Introduction

Supremacy in squash, as in most fields of sporting endeavor, is cyclical. But for most of the fifty years that Pakistan has stood on the world map. It has been the game’s most dominant power. The rolls of champions in major tournaments round the globe abound with Pakistan names, in most instances bearing the suffix Khan.

Pakistan entered the international squash arena with dramatic suddenness in 1951 when Hashim Khan, a humble professional who was scarcely heard of even in his own country won the British Open Championship and effectively become World champion. Hashim beaded a long time of great Pakistani prayers that stretches to Jahangir Khan and jansher Khan at the present time and which includes such illustrious names as Azam Khan, Roshan Khan. Nasrullah Khan. Motibullah Khan. Yusuf Khan, the brothers Din, Jamal and Khan, Aftab Jawiad, Mohammad yasin, Sharif Khan, Hidayat Jahan, Gogi Alauddin, Sajjad Muneer, and Qamar Zaman. With a few exceptions, all these heroes or their ancestors hailed from Nawakille a poor village situated on the fringes of Pashawar.

Apart from innumerable individual titles standing to its credit, Pakistan has won the biennial World Team Championship six times and would have done so more often but for the fact that until 1980, the competition was barred to professionals. It is indeed remarkable that Pakistan has been such a force in the game because its squash-playing population does not compare for size with its rivals, not or facilities for playing it so numerous and widely spread.