LAHORE, March 6: Thirty-two probables will attend the national football training camp in Islamabad from Wednesday. The camp is being held to finalise the senior team for the AFC Challenge Cup to be held in Bangladesh from March 25 to April 9.

Besides Pakistan and Bangladesh, other participating teams are Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Macau.

Among the probables England based Pakistani Zeshan Rehman (Fullham Club) is also included.

Zeshan, who represented the country in the SAFF Championship in Karachi last year, was not available for the matches of Asia Cup qualifying round played against Jordan (away home) and UAE in Karachi.

Among other probables, four are goalkeepers, 13 defenders, 10 midfielders and five forwards.

Camp probables:

Goalkeepers: Jaffar Khan, Aqeel, Nadeem Sattar, Bilal Rafiq (Wohaib).

Defenders: Ayaz, Mohammad Imran, Zubair Moazam, Faraz, Samar Ishaq, Shahid Ahmed, Adeel Masih, Zeshan, Naveed Akram, Misbahul Haq, Zeshan Rehman, Khalid Munir, M Ismail.

Midfielders: Abbas Ali , Javed Hamza, M Wasim, Faheem Riaz, Yasir, Aziz, Zahid Hameed, Asif Ayub, Farooq Shah, Yasir.

Forwards: Essa Khan, Tanvir Ahmed, Imran Aziz, Imran Hussain, Naveed Khan.

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