How it unfolded
This tournament, held November 18 to 23 in Karachi, was where Pakistani squash completed its generational handover in front of its own home crowd. Two men who shared a surname but no blood relation met in the final. Jahangir, nearly 30, showed a flash of his old form by taking the first game 15-14, but managed only 19 points across the next three: 15-9, 15-5, 15-5. The World Open was played to 15 points at the time, and the two men's head-to-head record stood at 37 matches overall. Jansher, who had lost his first six meetings with Jahangir, completed his fifth world title with this win and went on to win eight through 1996, a men's record still unbroken today. For Jahangir, this was his last World Open final, and he effectively left competitive squash at the end of that year.
Why it still matters
This is both the final scene and the peak of an era in which one country owned a single sport for more than 40 years. No world champion has come out of Pakistan since this Karachi final. Once Jansher left the stage in 1998, Pakistani squash collapsed rapidly, and the vacancy was filled briefly by England and Australia before Egypt took over entirely from the mid-2000s onward.