KARACHI, Sept 27: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has finalised a programme for the upcoming Inter-university sports events for men and women for 2007-08 which begins from Oct 25.

According to the schedule, men will compete in 27 disciplines and women in nine.

Men’s events: hockey, weightlifting, table tennis, gymnastics, chess, body building, mountaineering, badminton, basketball, kabaddi, rifle shooting, squash, athletics, football, tennis, cricket, handball, boxing, trekking, wrestling, malh, rovering, tug of war, hiking, shootingball, volleyball and swimming.

Women’s events: basketball, tennis, volleyball, badminton, hockey, cricket, athletics, handball and table tennis.

Schedule (Men):

Hockey: Zone A (Bannu), zone B (Peshawar), zone C (Comsats), zone D (GCUL), zone E (Islamia), zone F (Karachi), zone G (Sindh) and zone H (NED) w. e. f Oct 25. Final rounds: (Peshawar) w. e. f. Oct 30; weightlifting (Central Punjab) Oct 27, 28; table tennis (Lums) w. e. f. Dec 10, gymnastics (GCUL) Dec 10, 11; Chess (UET, Lahore) Dec 20, 21; bodybuilding (Vet, Lahore) Dec 28, 29; Mountaineering (Agriculture University) Dec 5, 6; badminton (Nust, Rawalpindi) w. e. f. Jan 26; basketball zone A (Bannu), zone B (UET, Peshawar), zone C (Nust Rawalpindi), zone D (Lums), zone E (Sargodha), zone F (Sir Syed, Karachi), zone G (Buitms) and zone H (Mehran) w. e. f. Jan 3. Final rounds: (Lums) w. e. f. Jan 10; kabaddi (Vet, Lahore) Jan 26, 27; rifle shooting (Agriculture University) Jan 29, 30; squash (GCUL) w. e. f. Jan 1; athletics (Punjab) Feb 25, 26; football zone A (Gomal), zone B (Peshawar), zone C (IIU, Islamabad), zone D (UET, Lahore), zone E (Agriculture University), zone F (Sir Syed, Karachi), zone G (Sindh) and zone H (Mehran) w. e. f. Feb 20. Final rounds: (Agriculture University) w. e. f. Feb 28; tennis (UET, Peshawar) w. e. f. Feb 9; cricket zone A (Hazara), zone B (Peshawar), zone C (Nust, Rawalpindi), zone D (GCUL), zone E (BZU), zone F (Karachi), zone G (Sindh) and zone H (NED) w. e. f. Feb 5. Final rounds: (NED) w. e. f. March 1; handball (Mehran) w. e. f. Feb 25; boxing (Tandojam) March 10 to 12; trekking (IIU, Islamabad) March 15, 16); wrestling (Agriculture University) March 18, 19; malh (Tandojam) March 25, 26; rovering (Agriculture University) March 7, 8; tug of war (Mehran) w. e. f. March 20; hike (AJK) April 15, 16; shooting ball (Sindh) w. e. f. April 1; volleyball zone A (Kohat), zone B (Peshawar), zone C (IIU, Islamabad), zone D (GCUL), zone E (GCUF), zone F (Iqra, Karachi), zone G (Nawabshah) and zone H (NED) w. e. f. April 19. Final rounds: (Kohat) w. e. f. April 26; swimming (to be decided later).

(Women):

Basketball (GCUF) w. e. f. Nov 20; tennis (Punjab) w. e. f. Dec 5; volleyball (LCWU) w. e. f. Dec 12; badminton (Sargodha) w. e. f. Jan 5; hockey (Karachi) w. e. f. Jan 8; cricket (Islamia) w. e. f. Jan 15; athletics (Punjab) Feb 20, 21; handball (Peshawar) w. e. f. Feb 25 and table tennis (SALU) w. e. f. March 6.