The seriousness of the game: Shandur Polo Festival begins with an exciting match

PESHAWAR: The festival was opened by the famous Shandur Polo, which was marred by territorial claims in the past year, amid an uproar in the traditional land of the world's highest polo in Chitral on Thursday.


I took the first game of the tournament in the period between Ghizer and Laspur, which Ghizer Laspur bet with 11 goals to three.
Transformation of a large number of people to attend the festival after the GB government regained its decision to boycott the vote. "I am pleased that the government [Cancel] district," said team captain Chitral Polo Shazada Sikandarul King, adding that he was finished
all the arrangements for the festival by the management of the region.
He added: "Polo is a game of risk to the local population; low level of income does not allow them to spend on this expensive game."
The king said in the game sponsored by the government, and made plots and other concessions to the players. He added that the government no longer seems interested in the sport, has been forced to give up the sport for players and having other functions. The King is now playing a game at the departmental level, which had a negative impact on the legacy of the game.
"The government should reconsider its position on the polo if you want to keep alive a game," noted that "it became increasingly difficult to keep the horses in these times. Range from the cost of horse health around Rs150, 000, 000 to Rs200 , and the almost daily expenses Rs400 - 500. in these inflationary times, it is impossible to bear such expenses without official sponsorship, "said King.
Dr. Inayatullah Faizi, a columnist and lovers of polo, and expressed the Tribune that this event was nearly 200 years, adding that the British accounts of the game in the history of polo Shandur return to the 1890s.
The event was officially launched in 1914, when Shuaul King, governor of Chitral camped in Shandur team has called Gilgit, according Faizi. However, he was called back to his capital, while the First World War broke out in Europe.
This version contradicts the commonly held belief that started the tournament by the major cup Evelyn, a British political agent in the 1930s. "She was stationed in a cup of Chitral during 1929-1936, when he began playing polo at night."
He Faizi in 1989, Benazir Bhutto, who Shandur calendar event between July 7 to 9.
The provincial government also sought an invitation to a newlywed couple of the British Royal Prince William and Kate Middleton to watch the final match of the festival.