ISLAMABAD, July 4: Two officials from the Pakistan Rowing Federation (PRF), Rizwan-ul-Haq (secretary general) and Mohammad Shamsher (associate secretary), will attend FISA World Rowing Annual congress, scheduled to be held at Linz, Austria on July 25.

An official of PRF told Dawn on Friday that the agenda of the congress is approval of 2009 budget and four-year financial plan of FISA.

He said that the requests and bidding received from different countries for hosting rowing championships will be discussed and allocated in the congress.

Moreover a request to the organizing committee for changing the dates of 2010 Rowing Championships in New Zealand will also be on agenda for approval from the house, the official concluded.

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