Game point: Peshawar girls prove squash alive in K-P

Upcoming 15-year-old Laiba Ijaz grabbed doubled gold medals in a women's squash event

PESHAWAR: Promising players from Peshawar have proven that the game of squash, once the international domain of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, is very much alive in the province.

Upcoming 15-year-old Laiba Ijaz grabbed doubled gold medals in the women squash event after winning individual and team gold medal in the just concluded Quaid-i-Azam Interprovincial Games at Jinnah Sports Complex Islamabad.

Laiba Ijaz along with promising sisters Nimra Aqeel and Hira Aqeel defeated Punjab team in straight sets.

Talking to media men, Laiba thanked her mentor Qamar Zaman and coach Riaz Khan for helping all the Qamar Zaman Women Squash Academy players who excelled in the Games. She also lauded Hira and Nimra who performed well.

"We could not win the Team Championship unless my other team members including Hira, Nimra, Sana and Maira not performed well.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 31^st, 2017.