Celebrating the glory of Pakistan sports

Author: Muhammad Ali

Since the early 1950s when the nascent nation began expressing itself in world arenas in the Olympic, Commonwealth and the Asian Games as well as bilateral team and individual sports, with athletic disciplines, cricket, field hockey and squash in the forefront, Pakistan cornered glory through its glorious performers. The wonder athletes Raziq, Khaliq, Jalal, the impeccable pack of squash Khans, Hashim, Azam and Roshan, to hockey stalwarts Hamidi, Atif, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Munir Dar, Zakauddin and a host of others, to cricketing greats, Kardar, Hanif, Fazal and Imtiaz, Pakistan’s first generation passed on the baton to the next – with pride and aplomb. Running up to the Independence Day, Daily Times intends to relive the brilliance and the sparkle the sportsmen in green displayed by individually profiling the path-breaking heroes and the ones who filled their oversised shoes till times most recent in what would be a celebration of Pakistan sports.

Published in Daily Times, August 10th 2017.

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