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Manzoor Jr laid to rest

By Our Correspondent
August 31, 2022

LAHORE: The funeral prayer of Pakistan's hockey legend Olympian Manzoor Hussain Junior was offered in Singhpura area of Lahore Monday night and he was laid to rest in a local graveyard.

A large number of players, officials of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), relatives and residents of the neighborhood attended the funeral prayer.

Manzoor had been taken to a private hospital in the morning after he suffered a heart attack. Two stents were planted in his heart but he could not recover.

After the funeral prayer, former PHF Secretary Asif Bajwa in a conversation with reporters, said that Manzoor was a wonderful person and had remarkable achievements in hockey.