By our correspondent
KARACHI: Empower Sports Academy, Pakistan’s leading non-profit dedicated to empowering girls through sport, announced today at the Governor House the 3rd National Empower Girls Tournament 2026, held in partnership with the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme (PMYP).
The tournament will feature competition across four disciplines: volleyball, badminton, taekwondo, and athletics, including the 100m, 200m, 400m, javelin throw and discus events. The event was well attended by leading media houses, corporate partners, sports professionals, federations, educators and stakeholders from across the country.
Journalist, social activist and PR practitioner Shanaz Ramzi opened the event, saying that now in its third year the National Empower Girls Tournament had grown into one of Pakistan’s most significant platforms for young female athletes, drawing competitors from across the country and giving them the opportunity to compete at a national level.
Alisha Junaid, the young national-level volleyball player and founder of Empower Sports Academy. Alisha shared her journey so far and highlighted details of the upcoming third Empower National Girls Tournament. Speaking on the occasion, she said that when she founded the academy she had one vision: to give girls in Pakistan the same right to compete in the Olympics, to grow and to dream that every young athlete deserves.
Alisha added that the tournament was not just a competition but a pipeline to the world stage, and that with the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme standing with them, a powerful message was being sent to every girl in Pakistan that her ambition matters and her country believes in her.
