It was summer of 1986 in Karachi, when satellite dishes were unheard of and people used to put Aluminum dishes to get better reception of the ‘neighboring’ Television channels. I was also one of those who would always try put some wide aluminum plates to get the signal of Doordarshan. We used to envy Lahoris who are so close to the border that they easily view the transmission of our neighbor.
On one of the days we got good reception and guess what was coming through? It was an Urdu Mushaira. I was a school going kid and was not very much interested in viewing these shows but then for some reason I decided to sit and watch as there was always some curiosity with the “Foreign TV Channel”. The mushaira was being relayed from Hyderabad Deccan India and then I heard a person who started reciting his poetry in tarranum with the following lines:
“dohay keh keh kar Aali mann Ki Piyas Bhujhay“.
Shahid Afridi took his 250th wicket in One Day Internationals (ODIs) today. He is now World’s 17th and Pakistan’s 4th bowler to achieve this milestone.
