According to the international authority, Pakistan would stay suspended unless such changes are implemented by the PFF congress.
The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has been suspended by the International Football Federation (FIFA) for failing to adopt constitutional reforms deemed required for the smooth and just governance of the sport in the country. The world body stated that Pakistan will be suspended until the PFF congress passed the revisions. Since June 2019, Pakistan football has been managed by a FIFA-appointed Normalisation Committee, which was entrusted with holding elections and cleaning up parallel groupings in the football setup, but it has failed to carry out these plans effectively.Although the leaders and members of the Normalization Committee have changed over the past five years, the fundamental problems facing Pakistani sport have not changed.
The state-run Pakistan Sports Board and the Normalization Committee have been at odds, which has delayed the modifications.
Haroon Malik, the head of the PFF Normalization Committee, had told a parliamentary panel earlier this week that February 15 would be his last day in office and that Pakistan would face suspension if it failed to enact the constitutional modifications.Malik further clarified that filing the revisions did not imply that he will run for office in the nation’s football governing body elections.
According to Malik, there was a standoff because the PFF Congress was unwilling to implement the changes as instructed by FIFA.
Since 2017, the Pakistan Football Federation has been suspended three times.
