PESHAWAR
\nSouth Korea\u2019s Don Jung and Pakistan\u2019s Amjad Aziz Malik Tuesday elected as President and General Secretary of the Asian Sports Journalists Federation (AIPS) Asia unopposed for the third consecutive time in an election held in Rome, Italy.
\nAmjad Aziz Malik is the first Asian journalist to be elected for the third consecutive term. The elections were held in Rome, Italy. Thirty Asian countries participated in the elections.
\nThere was a contest for the presidency between South Korea\u2019s Hae Dong Jung and Malaysia\u2019s Ahmad Khwari Isa, but the Malaysian candidate withdrew from the South Korean incumbent, after which Hae Don Jung was elected president unopposed.
\nSaudi Arabia\u2019s Adel Al Zahrani Sr. was elected unopposed to the post of Vice President. After two incumbents withdrew their nominations, the election of five vice-presidents was also unopposed. Among those elected are Mubarak Al-Bunain of Qatar, Khalil Haider of Kuwait, Ahmad Khawari Isa of Malaysia, Saba Naikin of India and Iran Mizam Zaman.
\nNo other candidate has submitted nomination papers for the post of Secretary General, Amjad Aziz Malik of Pakistan, so he has been elected as the Secretary of AIPS Asia for the third time. He is the first Pakistani and Asian journalist to be elected for the third consecutive time.
\nNiranjan Rajbansi of Nepal was elected as treasurer after Sato of Mongolia withdrew his nomination for the post of treasurer. Candidates from 15 countries had submitted nominations for eight seats in the Executive Committee, but after seven countries withdrew their papers, the officials who were declared elected included Hiroki Shoda of Japan, Sanat Babla of Bangladesh, Palestine.
\nSafwan Abu Shanab, Oman\u2019s Ahmed Saif Al Kaabi, Macau\u2019s Nam Seung Fong, Chinese Taipei\u2019s Helen Chee, Yemen\u2019s Abdulsalam Hamoud Ali Saud and Kazakhstan\u2019s Ilyas Umarov.
\nAll resources will be utilized for the development of sports journalism. He also urged the national sports journalist organizations of Asian countries to organize annual events regularly and focus on training young sports journalists.
\nHae-Don Jung stressed the need for quality sports journalism and criticism for reform so that journalists can contribute to the development of sports and the welfare of athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR South Korea\u2019s Don Jung and Pakistan\u2019s Amjad Aziz Malik Tuesday elected as President and General Secretary of the Asian Sports Journalists Federation (AIPS) Asia unopposed for the third consecutive time in an election held in Rome, Italy. Amjad Aziz Malik is the first Asian journalist to be elected for the third consecutive term. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n