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Winning A Test Match Against Terrorism

A spring Sunday afternoon in Birmingham. The Forward Drive cricket academy, housed in a converted garage not far from the Edgbaston ground, is teeming with local children from different communities. One group of younger children is playing catch with a thin teenager wearing glasses. They are totally absorbed in the activity and clearly delighted when he gives them any praise.

Sheikh Sarbuland – Son of the soil

On the eve of the Lord’s Test, Sheikh Sarbuland, with a life-long association with cricket, emerges as a patriotic Pakistan supporter, in a league of his own, Furnished with home-cooked Aaloo parathas, in the joyful company of friends

With Son Bilal Shaukat, Pearl Continental, Faisalabad, March 2015.

Farewell Sir Shaukat Abbas

9.40am Saturday 13th January was the moment Faisalabad cricket lost one of its esteemed cricket figures: Shaukat Abbas, a first-class cricketer, administrator, coach and umpire, breathed his last, four days short of his 72nd birthday.

Once Upon a Time Dr. Aijaz Baig – Islamia College Captain

The notion, ‘world is a global village’, has further strengthened with the social media sources, facebook, whatsapp, twitter, etc. at the tips of our fingers, allowing instant connectivity with people, regardless of their location.