KARACHI, Oct 27: A top Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) official will attend the World Squash Federation (WSF) Annual General Meeting to be held in Costa do Sauipe, Bahia (Brazil) next month.

PSF’s senior vice-president Air Marshal Raashid Kalim will represent Pakistan in the AGM and a WSF conference to be held from Nov 17 to 19, a PSF spokesman said on Thursday.

Kalim will also make a presentation on the 2005 World Men’s Team Squash Championships to be held in Islamabad. The biennial event will be played at the Mushaf Squash Complex from Dec 8 to 14.

Pakistani squash legend Jahangir Khan, who is the president of the WSF, will chair the AGM that is expected to be attended by delegates from dozen of WSF member nations. New Zealand’s Susie Symcock, WSF’s Emeritus President, will also attend the three-day moot.

The delegates will discuss the WSF’s strategy for the inclusion of squash in the Olympic Games. Squash narrowly missed a vote for inclusion in the 2012 London Games at an International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Singapore earlier this year.

The WSF will discuss its 2005-2009 strategic plan regarding the Olympic campaign in the AGM.

Apart from the AGM, the WSF officials and the delegates of the member nations will also attend a conference in the Brazilian city.

The conference theme is “Taking squash to the next level.”

The WSF’s management committee will also meet in Brazil on the sidelines of the AGM.—PPI