The camp will commence from January 15. -White Star/Arif Ali

LAHORE: Pakistan Football Federation (PFF)'s President Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has approved forty-six players to appear in the 2012 Olympic football Asian qualifying tournament.

The camp will start from 15 January and go on until 4 February 2011 at the famous football Academy, located at Model Town C & D Block, Lahore.

All the players participating in the preliminary and final competitions of the tournament 22 years of age or below. However, a maximum of three male players who do not meet this age limit may also be included in the list of players for the final competition only.

Pakistan have been pitted against Malaysia with the first leg to be played in Kuala Lumpur on 23 February 2011 and the return leg in Pakistan on 9 March 2011.

The 46 probables are: WAPDA (8): Muzammil Hussain, Jadeed Khan, Muhammad Tausif, Manzoor Ahmed, Haider Ali, Zain Ullah, Arif Hussain, Usman Manzoor PIA (8) : Saddam Hussin, Bilal Rafiq, Ali Ehsan, Muhammad Haji,Hussnain Abbas, Zeeshan Ali, Abdul Jabbar, Imran Abdullah KRL (6): Amir Luqmam, Mehmood Khan, Muhammad Adil, Kalim Ullah, Zia Us Salam, Rizwan Asif PEL (4): Ahsan Ullah, Ghazanfar Abbas, Muhammad Rashid, Saad Ullah PAF (4) : Amir Khan, Muhammad Mujahid, Mudassar Waseem, Nizam Uddin KPT (2): Ubaid Ullah, Naveed Ahmed Islamabad (2) : Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Ullah Khan KESC (2) : Muhammad Omer, Muhammad Riaz Faisalabad YC (2) :            Tanveer Mumtaz, Abdul Razzaq Police (1) : Alamgir Khan NBP (1) : Faisal Iqbal Young Blood FC, Sahiwal (1): Asim Mansoor Baloch FC, Nushki (1): Sana Ullah Navy (1) : Asif Bakhsh HBL (1): Zakir Lashari PMC (1) : Muhammad Qai Wohaib FC (1) : Muhammad Idrees

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