Shahid Khan Afridi
PESHAWAR: Organized by the Pakistan Sports Writers Federation with the collaboration of Sports Writers Association, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Young Sports Reporters Training Program got under way here at famous China Window and Culture Center on Thursday.
The training of sports journalists under the age of 30 from all across Pakistan and Afghanistan have been registered in the morning with Young Sports Reporters Training Program a total of 17 male and female journalists, 14 based in Peshawar and three other including a female journalists, came from Afghanistan to attend the Program. Provincial Minister of Culture and Labor Shaukat Yousafzai officially inaugurated the program with former World Champion Qamar Zaman, Mentor of the Young Sports Journalist Program Amjad Aziz Malik, who is also President of the Pakistan Sports Writers Federation and Secretary General Asian Sports Journalists Federation (AIPs), senior journalists including President Peshawar Press Club M. Riaz, Arshad Aziz Malik, former President Sports Writers Association Ijaz Ahmad Khan and all the participation young journalists were also present.
In the training program, 50 young writers from Pakistan and Afghanistan are participating in this unique training program of its kind under the directive of the President AIPs World Geino Marly.
The aim and objective of the Program is to provide opportunities for the young journalists of Pakistan and Afghanistan to come forward in sports journalists from different countries around the world including Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Young Sports Training Program in Peshawar will continue for four days, during which they will also be given a visit to various sports sites, sports complexes development by the Provincial Government in Mardan, Charsadda, Kohat and Peshawar.
Most of these infrastructure development according to the international standard and the visit would help the Young Sports Journalists to learn much about the international standard sports infrastructure in Charsadda, Mardan, Peshawar and Kohat, Amjaz Aziz Malik said.
He said to provide practical experience of sports journalism, sports events and its facilities would help the young journalists.
A new chapter of the Young Sports Reporters Training Program has been created in the history of sports journalists by Pakistan Sports Writers Federation with the collaboration of Sports Writers Association, KP.
In the training program for students under 30 years of age and youth involved in sports journalism, the senior journalists of the province taught the basic principles of journalism. On this occasion, senior journalists said that there is a need not only to align the reporting in the print media with the modern requirements, but in view of the usefulness of the digital media, all the sports journalists should also be provided with the tools of the digital media. More training sessions for young reporters will continue on the second day as well in different sessions.
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