LAHORE, Dec 27: Pakistan Greens team will compete against Pakistan Whites in the Quaid-i-Azam Weightlifting Trophy here on Friday. The event is being organised to celebrate the 130th birthday of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

The following two teams, consisting of international and national weightlifters, will feature in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy.

Greens: Farrukh Aftab, Wasiq Azhar, Waqar Asif, Fawad, Zohaib, Ilyas Ghafoor, Zeeshan, Imran Ali; Whites: Nadeem Fayyaz, Rameez Raja, Saqib Fayyaz, Abdullah Ghafoor, Iffi Abbas, Jawad Sarwar.

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