PESHAWAR: The National Under-20 Hockey Championship will be commencing at the Lala Ayub Hockey Stadium here from Feb 23.

Talking to APP, KP Hockey Association secretary Zahir Shah said arrangements had been made for smooth conduct of the first round of the championship.

The final round will be played in Lahore next month.

Former national selector and two times Olympian Musaddiq Hussain, president of the Peshawar District Hockey Association Haji Hidayat Ullah and vice-president Bakhtiar Khan were also present on the occasion.

He said teams from Punjab Whites, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu Kashmir, FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be playing in the first round and among them two teams will qualify for the final round.

Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2016