Pakistan Carrom team’s visa is rejected by US embassy

According to SAMAA, US embassy has refused to issue visas to Pakistani carrom team due to bad financial condition. Third Carrom world cup will happen from Dec 27,2010 in American State of Virginia. Moahammad Aslam, who is chairman of Pakistan Carrom Federation, told SAMAA, 300 dollars would be spent on players fees, return air tickets and players tickets are sponsored still US embassy refused to issue visas.

The five players Iftikhar-ud din, Kamran Ali, Nadir Hussain, Murtaza Khan and manager Mohmmad Aslam applied for US visa. Mohammad Aslam has requested President Asif Zardari to get rights for attending world cup. He also requested International Carrom federation to take the rights from the host country USA and pass it to another country.