High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Qasim Zia, is an Olympian who represented Pakistan in Field Hockey at the 1984 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles and 1986 Hockey World Cup. Qasim Zia was a fullback. He played 87 International matches, in which he scored 15 goals. He is currently a provincial legislator in the Punjab Assembly in Pakistan belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party. During the term of 2002 and 2007, he was the Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly elected from Lahore. Qasim Zia has been appointed as the 23rd president of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani on October 15, 2008. Field hockey team sport in which a team of players attempt to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal. Its official name is simply hockey, and this is the common name for it in many countries. However, the name field hockey is used in countries where the word hockey is usually reserved for another form of hockey, such as ice hockey or street hockey.