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Sports active: Racket man For more than five-and-a-half years, Pakistan's Jahangir Khan was unbeatable on a squash court - the longest winning run in modern sport. Born in a remote village near the Khyber Pass, he gave the game its first superstar. Now, he says, it's high time for another one. Mark MacKenzie gets an audience with the king
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The remote village of Nawakillie, in Pakistan's North-West
Frontier Province, is an unassuming birthplace for an international
sporting dynasty. Across the valley lies the Khyber Pass, the
mountain road linking Pakistan to Afghanistan which, down the
centuries, has brought trade and trouble in equal measure.
Nawakillie's fertile soil keeps its subsistence farmers well fed,
while the clean mountain air helps its children grow fit and strong.
Among them are the robust young men of the K...
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