LAHORE: The wife of former hockey player Olympian Manzoor Junior died and was laid to rest in a local graveyard on Tuesday.

The deceased was suffering from kidney problems and she was on dialysis for the last many years.

A number of hockey players, including Manzoor Senior, Khalid Hameed, Shahbaz Senior, Tahir Zaman, Asif Bajwa, Khawaja Junaid and Ajmal Lodhi besides relatives and friends attended the funeral prayers.

Published in Dawn, January 5th, 2022

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