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Where all roads lead to sports persons
KARACHI: This city is the only one in the country to have honoured Pakistan’s sports persons with a network of roads and streets named after them.
Cricketers Avenue in North Nazimabad has many streets bearing the names of sports greats, such as cricket, hockey and squash legends Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, Mohsin Khan, Ramiz Raja, Sikander Bakht, Wasim Akram, Younis Khan, Islahuddin, Samiullah, Kalimullah, Hasan Sardar, Shahid Ali Khan, Hanif Khan, Qamar Zaman, Jahangir Khan, Jansher Khan and many more.