1st Pakistan Football Summit held in Lahore.

The first Pakistan Football Summit was held at a local hotel in Lahore in the presence of FIFA and AFC delegation, which observed and analyzed the work of the FIFA: appointed Normalization Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Haroon Malik, terming it satisfactory and also assured their all: out support for the betterment and promotion of football in Pakistan.

The delegation, consisting of Rolf Tanner, Head of MA Governance (FIFA), Andrei Vashkevich, Regional Office Development Coordinator (FIFA), Purushottam Kattel, Head of South Asia Unit (AFC), was comprehensibly briefed about the football issues in Pakistan by Chairman NC Haroon Malik and member Shahid Niaz Khokhar. The other notable ones present during the discussion were NC members Saud Hashimi, Haris Azmat and football stakeholders, who also shared their views, issues and suggestions with the delegation, who, after a long and fruitful session during the Summit, expressed satisfaction on the work being done by the Normalisation Committee for football in Pakistan.

On the occasion, PFF NC Chairman Haroon Malik said: 'In the 74 years of Pakistan's history, the things, we have been doing now, never executed by anyone else. There is no record of clubs in the Football Federation and there is a dire need to systemize it and once it is done in a systemize way, the same clubs will be part of the FIFA family and our talented footballers can be picked up by any big club of Asia and the world. That day will be the historic day of Pakistan's history and...

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