{"id":96618,"date":"2025-07-20T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sba-elects-new-leadership-after-7-years-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:10:39","slug":"sba-elects-new-leadership-after-7-years-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sba-elects-new-leadership-after-7-years-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"SBA elects new leadership after 7 years | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a seven-year hiatus, the Sindh Basketball Association (SBA) successfully held its long-awaited elections at a local hotel in Karachi under the supervision of veteran sports patron and renowned journalist, Saleem Khameesani.<\/p>\n

Khalid Jameel Shamsi was elected as Chairman, Advocate Ghulam Abbas Jamal as President, Aamir Sharif as Secretary, and Kashan Khan as Treasurer. The elections saw active participation from representatives of divisional associations across Sindh, including Karachi, Larkana, Sukkur, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, and Benazirabad.<\/p>\n

Other key office bearers elected include Zahid Malik (Senior Vice President, Karachi), Zafar Iqbal (Vice President, International), Naveed Akhtar (Vice President, Hyderabad), Arshad Saeed (Vice President, Sukkur), Sahir Hussain (Vice President, Larkana), and Nusrat Afzal Khan of Bahria College. Associate Secretaries include Faisal Amjad Ali Khan and Zaeema Khatoon from Karachi. Kashan Ahmed from Mirpurkhas was elected Treasurer.<\/p>\n

The Central Executive Committee now includes Ameen Pasha (Karachi), Shoaib Akhtar (Hyderabad), Muhammad Ashraf Yahya (Karachi), Abdul Wahid (Benazirabad), Sarfaraz Ahmed (Sukkur), Ghazala Muzaffar (Mirpurkhas), Faiza Abdullah (Karachi), and Laiba Nisar (Benazirabad). Muhammad Younus Qureshi from Benazirabad was elected Vice Chairman, and Khair Muhammad Bhanbhan from Khairpur was named Legal Advisor.<\/p>\n

A General Body meeting was also held during the occasion, chaired by Vice President Ghulam Muhammad Khan. Acting Secretary Tariq Hussain presented a comprehensive report on SBA’s recent activities and the election process.<\/p>\n

In his inaugural address, newly elected President Advocate Ghulam Abbas Jamal announced a series of upcoming initiatives to revive and expand basketball across Sindh.<\/p>\n

Veteran official Ghulam Muhammad emphasized that the PBF, led by President Brigadier Iftikhar Mansoor and Secretary Khalid Basheer, must officially recognize the SBA elections. “We have no intention of forming or supporting a parallel association,” he stated. “We only seek our rightful place and ask for sincere cooperation in promoting basketball. Basketball activity in Karachi and Sindh is more vibrant than in any other region of the country\u0097this progress must not be hindered.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a seven-year hiatus, the Sindh Basketball Association (SBA) successfully held its long-awaited elections at a local hotel in Karachi under the supervision of veteran sports patron and renowned journalist, Saleem Khameesani. Khalid Jameel Shamsi was elected as Chairman, Advocate Ghulam Abbas Jamal as President, Aamir Sharif as Secretary, and Kashan Khan as Treasurer. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/kb1752974128-0\/kb1752974128-0-640x480.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t