KARACHI, Feb 6: Secretary-General, City Zonal Football Association Zone V (West) Rahim Bux Baloch called a meeting on Friday, also attended by officials of district Malir and South to discuss South Zone’s chairman Nasir Karim Baloch’s suspension and fine.

Nasir had been suspended for five years while being fined Rs50,000 on Wednesday by the disciplinary committee formed to review his case by Chairman Sindh Football Association (SFA) Ghulam Abbas Baloch. The committee headed by Sindh Football Association’s (SFA) honorary secretary Mohammad Azam Khan, had accused Nasir of using “filthy and abusive language” to embarrass Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) President Faisal Saleh Hayat in the presence of FIFA’s Assistant Development Officer Mohsen Gilani as well as issuing statements to the media.

After the meeting Rahim Bux Baloch told the press that they had all reached the conclusion that the SFA chief and his friends in Hyderabad had tried playing a joke on the game of football by attacking a true lover of the game — Nasir Karim — who has served the sport for nearly all his life.

The secretary-general who is also SFA’s treasurer, was of the view that people like certain members of the disciplinary committee should refrain from using such tactics of trying to take football away from the people of Lyari, who happen to be the pioneers of the game in Pakistan.

“Nasir was never even notified by the SFA Chairman Ghulam Abbas or the committee about all this. Besides, I’m surprised that Ghulam Abbas would form the committee in Hyderabad when the secretariat is located right here in Karachi. It is just not fair,” he said while speaking to Dawn.