September 14, 2008	Sunday	Ramazan 13, 1429

ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has ordered five sports federations to vacate its premises within one week.

An official of the board told Dawn on Saturday; “We had sent letters to Pakistan Volleyball Federation, Rowing Federation, Alpine Club, Kabbadi Federation and Athletics Federation around two weeks ago to vacate our premises by Sept 10, but they did not pay any attention to it.”

“We have now sent them reminder to vacate the premises within one week,” the official said.

“The federations were using the PSB facilities as accommodation and the PSB would not tolerate it,” he added.

The official said the PSB premises had been handed over by former PSB director-general Arif Siddiqui in 2003.

To a question whether the five sports federations were paying any charges for using the premises, the spokesman said, “None of them were paying any charges accept some minor utility bills.”

The vacated offices would be used by the Sports Ministry as many of its offices had already been shifted from a rented location to PSB premises at the Sports Complex, he concluded.