Pathetic condition of once a great sport in Pakistan

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No Pakistani in top 20

KARACHI, July 3: No Pakistani finds a place among world top 20 players in the latest rankings issued by the Cardiff-based Professional Squash Association for the current month on Tuesday.

Mansoor Zaman has retained his 24th position and remained country’s top player.

Aamir Atlas Khan (29), Shahid Zaman (40), Farhan Mehboob (68), Shams-ul-Islam Khan (85) and Bilal Zaman (98) are other local players who have found some room among world top 100 players.

Meanwhile, Egypt continue to dominate international squash as five of their players are in the top-15 club.—PPI

http://dawn.com/2007/07/04/spt19.htm

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Re: Pathetic condition of once a great sport in Pakistan

So sad! Everyone is running after cricket. Do not take care of others!

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Re: Pathetic condition of once a great sport in Pakistan

The problem is that when we had the likes of Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan dominating the Squash world, nobody in Pakistan thought about developing youth talent and were relying on something exceptional like those two to happen again out of the blue.