Mohibullah Khan

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Mohibullah Khan

Country	Pakistan
Highest ranking	2 (February 1976)
Medal record Men's squash Representing  Pakistan World Championships 1976 London Singles 1977 Adelaide Singles 1979 Toronto Singles 1980 Adelaide Singles

Mohibullah Khan is a former world squash champion from Pakistan. He was one of the game's leading players in the 1970s, reaching a career-high ranking of World No. 2. He was runner-up at the inaugural World Open in 1976, and at the British Open in 1976, losing on both occasions to Australia's Geoff Hunt.

Khan has won the World Master Squash Championship and the Irish Master Squash Championship, in which he beat Australia's Geoff Hunt.

In 1976, Mohibullah Khan won the Pakistan International Airlines World Series in England. Queen Elizabeth II was the chief guest and gave him the winning trophy, a sword. Apart from this, he won the British Amateur Squash championships, Australian Open, New Zealand Open, US Championships, Alexandrian squash championships, French Open, and Pakistan Open.

Khan's younger brother, Jansher Khan, became one of the dominant players in squash in the late 1980s and 1990s. Mohibullah Khan coached Jansher Khan. It was due to his coaching that Jansher Khan remained the World No. 1 squash player for many years, including a record of winning 8 World Open and 6 British Open titles.

In 1993, the Pakistan team (Jansher Khan, Jahangir Khan, Zarak Jahan Khan, and Mir Zaman Gul) won the World Team Squash Championship under the coaching of Khan.

In recognition of Mohibullah's achievements for the country in the field of squash, President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari awarded him Pakistan's highest civil award. the Pride of Performance, in 1995.

The Federal Minister for IPC Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada renamed PSB Squash complex Peshawar as Mohibullah Khan squash complex on 29 May 2015.^{[citation needed]}

Khan serves on the Pakistan Sports Board as Director of the Squash Coaches of Pakistan. Since 2006, Khan has also run Mohibullah Khan Squash Academy in Peshawar under the Pakistan Sports Board. The academy trains players for Pakistan squash.

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