Sardar Naveed Haider was elected president of the Pakistan Football Federation's largest regional body late on Friday after a chaotic election which FIFA were dragged into and a government-backed candidate barred from. Haider, who told the Dawn newspaper his phone line had been hacked and he had suffered threats if he did not withdraw from the race, was elected head of the Punjab Football Association until 2019 "with a majority", the PFF said in a brief statement. The election win for the PFF's marketing consultant was a win for PFF President Faisal Saleh Hayat, who is expected to face a strong challenge from another government-backed candidate for his position in July, possibly from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's son-in-law. Hayat, a member of the Asian Football Confederation's executive committee, was at the centre of the row after being accused of nepotism in the build-up to the vote by government-backed candidate Ali Haider Noor Niazi.
Friday, 17 April 2015
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