Pakistan’s emotional farewell
“You can’t pick and choose when to be a supporter.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/03/pakistans_emotional_farewell.shtml
Add comment March 22, 2007
Bob Woolmer
Shock and sadness. This guy did a lot for the team, tried his best and died trying. I don’t want to get into the issues that the team and those concerned with it apparently had, and have had for such a long time but this did not include Woolmer.
What’s highly offensive is the way the supposed ‘fans’ react. They act as if the fuckin’ world has come to an end instead of just the world cup. Burning effigies, vandalising houses, chanting death slogans. Wtf. No one is supposed to die dammit, save your protests for the right causes and directed at the right issues. If this is the state of affairs, how will the real issues ever get resolved? Fans like these do not help the cause, they exacerbate the already screwed up situation and this needs to be dealt with.
We need to start protesting intelligently. We need to start directing our frustration at the real causes so that real results are obtained. What a waste of time and energy to shout death slogans and try to amass a lynch mob, would that solve the problem? No, of course not but hey, what the hell, let’s just do it anyway since we are so angry. Motivation needs to be directed to the right qibla; the right focus or all it’s doing is harming the very thing we profess to love.
Changes need to be made and hope springs eternal. Let this be a lesson.
Atreides
Add comment March 19, 2007
Dekho! Dil bara karo!
“Jeet lo 16 crore Pakistanio kai dil!”
Huh, they are still showing that stupid commercial, in which Inzi, Shoaib, Akmal and Younis are shown getting scared by watching videos of Australian players! Next time, maybe they will show Ireland making Shoaib bite his nails.
Add comment March 18, 2007
Woolmer accused by Sarfaraz Nawaz
During the third day’s lunch break of Pakistan’s second test against South Africa, Sarfaraz Nawaz made some idiotic comments about coach Bob Woolmer in the PTV’s “Expert Opinion” show. I don’t have his exact quote, but Sarfaraz said that foreign coaches only intend to destroy teams, and accused Woolmer of intending to destroy the Pakistan team and conspiring to kick out Shoaib Akhtar, which he deduced from the heated argument scenes between Woolmer and Akhtar.
Sarfaraz should know that it is Akhtar who has had an attitude problem, not Woolmer. He should also know that Akhtar has also been at odds with Inzamam in the past and it doesn’t mean that Inzi was conspiring against Akhtar or intended to destroy the Pakistan team. Now, some would say that Inzi won’t intend to do such a thing because Pakistan is his team. Well, Woolmer also calls Pakistan “my team”, and instead of destroying the Pakistan team, he was the one who coached over the team that destroyed the Ashes winning England team last year in Pakistan.
So, it is not right to say that foreign coach will always intend to destroy the team while a native coach or player will not. Native players can also fix matches, nothing new about it. Sarfaraz demanded to remove Woolmer as a coach, and others have also expressed their dislike for foreign “gora” coaches. Is it because they don’t want a foreigner to take up the job position or is it only discrimination and dislike based on nationality or race?
1 comment January 23, 2007
Should Saddam be kept alive?
Some comments on Saddam Hussein’s verdict from:
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&threadID=4607&edition=2&ttl=20061108003113&#paginator
There is no doubt that Saddam was an exceptionally cruel dictator bur he should not be subject to capital punishment. He should be kept in prison so that he can appear as one of the main prosecution witnesses at the war crime trials of George Bush and Tony Blair.
Emelle, London
His death will erradicate the final piece of evidence about who supplied him with the weapons in the first place
Gerry, Glasgow
Make absolutely no mistake – this is not a verdict, it is an assassination.
Killing Sadam prevents him from telling any stories about U.S arms dealings to journalists from his prison cell.
Matthew, Chicago
Typical America. Install a dictator, then when he gets a bit too big for his boots, bring him down in a bloodbath.
nik, london, uk
When do we trial ” the other” criminals: George Bush, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger,Donald Rumsfel, Oliver North, John Negroponte..? S.Hussein’s crimes are nothing compared to the one committed by these Western barbarians, whereby they are responsible for the killing of hundred of thousands, disappearances, torture, the uprooting of entire nations and the destruction and separation of families,…includying my own,…I hope I can see at least one of these men hanged before I die.
Carlos Flores, Vancouver, Canada
Let me get this straight!
Most people never heard of Saddam Hussein before Bush senior invaded Iraq.
We invaded his country twice,accused him of having weapons of mass destruction,accused him of being linked to 9/11,killed most of his family and now we’re sentencing him to death?I don’t support Hussein at all, but to be sentenced to death is a bit over the top.
Why didn’t they sentence Harry S. Truman when he incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Why was Pinochet so protected in England?Alex Gache, Netherlands
Two days before the American elections. What a coincidence……………..
Yitzhak Isaac Goldstein, Israel
Great. When will George Bush face trial for the same thing?
Sam, Essex
2 comments November 8, 2006
The Bad Boys of Cricket
Inzamam-ul-Haqq and Shoaib Akhtar rank among the top miscreants in Cricinfo’s XI, and Pakistan the most reported country :
Add comment September 26, 2006
The Irwin video: Would you watch it?
