3 min learnFeb 20, 2026 12:11 AM IST
The disaster in Pakistan hockey deepened on Thursday because the nationwide federation’s President Tariq Bugti resigned within the aftermath of the mismanagement that left gamers on the streets throughout a current tour of Australia however not earlier than imposing a two-year ban on skipper Ammad Shakeel Butt for his criticism of the PHF.
Bugti mentioned he has despatched his resignation to the patron-in-chief of the federation, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
“I’ve despatched my resignation letter to the PM however I urge him and Subject Marshal Asim Munir to conduct an neutral inquiry into the entire state of affairs which passed off in Austrlaia throughout the FIH Professional League hockey,” he mentioned.
Bugti mentioned that considered one of his closing acts as President was “to impose a two-year ban on the nationwide workforce captain Ammad Shakeel Butt from home and worldwide hockey for bringing Pakistan hockey into disrepute.” Butt had lambasted the PHF in Lahore on Wednesday, stating that gamers have been compelled “to wash the kitchen and wash dishes” earlier than going out to compete throughout the tour by which the facet misplaced all its matches of the FIH Professional League towards the house workforce and Germany.
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This was after they spent hours on the highway after the lodge earmarked for them declined them entry for lack of an advance cost by the PHF, regardless of the physique getting the requisite funds from the Pakistan Sports activities Board (PSB).
After returning to the nation, a minimum of 9 gamers, led by However,t demanded the elimination of the workforce administration and the present PHF management.
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Butt additionally alleged {that a} majority of the gamers have been but to get their every day allowances from the PSB and PHF for the final one yr.
Bugti shifted the blame for the fiasco on PSB, insisting that that the Board dealt with all of the preparations for the tour and was “chargeable for no matter occurred there”.
However when requested a few cheque of 1 million rupees that the PSB had despatched to the PHF to cowl the lodge lodging bills, he didn’t provide a transparent response.
In one other improvement, the workforce’s head caoch, Tahir Zaman mentioned he was able to step down.
He accused the gamers of being indisciplined and alleged that the captain “freely used abusive language towards others which in flip affected the efficiency of the workforce.” Pakistan must journey to Egypt after 4 months to participate within the closing qualifying event for the World Cup