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Mere haathon se gir gayi lakeeren kahin,
bhool aaye hum apni takdeeren kahin,
Agar mile tumko kahin to utha lena,
mere hisse ki har khushi apne haathon pe saja lena!!!
Pakistan’s Akmal brothers appeal fines
“We have received their appeals in person and now it will be forwarded to an appellate tribunal,” Pakistan Cricket Board’s legal adviser Taffazul Rizvi told AP.
The PCB last month fined Kamran 3 million rupees ($35,200) while Umar was fined 2 million rupees ($23,500).
According to then manager of the team Abdul Raquib, the Akmal brothers spoke out in the media when wicketkeeper Kamran was dropped from the team due to poor performance after the second Test in Sydney.
Umar Akmal also complained of a back injury, which a medical check up could not detect.
A PCB inquiry investigated Pakistan’s poor performance in Australia where it was beaten 3-0 in the Test series and 5-0 in the one-day series.
The cricket board implemented all the recommendations of the inquiry committee last month, including putting Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi and the Akmal brothers on a six-month probation.
Afridi was also fined after the Australia tour for ball tampering during the one-day series while allrounder Rana Naved and former captain Shoaib Malik were fined and banned from the national team for one year.
Mohammad Yousuf, who last month retired from international cricket, and Younis Khan were barred from the national team for indefinite periods.
Rizvi said that the deadline for the remaining five players to file appeals was April 16.
The three-member appellate tribunal comprises two retired supreme court judges, Munir Sheikh and Jamshed Ali Shah, and a former high court judge Irfan Qadir.
Why husband should not answer…..
WIFE: ‘What would you do if I died? Would you get married again?
HUSBAND: ‘Definitely not!
WIFE: ‘Why not? Don’t you like being married?’
HUSBAND: ‘Of course I do.
WIFE: ‘Then why wouldn’t you remarry?
HUSBAND: ‘Okay, okay, I’d get married again.’
WIFE: ‘You would?’
HUSBAND: …….?
WIFE: ‘Would you live in our house?’
HUSBAND: ‘Sure, it’s a great house.’
WIFE: ‘Would you let her drive my car?’
HUSBAND: ‘Probably, it is almost new.’
WIFE: ‘Would you replace my pictures with hers?’
HUSBAND: ‘That would seem like the proper thing to do..’
WIFE: ‘Would you give her my jewelry?’
HUSBAND: ‘No, I’m sure she’d want her own.’
WIFE: ‘Would she wear my shoes’
HUSBAND: ‘No, her size is 6.’
WIFE: — silence …….
HUSBAND: ‘oh shit’.
Pak Govt. offer ‘family planning kit’ to Shoaib, Sania
Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Population Welfare Firdous Ashiq Awan has stepped forward to support cricketer Shoaib Malik and Indian tennis player Sania Mirza. Awan not only supports the former cricketer’s wedding with the Indian tennis star, but has also vowed to give them a wedding present: a ‘family planning kit.’ “Their involvement in the programme could play a key role in creating awareness about family planning,” she said.
What you think “Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa” is the right name for NWFP ?
Now a days, we have been listening the news about NWFP? i would like to put this for today’s topic to know about your views.
Vacancy – Project Manager
Bedari is women’s rights NGO with its National office in Islamabad and Program offices in Chakwal, Mansehra andMuzaffarabad. Its work focuses on gender based discrimination and violence. Bedari has following post vacant for Islamabad office.
Program Manager (Female)
Key Responsibilities:
- To manage the implementation of the projects on creating awareness and building capacity of various stakeholders for ending violence against women.
- To supervise the project team in overall implementation
- To coordinate with donors and partner organizations
- To prepare regular reports about the project activities
- To conduct field visits for support and monitoring purposes
- To facilitate the capacity building process of the partner communities and the project staff
- To design and conduct trainings with communities as well as with professionals
- To develop project and program in the area of GBV
Skills & Competencies:
- Post graduate degree with 5 years of work experience in development sector
- Proven knowledge and experience of working on issues of social change, particularly on gender related issues
- Excellent analytical and writing skills
- Excellent presentation, articulation, and communications skills in English
- Ability to meet tight deadlines, work under pressure, and respond positively to challenges
- Strong team building skills and orientation of working in team setting
- Appropriate IT skills (MS Word, Power Point, Internet)
- Experience of designing and conducting trainings would be an added advantage.
Deadline for Applications: April 12, 2010
Kindly send your CV with covering letter to: bedari@bedari.org.pk
Sania and Shoaib Marriage has been postponed.
