PESHAWAR
Trials of male and female table tennis players got under way at Qazi Mohib-ur-Rehman Sports Complex Bannu under the Prime Minister Talent Hunt Youth Program on Thursday. International cricketer Khushdil Shah officially opened the trial while he was accompanied by Director Sports Islamia College Peshawar Ali Hoti, RSO Bannu Shafqatullah, Senior Vice President of Provincial Table Tennis Association Kifayat Ullah Orakzai, DSO Bannu Adil Shah, Sports Complex Administrator Ehsanullah, International hockey player Nazir Gul of Bannu University and members of Trials Committee of Pakistan Table Tennis Federation including Nadeem Saleem, Masood Ali, Shazia.
A large number of sports personalities and players were also present with male and female athletes participating enthusiastically in the two-day trials organized by Islamia College Peshawar under the Higher Education Commission.
Addressing the opening ceremony International Khushdil Shah said that promoting sports in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is vital steps. He said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gave birth to leading sportsmen and sportswomen.
He expressed the hope that trials under the Prime Minister Talent Hunt program will get better results and the best players will be born in table tennis too who will make the country and nation famous at the national and international level.
On this occasion, Ali Hoti said that our effort is to give more and more children and girls a chance in the trials, because sports is the right of every child, this right is being given by the Prime Minister under the Talent Hunt Youth Program HEC to the children of all the divisions of the province, it is hoped that it will be beneficial. He said that the trials of male and female players are being conducted at different places which will continue for two days.
