Shahran Asim

Recently while watching Dawn News, I saw a slide showing brief overivew of one of the greatest legend of Pakistani Squash, Hashim Khan. The last line of the slide read; ‘He is currently living in Colorado.’ My curiosity moved me to google his name and find out more about his whereabouts.

To my utmost amazement, I ran into a website which mentioned that two Americans with the name of Josh Easdon and Beth Raisin have been working on a documentary on Hashim Khan. The project is called “Keep Eye on Ball – The Hashim Khan Story”. The movie has recenlty been released and its local screenings have been going on in the US.

But before discussing the film, I’d like to share excerpts from an article about Hashim Khan which was published in the Squash Magazine in 2004 and written by James Zug:

Owais Mughal

Today it has been 39 years since East Pakistan became Bangladesh. It has been longer that Bangladeshis have been politcially separate from Pakistan (39y) than they were together (24y). A new generation has grown up without seeing the time when the two countries were together. A lot of water has flown under the bridge since then and this is a good time for both countries to forgive and forget about the past. I would go as far as to say it should be okay to seek forgiveness from each other and say sorry for the war of 39 years ago. Nobody becomes smaller in stature by saying sorry except for inflated egos. It can only heal and make friends. And Pakistan needs friends.

We want to wish Bangladesh prosperity and good luck in their future.

Tamashbeen

I guess this is what you call ‘icing on the cake‘; or should we say ‘this takes the cake!‘ Watch the video and suggest a better title, if you can