Hiddy jahan biography channel

Pakistani squash player

Hidayet "Hiddy" Jahan (born 15 March , in Quetta, Pakistan) is a squash player who was ranked among the top-6 players in the world from through to

A serious accident almost killed him in He had been selected to represent Pakistan in squash's first World Team Championship, and was on a train travelling from Quetta to Karachi for the final training camp when he leaned too far out of a railway carriage door and struck his head against a signal post.

He was extremely lucky to survive.^[1]

In later years, as he established himself as a top player on the international scene, Hiddy felt that he did not receive proper support from the Pakistani squash authorities.

He thus chose to go on a tour of South Africa during the apartheid era for purely financial reasons. For this, he was banned and his p