ISLAMABAD Pakistani field hockey legend Manzoor Hussain Atif died early on Monday aged 81 after a long illness, his family said.
Hussain represented Pakistan in four Olympics and was part of the team that won the gold medal at the 1960 Rome Games.
He was team manager when Pakistan won its second and third Olympic golds, in Mexico in 1968 and in Los Angeles in 1984.
He served as secretary of the Pakistan Hockey Federation for 11 years, becoming the first non-European chairman of the International Hockey Federation Rules Board in 1994.
Hussain also held the position of Asian Hockey Federation secretary for 16 years and was vice president of the organisation between 1982 and 2001.
He was highly respected in the hockey world and was instrumental in raising the sport's profile at the international level.

Opinion

Editorial

Ultimate price
Updated 02 Nov, 2024

Ultimate price

To dismantle culture of impunity for crimes against journalists, state must ensure that perpetrators do not go unpunished.
Mastung bombing
02 Nov, 2024

Mastung bombing

INSTABILITY continues to haunt Balochistan, as Friday morning’s bombing in Mastung has shown. At least nine...
Plane speak
02 Nov, 2024

Plane speak

DESPITE all its efforts to facilitate PIA’s privatisation, it seems the government only ended up being taken for a...
Seeking investment
Updated 01 Nov, 2024

Seeking investment

Foreign visits will be fruitless unless crucial structural, policy reforms directly affecting investors are focused.
State-backed terror
01 Nov, 2024

State-backed terror

OVER the past year or so, India’s reportedly malign activities in foreign countries have increasingly come under the radar, with
Shared crisis
01 Nov, 2024

Shared crisis

WITH Lahore experiencing unprecedented levels of smog, the Punjab government has announced a series of “green...