LAHORE, Feb 25: Twenty-eight coaches are taking part in the IOC Olympic Solidarity Badminton Coaching course which started on Saturday. It will conclude on March 7.

The IOC appointed coach from Sweden was to conduct it. But the Swedish government did not allow him to travel to Pakistan in the wake of blasphemous cartoons. Now Pakistani coach Tariq Farook will conduct it.

Coaches: Akhtar Abbas Khawaja, Akram Masih, Amjad, Asadullah, Azhar Javed, Azhar Mahmood, Azmat Hayat, Iftikhar Hussain, Khan Afridi, Liaqat Ali, Iqbal Hussain, Amanat, Masoor Jamal, Fahmeeda, Tahira, Mohammad Akram, Nadeem Javed, Mohammad Ali, Nadeem Zafar, Nasim Khan, Babar, Shoaib Naqvi, Tahir Rasheed, Tayyab Sohail, Waseem Butt, Zahid Maqbool, Asmatullah.