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Nasrullah Khan (squash Player)
Nasrullah Khan was a Pakistani squash player. In 1966, he became coach to Ireland's Jonah Barrington, along with Azam Khan as Barrington's tactical advisohelping Barrington to win his first of six British Open Squash Championships, British Open titles between 1967 and 1973. He also coached Angela Smith, the GB and England world star who became a legend herself in the ladies game, ensuring that the sport was professional for women. Nasrullah is the brother of Roshan Khan, second cousin of Hashim Khan and Azam Khan and uncle of the great Jahangir Khan and Torsam Khan. His son Rahmat Khan is also a squash player, who married British actress and singer Salma Agha. His granddaughter Natasha Khan (better known by the pseudonym "Bat For Lashes Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has released six studio albums: '' Fur and Gold'' (2006), ''Two Suns'' (2009), '' The H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squash (sport)
Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a List of racket sports, racket ball game, sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball. The players alternate striking the ball with their rackets, directing it onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. The object of the game is to hit the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. There are about 20 million people who play squash regularly worldwide in over 185 countries. The governing body of squash, the World Squash Federation (WSF), is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the sport will be included in the Olympic Games, starting with the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The Professional Squash Association (PSA) organizes the pro tour. History Squash has its origins in the older game of rackets (sport), rackets, which was played in London's prisons in the 19th century. Later, around 1830, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salma Agha
Salma Agha (born 29 October 1954) is a British singer and actress who worked in Pakistani and Indian films in the 1980s and the early 1990s. She is best known for her acting and singing the song "Dil ke Armaan" in the film ''Nikaah'' (1982). Early life Salma Agha was born and raised in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, to Liaqat Gul Agha and his wife Nasreen Agha. Salma's father, Liaqat Gul Agha was a tradesman dealing in rugs and belonged to an Urdu-speaking Punjabi Pathan family from Amritsar in Punjab, India. Agha traces the origin of her surname 'Aagha' to her Pashtun ancestors from Afghanistan. Her father (Liaqat Gul) traded in precious stones and antiques in Iran. He was given the title Aagha there, a kind of knighthood bestowed on a businessman of repute." Her mother was a musician named Nasreen (born as Zarina Ghaznavi), also a Punjabi Pathan from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, was the daughter of Rafiq Ghaznavi and his wife Anwari Bai Begum, who was one of the earliest actresses of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pashtun Squash Players
Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghans until 1964 after the term's meaning had become a demonym for all citizens of Afghanistan regardless of their ethnic group. The Pashtuns speak the Pashto language, which belongs to the Eastern Iranian branch of the Iranian language family. Additionally, Dari serves as the second language of Pashtuns in Afghanistan, while those in Pakistan speak Urdu and English. In India, the majority of those of Pashtun descent have lost the ability to speak Pashto and instead speak Hindi and other regional languages. There are an estimated 350–400 Pashtun tribes and clans with a variety of origin theories. In 2021, Shahid Javed Burki estimated the total Pashtun population to be situated between 60 and 70 million, with 15 million in Afghanistan. Others who accept the 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pakistani Male Squash Players
Pakistanis (, ) are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. As much as 85-90% of the population follows Sunni Islam. A majority of around 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims. The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family ( Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies). Located in South Asia, the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora, most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, with an estimated population of 4.7 million. The second-largest Pakistani diaspora resides throughout both Northwestern Europe and Western Europe, where there are an estimated 2.4 million; over half of this figure resides in the United Kingdom (see British Pakistanis). Ethnic subgroups Ethnically, Indo-Aryan peoples comprise the majority of the population in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahrah S Khan
