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KARACHI: Farhan Mehboob, one of Pakistans top squash players, has decided to leave Pakistan and play in the United States due to non-supportive attitude of the Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF).
His father Mehbub Khan told The News that after playing the PSA World Championship next month Farhan would leave for the US. With its current ineffective policies and discriminatory attitude the PSF cannot even produce players who can reach top ten in the world, what to talk of producing a world champion, he said.
The current administration of PSF, he added, was responsible for making top players leave the country. There is a long list of players who opted for playing outside Pakistan just because the federation did not treat them well. Farhans brother Waqar has already left for the US, he added.
Mehbub was of the opinion that the failure of the policy makers of the federation was evident from the decision of holding international tournaments at a neutral venue of United Arab of Emirates. This is a bad idea and eliminates all hopes of international players visiting Pakistan. Once it happens, no country will ever come to Pakistan, he added.
He further said that Farhan had realised that he had no future in Pakistan because the federation was not serious in promoting the game.
Farhan, ranked 105th, had told this scribe in an interview that he had been victimised and that the federation was favouring junior players. I am not going to play in Pakistan and will surely go to the US where my brother and talented player Waqar are already playing owing to the same issues I am facing here with the federation, he added.
Recently, Farhan was denied visa by Kuwait to take part in an international event.
Mehbub held the federation responsible for that mess too. The federation was not pursuing this visa thing seriously, which resulted in an insult to our players, including Farhan. It is incompetence of the federation because otherwise Pakistans squash does not deserve this treatment, he added.
Farhan won the British Junior U-15 Open title in January 2002, and also clinched the Asian Junior U-19 Championship crown.
By the end of 2008, Farhan had soared 32 places in the PSA world rankings to finish the year in the top-20 for the first time.
And after a 2009 campaign that included quarter-final berths in the KL Open and the Hurghada International in Egypt, Farhan recorded a career-high world No16 ranking in May.
Farhan to leave Pakistan, play in US - thenews.com.pk
His father Mehbub Khan told The News that after playing the PSA World Championship next month Farhan would leave for the US. With its current ineffective policies and discriminatory attitude the PSF cannot even produce players who can reach top ten in the world, what to talk of producing a world champion, he said.
The current administration of PSF, he added, was responsible for making top players leave the country. There is a long list of players who opted for playing outside Pakistan just because the federation did not treat them well. Farhans brother Waqar has already left for the US, he added.
Mehbub was of the opinion that the failure of the policy makers of the federation was evident from the decision of holding international tournaments at a neutral venue of United Arab of Emirates. This is a bad idea and eliminates all hopes of international players visiting Pakistan. Once it happens, no country will ever come to Pakistan, he added.
He further said that Farhan had realised that he had no future in Pakistan because the federation was not serious in promoting the game.
Farhan, ranked 105th, had told this scribe in an interview that he had been victimised and that the federation was favouring junior players. I am not going to play in Pakistan and will surely go to the US where my brother and talented player Waqar are already playing owing to the same issues I am facing here with the federation, he added.
Recently, Farhan was denied visa by Kuwait to take part in an international event.
Mehbub held the federation responsible for that mess too. The federation was not pursuing this visa thing seriously, which resulted in an insult to our players, including Farhan. It is incompetence of the federation because otherwise Pakistans squash does not deserve this treatment, he added.
Farhan won the British Junior U-15 Open title in January 2002, and also clinched the Asian Junior U-19 Championship crown.
By the end of 2008, Farhan had soared 32 places in the PSA world rankings to finish the year in the top-20 for the first time.
And after a 2009 campaign that included quarter-final berths in the KL Open and the Hurghada International in Egypt, Farhan recorded a career-high world No16 ranking in May.
Farhan to leave Pakistan, play in US - thenews.com.pk
