Author: K. Shahzad

Sports

ICC Champions trophy New Zealand wins semi-final against Pakistan

On Saturday the second semifinal of ICC Champions trophy was held between Pakistan and New Zealand and New Zealand won this by five wickets and got through to the finals. This was in fact the upset of the tournament because Pakistan team was favorite to win the second semi-final in opinion of many. But good batting from New Zealand got them through. Pakistan was able to score 233 runs over the 50 overs. Pakistan batting side lost much because of losing the first four wickets too early. On one time Pakistan cricket team was struggling at 183 for 7 wickets but two bowlers Tanveer and and Saeed Ajmal added the 35 valuable runs to the total for just 34 deliveries. […]

National, Sports

Pakistan Wins ICC champions trophy match against West Indies

West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first. But this decision didn’t proved to be lucky for them and soon their all team was out by just scoring 133 runs. Thanks to Pakistani fast bowlers, fast bowlers Muhammad Aamir and Omer Gul taken 6 wickets collectively. Readers must recall that despite the leading players ended their boycott over contractual deputes last month, still the team was fully unable to do well in batting. Also in fielding they were not very well and on other hand the 58 runs partnership between Umar Akmal and Shahid Afridi was enough to pave the teams way to convincing victory. Umar Akmal himself scored 41 runs which include six fours.  This way Pakistan […]

National, Politics

Mufti Muneeb tells leader of ANP to stay away and keep quite

Previously the leader of Awami National Party (ANP) Ghulam Ahmed Bilur demanded that the current Ruhat-e-Hilal committee must be dissolved and the chairman Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman must be replaced with the Mufti Shahabuddin Popalzai of Masjid Qasim Ali Khan. Bilur also called Muneeb as the product of the Musharraf age. Leader of ANP had issues with the moon sighting by Ruhat-e-Hilal Committee for Ramadan and Eid. Responding to this Mufti Muneeb told ANP leader to stay away and mind your own business. He added that he had opposed all the un-Islamic actions of Musharraf. Also told that the 95% of Pakistanis followed the Ramdan and Eid according to his decision of moon sighting, so 170 million Pakistanis can’t be wrong.

Defense, National

Pakistan Security forces wipe out 34 more militants

In South Waziristan Pakistan security forces eliminated 34 more militants in the clashes. Pakistan security forces were backed by the gunship helicopters and about 26 of the militants were eliminated by gunship helicopters and several others were injured. However, Tehrik-e-Taliban have claimed that they have killed about 45 security personals in these recent clashed. But this claim of Tehrik-e-Taliban was not confirmed by any of Government or military sources.

Basic Needs, National

Closing CNG for three months, are you kidding

Earlier, this has been proposed by the Federal Government of Pakistan to close the CNG stations for three months. A final decision on this is yet to come but the proposed period starts from 1st Nov, 2009. What ever happens in this regard but I am sorry to say that Federal Government will have to rethink on their strategies. As we all know that closing down CNG will increase the goods transportation costs to at least five times of what they are currently. So this will definitely speed up the inflation. Currently as government must think of slowing down the on going inflation, they are busy in ideas which will definitely increase it. Moreover we were hearing the news of […]