Hashim Khan

Hashim Khan was a squash player from Pakistan, born in the village of Nawakille near Peshawar between 1910 and 1914 and died on 18 August 2014. His exact birth date is unknown, though his family celebrated it on 1 July. He won the British Open Squash Championships, then the de facto world championship, seven times, from 1951 to 1956 and again in 1958. He began as a ball boy at the squash courts used by British officers in Peshawar. He was the patriarch of the Khan squash family of Pakistan, which dominated the sport from the 1950s through the 1980s.