April 6 (Bloomberg) — The marriage of Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and Indian tennis star Sania Mirza scheduled for April 15 may be postponed, a friend of the Mirza family said.
Malik and Mirza’s wedding has run into a storm of controversy after Ayesha Siddiqui, who hails from Mirza’s hometown of Hyderabad, claimed to be Malik’s first wife. The Siddiqui family filed a police complaint, leading to Malik being questioned and his passport seized. Malik arrived in Hyderabad on April 3.
“Until the police case is closed the marriage will not take place,” family friend V. Chamundeswaranath said in a phone interview. “The Mirza family wants the controversy to be cleared before marrying their child.” Mirza’s father could not be reached immediately on his cell phone.
The row has dragged in the governments of India and Pakistan. Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s foreign minister, asked the country’s High Commissioner to India to keep tabs on the police complaint against Malik, India’s Business Standard newspaper reported today.
“Shoaib Malik is a player of our team and we are proud of him,” Qureshi said.
In a televised press conference yesterday, Malik, with Mirza by his side, said he had come to India to get married and “now, clear my name.”
Malik said in an interview with the Times of India on April 4 that he first spoke with Ayesha, who said she was a fan, in 2001. As the telephonic relationship blossomed, Malik said he was sent a picture of Ayesha. His attempts to meet with the girl in the photo were unsuccessful and he hasn’t ever met her.
Telephone Wedding
At Ayesha’s insistence, Malik says they wed over the telephone in 2002.
“In Muslim law, this arrangement doesn’t work no matter what paper may or may not be there simply because, when the proposal was made, the image in my head was the girl in the photographs, but the girl, who was accepting the proposal was someone else. That’s cheating,” Malik told the Times of India. “My mistake was my innocence.”
Malik, a former captain of Pakistan’s national cricket team, was banned from playing for one year last month following a probe into the squad’s performance during a tour to Australia. Mirza is ranked 90th in the tennis WTA rankings.
“It is very painful for us and the family to see ourselves on TV and hear false allegations being levied against Shoaib,” Mirza said in the press conference yesterday. “But we all know what the truth is and we will stand by him until he clears his name of this controversy.”
Teesara Missile.. An Article By Prof. Tariq Siddiqui.
Shahid Afridi becomes new Brand Ambassador of Samsung Pakistan.
Samsung Electronics Pakistan has announced at a press conference held by Samsung at a Country Club in Lahore, Pakistan that leading cricketing icon Shahid Afridi as its new Brand Ambassador.
After becoming brand ambassador Shahid Afridi will be engaged in different events and media activities to promote the Samsung’s latest electronic appliances as well as cellular devices in Pakistan. Shahid Afridi has large number of national as well as international fan following, including millions of young active fans and sports enthusiasts, these all fans are aspire to use trendy new mobile devices as well as appliances in their daily lives.
It is the perception about Samsung Brand that it is a successful modern and stylish brand globally. Therefore, Shahid’s trendy attitude and his sporting personality truly complements the Samsung brand concept.
Mr. Steve Han who is the General Manager of Samsung Electronics Pakistan, said, “Samsung is a youthful, active and high-spirited player in the electronics industry, just like the robust Cricketer Shahid Afridi. Together these two iconic players will take fresh initiatives, to win the hearts of all progressive consumers”.
Where as on the other side Shahid Afridi is happy and appreciated his new status of being Samsung’s Brand Ambassador. While talking to media he said, “It is a pleasure for me to represent a global leader in electronics. Samsung has always inspired me with its fantastic products. Just like the game of cricket, the technology arena is also very competitive, where Samsung has always showed great performance, determination and innovation”.
The truly innovative Samsung products and services – like revolutionary 3D TVs, cutting-edge smart-phones, and an endless store of “Samsung Apps”, reflect the technological advancement of Samsung. Through such evolution, Samsung continues to be among the “World’s most admired companies” of the Fortune magazine.
Pakistan’s Cricketers Dismissed for a Duck
By RICHARD LORD
Pakistani cricket is in turmoil. But then again that’s nothing new. The Pakistan Cricket Board’s harsh penalties meted out against several of the country’s top players on March 10 represent just the latest chapter in a long history of sackings, resignations and controversies that have haunted the national side for as long as anyone can remember.
Following a disastrous December-to-February tour to Australia during which the Pakistan National Cricket Team lost all nine matches to the home side, the PCB held no fewer than seven senior players accountable. Incumbent test match and one-day international Captain Mohammad Yousuf and former skipper Younis Khan, who also happen to be the team’s two best batsmen, were handed indefinite playing bans. The board then claimed a few hours later, in a characteristically confusing fudge, that these aren’t life bans. Mr. Yousuf’s sour-grapes rejoinder was a temporary retirement from the game.
