Pakistan Team for the World Cup 2003 #3:
- Waqar Younis can neither bowl nor bat, he is only playing as a ``Captain``, which reminds me of Sultan Zarwani, the old UAE captain

I am still under the shock after reading this. And have lost my words, thid is by far the stupidiest thing I read in years, do you just wake up and write whatever the hell comes to your mind ? Sultan Zarwani is not better than 100s of Gali Muhalla Cricketers I have come across in my life and Waqar Younis is better than (even at this stage of his career) 100s of cricketrs at the international level. So dude you are comparing a JEWEL with COAL, and I hope you understand I dont mean to say this Zarwani character is a jewel.

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The Girl Next Door Dear Shauravi Malik,

Reading your article inspired me to also share my experiences of seeing life on the other side of the border. I am perhaps one of those very few Pakistanies who, onced held, a job in India. I was given residence in the elite 5 stars of New Delhi and was paid in Dollars. Shopping in Krol Bagh was a fun filled expereince as almost all of the Sardar Jees use to recognize me a guest from Pakistan and they use to always ask me ``Son go ahead get whatever you want we will take of price``, and they really use to reduce the price considerably. Beside that the deep love and passion they expressed was evident from their eyes. The nature of my visa was such that I had to report to the police stations 4 times a day (the only part of my stay I hated beside the pollution). Most of the police officers became my friends and on our each trip to police station we use to be served with Tea and at times Samossas.

Your remarks about the roads and cars are bit

un-realist and are limited to the ``Good`` areas you were made see by your hosts. Pakistani roads are also pleagued with potholes and bumps as worse and as much as Indians roads are, its just you might not have happen to see Gujranwalla, Sialkot, Gujrat, Krishnagar, Rawalpindi and Taxila City (not ruines) , from where I am. PAkistani cars are snazzier sure ........ coz they are all Japnies cars you will never find an indignous (locally made) car, all u can find is Pakistani assembled Toyotas, which helps Japan to take a good 51 % of the price to her banks. Indian economy is better than Pakistan because of their locally strong industry. When u buy a Bjaj or funny looking Ambasador the money stays in India! thats not whta happens when we buy a Kawasaki or Corola.

Over all a good article, we need such writtings to bring the sanity back after the blunders of Vajpaies and Mushrafs of our beautiful countries.

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Waqar Inspires His Team For The Final Hi Cricket lovers,

Its a great article for the unfortunate lot who missed the match alltogether and couldn`t even follow the Crickinfo commentary of the game, as it provide a whole match`s commentary almost ball-by-ball. There is a big gap on CHAWK for someone to come and write a reall good analysis of the game rather than discussing ``next was this batsman and waqar greeted him with a outswinger bla bla bla``. My honest opinon to the author is to focus more on the analysis of the game and less on the individual details.

One graet thing, though, is that the man seemingly loves the bowling of Waqar Younas and so do I. I strongly believe that Waqar is at least 10 times better bowler (even at this age) than that so-called-self-proclaimed

Rawalpindi-express (or injury-express should I say!) and deserved a lot more respect then what was showred upon him in last few years.

About Waqar I would like to mention what Great Sir Vivian Alexandre Richrads

(I mean Viv Richard) said about ``Gorden Greendge`` when he was out of form and Viv included him in the side (and Greendge slienced his critics by scoreing a classy 200):

``Form can fade, but class can never`` Waqar (or Wiqi as popularly called) is certainly in that class of players. Recently I started disliking cricket and took refuge in the great game of ``American Football``, but looks like the return of Waqar in the ranks of Pakistani team will attract many more heart-broken fans like me. If they continued their shadowy deeds of match fixing

and ball tempering (Y for the life of him Waqar had to temper with the ball in the last test, I saw him on TV and was left embaressed in front of my indian friends when he was shown on TV tempreing the ball - which really truely he was) then I would say the future of Cricket in Pakistan or in teh world is same as the of WWF.

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What’s Wrong with Pakistani Cricket Dear Mr. Anjum,

Looks like your analysis of the issue has some

real stuff in it. The mental toughness is an

outcome of a very well organized cricketing setup

and letting the players come through that setup

and not through streets. You can get quality

players from streets but the possibility is they

won`t be the schemers you need in the field (I

understand and know there are exceptions like

Miandad and Akram - but you can`t base your

cricketing setup on exceptions.). Not only that

our cricketrs lack a solid educational background

they also lack a solid firstclass experience which

iron your abilities to handle pressure and the

demands of playing at highest level. I think that

PCB need to have a real shrewed coach who can

instill (or at least try to) mental toughness in

these teenagers. Again coach does not need to be a

great player he should be a great coach and a

strong personality (like in NFL how many great

footbal coaches you can name who were pro-stars -

I can only think of Mike Detka, but he never was a

great coach, ask the fans of Saints).

PCB needs to strengthen Pakistan`s doemstic

cricket setup otherwise be an average team we are.

A view from the first slip,

Biases of the American Press In answer to :Reply #: 38

Biases of the American Press A really good article and its been long time since such an objective analysis has been done. I still Think that we should start changing and thinking

about ourself instead of thinking what jew-hindu

communities are doing against us. If we are a

functioning democracy with all these abnoxious

mullahs cronered and left to have their pleasures

in the confines of their Hujjras we might

win a bit of respect in the world. There is an urgent need for us to understand our position

and our responsibilities in the changing world.

