Pakistan

The 52nd National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) Senior National Hockey Championship will be played, according to a new format, simultaneously for the departmental and provincial associations’ teams at various venues from January 3 to 11, said Musarrat Ullah Khan, secretary general of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) here on Saturday.

“The department teams will play at the Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium, Karachi. Teams from Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Customs, Steel Mills, Sui Gas Southern (SSG), Habib Bank Limited (HBL), National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC), Army, Pakistan Air Force (PAF), Navy, Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Police, Railway, Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF), Pakistan Television (PTV), Allied Bank Limited (ABL) and Higher Education Commission (HEC) will take part in this round,” he said.

He said the new format had been recommended by the competition committee of the PHF. “The provincial associations’ teams will play at the Lala Ayub Hockey Stadium, Peshawar. The teams are – three each from Punjab and Sindh, two each from NWFP and Balochistan, one each from Islamabad and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Northern Areas,” he added.

Pools of departmental round:

Pool A: WAPDA, Sui Southern, Steel Mills, Police and PAF

Pool B: PIA Customs, ABL and Navy.

Pool C: NBP, Army, Kesc, POF and Gangsu (a Chinese team)

Pool D: PTCL, HBL, Railways, HEC and PTV

Panel of technical officials:

Tournament director: Iftikhar Syed

Assistant tournament director: Gulfaraz Khan

Technical officers: Aslam Niazi, Saeed Ahmed,Younis Siddiqui, Arif Hayat

Umpires Manager: Rashad Ali Khan

Umpires penal: Rashad Mahmood Butt (Railways) Mohsin Ali Khan (Karachi), Haider Rasool (ABL), Zulfiqar Haider (Police), Shoaib Riffat (Karachi), Kamran Shah (WAPDA), Rana Muhammad Liaqat (Lahore), Kamran Hussain (Army), Munawwar Hussain (PTCL), Raja Anwar Kamal (PIA), Chaudhry Tanveer Ahmed (KESC), Zakir Hussain (Sindh), Askari Kazmi (Sindh), Rakreem Iftikhar (Sindh), Zulfiqar Hussain (Sindh), Naeem Akhtar (Quetta).

Organising secretary: Muhammad Shafique (Customs)

Assistant organising secretary: Muhammad Farooq (Lahore)

Pools of provincial associations round:

Pool A: Punjab A, Sindh B, Baluchistan B, and AJ&K

Pool B: Punjab B, Sindh A, NWFP A, Islamabad

Pool C: Punjab C, Sindh C, NWFP B, Baluchistan A and Northern Areas

Panel of technical officials:

Tournament director: Zahir Shah

Technical officers: Malik Wadhan Ayaz Khan

Umpires manager: Faiz Muhammad Faizi

Umpires: Ihsanul Haque Babar (Rawalpindi), Muhammad Zaheer (Rawalpindi), Naveed (Rawalpindi), Muhammad Anwar (Army), Jameel Butt (Army), Mian Ubaidur Rehman (WAPDA), Dilwar Bhatti (WAPDA), Ajmal Hameed Butt (Lahore), Nigar Hussain (Peshawar), Haque Nawaz (Haripur), Tariq Jadoon (Abbottabad), Hidayatullah (Peshawar), Muhammad Asif (Peshawar), Muhammad Asif (Kohat)

Organising secretary: Shariq Khan

Asistant organising secretary: Muhammad Rauf Khan. app

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