LAHORE, Jan 13: Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Director-General Col Salahuddin has resigned from the post.

In the backdrop of developing differences with the new caretaker Federal Sports Minister Sikandar Jogezai, Col Salahudin has cited personal reasons for tendering the resignation but highly-placed sources in the PSB told Dawn that there was too much tension in the air between the two.

The DG only decided to quit after his meeting with the federal minister on Saturday, sources said.

Salahudin was appointed the director-general for a period of three years but is leaving the assignment some five months prior to that.

“Yes, I have tendered my resignation due to personal reasons five months before my tenure ends,” Salahuddin told Dawn from Islamabad.

“I tried my best to improve sports in Pakistan and am leaving quite satisfied with my work,” he said.

Though there has been a constant decline in all sport genres of the country for almost a decade now, the PSB increased grants to the national sports federations to manifold during Salahuddin’s tenure.