KARACHI, Jan 7 Head of the sports division of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) and Chief Selector PCB Iqbal Qasim held a meeting to finalise the details about the forthcoming edition of the National Football Challenge Cup (NFCC) with the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Secretary Col Ahmed Yar Khan Lodhi at the FIFA Football House in Lahore on Thursday.

According to NBP's Sports Consultant Ghulam Mohammad, who also attended the meeting, this year's edition will be hosted by Multan.

Also it was decided that the semi-finals and final matches of the event would be telecast live on television.

The meeting was also attended by PFF's Director Operations Wing Commander Pervaiz Saeed Mir and Marketing Manager Shahid Khokhar.

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