Zafari Lived and Breathed Hockey
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By Ijaz Chaudhry
1971 World Cup Pakistan's victory parade Garlanded Zafari centre along with Khalid Mahmood (captain), Asad Malik (vice captain)
Hockey stalwart Lt Col(rtd) Zafar Ali Zafari, who passed away early this month, figured in the Pakistan team which won country`s first ever Olympic medal in any discipline, a silver in 1956. Four years later, Pakistan hockey grabbed what the whole country had been waiting for since its creation, the Olympic gold. And Zafari was a proud member of the squad. Later, he had the distinction of being the manager of Pakistan`s victorious team at the inaugural World Cup in 1971.