Zahrah S. Khan is a British Indian actress and singer known for her contributions to Bollywood films and music. Family background Zahrah S Khan was born into the Agha and Khan families, known for their contributions to Indian cinema and sports. Her maternal lineage has been involved in the Indian film industry since the 1940s, beginning with her step-great-grandfather Jugal Kishore Mehra, who started producing films. Anwari Begum, the wife of Jugal Kishore Mehra, starred in the 1930s film ''Heer Ranjha'', an adaptation of an Indian folktale akin to Romeo and Juliet. Following this legacy, Zahrah S Khan's grandmother, Nasreen Mehra, debuted in the film '' Shahjehan'' under director Abdul Rashid Kardar, acting alongside K. L. Saigal. Zahrah's mother, Salma Agha, made her debut as an actress and singer with B. R. Chopra in ''Nikaah'' which went on to become a box office hit and ran in a theatre for five years continuously, earning her a Filmfare Award for Best Singer. Zahr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bat For Lashes
Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has released six studio albums: '' Fur and Gold'' (2006), ''Two Suns'' (2009), '' The Haunted Man'' (2012), '' The Bride'' (2016), '' Lost Girls'' (2019), and ''The Dream of Delphi'' (2024). She has received three Mercury Prize nominations. Khan is also the vocalist for Sexwitch, a collaboration with the rock band Toy and producer Dan Carey. Early life Khan was born to an English mother and a Pakistani father, squash player Rehmat Khan. A member of the Khan family, she is the granddaughter of squash player Nasrullah Khan, the niece of squash players Jahangir Khan and Torsam Khan, and the stepdaughter of singer and actress Salma Agha. The family moved to Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, when Khan was five years old. She attended many of her family's squash matches, which she felt inspired her creativity: "The roar of the cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rehmat Khan
The Khan squash family, sometimes referred to as the Khan squash dynasty, refers to a Pakistan, Pakistani family that has produced a succession of champion Squash (sport), squash players. The dynasty's patriarch was Hashim Khan (1914-2014), whose win at the 1951 British Open Squash Championships, British Open began the era of his family's dominance in the sport. This family dominance continues with Ivy League star Anoush Khan. Members of the Khan family have combined for a total of 23 British Open, 16 North American Open, 19 Tournament of Champions (squash), US Professional Championships, and six World Squash Championships, World Championships wins. History The Khan family's beginnings in the sport of squash can be traced to the British Army's officer's club in Peshawar, where Hashim's father Abdullah worked as the head steward. Around 1922 when Hashim was eight years old, his father began bringing him to the club. The young Khan soon received a job as a ball boy, and after ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonah Barrington (squash Player)
Jonah Barrington MBE (born 29 April 1941) is a retired Irish/English squash player, originally from Morwenstow, Cornwall, England. A Cornish-born Irish squash player, Barrington won the British Open (which was considered to be the effective world championship event before the World Squash Championships began) six times between 1967 and 1973, and was known as "Mr. Squash". Barrington attended Headfort School (County Meath, Ireland), Cheltenham College, and spent two years at Trinity College Dublin. The six-time British champion came from an old Anglo-Irish family. Jonah now coaches Egyptian world no.1 and 2015 British Open champion Mohamed El Shorbagy. One of his ancestors, Sir Jonah Barrington, established an estate in County Limerick called "Glenstal", which was eventually sold in the 1930s to a group of Belgian Benedictine monks who established a boarding school. In 1982 Barrington co-authored the book ''Murder in the Squash Court: the Only Way to Win''. He has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torsam Khan
Torsam Khan (sometimes spelled "Torsan Khan") (1952-1979) was a squash player from Pakistan. He belonged to a Pashtun family from Nawakille, Peshawar, Pakistan. He is the son of the 1957 British Open champion Roshan Khan, and the older brother of the great Jahangir Khan, who went on to become arguably the greatest squash player of all time. Torsam was moulded into a squash player by his father. In 1979, Torsam reached a career-high ranking of World No. 13 and was elected President of the International Squash Players Association. However that November, at the age of 27 and seemingly in excellent health, Torsam suffered a heart attack during a tournament match in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ... and died suddenly. His death profoundly affected his younger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
