LAHORE Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has invited six more coaches to attend high level FIH Coaching Course, which will be held at National Hockey Stadium here from Dec 24 to 30.
The PHF has already announced 33 names of the coaches for the course. The names of new six coaches are Mian Zahid Iqbal (WAPDA), Shabir 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 Manager Tayyab Ikram, while Rana Mujahid Ali will assist him as local course coordinator.
Chairman selection committee Hassan Sardar and members Farhat Hassan Khan, Khalid Bashir and Rana Muhammad Shafiq will also attend the course as observers. 
The other 33 coaches are as follows-
PIA Qamar Ibrahim, Ayaz Mahmood, Ahmad Alam, Kamran Ashraf, Saleem Sherwani, Muhammad Irfan, Mumtaz Haider, Anjum Saeed, Ghulam Jillani, Rahim Khan, Musaddiq Hussain.
NBP Muhammad Akhlaq, M. Asif Khan, M. Anis, Khawar Javaid, Tariq Sheikh, Arshad Hussain.
ABL Khawaja Junaid, Zahid Afzal, Mujahid Afzal.
UBL Jan Muhammad, Ajmal Khan, M. Rasheed.HBL Safdar Abbas.
Customs Danish Kaleem, Muhammad Ali, Wasim Feroze.
Police M. Shahbaz Junior, Qasim Khan.
Army Lt. Col Nadeem Bhatti.
Lahore K. M Bilal.
Islamabad Mansoor Ahmed.
Quetta Mujahid Butt.

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