Another former captain, all-rounder Shoaib Malik, along with fast bowler Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, received one-year bans. Talismanic all-rounder and Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi, as well as brothers Kamran and Umar Akmal, wicketkeeper and rising batting star respectively, were given fines between $24,000 and $36,000 and put on probation for six months.
The list of their infractions was long, varied and in places rather vague. At least Mr. Afridi’s crime was obvious: He was caught by television cameras biting the ball during the tour’s solitary Twenty20 match. It was a particularly baroque example of ball-tampering, one of cricket’s cardinal sins.
As for the others: mainly they appear to have been banned for hating each other. The Australia tour was shot through with in-fighting, backbiting, feigned injuries and accusations against the team’s most senior players of deliberate underperformance. Just think about that last one for a minute: players who are actually prepared to throw a match for their national team, just to undermine a captain they don’t like. If that’s true, something is very rotten in the state of Pakistan.
The sad thing is that none of this comes as a great surprise. For years, Pakistani cricket has been bedeviled by barely-and-sometimes-not-at-all-concealed animosity among the players, ball-tampering, use of both performance-enhancing and recreational drugs, and match-fixing. Throw the hopelessly politicized nature of the Pakistan Cricket Board into the mix and you realize that it’s only the deep well of talent and passion for the game in the country that allow the team to ever win anything.
But ridding the team of troublemakers is unlikely to solve the problem. In recent years, its bad-boy-in-chief has been tear-away fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who was banned in 2007. The team hasn’t become appreciably more stable in his absence, so there’s little reason to assume the recent bans will make a difference either. Particularly as they mean that the team’s leading fast bowler is now Mohammad Asif, who has tested positive for steroids twice, gotten into a changing-room fight with Mr. Akhtar, and been caught with a recreational drug in his pocket at Dubai airport.
The cull has swept away so many senior players that the Pakistan Cricket Board was more or less forced, just two weeks after punishing him, to appoint Mr. Afridi as captain for the forthcoming World Twenty20—where Pakistan will be defending champions after claiming victory in England last year, one of the heartbreaking, periodic glimpses of what they’re capable of. The team were close to world-conquering as little as two decades ago, for a while competing with Australia to take over from the declining West Indies as world’s pre-eminent side. The divergence in the fortunes of the two teams since has been startling.
The real victims in all this, of course, are Pakistan’s remarkably loyal and long-suffering fans, who don’t even get to see their team play at home. Any prospect of that was abruptly shattered on March 3, 2009, when 12 terrorists, believed by Pakistani authorities to represent Kashmiri separatist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, opened fire on the Sri Lankan team’s bus as they were on their way to play at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. The first terrorist action against an international sports team since the attack on Israeli athletes by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, it instantly swept away any chance of teams touring the troubled nation any time soon—the Sri Lankans had been the first international team to visit Pakistan in 17 months, after several tours had been cancelled on security grounds. It’s exactly the opposite of what Pakistani cricket needs, given all the other issues it faces.
So resigned is the Pakistan Cricket Board to not playing at home for the foreseeable future that it has agreed to play its Test-match and Twenty20 series against Australia in England this summer. The cities where the matches will take place, of course, have massive populations of Pakistani extraction who will pack out the grounds and provide the usual impassioned-verging-on-hysterical support, and the Pakistan board’s coffers will be swelled by their share of the fat English gate receipts. But for the players, contesting their home games 6,000 kilometers from home is roughly that many kilometers from satisfactory.
In sum: too dangerous to visit, paralyzed by internal strife, terrifyingly political and dominated by big, powerful egos. Poor old Pakistan. And the cricket team has its fair share of problems, too.
Mr. Lord writes on cricket for The Wall Street Journal Asia.
Old Pictures of Holy KABBA. House of ALLAH.
Pakistan never respected their cricket stars.
By Wasim Akram
Pakistan cricket continues to intrigue me. Quite a few things are making headlines and unfortunately, almost all for the wrong reasons! First up, many congratulations to Shoaib Malik, although the juicy news about his previous relationship will do him no good. Whatever the facts are, I will like to wish Sania Mirza and Shoaib a good life together. Marriage is sacred. I can imagine the dilemma two former Pakistan captains are going through at this moment. While Mohammad Yousuf has announced his retirement from international cricket, Younus Khan is planning to challenge his suspension.
