A good number of speakers including Khalid Mahmood, Khawaja Zakauddin, Shahnaz Sheikh, Islahuddin Siddiqui, Naveed Alam, Ayaz Mahmood, Tahir Zaman, Qamar Ibrahim, Moinuddin, Naeem Ahmad, Mohammad Saqlain, Saeed Khan and Col Mudassar Asghar delivered angry speeches on the occasion while claiming to be doing this in national interest.

Some speakers also raised a new demand for PHF President Qasim Zia to quit as well because he is not ready to take action against his secretary.

Asif Bajwa's predecessor Khalid Mahmood said that the government changed PHF's entire set up when the national team took eighth position in the last Olympics but it is doing nothing after the team came 12th in the World Cup.

Khalid said Qasim Zia followed different principles for himself and others. He also urged Rana Farooq, a federal minister, who investigated the Olympics debacle and grilled the then PHF officials, to send the same kind of advice for the ouster of the incumbent officials.

Khwaja Zakauddin advised the Olympians that it would be better to meet the prime minister and get another 'chit' like the one Qasim Zia got from him to become the PHF president.

“The prime minister's 'chit' enables you to get elected automatically,” he announced.

He also pointed out that the PHF had sent a team of aging players to the mega event that could not win anything.

He criticized the PHF for establishing a good number of academies though they just need four reputable and high-level provincial academies.

Shahnaz Sheikh said that he had been sending his proposals and opinions for the betterment of hockey to the PHF president for the last two years but to no avail.

“The PHF president should first act on those and he will send him more suggestions after that only,” he said.

Shahnaz reminded that former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had warned the national team that a gold medal was a must-win in the 1972 Munich Olympics. Otherwise he would send them to jail. But now Pakistan has finished at the bottom in the World Cup and no one in that office seems to care.

The PHF president dissolved the entire selection committee and team management soon after the poor result, while all the players of the team also tendered their resignation. Though Qasim dismissed Asif Bajwa as manager of the team, he put his weight behind him as PHF secretary, saying that since he is an elected secretary, he can only be removed by the Congress. He had also mentioned that no one from outside can take the decision and the Congress alone is the best forum to remove any elected person.

Qasim had also advised the Olympians to send him their suggestions within 15 days so that he could arrange a meeting with them in order to discuss the issues at hand.

Shahnaz alleged that he wanted to contest the elections of the Islamabad Hockey Association but he was not allowed to do so on PHF's instructions. He also criticized the PHF for taking a decision of hiring a foreign coach.

Meanwhile, Islah said that the Olympians were not running this campaign against the PHF secretary for their own vested interests but in national interest. He said timely action was required to save the game of hockey from total disaster. Otherwise, there would be more such debacles.He urged the media to support the Olympians as they were struggling for a national cause. Islah said Asif Bajwa should be held accountable for he has had a say in all matters as secretary, manager and head coach.

He also hit at the PHF academies, saying he had visited such institutions in Germany, Holland and Australia. But the PHF academies looked more like clinics to him.

He said as an Executive Board member he could not attend the meeting in which various important decision were taken. “I was in USA at the time but the PHF did not bother to even take me into confidence over the telephone,” he said.

Former PHF secretary Col Mudassar alleged that the PHF had forgotten how to respect old Olympians and the poor positions at events was the result of that, too.

He said he had decided not to visit the PHF offices when he witnessed the late Brig Manzoor Hussain Atif, a highly-reputed hockey figure in Pakistan, being asked to vacate his seat at a PHF function as it was reserved for the federation secretary.

He said when the intentions were good, a slight push from Shahbaz Ahmed Senior could get you a match-winner in the final of the 1994 World Cup but when ill will prevailed, the ball rebounded from the pole. He was obviously hinting at Sohail Abbas's failed tries at scoring in the World Cup.

Tahir Zaman said that he would not ask anyone to quit but would advice the government to at least hold an inquiry to look into the matter as this was not a small debacle. The PHF got huge funds of Rs400 million from this government and it should also be questioned about its expenditures.

Meanwhile, other speakers, namely, Ayaz Mahmood, Naveed Alam, Moeenuddin, Naeem, Saeed Khan, Qamar Ibrahim, etc., also singled out Asif Bajwa for the team's poor show at the World Cup.

Naveed also alleged that Akhtar Rasool, another Olympian, after being ousted from PHF's Executive Board, due to a contempt of court case against him, is still dealing with the PHF and has even got his son in the under-18 team besides getting his younger brother, Khalid Rasool, appointed as the PHF treasurer along with a cousin, Arshad Chaudhary, as member of the newly-formed selection committee.

He said that this was all possible as the Pakistan Hockey Federation has become “Pakistan Political Federation”!