August 30, 2002	Friday	Jamadi-us-Saani 20, 1423

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LAHORE, Aug 29: Former world champion Jansher Khan, in an attempt to regain his lost glory, started practising at the Punjab Squash Complex Thursday.

Jansher held a practice session in the afternoon with his nephew Shahzad, the son of another international squash player Mohibullah.

Jansher looked fit and showed control during the practice session.

Later, Jansher said that he was fit for the game. But he added he did not feel it necessary to prove his fitness before the Pakistan Squash Federation. The PSF vice-president Air Marshal Qaiser Hussain had announced a wild card entry for Jansher for an international competition to be held in Peshawar in October.

But later, Qaiser reportedly had asked Jansher to show  his fitness in order to get a wild card for the international tournament.

Jansher also criticised the PSF for not producing any international known player since his retirement some five years back. He recently withdrew his retirement and decided to enter the arena again.

Jansher said that he had enough opportunity of playing in Europe to get back on the international scene and if the PSF deemed itself a lone authority to introduce him in the international circuit they were living in fool’s paradise.

Jansher, 33, won eight World Open and six British Open crowns during an illustrious career between 1987 and 1999.

He said that in 1999 he also made an attempt to get back in the court. He played in Dutch Open with zero international ranking.