This is a fact that WHAT WORKED IN PAST MAY NOT

WORK TODAY so instead of putting in place a system that worked miricles 1400 years ago lets think of

the ways to have a system that can do miricles again for us.

Have fun.

Lets Destroy The Bamiyan Buddhas! In response to: 128



This is all wrong and isn`t any better than any

relegious fanataic walking on the face of this earth. These relegions have already been Indianised (you don`t need to worshid Shiva or

any other good to Indianise yourselves) Islam in Arabia and in Indian sub-contenet are quite diffreent now.

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Lets Destroy The Bamiyan Buddhas! In response to # 117

Lets Destroy The Bamiyan Buddhas! In response to # 89

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Dear Eklavya,

No I aint a Hindu (if you mean to say

the Hindu in regular sense) I am Pakistani No doubt and was born to a Muslim family.

I strongly beleive that one of the only

way to co-exist in this world and in sub-contenent is to respect the people with different ideas. Try to acheive peace and calmness in the soicety.

A view from,

FirstSlip

Lets Destroy The Bamiyan Buddhas! Response to # 101

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Dear tahmed321,

No thats not what I think when I am guarding first slip position at that time I prefer thinking about Cricket. You love my ``spellings``

thanx ... Wish I could have said same about your ``ENGLISH !``

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Lets Destroy The Bamiyan Buddhas! in response to # 77

Lets Destroy The Bamiyan Buddhas! One of the most illogical and full of gramatical mistakes article I read in years. The author started his cases with portraying as if all this ho ha about Taliban`s destruction of the Bhuddah`s statutes is a western media` hype, but at the end without a sign of blush on his face condemned Pakisatan, India and frew other Asian countries for their protest. It seems he forgot in the course of penning down this article that these are all non-western countries.

Moreover it seems that a bunch of irrelevant examples have been cited to make the case strong. Take for example India (I am a Pakistani) and the issue of Taj Mahal, what was this? These two issues are, what they say, poles apart and most of that gotta do with uncontrolable

polution and population in India unlike Taliban taking TANKS and launching a state sponsered attack on a historic site. The example of even BABRI MASJID isn`t releveant as it wasn`t state controled (at least not officially!!) attack on the Masjid. Similarly the examples of Pakistan, Germany, Japan and bla bla bla were all not only irrelevant rather speak of the fact that writer does not have a grip on the topic he is writing on and wanna put these ideas for a long time and found this incident as an excuse to express his opinon.

I think the most important thing in this era is the ability to live in a diverse culture and to accept the communities with differences and thus flurish. Whatever estern countries did where ever does not warrant Taleban or for that matter any one to demolish any one`s sacred places or any historic monument. If go by author`s logic does that mean that Hinhus in India should take their positions against all the Mosques in India in response to the lootings of Mahmood Ghaznavi, Babar, Lohdi, Khliji and many others. We can`t buy the fact that Isralies should demolish Bat-ul-Muqadas for muslim`s conquering of their land thousands of years ago.

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FirstSlip

Education Reforms: Yet Another Sham Dear Mr. Hoodbhy!

Whatever you have criticised has been criticised for years in this country and by the intelectuals of pakistan. These intelectuals will gather in the galexy of such folks and would engage themselves in criticising every thing without giving any solution. I did not find your

article any better than those intelectuals. It has been asked, by NGOs, many times to learned people like you to give a curriculum we want to

implement in our schools. I do not know of any such (tentative or proposed) curriculum proposed

by you or any one else better than what we are

having. My dear Doc it would be great to have an

alternative curriculum presented along with making

fun of the Grade-V`s current curriculum. In the filed of business it is taught that a good employee is the one who report a problem to his/her boss with a possible solution otherwise he/she will be marked as ``The one who complains

all the time``.

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Sword of Damocles Hanging over Waqar Younis Hi folks!

Apologies for my earlier E-mail which was

in fact typed by my 2 years old son. I hope it will be ignored as it was only a useless combinition of the alphabets. A bit like the article isn`t it. I aint trying to discourage the writer, but it seems that people just sit down to write without sensing the fact that there is a

need for some sort of scholarly diction while penning down a serious article on net. It was compilation of reports from Jang or that sort of news media. A kind of analysis must be given while writting on such issues. Mr. Asad is requested to read articles of:

1) Omar Qureshi in Dawn,

2) Mr. Prem Panitker in rediff.com

3) Zaheer Abbas in Dawn (Sunday).

these are my 2 cents,

Cheers,

a view from the,

1st Slip.

Sword of Damocles Hanging over Waqar Younis wefweferferfre

Help! Is Anyone Out There? Pathetic is a word in english language to describe one` emotions after reading this Poem in English. I dont understand if one can`t do poetry in English why should he/she even think doing that. And same hold s for poetry in general. After reading the first thought that hit me was ``someone is trying to act like an intellectual when he/she isn`t``

Try something else

Cheers,

A view from the FirstSlip