DADO Has Successfully Organized 6th Annual DADO Sports Festival 2008

Dir Area Development Organization (DADO) is engaged in the various healthy activities for the promotion and development of youth in Distt: Dir Upper for the last eight years. In this regards DADO has established its own sports Club in the name of DADO Sports Club Dir which have organized 6 sports festival successfully so far.

Dir Area Development Organization have organized 6th DADO Inter District level sports festival in collaboration with Anti Narcotic Force (ANF), NBP Dir, Shama Ghee Mills Ltd., and Distt. Govt Dir Upper at Dir stadium from 10th-21st October 2008 where in Cricket, Volley Ball, Foot Ball, Basket Ball , Badminton , Muhafil -e-Musharia, Painting Competition and other Cultural Programs were held with following aim and objective.

  1. To promote sports and allied healthy activities in the area.
  2. To protect and aware the youth from the ill effects of drug abuse.
  3. To encourage local Players by providing an opportunity to interact with other distinguished players of the District.
  4. To introduce Dir valley through sports for promoting tourism in the area.
  5. To protect and promote the culture of discipline, tolerance, courage and hospitality among the
    youth of Dir Upper.
  6. To attract business opportunities to the local traders in order to alleviate poverty from the area.

This year participation was excellent. Twenty-six cricket teams, fifteen volleyball teams, and twenty football teams participated, along with an estimated 25,000 spectators. Top representatives of the local government, various political parties, elites of the area, Northern Bottling Co., Associated Industries, Ltd., and National Bank of Pakistan were also present and presented the participants with trophies and cash prizes.