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LAHORE: The National Bank of Pakistan awarded cash prizes of Rs1.15 million to its youth hockey squad which won the National under-18 championship in Karachi this year.
The prizes were awarded at a ceremony held at a hotel here on Saturday.
All the 20 players and three officials of the winning squad pocketed Rs50,000 each.
Former Test cricketer and NBP Sports Department head Iqbal Qasim, hockey Olympians namely Tahir Zaman, Arshad Chaudhry, Anjum Saeed, Danish Kaleem, M. Ikhlaq, former PHF secretary Mussaratullah Khan and many others attended the function.
NBP officials Kausar Iqbal Malik and Mudassar Khan awarded the prizes.
Published in Dawn, June 29th, 2014
