PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Under-21 Games will be held from February 4 to February 7 at the Peshawar Sports Complex, which Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi will formally inaugurate.
A meeting was held yesterday under the chairmanship of Advisor to the Prime Minister on Sports and Youth Affairs Taj Muhammad Tarand regarding the organisation of the Under-21 Games, in which the games were rescheduled, and new dates were approved.
The meeting was attended by the Director General of Sports, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Tashfeen Haider, Director of Operations, Jamshed, the Assistant Director of Finance, Shah Faisal, and other relevant officials.
The meeting issued instructions to complete all the arrangements for the games on time, while a formal notification for the organisation of the Under-21 Games has also been issued. More than 5,000 players and officials will participate in this mega sports event of the province.
The games will feature 35 men’s and 18 women’s sports. The men’s events will be held at the Peshawar Sports Complex, Hayatabad Sports Complex, Kohat Sports Complex and Mardan Sports Complex, while the women’s events will be held at the Abdul Wali Khan Sports Complex in Charsadda, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women’s University in Peshawar, Peshawar Board Ground and Hayatabad Sports Complex.
The men’s events at the U-21 Games include badminton, table tennis, squash, athletics, volleyball, karate, football, gymnastics, throwball, basketball, boxing, taekwondo, hockey, judo, handball, wushu, archery, jujitsu, tennis, weightlifting, wrestling, snooker, lacrosse, tag ball, mass wrestling, futsal, kickboxing, bodybuilding, full-contact karate, kabaddi, muay thai, baseball, tug-of-war, rugby and zurkhana.
While women’s sports include badminton, table tennis, squash, athletics, volleyball, karate, basketball, taekwondo, judo, hockey, netball, cricket, archery, handball, jujitsu, throwball, futsal and softball.
