ISLAMABAD – President Maj Gen (R) M Akram Sahi and Khawaja Farooq Saeed secretary POA and all the member units of Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) jointly extended their thanks to the Senate and Senator Farhat Ullah Babar for taking up the issue of perpetual defiance of the National Sports Policy 2005 by defunct President POA Lt Gen (R) Syed Arif Hasan. Gen Sahi said: “Arif Hasan in brazen disobedience of the earlier decisions of the IPC Ministry, Senate Sports Committee, Supreme Court and High Courts of the country has destroyed the entire sports structure of the country. While the legal POA fully supports the upper house for this clear message inside and outside the country, we congratulates all members of the Senate for taking up this issue in its real spirit.”–Staff Reporter