LAHORE, Aug 9: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Saturday announced the names of eighty-five umpires who will officiate in the domestic cricket season of 2003-4.

“These officials (umpires) will supervise the entire cricket season,” said a spokesman of the PCB here.

Following have been appointed:

Athar Zaidi, Afzaal Ahmed, Aleem Dar, Asad Rauf, Akbar Khan, Iftikhar Malik, Islam Khan, Iqbal Butt, Ehtsham-ul-Haq, Ijaz Ahmed, Jamil Kamran, Javed Iqbal, Junaid Ghafoor, Kaukab Butt, Khalid Mahmood Sr, Mian Mohammad Asalm, M.H.Dars, Mohammad Nazir Jr, Nadeem Ghauri, Riazuddin, Rasheed Bhatti, Shakeel Khan, Salim Badar, Siddique Khan, Sajjad Asghar, Tariq Cheema, Tasaddeq Jamal, Waqar A. Mughal, Z.I.Pasha, Zameer Haider, Abid Naqvi, Rana Sohail Manzoor, Javed Ashraf, Ahmed Shahab, Masood Ahmad Khan, Khurram Aziz, Amin Abbasi, Aftab Gillani, Akmal Hayat, Ziaullah, Rana Zaheer Ahmed, Ghulam Mustafa, Nadeem Iqbal, Pervez Azhar, Allah Ditto, Fazal-ur-Rehman, Atiq Khan, Tahir Hassan, Muzaffar Ali Khan, Imtiaz Iqbal, Mohammad Rashid Khan, Mohammad Tariq Taufiq, Rasheed Memon, Rafiq Ahmad, Haider Lehri, Khalid Mahmood Jr, Ahmed Tariq Chishti, Sultan Mahmood, Hakeem Shah, Naushad Khan, Inayatullah Qureshi, Wasimuddin, Nasar Khan, Raweed Khan, Saqib Khan, Mohammad Arif, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Sohail, Asif Islam Bajwa, Mir Dad, Abdul Samad Durrani, Majid Hussain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Khalil Ahmed, Mohammad Aslam Khan, Bilal Qureshi, Sohail Zaman Khattak, Tanvir Iqbal, Abdul Basit, Mohammad Asim Aliv, Javed Tanseem and Shamim Ahmed Ansari.—APP

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