[Dawn] In an initiative to save workless and hopeless youth from falling into the hands of terrorists, the Malik Saad Memorial Sports Trust plans to establish 50 sports academies in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Sounds like midnight basketball for turbans...
This initiative to defeat terrorism through sports has the support of the government and the USAID, which have provided sports kits and infrastructure to MSMST for the academies.
The violence-wracked Bajaur, Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
and Wazoo tribal agencies would get the academies on priority basis with a view to lure the youths towards healthy activities and save them from falling prey to Death Eaters.
Established only one-and-half-year ago in the memory of popular police officer Malik Mohammad Saad Khan, there is no looking back as the trust is spearheading sports activities aimed at inculcating the spirit of love, peace and brotherhood among the youths in the rural areas of the province as well as Fata.
On the directives of Governor Syed Masood Kausar, the trust has already established a sport academy in Khyber Agency, which proved a marked success and attracted youths towards playing cricket, volleyball, table tennis, football and other popular games in an area presently under the influence of Death Eaters.