KARACHI, Jan 2: Although his skills were acknowledged abroad, Imran Warsi has no place back home as Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) continues to toss around the full-back between senior and junior training camps before ignoring him.

The defender was called up for recently played triangular series involving Pakistan Seniors, Juniors and Malaysia in Karachi, only to be fielded for one half in a match against the senior side.

The junior team coach Asif Bajwa discarded Imran after shortlisting 28 players for the game against Malaysia, giving the new chief coach Roelant Oltmans no chance to watch him and few others against the visitors.

Owais Khan was another player who was invited but never given an opportunity to show his worth in any of the three matches of the series. Rizwan Khan, who had been included in junior and senior camps in the past, was not even invited for the tri- series.

PHF had organized the series with an intention to give Oltmans an opportunity to watch a pool of senior and junior players in action, helping him form the squads. Imran is one the players who are victim of strange policies of inviting probables and selection for the training camps by the PHF.

First, he received a call-up for junior camp in 2002 September for Akhbar Al-Youm tournament in Cairo, only to be axed along with three others by the then manager Col Abdur Rauf who argued the players were over-age.

Imran was then invited for the senior camp for the series in Spain and Commonwealth Games before being inducted into Pakistan Whites for a domestic tri-series.

Surprisingly, Imran was called up for junior training camp and even was part of the side that participated in Akhbar Al-Youm tournament in 2003 March - the competition for which he was sidelined earlier by Rauf who said he was over-age.

The full-back received yet another call from PHF for senior camp for Amstelveen Champions Trophy while he was busy playing in Malaysian league. But Imran's club - Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN) - refused to release the player in the middle of the league.

BSN, in a letter to PHF, says "the team looks upon him as a role model. He has improved with his penalty corner conversion. We truly believe he will become another one of the great players produced by Pakistan."

Imran, who scored 15 goals in ten matches for BSN, played last year as a replacement of Sohail Abbas - one of the most feared short corner strikers in the world.