Tahir to coach Kazakhstan

Published July 4, 2006

ISLAMABAD, July 3: Tahir Zaman, the former Pakistan coach, has been hired by Kazakhstan, a top hockey official disclosed on Monday. Musarratullah Khan, secretary of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) told this to the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Sports and Culture that met in Islamabad.

The secretary said that Dutch coach Roelant Oltmans was paid a monthly salary of $7500 while the PHF had no record of the contract with another Dutchman Hans Jorritsma, the man who helped Pakistan win the 1994 World Cup.

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