October 18, 2003	Saturday	Sha'aban 21, 1424

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KARACHI, Oct 17: Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) has been urged to appoint a boxing personality as the manager of the Hyderabad-bound squad for forthcoming Afro-Asian Games.

“I appeal to the PBF to name a manager who is related to boxing and knows the sport well rather than appointing a layman to provide him a joyride,” former PBF joint secretary Ali Akbar Shah said in a statement.

According to the ex-official, PBF has selected light-flyweight Noman Kareem, bantamweight Meherullah, lightweight Asghar Ali Shah and middleweight Ahmad Ali Khan, but the manager is yet to be named.

Ali said he was apprehensive since the PBF had appointed manager of the squad for recently organized Commonwealth championship in Kuala Lumpur who had no connection with the game nor he belonged to any affiliated unit of the PBF.

“The manager for the Commonwealth championship neither went along with the squad to Kuala Lumpur nor he returned with the boxers. The PBF had no money few months ago, but now there is no reason to send freeloaders as managers when the PBF has millions of rupees in its kitty,” he argued.