LAHORE, Oct 30: Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has approved 30 participants for the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Olympic Solidarity Technical Course to be held here at the FIFA Football House from Nov 3 to 14.

The participants also include five women two of whom, Sadia Sheikh and Shaista Laghari, represented Pakistan in the third Amman International Women’s Futsal Championship 2006 at the Jordanian capital of Amman as assistant coach and vice captain, respectively.The course will be conducted by German coach Erich Rutemoller.

The participants:

Lt Col Mohammad Nauman Khan (Army); Mohammad Habib, Noman Ibrahim, Uzma Zaidi, Ishrat Fatima

(Punjab); Mohammad Asghar, Malik Sher, Shaista Laghari (Balochistan); Gohar Zaman, Saeedullah, Mohammad Saleem (NWFP); Akhtiarullah (AJK); Hassan Baloch, Sadia Sheikh, Rashid Ahmed (Sindh); Sajjad Mehmood (KRL); Mohammad Hussain (Navy); Mohammad Rashid, Umer Farooq (Railways); Mujeeb Ur Rehman (PMC); Zahid Taj (NBP); Nasim Ahmed (SSGC); TanveerAhmed, Bilal Ahmed Butt, Kirin Illyas (Wapda); Tanveer Hassnain (PTB); Asghar Khan Anjum (PEL); Ejaz Ahmed Kaka, Zahid Niaz (PIA); Javed Ali Soomro (HEC).

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