I have said in my previous column that the PCB had no business to slap indefinite bans on cricketers. Hence Younus will have a very strong case whenever he seeks legal help. It will be interesting to see how the PCB reacts then. Governance has never been PCB’s strong point for various reasons. More than Younus, the decision made by Yousuf has saddened me. His retirement will definitely hurt Pakistan in Test cricket. You can’t replace a man with 24 Test centuries and 7000 plus runs. It’s a pity the way Pakistan have treated their best players. Just like Yousuf, Pakistan have not respected many former stars. Whether it was me, Javed bhai (Miandad) or Waqar Younus, one fine day we were made to vanish from the face of the earth! There are numerous other instances too.
I am not sure if this is the way to treat players who have served you with excellence for over two decades. At least, they deserve a testimonial game, a warm send-off and a moment that will stay forever in their hearts. I am sure Pakistan’s cricket fans will love to give their heroes one final standing ovation. Yousuf deserved one. Even if I am busy with my Indian Premier League (IPL) commitments for Kolkata Knight Riders, I have been reading with interest about Shahid Afridi getting ready for the ICC T20 World Cup. It is important for Afridi and Waqar to strike a chord in the West Indies. Afridi must learn from his mistakes and lead with sense and responsibility. Having been part of IPL, I now realise the margin for error in T20 cricket is very little. Afridi has to choose his best combination every time he goes out in the middle. If Pakistan can shun politics in team selection, we should be able to defend the world title. Class and capability have never been in short supply in Pakistan cricket.
There’s something about Fatima
NEW DELHI: Her book couldn’t be published in Pakistan but in India, it’s already caused some stir. It was only a matter of time before Fatima Bhutto, granddaughter of former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, wrote her memoir. Songs of Blood and Sword, telling the story of the Pakistan’s influential but blighted Bhutto family that has seen much violence and death was released here on Saturday.
At the open-air venue of a five-star hotel, Fatima Bhutto chatted with William Dalrymple, read extracts and talked of life with her father and even with her aunt, Benazir before she became prime minister. Suspected to have been behind the killing of her father Murtaza Bhutto, current Pakistan president, Asif Ali Zardari emerged a villain, of course. She recalled how “cruelly” Zardari had broken the news of Murtaza’s killing to 14 year-old Fatima on September 20, 1996 and later, delivered his first address on the 12th death anniversary.
It’s not just the politics or the story of her family, there’s something about Fatima Bhutto herself. She has studied at Columbia University and University of London. The 27 year-old journalist-columnist appeared in a green sari — bindi and all — sipped white wine as she spoke of violence and betrayal. Members of the audience complimented her — “you’re looking beautiful” — bought copies of the books and lined up to get it signed. Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar was also present at the gathering.
Asked to draw a family tree and indicate which diseases particular family member suffered from for biology-class, high-school student Fatima was flummoxed. A good part of her family was claimed by political violence, not any disease. But the death at the centre of her memoir is that of her father Murtaza.
Fatima’s parents split when she was still an infant and Murtaza raised her. They lived in Damascus and Syria, and Murtaza did his best. She recalls her father chopping her hair in a fashion that made her “look like Mowgli.” She thought herself as Mowgli till she figured he was a boy. Her father remarrying and her stepmother Ghinwa Bhutto, a Syrian-Lebanese and former ballet dancer, brought some semblance of order in her life. If she had fond memories of moments with her father, unlikely though it may seem now, she says she’s had a few of those with her aunt, Benazir as well. As the first Bhutto child of her generation, she was taken for icecream, read stories by her aunt. She’s been told she is like her aunt several times. But what she once considered a “compliment” now sounds like an “admonishment.”
Fatima still feels cornered. She had a column in a paper in which she wrote on politics. After Zardari became president, she says, she was encouraged to write on travel and food. She however maintains columns in several other dailies and websites. Her writing includes a volume of poetry, Whispers of the Desert.
Her father was no angel either, he too had cases against him, reminds Dalrymple. “He was not male Aung San Suu Kyi,” she said, but political propaganda rendered Benazir in angelic tones and painted the brothers as the monsters. That was “part of the mythology built around him,” she says.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Theres-something-about-Fatima/articleshow/5760106.cms
Lakin Rehnay do.
Saarey waadon ko bhula sakta hun,
lekin rehne do..!
Main tumhein chor k ja sakta hun,
lekin rehne do..!
Tum jo har morr pe keh daitey ho khuda hafiz,
faisla mein bhi suna sakta hun,
lekin rehne do..!
Tum ne jo baat ki dil ko dukhaney wali,
us per main muskura b sakta hun,
lekin rehne do..!
Sharam aaye gi tumhein
warna tumharey waaday,
main tumhein yaad dila sakta hun,
lekin rehne do.
