President Ghani orders to cancel the parallel Olympic

KABUL (SW): Recently President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has issued a decree to abolish the parallel national Olympic departments.

In this decree, President Ghani has asked the National Olympic Committee of Afghanistan to form a committee to hold elections in line with the principles and rules of the Asian federation.

In a three clause ruling that has been available to the media, it states that the National Olympic Committee must also emphasize the equalization of the electoral framework for the drafting of the statute, internal regulations and the abolition of parallel Olympic departments.

For two years, Zahir Aghbar who was recognized by Olympic Council of Asia (national Olympic committees) and International Olympic Committee (IOC), as well as Executive Director’s Office has been running the Afghanistan National Olympic Committee and similarly a parallel committee has been running under the leadership of Mahmood Hanif who was supported only by President Ghani.

But recently, Mohammad Zahir Aghbar based on the decree of President Ghani preserving his military rights was appointed as the head Council of Afghanistan in Munich Germany.

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