Lt Gen (r) Arif Hassan retained the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) president slot after defeating Maj Gen (r) Akram Sahi and Qasim Zia in the elections here at a local hotel on Saturday. From a total votes of 102, Lt Gen (r) Arif Hassan bagged 48. Gen (r) Akram Sahi got 32 votes. The third contestant Qasim Zia, who is also PHF president, succeeded in getting 21 votes.
After the elections, the General Council meeting was held in which the winning candidate Lt Gen (r) Arif Hassan announced his panel. Khalid Mehmood of WAPDA was nominated as POA secretary while 10 vice presidents were also announced including Syed Aqil Shah, Ch M Yaqoob, Shaukat Javed, Doda Khan Bhutto, Kamran Lashari, Saeed Iqbal Khan, Iftikhar Ahmad Tabassum, M Afzal Awan, Abdul Khaliq Khan and Fatima Lashari.
Haji M Shafiq was nominated as treasurer while M Jahangir, Zulfiqar Ali Butt, Hafiz Imran Butt, Hafeez Ullah Khan and Haider Lehri are nominated as associate secretaries. Khawar Pervaiz Shah, M Rashid Malik, Ahmad Yahya Khan, Wajid Ali Ch, Sumera Sattar, Saba Shamim Akhtar and Nargis Rahimtoola are nominated as member of executive committee.
