The sport of `Squash` is not that much ancient compare to other famous sports. The game that derived from the `Racquets`, was invented in Harrow School around the year of 1830. There is no unique statement about the origins of the game. The story of inventing the game is quite interesting. The students of the school found that if a punctured racket`s ball is `squashed` with the ball, it produces another game that have a greater variety of shots and also require much more fitness and effort. This sudden invention became very popular within a very short period of time and the school management constructed the first four Squash courts in the school ground at 1864. From that year, Squash was founded officially as a sport.

In the primary days of the game, there was no such International standardisation and there were some slight variations in the rules and regulations of the game. The equipments were also different in various parts of the world where the game was being played. However, the variations were not in a great number. There were only two main methods or streams of the play followed. One method was being followed in England according to what the width of the court was 21 feet and where `soft` balls were used to play. The other method was in North America where the court was 18.5 feet wide and the balls that were used in the play were `hard`. In this method, both the courts were of the same width of 32 feet. The universality of the Squash was not seriously challenged at that time. As there was no standard size for courts, the players from different places were facing some problems. To reduce their problems, a process was started by the Tennis and Rackets Association in 1911 to decide a standard size of the court. However, it could not be finalised until 1922, when the Championships were started to be played. The standard court was finally been formalised when the First World War was over. The rackets that were used at the early days were almost similar those that are used today, but the balls differed in a great way.

In the early days, the `Squash Rackets Association of England` and the `United States Squash Rackets Association` controlled the modern international Squash. The very first dedicated association and codify the game of `Squash` was formed in America in 1907. However, in the year of 1966, the representatives of the sport from India, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, USA, Canada and the United Arab Republic met in a world conference in London and all of them agreed in the fact that they should form an International body to govern the game and the International Squash Rackets Association (ISRF) was formed. On 05 January 1967, the ISRF met for the first time. The Federation decided that the game would be recognised universally simply as "Squash", rather than "Squash Rackets". The ISRF continued its thrives and it become connected with the Women`s International Squash Federation (WISF) in 1985. In the year of 1992, the members changed the name of the Federation to the World Squash Federation (WSF). It is the sole International Federation for the sport and maintains responsibility for the rules of the Game, Court and Equipment Specifications, Refereeing and Coaching. The WSF maintains a World Calendar of events and organises and promotes World Championships for Men, Women, Junior Men, Junior women and Master age groups in both singles and doubles Squash.

The WSF also standardized the size of the Squash court. At present, there are various court dimensions for different circumstances like `singles` or `doubles` games, and also in different regions of the world. The official court size for singles matches is 9.75m (32 feet) in length, 6.4m (21 feet) in width and 4.57m (15 feet) in height at the front wall. The tin will be located at the base of the front wall and reaches 48cm (19 inches) in height.

The sport of `Squash` is very much popular and spreading in a high speed now days. At present, it is being played in 130 countries, on above 47000 courts. The World Squash Federation now has 116 Squash playing National Associations as its members. The Member Nations of the Federation take several programmes for the development of the sport and the Federation is currently working with the International Olympic Committee towards the target of having Squash included as a sport on the programme of the Olympic games in the year 2008.

Among all the nations that have been playing Squash for quite a considerable period of time, Pakistan is probably the greatest mystery. The country has produced a number of outstanding Squash champions. The Khan dynasty in the sport of Squash can be explained just by saying unbelievable. The most outstanding Khan players from Pakistan are Hashim Khan, Azam Khan, Mohibullah Khan, Roshan Khan, Mohibullah Khan Junior and the two greatest players of the 1980s and 1990s, perhaps of all time, Jahangir Khan and Janmsher Khan. The other champions from Pakistan are Gogi Alauddin, Md Yasin, Qamar Zaman and Hiddy Jahan.