KARACHI: The Sports Journalists Assoc­iation of Sindh (SJAS) held a hockey reporting workshop at the Karachi Hockey Academy (KHA) recently to mark the Sports Journalists Day.

Addressing the occasion, former hockey captain Hanif Khan said that a player or organiser could not dodge a journalist with proper homework and acknowledged that a sports journalist play a major role in an athlete’s growth. Hanif also paid tribute to SJAS for organising the event on national sports on such important day.

Former captain of the national junior team and member of the national teams in Athens and Sydney Olympics and World Cup 2002, Kashif Jawwad imparted knowledge of five-a-side format to journalists. He said that in the past lack of knowledge about regulations has cost Pakistan some games.

“This format, of two halves of 10-minute each, is getting popularity worldwide and the Pakistan Hockey Federation is also working on a roadmap for this format’s promotion,” he said.

The coordinator of the PHF and the Secretary General of the KHA Haider Hussain gave credit to SJAS for the betterment of KHA. He hoped that this bond will go for strength to strength.

Well-known hockey commentator Riazuddin, senior sports journalists Rashid Aziz, Syed Nasar Iqbal, Mehmood Riaz, Maqsood Ahmed, Nadira Mushtaq and Jaffar Hussain also imparted their knowledge about reporting and news packaging.

The workshop was attended by large numbers of SJAS members. SJAS president Mohammad Asif Khan, while expressing his views, said that knowledge of laws further enhance the reporting standard.

The secretary general of SJAS, Mohammad Asghar Azeem said that since inception SJAS has been fulfilling its role of imparting knowledge.

Published in Dawn, July 6th, 2021