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Should Pakistani Cricket be Regional or Departmental?

Posted on February 6, 2009
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Owais Mughal The debate about whether Pakistan’s domestic cricket structure be departmental or regional is as old as the country itself. It all started in 1953‘s inaugural Quaid-e-Azam trophy when 2 departmental teams, Railways and Combined Services competed against 5 regional teams of Karachi, Punjab, Bahawalpur, Sindh and NWFP. Bahawalpur beat Punjab in the finals […]

Shahi paan at Daman-i-Koh

Posted on February 5, 2009
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Adil Saleem This is the photo of a ‘paan farosh’ at Daman-i-Koh, Islamabad. A few days ago I went there and was quite amused to see this classical getup. In the background a song was playing with the wordings: “hameN tou loot liya hai husn waloN nay …” . Note the amazing variety of things […]

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