India
Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) has lodged a complaint with the World and Asian squash bodies that the Indian High Commission delayed in issuing visas to a four-member Pakistan team, resulting in its pullout from the Asian Squash Championship.
Updated : Apr 26, 2017, 10:10 AM IST
Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) has lodged a complaint with the World and Asian squash bodies that the Indian High Commission delayed in issuing visas to a four-member Pakistan team, resulting in its pullout from the Asian Squash Championship.
An official source in the PSF said that the matter had been brought to the notice of the World and Asian bodies since Pakistan were the defending champions.
The PSF claimed that it had submitted applications for visas of players and officials well before time on March 17.
PSF secretary Tahir Sultan alleged that after refusing the visas to the Pakistan team comprising Farhan Mehboob, Farhan Zaman, Tayyab Aslam and Waqar Mehboob on Monday morning the Indian High Commission had asked them to submit their passports again.
"After returning the passports to us, they (Indian High Commission) contacted us and asked us to submit the passports again for the issuance of visas but we have now decided not to apply again," Sultan told
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)