Inter zonal sports festival of National Highways & Motorway Police starts today

Lahore: The 4^th inter zonal sports festival of National Highways & Motorway Police has started today at NH&MP training college at Sheikhupura which would end on 29th November, 2014. Ten games have been included in the festival including Volley Ball, Basket Ball, Foot Ball, Cricket, Table Tennis, Badminton, Rasa Kashi(Tug of War), Shot Put, Shooting  and Athletics. The team of five zones of NH&MP, Headquarters and training college are participating in the festival. DIG Training Halena Saeed, SSP Munir Marth and Deputy Commandant SSP Khurram Shehzad were also present on the occasion.

Commandant DIG Ehsan Sadiq inaugurated the sports festival by lighting the sports torch. The festival was started with the colorful events, in which all teams presented the march past.

DIG Ehsan Sadiq said in his address that sports activities always play a healthy role in the community and society. He said that NH&MP have achieved the highest respect and professionalism in the country and has also changed a police culture in Asia which is not only appreciable but also invites the others institutions to evolve it. He said that NH&MP officials also achieve the same heights in the games which they have earned in their professionalism, which would also open new doors of success for NH&MP. He hoped that these officers would present the best example of sports man spirit and would also make them as a professional sportsman and one day they would also highlight the name of the country in the sports field. He said that sports activities always generate the environment of tolerance and the struggle to achieve the success. The Commandant training college

He further said that behind this sports festival is that sports always create physical development which creates numerous good developments in a person’s life. He said sports activities are essential part of a human body whereas it is more essential in the forces and need regular feature to sports activities apart from professionalism. He hoped that all players should act with a true sports man spirit and would accept the decisions of the referees, as defeat is the part of game and defeat always gives a lesion to move forward.