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Pakistan to Sit Out 2010 FIFA Football World Cup
Jun 9th
Adil Najam
Unlike the 2006 FIFA World Cup, when Pakistan was represented in each and every game of the world’s premier sporting tournament – in the shape of Pakistani manufactured footballs – Pakistan will be missing in action at the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup that starts in South Africa later this week. This year’s official [...]
Final preparations for World Cup in South Africa
Jun 8th
Johannesburg: South Africa put the finishing touches to its World Cup preparations, rolling out the continent’s first high-speed rail link on Tuesday, as organisers told critics it was time to put doubts aside.
The three-billion-dollar Gautrain began whisking passengers from Johannesburg’s international airport into the uptown Sandton district, just three days before the tournament begins.
The 100-mile-an-hour link will be one of the key legacies of the tournament and is intended to show that Africa can build transport facilities to rival those of anywhere in the world.
“I have been in Johannesburg just …
Stampede at World Cup warm-up match
Jun 7th
TEMBISA, South Africa: A stampede outside a World Cup warm-up left 16 people injured Sunday, including two police officers, as the challenges facing organisers were brought into sharp focus days before the tournament kicks off.
The victims were cr…
FIFA names 30 referees for World Cup
Jun 7th
JOHANNESBURG: The FIFA Referee Committee has named 30 Referees from 28 countries ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The FIFA Refereeing Department headed by Spanish former international referee José Maria García-Aranda who refereed at both the 1998 F…
China exults in shock defeat of France
Jun 5th
BEIJING: Chinese commentators rejoiced Saturday in their national team”s shock 1-0 victory over former world champions France, hoping for a footballing renaissance after years of corruption scandals.
In their final warm-up match ahead of the World Cu…
Mandela embroiled in World Cup tug-of-war
Jun 4th
JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela was at the centre of a World Cup tug-of-war on Thursday as organisers said they expected him to attend the tournament kick-off and his family insisted he was too frail to appear.
The government, the ruling African National…
FIFA to release 150,000 more World Cup tickets
May 26th
Capetown: World football body FIFA on Thursday said it will release 150,000 World Cup tickets – including seats at the opening and final matches – for next month’s tournament in South Africa.
“All together, for the 64 games, it’s 150,000 tickets we’ll put back in the system,” said secretary general Jerome Valcke at the handing over of Cape Town’s stadium ahead of the June 11 kick-off.
Tickets were available in all price categories and ranged from 200 seats at the South Africa-France match in Bloemfontein on June 22, to 2,000 seats for …
One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece by a Virtually Dead Man
May 23rd
I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of expression” and [...]
