Nasir Iqbal secures wildcard for CAS squash event
Pakistan’s former number one squash player Nasir Iqbal has been awarded a wild card entry to play the Chief of the Air Staff-Serena Hotels International Squash Championship that is to be held in Islamabad from April 3-7.
Pakistan’s former number one squash player Nasir Iqbal has been a wild card entry to play the Chief of the Air Staff-Serena Hotels International Squash Championship that is to be held in Islamabad from April 3-7.
Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) awarded him the wildcard spot to better his international rankings which currently is 565.
Former world number 35 Nasir has been training in Houston for some time now with the support of former Pakistani player Jahanzeb Masud to make a strong comeback.
The South Asian and Asian Team Championship gold medalist Nasir will be making a comeback in international squash after he was banned for four years in 2016 for failing drug tests during SA Games held in India.
Last year, Nasir appealed to World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to give him six months reprieve, enabling him to compete in the international circuit from August 2019. But WADA rejected his appeal.
His ban finally expired on February 20th 2020.
