KHA in the press
Karachi Hockey Association's tournaments, trials and coaching camps as reported by Pakistan's newspapers. Each entry links to the original article.
Latest · Posted 18 October 2026
Hockey coaching starts at Nabi Bagh Government Science College
The national game, at grassroots level. Karachi Hockey Association has started coaching and training at Nabi Bagh Z.M. Government Science College in Saddar Town.
KHA coaches Imtiaz ul Hassan, Shahbaz Haider and Miss Batool Kazim are working with the college's students. To begin with, the children will learn the basics of hockey skills and the physical training the game needs.
The clip shows a welcome in a classroom, a talk to the students, and stick practice in the college courtyard.
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Posted 13 October 2026
Inter-House Hockey Tournament final at Ghulaman-e-Abbas School
The final matches and the prize distribution of the Inter-House Hockey Tournament were held at Ghulaman-e-Abbas School in Karachi. A Geo Super report that KHA shared says ten teams from the school's junior and senior sections took part.
- Chief guest
- Shahid Badami, Principal of Ghulaman-e-Abbas School
- Guest of honour
- Raza Peer A former player for the school, now a businessman
- Prizes
- The chief guest and guest of honour presented the trophies and prizes to the players.
- Also present
- Haider Hussain, KHA Vice President and former Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary, and KHA coach Imtiaz ul Hassan
- Coach's award
- Raza Peer gave Rs 50,000 to coach Shakir Ali for his good performance with the school's hockey team.
Sunday 20 September 2026
Actor Kamran Jilani visits the KHA ground
Television actor Kamran Jilani, from the family of the late actors Qasim Jilani and Adnan Jilani, visited the ground on Sunday 20 September 2026.
He spent time with the young hockey players, watched the training session, and took selfies with the boys and girls.
From KHA
Syeda Shehla Raza on the Women's Wing and the ground
Send your children here instead — coaching is free of cost, and they'll be in a healthy environment, in a beautiful place.
Raza has chaired KHA's Women's Wing, and the Sindh Hockey Association's Women's Wing, continuously since September 2016. In a video shared by the association, she describes the complex in Gulshan-e-Iqbal as now also including a sports arena — football, a padel court, volleyball, cricket and a gymnasium — alongside the hockey ground, with a gymkhana due to open there soon.
Her invitation is aimed especially at families in Districts East and Central: send children to the ground for coaching rather than "wasteful pastimes," as she puts it, in what she describes as a safe environment for them.
Video
On the turf: KHA training sessions
Short clips from KHA's coaching sessions: warm-ups, stick skills and ball control for young boys and girls on the deep blue astroturf.
Boys and girls warming up together in a wide circle on the blue turf.
A coach works with young players on stick control and dribbling with the ball.
Girls step over sticks laid out on the turf while carrying their own sticks across their shoulders.
A coach guides a young player through a cone drill, working on close ball control.
Young players dribble around cones while coaches look on.
Reported coverage
Published articles, newest first. These are the sources behind the facts stated elsewhere on this site.
What the coverage records
Ramadan Inter-Club Hockey Championship, 2025
Thirteen clubs entered KHA's Ramadan Inter-Club Hockey Championship, which opened on 16 March 2025. Hanif Khan Club won the final 1–0; Kashmala Batool was one of the match officials. Both reported by The Express Tribune.
National Games trials at the KHA ground
More than 70 players attended trials for the 35th National Games held at the KHA ground in April 2025, from which 35 were short-listed, as reported by The Express Tribune.
Free coaching camps
KHA announced its free winter camp in November 2024 as a ten-day camp for ages 8 to 25, from 3pm to 6pm, as reported by Daily Parliament Times; the association records it as held in January 2025, with Olympians coaching. The camps are free to enter, and the clippings below cover several of them. See the current camp intake, or the association's full record since 2016.
The ground
Floodlights were installed at the KHA ground by the Sindh Government and inaugurated in August 2020 (Dawn). More about the ground.
The clipping
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Karachi's Urdu and English press on KHA tournaments and coaching camps, kept by the association. Select a clipping to read it.