raising serious questions over the so far working of Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Normalisation Committee, MNA from Multan Malik Amir Dogar has said that they will approach both FIFA and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to bring to their notice the irregularities of the FIFA-appointed NC has made so far by ignoring genuine football stakeholders.

“When the issue of coronavirus will be overcome we will talk to both FIFA and the AFC and to bring to their notice how the PFF NC is violating rules and regulations of both the respected bodies and bringing disrepute to them. We will tell them how it is ignoring the genuine football stakeholders of the country by taking biased decisions,” Dogar told “The News” in an interview on Monday.

“We had accepted and welcomed the appointment of NC because we wanted international football to be restored and normalcy returned but NC could not live up to the expectations and has now become a nuisance for the country’s football because of its biased approach and nepotism,” Dogar said.

He also alleged that NC is lavishly spending and wasting the precious assets of the PFF. “We had given the NC around Rs170 million after running the PFF for certain period with honesty but the NC is spending lavishly and is wasting the precious asset of the nation. It has hired mostly bankers for its secretariat by giving them huge salaries. It’s lady secretary is taking huge salary. She lives in Karachi and comes to Lahore for a meeting once in a month, stays at five star hotel and is making huge TA and DA without doing anything,” Dogar alleged.

“Karachi has been made camp office and the PFF exchequer is being mercilessly utilised and wasted,” Dogar said. He said several times NC made changes in the Punjab Football Association NC composition.

“For four times NC changed the composition of Punjab FA NC. This is not the way things are handled. When the whole country is passing through the most pressing time due to Covid-19 pandemic, NC is taking decisions by making changes in the composition of various NCs without taking input from its own members. It should have rather helped the needy footballers and provided them with rashan but it is pursuing its own nefarious designs,” Dogar said. “We were criticising the previous regime of Faisal Saleh Hayat but the NC has broken all records and is taking the matters towards further disaster,” Dogar said.

“Right from the day one NC has been biased, doing nepotism and the way the national women championship was conducted and the way rights of Punjab women players in particular were trampled shows that NC is an embodiment of non-technocrats and its sole purpose is to meet its nefarious designs,” Dogar said. Amir Dogar is the son of former senator Salahuddin Dogar. Amir emerged as a strong football stakeholder when joined by former Punjab Football Association (PFA) President Naveed Haider who defected from the then ruling FIFA-recognised PFF headed by Faisal.