News & Blogs from Pakistan
Archive for August, 2010
Ban ‘em for life!
Aug 30th
This Test match, this series, will forever be tarnished. It could even be wiped from the records entirely.
”Mobile phones of Butt, Amir and Asif confiscated, tour to continue”
Aug 30th
LONDON: Pakistan will complete their England tour despite a police investigation into corruption allegations, team manager Yawar Saeed said on Sunday.
British police have arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers afte…
The liberal lynch mob (III)
Aug 30th
Although I may not necessarily agree with my friend George Fulton’s view, his dig at our rotten edifice was correct.
Clerics urged to preach tolerance, not hatred
Aug 30th
Peace agreements, brokered by the government between top clerics of Sunni and Shia sects, have not been successful.
Cricket”s greatest ”fixing” scandals
Aug 30th
LONDON: Cricket and gambling have had an uneasy relationship almost for as long as the game has been played.
In the 19th century aristocratic patrons set up a betting tent in front of the pavilion at Lord''s before the ground''s owners…
Suspend Pakistan, says ex-ICC boss Speed
Aug 30th
Former International Cricket Council (ICC) boss, Malcolm Speed, says there is a “compelling” case to suspend Pakistan from world cricket..
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On the Martyrdom day of Hazarat Ali(AS): Ameer-ul-Mominin, “The First Fighter against Islamism” – by Shaheryar Ali
Aug 30th
“The Qur’an is a book, covered, between two flaps, and it does not speak. It should therefore necessarily have an interpreter. Men alone can be such interpreters…..” (Imam Ali Nehj ul Balaga) On the grounds of Siffin, when the best of Arabs sho…
Future of tour in jeopardy
Aug 30th
Discussions between the PCB and the England and Wales Cricket Board were underway to scrap the series altogether.
PRCS reported 15,000 severe diarrhea cases
Aug 30th
The PRCS has also set up water filtration plants with the daily capacity of a million litres of water.
