Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti Friday announced that the 73rd Punjab Games would be held here from Janu-ary 24 to 27, 2022. He said this while addressing a press conference at National Hockey Stadium here.
Director General Sports Punjab Javed Chohan, Chairman Pakistan Paralympic Association Dr Khalid Jameel, Vice-Chairman Special Olympics Pakistan Anees ur Rehman, Secretary Punjab Olympic Association Idris Haider Khawaja and Chief Sports consultant SBP Hafeez Bhatti were also present on this occa-sion.
Addressing the press conference, Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti informed that the competitions of 24 sports disciplines will be organized during 73rd Punjab Games out of which 8 games will be staged only for women.
“We will also organize competi-tions for special children during the games”. Punjab Minister for Sports said that around 4000 male and female players from across the prov-ince will participate in the mega event of Punjab Games.
“Since the Punjab Games is a major sports event so its preliminary competitions will start in phases at tehsil, district and divisional level leading up to Punjab Games and in the whole process around 15000 male and female players from across the province will be engaged”. —APP
