ISLAMABAD Police, Pakistan Air Force (PAF), Habib Bank Limited (HBL) and Army clinched victories in the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Gold Cup Hockey Tournament by thrashing their respective challengers here at Naseer Bunda Hockey Stadium, Pakistan Sports Complex. Eight teams including PIA, Port Qasim, NBP, PTV, WAPDA, Army, PAF and HBL moved into the quarterfinals phase of the tournament, which will be started from Thursday (tomorrow) at same venue. However, Tuesday all the teams cleared their position in their respective groups. Police outplayed hosts Islamabad 7-5 in the first fixture of the day. Islamabad, who lost their pervious two match with big margin (against Army 11-0) and WAPDA (9-0), were far better in their last pool match. But, Waqas Zafar was looking free to move in the field, who struck four goals to achieve 5th hat trick of the tournament. Police were leading 4-3 at water interval. Tasawr Khan, Atif Baig and Farzand Ali scored each one goal for the winners. Muhammad Arshad netted the ball twice while Najbullah, Rehan and Sohail once for Islamabad to make the score-line 5-7 after completing 70 minutes game. Meanwhile, PAF had to toil hard to overcome Punjab in the second match of the day. The solitary goal of the match scored by Muhammad Imran in the 56th minutes of the match. At half way the score was 0-0, as the both teams wasted many chances to earn lead. After single goal win catapulted the winners on top in Group D. Habib Bank Limited (HBL) stunned Customs 6-1 in the penultimate fixture od the day. Azlan Khan struck twice for the winners while Rana Zubair, Rizwan Khan, Adeel Hussain and Abdullah scored each one goal for the HBL, which was leading 3-1 at half times. Adnan Sohail scored only goal for Customs in the first part of the match. Pakistan Army clinched one goal win against WAPDA, a best side of the tournament, in the last match of the day. Skipper of Army me Muhammad Afzal scored only goal in the 30th minutes of the match on short corner. However, WAPDA wasted an important opportunity to level the match in the final minute of the match, when they were awarded penalty corner. But WAPDA failed the score gaol on the last minutes chance. The quarterfinals will be played on Thursday while semi-final of Friday. However, the final of the tournament will be played on Saturday and likely Chairman Senate Farooq H Naik will grace the final as chief guest to distribute the prizes amongst the players. Thursday fixtures: PAF Vs PTV Army Vs Port Qasim NBP Vs HBL PIA Vs WAPDA