If ever cricket produced a maverick batsman who hasn’t lived up to his potential even after 17 years of top class cricket, it is Shahid Afridi. And does that even slightly bother him? Absolutely not, I can assure you! It ... Read More »
The latest fuss about the Pakistani minister, Mr. Qureshi slamming the talks of the Indian minister in what must have been the millionth diplomatic meet of the two neighbours is very unsettling. It leaves us all wondering – how can ... Read More »
Ending the dramatic conditions going in Pakistan cricket, PCB announced that their team is going to be led by senior cricketer Shahid Afridi in the T20 world cup being held in the Carribean. This will be second time Afridi is ... Read More »
In an unprecedented crackdown on indiscipline, the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday indefinitely barred its former captains Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf from playing for the country and imposed one-year bans on Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan in the wake ... Read More »
In the first high-level bilateral visit since Mumbai terror attacks, home minister P Chidambaram will travel to Pakistan on February 26 for a SAARC meeting on a two-day visit that is expected to break the deadlock in Indo-Pak dialogue. Announcing ... Read More »
Flying to America may have just gotten more tedious, ostensibly to make it safer for everyone, following an Xmas Day attempt by al-Qaida to blow up a trans-Atlantic commercial jet in Detroit. Maintaining that “effective aviation security must begin beyond ... Read More »
The India-Pakistan joint statement at Sharm el-Sheikh is something the Manmohan Singh government would like to put behind it. But Islamabad is now putting India on the backfoot. Pakistani high commissioner to India Shahid Malik told a TV channel that ... Read More »
A task team of International Cricket Council discussed strategies and possible solutions to assist the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in meeting its commitments under the Future Tours Programmes, an ICC statement said on Sunday. No team is ready to visit ... Read More »
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt has got verbal assurances from the government that it would have no objections regarding the national players travelling to India for the Indian Premier League next year. After attending a hearing of the Public ... Read More »
Veteran penalty-corner specialist Sohail Abbas scored twice as Pakistan thrashed Japan 3-1 in the finals of a Qualifying tourney to book a berth in next year’s Hockey World Cup in India. Pakistan joined Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Korea, Netherlands, South ... Read More »
Aggressive Pakistani strokemaker Shahid Afridi has signed for South Australia in the domestic Twenty20 Big Bash tournament starting late December. The South Australian Cricket Association announced on Tuesday that Afridi, who was player of the tournament at the inaugural Twenty20 ... Read More »
Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue at a UN committee saying the “decolonisation agenda” of the world body would be incomplete without resolution of the problem, drawing a strong reaction from India which asserted that the state is its integral ... Read More »
With both China and Pakistan bolstering their air combat fleets, IAF is now seeking another 50 Sukhoi-30MKI multi-role “air dominance” fighters to cater for any contingency on both the eastern and western fronts. These 50 new Sukhois will in addition ... Read More »
India has agreed to play against Pakistan in a bilateral series in a revised draft of the Future Tours Program that would be discussed at ICC’s chief executive committee meeting in Johannesburg on October 1. Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ejaz ... Read More »
Criticising a ban imposed on his book by Gujarat government, expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Thursday said it amounted to “banning thinking” and likened the step to the one taken against noted author Salman Rushdie for his controversial work ... Read More »
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