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. That it is an ad for Pepsi – a major global brand, but also the [...]

Adil Najam Sometimes I wish the Pakistan cricket team was more dependable. But then there are days when I am real glad it is not. Today was such a day. A dependable team would, of course, have folded (again) in front of the mighty Australians. Pakistan is and has been in utter disarray. Much like [...]

Owais Mughal Ok guys! Do you want to make your predictions for tomorrow’s result in Pakistan versus Australia Test match? For soccer lovers, the cricket match is currently poised at a situation like this: Chasing what would be a record breaking total of 440, Pakistan needs 326 more runs to win with 9 wickets in [...]

Adil Najam The anticipation for the final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup final is universal. Even in countries like Pakistan which are nowhere on the world football map, the excitement is palpable. Pakistan’s team may not be competing, but Pakistani parrot Mithu is competing with Germany’s octopus Paul and Singapore’s parrot Mani (originally from [...]

Sehar Tariq Pakistan’s stellarly good-looking tennis champ Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi became the first Pakistani to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon when along with his Indian partner Rohan Bopannahe beat Lucas Lacko of Slovakia and Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine in straight sets in the Mens’ Double. Their straight set victory – 7-5, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2- in the Round [...]