LAHORE, Aug 16: Fifteen new cricket umpires have been inducted in the panel for the Grade-II competitions while eight umpires have been upgraded from Grade-II to Grade-I for the domestic season 2002- 2003.

The umpires who passed the Panel Induction Course organised by the PCB have been included in Grade-II.

The chairman national umpiring council Mahboob Shah forwarded the following list of umpires for Grade-I and Grade-II which has also been approved by the cricket management committee:

GRADE-I. Athar Zaidi (Lahore), Afzaal Ahmad (Karachi), Aleem Dar, Asad Rauf (Lahore), Akbar Khan (Hyderabad), Asad Malik (Sargodha), Iftikhar Malik (Lahore), Islam Khan (Karachi), Iqbal Butt (Peshawar), Ihteshamul Haq (Muridke), Ijaz Ahmed (Lahore), Jamil Kamran (Multan), Javed Iqbal (Lahore), Junaid Ghafoor, Khalid Mahmood Senior (Karachi), Mian Muhammad Aslam (Lahore), Masroor Ali, M.H Dars (Karachi), Nazir Junior , Nadeem Ghouri (Lahore), Riazuddin (Karachi), Rasheed Bhatti (Lahore), Shakeel Khan, Saleem Badar (Karachi), Siddique Khan (Lahore), Sajjad Asghar (Peshawar), Tariq Cheema (Lahore), Tassadaq Jamal (Muridke), Waqar Mughal (Lahore), Z. I Pasha (Rawalpindi), Zamir Haider (Lahore).

GRADE-II. Amin Abbasi (Bahawalpur), Abid Naqvi (Lahore), Atiq Khan (Karachi), Akmal Hayat (Faisalabad), Aftab Gillani (Bahawalpur), Ahmed Shahab (Lahore), Haider Lehri (Quetta), Hakeem Shah (Peshawar), Imtiaz Iqbal, Javed Yousaf (Karachi), Javed Ashraf (Lahore), Kaukab Butt (Rawalpindi), Khalid Mahmood Junior (Quetta), Khurram Aziz, Masood Ahmed Khan (Lahore), Muzaffar Ali Khan (Karachi), Naushad Khan (Peshawar), Parvaiz Azhar (Islamabad), Roohul Hassan (Karachi), Rasheed Memon (Thata), Rafiq Ahmad (Dadu), Sohail Manzoor (Lahore), Sadiq Khan (Karachi), Talat Farooq (Islamabad), Tahir Hasan (Karachi), Ahmed Tariq Chishti (Quetta), Anayatullah Qureshi (Kohat), Allah Ditto (Islamabad), Fazalur Rehman (Muzaffarabad), Ghulam Mustafa (Kasur), Maqsood Kamran Aslam (Jhelum), Muhammad Rashid Khan (Karachi), Muhammad Tariq Khan (Hyderabad), Nadeem Iqbal (Multan), Nasar Khan (Mardan), Rawoed Khan (Charsadda), Saqib Khan (Abbotabad), Sultan Mahmood (Loralai), Wasimuddin (Kohat), Ziaullah (Faisalabad).