Who will be the captain of Pakistan Cricket Team?
Who will be next captain?
Fourteen cricketers have captained Pakistan in the last 17 years, some of them (Wasim Akram, Rashid Latif, Younis Khan), captaining more than once in their career. Mohammad Yousuf did lead Pakistan in two Tests in 2004, but that was as vice captain when skipper Inzamam sat out these matches in Australia.
As if four captains tried in last two years has not been enough, we now have four candidates for the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup, three of whom will be first-time captains if chosen. Only one of them, Salman Butt, has captained Pakistan at the Under 19 level, but all of the candidates have captained their regional sides over the last few years.
I have already stated my reasons for thinking that Abdul Razzaq is the front runner. Still, the PCB chairman has gone for a smoke screen strategy and met with the four candidates as if he has yet to decide. The idea is to get to Razzaq through this process so that it appears a well-thought out decision during which Afridi was given another hearing as well.
Whatever has been said in that closed-door meeting is not known, but one newspaper has reported that Afridi has supported Razzaq as a choice if he is not chosen himself owing to a six-month probation. Obviously, something has been said to Afridi to prompt this statement (if the newspaper story is true) to show that Razzaq is a consensus candidate.
Meanwhile, I’d like to analyse the four candidates on merit. Let’s look at their strengths and weaknesses and then readers can weigh in on who they think should be captain.
Shahid Afridi
The captain in T20 until he was brushed off for the ‘Toothgate’ scandal, he deserves the position on merit. He has the personality traits of fearlessness, motivating power, aggressiveness, energy and enthusiasm for the job. Over the last year and a half he has curbed his hara-kiri style for more selective strokeplay, considering what was once unimaginable with him—rotating the strike.
But it is the resurgence in his bowling that has propelled him as one of the most difficult bowlers to score off. Top spinners and faster deliveries are the major weapons in his armory. His fielding, especially off his own bowling, is up there with the best. He therefore has what it takes to make the ideal captain: leadership traits and current form with both bat and ball.
His weaknesses are that he is emotional, can lose control in front of media, and still plays too flamboyantly for a captain. He would be my choice for the captaincy, bite or no bite.
Abdul Razzaq
He has previous experience of captaining in the T20 format, having led the Lahore Lions to the final a couple of years back. He has the quiet resolve that can keep his focus on the game, has been bowling and batting well, and is a good finisher (but only on his day.
But he too has weaknesses. He takes omission badly, especially when justified, which shows immaturity and lack of self analysis. He has basically one boundary scoring shot that lands between, or goes over, long off and square leg. He has difficulty scoring when pitched short outside off stump at waist to shoulder height. He is also a loner on tours, is unfit most of the time, and his teammates will not look upon him with the same respect as a leader as they have for his cricket abilities.
Salman Butt
He has captaincy potential in a long run, but only for Test matches. That said, he has to bat more consistently to be considered if merit is a factor, and not just the PCB Chairman’s whim. Butt has guts and a cheerful demeanour both on and off the field, and he’s more mature than any player in his age group. Importantly, he’s never been embroiled in any controversy of his own making. He batted solidly in the Test matches in Australia, which is always a test for any opener. Among his teammates since his debut in 2003, he remains the most composed and presentable in front of the media.
His weaknesses include constant swishing outside the off stump, lack of footwork against spinners, and irresponsible shot selection when well set. He has also been known to bat selfishly, especially in the limited over formats during which he often lets down his team at the expense of his personal glory. Moreover, Butt is still a shaky fielder and can be seen to be a lazy runner who will rarely dive.
Misbah-ul-Haq
Misbah should never have been dropped after his performance in ODIs against Australia in 2002 in Nairobi. His resurgence in 2007 proved what Pakistan had missed in the intervening years: his cool-headed batting, especially under pressure, matches Yousuf’s temperament. An orthodox batsman with reasonable technique, Misbah explodes suddenly and takes bowlers by surprise. He’s one of the safest catchers close up.
His weaknesses are to the shorter ball, but notwithstanding his form over the last year, he has tackled all bowling with prudence.
I would have opted for him as captain once Inzamam-ul-Haq retired and Younis was not interested in the captaincy. He is a great analyst of the game and has led Faisalabad and his department with success. More importantly, he stands tall among his teammates as a go-to man, boasting the steely steadfastness of a Steve Waugh.
So, in my opinion, if Afridi is not selected as captain, the post should go to Misbah. What do you think, people?
Source: http://blog.dawn.com/2010/03/17/who-will-be-the-captain/
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