KARACHI Federal Minister for Sports Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani will be meeting with Olympians Islahuddin Siddiqui and Shahnaz Sheikh along with Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) President Olympian Qasim Zia in Islamabad today.

Sources within the federation said that Qasim Zia will be travelling to Islamabad as will the other two former players who have been harboring grievances against the PHF.

It was soon after the FIH Hockey World Cup debacle in New Delhi, India, last month where the Pakistan hockey team finished at the bottom, that several former Olympians came out to form their group that launched a campaign against the federation and its working.

The group has so far faced disappointment when the sports minister after meeting with them on March 18 failed to follow up with them on the matter.

They also failed to gather support from the President House and the Prime Minster Yousuf Raza Gilani, the patron-in-chief of hockey in Pakistan, when they traveled to Islamabad, earlier, to hold a press conference there on March 27.

But today's meeting brings fresh hope for a resolution for the unnecessary row started by the seniors.