LAHORE: Country’s top departmental hockey teams will feature in the inaugural P.T. Yaqoob Memorial Hockey Tournament being held in Gojra from Oct 30 to Nov 6.

The tournament has been revived after a lapse of 23 years. Top departmental teams including PIA, SSGC, Wapda, Steel Mills, Customs Lahore, Gojra Stars and Tahir Zaman Academy will participate in the event.

Former Olympians Danish Kalim, Mohammad Khalid, Shahbaz Junior and Nadeem ND are organising the tournament.

Danish thanked the Pakistan Hockey Federation for giving permission for staging this tournament.

Published in Dawn October 29th, 2015

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