KARACHI: Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi’s foundation on Saturday joined the ongoing campaign of Karachi Sports Forum (KSF) of distributing ration, medicines, sanitisers and other essential items among the needy athletes, groundstaff and sports event organisers who are facing difficulties due to the lockdown amid outbreak of pandemic Covid-19.

Chairman of the Foundation, Shahid Afridi, and its president squash legend Jahangir Khan assured full support to KSF chairman Asif Azeem for the noble cause, according to a press release issued here.They said that the Foundation will fully cooperate for the welfare of the people belonging to sports field at this time of crisis.

Asif thanking Afridi and Jahangir said with the support of the Foundation, the KSF has expanded its campaign to the provincial level and the provincial associations have been asked to join the campaign.

The Foundation’s chairman in collaboration with the KSF would hand over ration bags to the office-bearers of different sports associations to distribute it among the financially unstable athletes and others.

Meanwhile, Syed Foundation president Waseem Hashmi taking immediate notice of a news item published in various section of press regarding the economic difficulties being faced by Christian and Hindu communities of Civil Line, talked to international tennis player Robin Das and assured to distribute ration among the communities on Sunday.

Published in Dawn, April 5th, 2020