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Why can’t Pakistan win
Prof Farakh A Khan : Pakistan’s 180 million people drew a massive zero in the Olympics. Since 1996 Atlanta Olympics in the last five meets Pakistan failed to win a single medal. Even war torn Afghanistan managed to win a medal in the last Olympics. Only our hockey team had qualified to compete in the Olympics the other few participants were wild cards. Have our experts drawn any conclusions from our miserable state in sports? We have an upgraded Sports Policy of 2005 (Source Internet 2012) produced by Pakistan Sports Board under the Government of Pakistan Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs. Pakistan has many policies and pious utterances from the high and the mighty but lacks the institutions that can transform them into action. I shall highlight this aspect … Read entire article »
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The Magical Hands of Physiotherapist
By Abbis Haider: In an equally poised India Pakistan match, with 10 balls remaining and 20 to get, boom boom Afirdi on strike, gets his hamstring pulled and falls down. With the toppling of Afridi, the enthusiasm of the whole Pakistani nation gets tumbled, suddenly, a hurricane of fluster spreads all around the world. Then, out of a blue, there appears a man with a small bag, running fiercely towards the batsman, followed by a break of advertisement on a television channel. Hey folks! We return after a 2 minute break and at once our eyes witness a bang hit for six, out of the park by boom boom. What has happened in these 2 minutes, which brought our master player back on his feet. Is this a magic! Or some kind … Read entire article »
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Cricket and Islam
Is Pakistan winning this year’s Twenty20 a symptom of the receding influence of the Tableeghi Jammat in the team, asks Nadeem F. Paracha. In 1996 when the underdog Sri Lankan cricket team created one upset after another to finally win that year’s prestigious Cricket World Cup, the then decade long Civil War on the island between the Sinhalese-dominated government and the Tamil Tigers took a subtle but definitive turn. [1] … Read entire article »
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