Hidayat named as referee

Published June 28, 2006

LAHORE, June 27: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has included Pakistani FIFA referee Hidayatullah Khan in the panel of 13 referees who will supervise 10th South Asian Games (SAG) football matches being held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from Aug 14.

Hidayatullah has been in the list of AFC's referees since 2002.

Currently six Pakistani referees are on the FIFA list. Besides Hidayat Ullah, the others are Jahangir Khan, Muhammad Iqbal Jr, Khalid Khan, Saleem Khan and Rana Naseer Ahmed.

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