Construction work of squash complex starts

LAHORE: The efforts of Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti and Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh finally yielded results and the construction work of Squash Complex in Nishtar Park Sports Complex started on Tuesday.

Talking about the project, Taimoor said that Pakistan produced several squash legends like Jahangir Khan, Jansher Khan, Azam Khan, Roshan Khan and Qamar Zaman etc in the past. “Squash is quite a popular game among our youth and we are quite determined to produce more world class squash players in future after the completion of this mega project,” he said.

“We are going to complete this grand project in less than two years’ period. We will invite Prime Minister Imran Khan for the inauguration of this project,” he said.

“We did not face any major problem barring some delay due to Covid-19 last year. We are pretty confident to complete this project without any disruption,” he added.

Arshad on Tuesday visited the site and inspected different areas of the project.

He said putting this mega project on track was not an easy job. “It will be completed at a cost of Rs386 million,” he added.

Arshad said that Sports Board Punjab will construct six courts in this State of the Art project. “All international level facilities will be provided in the squash complex,” he said.