Players fined for hugging
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January 9, 2010, Saturday
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PAKISTAN'S parliament fined members of its national field hockey team 200,000 rupees (US$2,350) after photos surfaced of them hugging a female liaison officer at a tournament in Argentina last month.
Player Rehan Butt was fined 100,000 rupees while coach Shahid Ali Khan and manager Asif Bajwa have to pay 50,000 rupees each.
Pakistan team members took pictures with the liaison officer during the official players' night at the end of the tournament. The dinner was also attended by other participating teams and officials. Pakistan lost the final to New Zealand, costing them a place in the Champions Trophy.
"It is not our culture to hug a lady," said Jamshed Dasti, chairman of Pakistan's lower house standing committee on sports.
"The players are ambassadors of their country and they should remember this well."
Coach Khan said that the Pakistan Hockey Federation had already taken a serious note of the pictures which were even uploaded on Youtube.
"The PHF has warned all the team players and officials to be careful in future," Khan said.
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