AHF umpires course

Published August 19, 2003

LAHORE, Aug 18: Twenty-one umpires have been named by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) to attend the Asian umpires clinic allotted to Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) to be held in Karachi from Sept 2 to 6.

Participants are:

Thani Shaheen Saad Al-Wahaibi (Oman), Hossein Yari Nia, Muhammadreza Etemdai, Shahpour Muradkhani, Abbas Zoulfaghari (Iran), K. Vijayan Naidu (Singapore), Zahid Ali (Kazakhstan), Mohammad Asif (Peshawar), Iftikhar Ahmad (Wapda/Bahawalpur), Zulfiqar Haider (Police/Lahore), Famran Shah (Wapda/Kohat), Rana Mohammad Liaqat (AG/Lahore), Mohsin Ali Khan (Karachi), Farooq Ashraf Awan (Azad Jammu and Kashmir), Fareed Ansari (Quetta), Haider Rasool (ABL), Mohammad Naeem (Navy), Ms Zeb-un-Nisa, Ms Rahat Khan, Ms Humaira Masroor (Lahore), Ms Razia Rizvi (Rawalpindi).

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