Five more join camp

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LAHORE, March 8: The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has called five more probables in the National U-21 training camp, which is in progress at Islamabad for the 29th Olympics Games qualifier against Qatar on March 14.

The probables were included after PFF's President Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat gave his approval.

Among them are Wohaib Club's central defender Muhammad Ahmad, Bilal Rafiq (HBL) a goal keeper, Adnan Bari, Ghulam Mustafa (Army)and Umar Farooq (PAF). Ahmed was skipper of Pakistan in AFC U-14 Festival of Football at Kathmandu 2004 and AFC U-17 Football Championship 2005 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi.

Bilal, formerly of Wohaib Club joined Habib Bank last year.

Probables: Mehmood Ahmed, Ghulam Nabi, Bilal Rafiq, M. Ahmed, M. Shahid, Abbas Ali, Haji Muhammad, Samar Ishaq, Imran Niazi, M. Imran, Yasir Afridi, Ghulam Mustafa, Zahid Hameed, Mubashar Hussain, Abdul Aziz, Farooq Shah, M. Waseem, Jaffar Ali, Nasr Ullah Khan, M. Rasool, Abid Khan, Mubashar Shajrani, Faheem Riaz, Adnan Bari and Umer Farooq.

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