I think that the video should be made available to public because, as the article says:
“Up till now we have witnessed Irwin sporting with crocodiles, poisonous snakes and tarantulas, always emerging unscathed and as lively as ever. The footage of Irwin’s final film can in itself be regarded as a necessary part of our education: these animals are dangerous, and fooling around with them can be deadly.”
11 comments September 20, 2006
Mugged! Part 1: SHOOT the Mobile Snatchers
I got “mugged” while heading back home from my friend’s place last night at 11:30 PM. I was walking to the bus stop, my “spider-sense” was tingling and warning me not to take the dark, almost lonely service road, instead of the main road. But nooooo, why should I listen to my trusty sixth sense. So I was walking down the service road thinking that it had been a while since I heard about any mobile snatching incident, because a few months back I used to hear about these muggings, a number of them ending in shootings and killings. And just then two guys on a motorbike came slowing down towards me, and I thought what I could think at that moment: “shit!”. The guy sitting behind grabbed my collar and said “Give me the mobile, give me the mobile”, I said “ok , ok”, the other guy told him “show him the gun, and blow him off if he tries to mess up”, and sure enough he took out the pistol and pointed it at me. But my hand was already in the left-side pocket of my jeans to get out the cell-phone, but damn, it was the nasal spray. Then I took out the mobile out of my right-side pocket and gave it to them, and they took off.
I still had to walk almost half-way to the end of the dark road. I was thinking if another mugger came, I wouldn’t even have anything to give to him anymore…hehe. And while on the bus, I was thinking how I am gonna walk all the way from the bus-stop to my home. And when I got off the bus, the roads and streets were looking dark and empty to me, and I was suspecting every other guy, especially those on bikes, to be muggers, LOL… anyway, I got home safe and sound.
I wonder my father might be thinking that I sold my mobile. He thought the same when my 24-gear mountain-bike was stolen (and what a bike that was… that blue color, those monster looking tires…everyone used to drool over it…sigh 
). He asked me whether it was really stolen or whether I had “gifted” it to any of my friends! Then next a day shop-keeper that my father knew also asked me the same question, cuz he had told him to ask me that. Then a few days later my friend told me that my father had asked him whether he knew that I had sold my bike or had it been really stolen. Then a year and a half years later my aunt told(not ‘asked’) me the same! Dunno why! Say it a couple of times again and I will start believing it.
Anyway, more later about the other mugging stories that I know…
Add comment September 14, 2006
Steve Irwin dead…
Australian naturalist and animal-lover Steve Irwin dead after being struck in the chest by a stingray’s barb.
Steve’s TV show had become my favourite. A very intersting guy. Seemed like a very good person too. He will be missed…
Add comment September 5, 2006
what a mess!
I am sure that Inzamam had refused to come out at all, but later the chairman of the PCB said that it was only supposed to be a protest, by staying in the dressing room for five minutes more. What kind of protest is this? 5 minutes protest? Inzi should not have come out on the field, and should not have compromised, even though we were in a winning position in the match. If the umpire was accusing the team of cheating, without providing evidence then he is the cheat, not the team.
From www.cricinfo.com :
England v Pakistan, 4th Test, The Oval
Full coverage of The Oval chaos
August 21, 2006
The fourth and final Test between England and Pakistan ended in extraordinary controversy as the Pakistan team refused the take the field and the match was awarded to England. But that was just the start of the drama and here is Cricinfo’s continuing full coverage of the incredible events of the last 24 hours
http://www4.cricinfo.com/engvpak/content/current/story/257335.html
Add comment August 23, 2006
communication with the dead?!
Salam.
Some of my relatives had told us that their dead relatives have communicated with them in their dreams . Some of their stories were very convincing .
Then my aunt asked me a few weeks ago, if I have read anything about the dead being able to communicate through dreams . I said no. Later , verse 39:40 came to my mind , :
The Quran 39/40: God takes the souls when they die and during their sleep. He then keeps those that have been overtaken by death, and He sends the others until a predetermined time. In that are signs for a people who think.
Both the nafs/soul of the dead and the sleeping are at the same place with God . Is it possible that they can communicate with each other ? Maybe.
Add comment February 23, 2006
Re-designing RationalReality.com
salam.
i m trying to re-design Muhammad Asadi’s website about Quran and Science , www.RationalReality.com . but i m not very good in web designing . if anyone is good in web designing, and would like to volunteer in re-designing the website , please contact me at fahadkhan12@gmail.com .
thanks .
Add comment February 20, 2006
Prophet Cartoons -What Went Wrong?
Add comment February 17, 2006
charity work during the Pakistan earthquake
The charity work going on for the victims of the earthquake that we are seeing in Pakistan should not stop after this time of tragedy is over (The Koran 11:10) . The tragedy has caused people to become charitable . People become charitable and God-fearing when
Add comment October 12, 2005
