By Piers Newbery BBC Sport Online

Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi insists he is not about to end his doubles partnership with Israeli Amir Hadad despite pressure from his country's sports officials.

Qureshi and Hadad went out of the men's doubles to Czech pair Martin Damm and Cyril Suk on Monday in straight sets.

But the unseeded pair had already made headlines the previous week when Pakistan Sports Board director Brigadier Saulat Abbas condemned Qureshi for playing with an Israeli.

Qureshi has been threatened with a ban if he continues to play with Hadad, but the Pakistani number one is not about to bow to the pressure.

And he revealed that most of the press he was receiving in Pakistan was positive, although he will return home this week to face the music.

"There is going to be positive and negative, and nobody has contacted me yet," said Qureshi.

"I'm going to go home after two months away, so we'll see what happens."

Qureshi and Hadad came together for Wimbledon after playing with different partners earlier in the year.

The biggest cheque that Qureshi has collected this year was $450 when he made the final of the Challenger event in Fergana, Uzbeikestan, in May with Finland's Tuomas Ketola.

Concentrating on tennis

Hadad won his first tournament of the year, in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, with Austrian Alexander Peya, and picked up $1550.

And the Israeli makes no apologies for choosing to play with a Pakistani.

"I chose to play with him because of his talent, his skills as a tennis player, and I also like him as a person," said Hadad.

Qureshi reiterated the point that neither player raised the issue of religion and both are happy to concentrate on tennis.

"I don't like religion or politics to interfere with sport," he said. "We're not here to change anything - politics and governments do that.

"We're just here to play the game and enjoy it."