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More to add about Pakistan football, which just came on track again a few years ago after the FIFA ban lift. It is a whole mess. The player clubs are often misleading, as no league has been held since 2018-19! Majority of the "departmental clubs" which are esentially companies such as Pakistan International Airlines FC, Sui Southern Gas etc which dominated Pakistani football domestic structure have been disbanded following the shutdown of departmental sports in Pakistan in September 2021, which was eventually lifted but a few departments remain currently active. See Wiki page for further info.

I can shed light on the actual situation of few players. The references are added in the Wiki pages of the players which i have expanded and edited. I have linked the Wikipedia pages on the player names.

Ali Khan Niazi (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/91230/Ali_Khan_Niazi.html) rejoined KRL Rāwalpindī in 2022,

Yasir Afridi (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/51201/Yasir_Afridi.html) joined Mehran FC in 2023,

Jadid Khan Pathan (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/30797/J…han_Pathan.html) rejoined Afghan FC Chaman in 2019,

Muhammad Riaz had a brief stint at SA Gardens in 2021, a new club founded in 2020 lacking a page at national-football-teams where many of the new national team players are starting to play, such as Junaid Shah (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/92533/Junaid_Shah.html).

Mehmood Khan (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/42665/Mahmood_Khan.html) has had a curious career since, after his then club closed after the shutdown of departmental sports in Pakistan and terminated contracts of the players of the squad on 26 August 2022, he joined Aino Mina football club based in the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan in the newly formed Afghanistan Champions League, so it still lacks it page in the website as the football structure has been revamped in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover. He then joined KRL Rāwalpindī in 2023.

There are still some minor mistakes on the current players of the national team which get more spotlight and I will try updating later, but I have gave information about previous international players here after I gathered information about them after doing some research.

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Oh, and the first picture at the Yasir Afridi page (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/51201/Yasir_Afridi.html) is actually not him, it's Zia Us-Salam (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/49536/Zia_Us_Salam.html) who has the same pic on his page but that's him.

More to add about Pakistan football, which just came on track again a few years ago after the FIFA ban lift. It is a whole mess. The player clubs are often misleading, as no league has been held since 2018-19! Majority of the "departmental clubs" which are esentially companies such as Pakistan International Airlines FC, Sui Southern Gas etc which dominated Pakistani football domestic structure have been disbanded following the shutdown of departmental sports in Pakistan in September 2021, which was eventually lifted but a few departments remain currently active. See Wiki page for further info.

I can shed light on the actual situation of few players. The references are added in the Wiki pages of the players which i have expanded and edited. I have linked the Wikipedia pages on the player names.

Ali Khan Niazi (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/91230/Ali_Khan_Niazi.html) rejoined KRL Rāwalpindī in 2022,

Yasir Afridi (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/51201/Yasir_Afridi.html) joined Mehran FC in 2023,

Jadid Khan Pathan (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/30797/J…han_Pathan.html) rejoined Afghan FC Chaman in 2019,

Muhammad Riaz had a brief stint at SA Gardens in 2021, a new club founded in 2020 lacking a page at national-football-teams where many of the new national team players are starting to play, such as Junaid Shah (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/92533/Junaid_Shah.html).

Mehmood Khan (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/42665/Mahmood_Khan.html) has had a curious career since, after his then club closed after the shutdown of departmental sports in Pakistan and terminated contracts of the players of the squad on 26 August 2022, he joined Aino Mina football club based in the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan in the newly formed Afghanistan Champions League, so it still lacks it page in the website as the football structure has been revamped in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover. He then joined KRL Rāwalpindī in 2023.

There are still some minor mistakes on the current players of the national team which get more spotlight and I will try updating later, but I have gave information about previous international players here after I gathered information about them after doing some research.

Pakistani player Rajab Ali (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/92535/Rajab_Ali.html) date of birth is completely wrong. Sadly age fraud is quite common here, as age is often not recorded specially in undeveloped areas such as Balochistan province where he hails from.

From his instagram page we can conclude his birthday is today on 6 March, as evidenced by his recent instagram stories. Still not sure about his year of birth. However I have found a news article on 24 September 2013, when he was made captain for the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship qualification (https://www.hazara.net/2013/09/rajab-…eam-as-captain/). The article says that at that time Rajab was 16, so likely his year of birth is 1997 or 1998. The instagram stories on his profile (rajab_ali_hazara_18) will expire shortly so here I will attach some screenshots. The day and month should definitely be changed to 6 March as there are enough proofs, though his year of birth is still in doubt.

In the Pakistan vs Malaysia match in 10 October 2008 (https://www.national-football-teams.com/matches/report…a_Pakistan.html), the goalscorer of Pakistan is missing. It was Arif Mehmood in the 85th minute. Timing of some goals there are a bit erroneous aswell. Here is the data: