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Pakistani Cricketers were unable to perform since two years, most of the people said that they might involve in match fixing. But this time its proved, a 35 year-old man arrested by British police  on suspicion on conspiracy to defraud bookmakers following newspaper allegations of match-fixing in the ongoing Test between England and Pakistan. Yawar Saeed, who [...]

Where the nation was yet recovering from the shock given by the performance of the boys in green in the ongoing test at Lords’, all focus has now shifted to the media reports coming out of England claiming that they have uncovered a match fixing scandal involving top Pakistani players. As the details are still sketchy [...]

Adil Najam (Watch video of the ‘fixer’ detailing the ‘fix’, below).

I don’t know where to begin from. It hurts when your beloved country features in all kinds of worst news. As if ministers’ fake degree scandal, perennial bombings, country’s worst ever aviation disaster and flooding, Sialkot lynching wasn’t enough to torment us emotionally and psychologically the serpent of match fixing in cricket raised its head again.

2010 US Open (Tennis) from August 30 to September 12, 2010 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City, United States. US Open 2010 Schedule August 30th to September 12th 2010 sees the US Open Tennis Championship tournament, played on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New ...

Owais Mughal Pakistan has won the 3rd test match of current cricket series versus England by 4 wickets at the Oval, London.

The three words in the heading can be read in continuity; war followed by defeat and then obvious humiliation. I intend to keep the three words separate, as our nation faces all three in different genres of life. These three words popped into my mind as I visited a local college and their Sports-Gala Banner [...] No related posts.

If there’s anything on this God’s good earth where ‘merit’ doesn’t hold even an iota of value, it is the God-forsaken world of Pakistan Cricket. Nepotism, corruption and an aging whimsical and despotic administration all add up to form what is contemporary Pakistan cricket. Persistent political interference and the menace of ad-hocism in the Pakistan [...]

In any nation youth has an indispensable role to play first to diagnose and then to root out any obstructive dilemma of the society not just by virtue of their hot blood, but also by their intellect and tyranny of patriotism. Pakistan is fortunately a country where youth has got immense talent and boosting potential; [...]

Adil Najam I am as excited about Pakistan’s Test cricket victory against Australia as the next guy. Maybe even more. But this huge (quarter page) advertisement on the front page of today’s (Sunday’s) The News is just plain bad taste.