ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top woman hockey umpire Binish has returned home after supervising the matches in the qualifying rounds of the Women’s Asia Cup in Bangkok. Binish officiated in as many as five matches including the semi finals of the event. “It was a big honour for me and my country to supervise that number of matches in an international hockey event,” she said on Monday after returning from Thailand. Binish, country’s first ever international hockey umpire, has now twenty six international matches to her credit in six appearances. Binish umpired the matches between Indonesia-Uzbekistan Thailand-Chinese Taipei, Chinese Taipei-Sri Lanka, Chinese Taipei-Indonesia and Hong Kong-Sri Lanka. “I am very delighted that tally of my matches has gone up and it is because of the support I am getting from Pakistan Hockey Federation and the Asian Hockey Federation,” she said and added: “The PHF is making all out efforts for the grooming of female umpires and I was highly encouraged by the PHF since I become international umpire in 2013.” She praised the performance of the Pakistan women’s team in the qualifying rounds in Bangkok. “Pakistan team was formed after a gap of three years and they reached the semifinals of the event to create history and the credit goes to present management of the PHF headed by Khalid Sajjad Khokhar and Shahbaz Ahmad Senior,” she concluded.