LAHORE While international women hockey player Miss Razia Malik has alleged that her passport was tampered by Pakistan Hockey Federation's (PHF) Women's Wing, the charge has been denied by Parveen Gill, secretary of the Wing.
Razia, while talking to Dawn on Friday, showed her original passport claiming that the age column had been tampered with. Razia was born in 1968 but when she was selected for Junior Asia Cup (Under-21), held in India in 2004, the year of her birth was changed to 1988 in order for the Wing to make her eligible for the competition.
But the player claims that she refused to be a part of that team. Later, due to the same reason, the then PHF Secretary Mussaratullah Khan, too, decided not to send the team to participate in the event.
Razia goes on to say that she was also selected for another Asian event for seniors, which was held in Malaysia in 2006. But FIA officials stopped her at the airport due to the problem with her passport. However, Nasir Ali, the team's coach at the time cleared her case then, she said.
Razia says that the Women's Wing had also prepared a new passport for her with a new name, Kafia Nazir, when she had refused to travel on the passport that was tampered with. She said the passport number was KE 461079.
But when contacted, Parveen Gill denied all these charges saying that Razia might have made the changes herself since she was after all the ultimate beneficiary.
'Razia is not my daughter or niece for whom I would go to such an extent but people are capable of all kinds of wrongdoings for their own benefit,' she said.
'This is all utter rubbish and the Women's Wing is not involved in any kind dirty business,' she concluded.
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