{"id":97073,"date":"2026-05-01T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=97073"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:53:08","slug":"sports-vital-for-social-development-youth-engagement-danyal-ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/sports-vital-for-social-development-youth-engagement-danyal-ch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports vital for social development, youth engagement; Danyal Ch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Broadcasting Barrister Danyal Chaudhry on Thursday announced cricket trials in Rawalpindi, signalling an intensified push to identify and develop young talent.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the closing ceremony of a kabaddi event organized by the Punjab Sports Board, he said a structured system was being implemented to promote sports and provide youth with opportunities aligned with modern standards.<\/p>\n<p>He said the upcoming trials would select players across categories, including 10 in under-23, two in under-19 and four in lower age groups, on merit.<\/p>\n<p>The parliamentary secretary said selected players would receive professional coaching, training and exposure, adding that the initiative aimed to strengthen divisional teams and create a pipeline for future national-level talent.<\/p>\n<p>He termed sports an effective tool for social development and youth engagement, saying organized activities helped promote discipline, teamwork and healthy competition.<\/p>\n<p>He added that transparent and merit-based systems were being introduced to ensure emerging talent was not overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Broadcasting Barrister Danyal Chaudhry on Thursday announced cricket trials in Rawalpindi, signalling an intensified push to identify and develop young talent. Speaking at the closing ceremony of a kabaddi event organized by the Punjab Sports Board, he said a structured system was being implemented to promote sports and provide &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":97098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97099,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97073\/revisions\/97099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}