Khan was born into a Pashtun family in Nawan Kalli, a small village near Peshawar in Pakistan.Poor Peshawar village home of squash dynasty. Central Asia Online. 15 March 2010. During his career he won the World Open six times and the British Open a record ten consecutive times. He retired as a player in 1993, and has served as President of the World Squash Federation from 2002 to 2008. Later in 2008, he became Emeritus President of the World Squash Federation.
