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Owais Mughal
I never met Gul Hameed Bhatti. But when the news of his sad demise came on February 4, 2010 it made me sad. He was 63 years old.
While I never met him, I knew him from my childhood and always regarded him as the one who was a walking encyclopaedia on Pakistani Cricket. He [...]

Lahore Ring Road Project - Help Us Build This Post

Posted on February 4, 2010
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Owais Mughal
This is one topic I’ve been wanting to write about for a while now. But instead of me writing on it, we want to do an experiment here. We would like our readers to tell us what do they know about the project. I will then compile the information collected from your replies here [...]

How Many Cricket Matches are Going On?

Posted on February 2, 2010
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Owais Mughal
We seem to be on a roll with cricket related posts (here and here and here). So, here is one with more pleasant associations.
See if you can count how many cricket matches are simultaneously going on at GTC Ground Hyderabad on the New Year’s Day - 2010 (please click on the photo below to [...]

Suggest a Title: Two Men on an Island

Posted on January 28, 2010
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Owais Mughal

Well, since the ongoing theme at ATP today is Pakistan’s rivers and water resources therefore how about this photo from a small island in river Ravi. Photographer is Muhammad Rizwan who took this photo on January 10, 2010 from the N5 road bridge .

Indus Day and Pakistan’s Depleting Water Resources

Posted on January 28, 2010
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Owais Mughal
Pakistan is in drought. Rivers are flowing with 30% less water than what they normally do in January. For a country whose econnomy depends on agriculture and irrigation water, drought couldn’t have come at a worst time.

The photo above shows dry bed of river Indus on March 14, 2009 downstream of Kotri barrage at [...]

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