KARACHI The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has excluded many clubs from Sindh, Balochistan and KPK in the 7th edition of the PFF League. It has allegedly doubled the quota of Punjab clubs in the competition which will be played in club and departmental legs from November 23 at different venues. According to information available, Director Operations PFF Pervez Saeed Mir was given the task of finalising the clubs and departments teams and prepare the draw of the B division competition. Two teams from this event will move to the Pakistan Premier League which is a division A national championship. The club leg of the championship will begin from November 23. The matches will be played mostly in Punjab at Arifwala, Faisalabad and at some other venue yet to be named. The departmental leg will be played from November 28 in Karachi and Islamabad while other venues yet to be named. The director operations, in the meanwhile, allegedly doubled the quota of clubs from Punjab in the club leg. According to the policy of the PFF, each province is given quota of two teams in the club leg but this time quota of Punjab has been allegedly doubled. Each of the provincial associations are advised to complete their club competition in time and name top two teams for the championship. Sindh has already named Nawab XI and Karachi Kickers as the winner of the club competition that ended here about a fortnight ago. But these two clubs were ignored and excluded from the draw. There is no explanation why the clubs were ignored but local football organisers claim that the PFF does not give any financial help to the clubs to play their away matches which is a burden on the limited resources of the poor clubs. Because of lack of funds, the club miss their matches. The PFF, instead of helping the clubs, prefers to ignore them and do not include them in the draw, local organisers alleged. They also alleged that the PFF even did not pay the promised winning bonuses to the teams. This practice was common and there is no appealing authority at the PFF where they could go to redress their problems. One organizer even alleged that no club league was arranged in Punjab yet the quota of teams from that province had been doubled. In the departmental leg, a new team Ashraf Sugar Mills has been given recognition to play because the department had fulfilled the condition of allegedly paying Rs 100,000 to get registration to win the playing rights. Any department can register itself with the PFF without having a regular team by paying the hefty amount, the organizers alleged. There is no way to determine the truthfulness of these allegations as all the PFF officials sit in Lahore and only seldom venture out of their football bunker.