LAHORE, Dec 11: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has invited another six coaches to attend the high-level FIH Coaching Course to be held here at the National Hockey Stadium from Dec 24 to 30.

The six coaches are in addition to the 33 already announced for the course by the PHF. They are Mian Zahid Iqbal (Wapda), Shabbir Ahmed (Wapda), Shahid Ali Khan (PIA), Haider Hussain (HBL), Masood-ur-Rehman (Police) and Shahzad Chishty (Faisalabad).

The course will be conducted by FIH coaches Tayyab Ikram (manager) with assistance from Rana Mujahid as the local course coordinator. Chairman selection committee Hasan Sardar and members Farhat Hasan Khan, Khalid Bashir and Rana Mohammad Shafiq will also be attending as observers.

Names of the other 33 coaches are as follows:

PIA: Qamar Ibrahim, Ayaz Mahmood, Ahmad Alam, Kamran Ashraf, Saleem Sherwani, Mohammad Irfan, Mumtaz Haider, Anjum Saeed, Ghulam Jillani, Rahim Khan, Musaddiq Hussain. NBP: Mohammad Akhlaq, M. Asif Khan, M. Anis, Khawar Javaid, Tariq Sheikh, Arshad Hussain.

ABL: Khawaja Junaid, Zahid Afzal, Mujahid Afzal.

UBL: Jan Mohammad, Ajmal Khan, M. Rasheed.

HBL: Safdar Abbas.

Customs: Danish Kaleem, Mohammad Ali, Wasim Feroze.

Police: M. Shahbaz Junior, Qasim Khan.

Army: Lt Col Nadeem Bhatti.

Lahore: K.M. Bilal.

Islamabad: Mansoor Ahmed.

Quetta: Mujahid Butt.—Agencies

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