Winter Sports Festival 2023, being organised under the banner of Sports Board Punjab, explodes into action with a colourful opening ceremony

Friday, January 27, 2023

Winter Sports Festival 2023, being organised under the auspices of Sports Board Punjab (SBP), rolled into action with a colourful opening ceremony at Nishtar Park Sports Complex Gymnasium Hall on Friday.

Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Musarrat Jabeen and Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi unveiled the trophy of Winter Sports Festival on this occasion.

Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Musarrat Jabeen announced the beginning of Winter Sports Festival to be staged at different venues of Nishtar Park Sports Complex from January 27 to 29, 2023.

Director Admin Syed Umair Hassan, Additional Secretary Sports Noorul Ain Fatima, Deputy Secretary Planning Marhaba Naimat, Director Sports Chand Perveen, Deputy Director Tariq Wattoo, Chief Consultant SBP Hafeez Bhatti, Assistant Director Zahoor Ahmed, Assistant Directors Shaista Qaiser and Zareena Waqar, Assistant Director Youth Affairs M Sajid, District Sports Officer Tanveer Shah, Administrator NPSC Gymnasium Hall Mustafa Shah, senior coach Raees ur Rehman and all Divisional Sports Officers were also present at the grand inaugural ceremony.

All the participants stood in respect of the National Anthem in the opening ceremony. Young artists and performers also presented attractive tambora and sufi performances and won huge appreciation from sports enthusiasts present at the venue. Badminton star Waseem Shaheen took oath from all the contingents on this occasion.

The colourful opening ceremony was also witnessed by a large number of male and female players and sports officials. The contingents from all ten divisions of the province took part in march past in the inaugural ceremony.

As many as 300 male and female top athletes, who performed excellently and won medals in 73rd edition of Punjab Games 2022, and 70 officials, are participating in the mega Winter Sports Festival.

The male and female athletes from all districts and divisions will exhibit their talent in six games – athletics, badminton, boxing, football, judo and table tennis during the 3-day Winter Sports Festival.