Owais Mughal
This year PCB is experimenting with a brand new format of Pentagular Cup cricket tournament; and that is only provincial teams will take part in it. The tournament starts today.
The captains for the participating teams in Pentagular Cup are: Shahid Afridi (Sindh), Shoaib Malik (Punjab), Younis Khan (NWFP), Shoaib Akhtar (Federal) and Naseem Khan (Balochistan).
Vice Captains are also known names like: Faisal Iqbal (Sindh), Misbah-ul-Haq (Punjab), Yasir Hameed (NWFP), Rao Iftikhar (Federal) and Abdur Rauf (Balochistan).
The prize money for the winner team is 1 million Rupees, which makes it a very rewarding domestic tournament. What makes this tournament even more interesting is PCB’s decision that 75 top players of the country will take part in this tournament.
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Owais Mughal
Following ‘azad’ poem is by one of my favourite writers, Shafiq-ur-Rehman and it comes from his book ‘lehreN’. The poem is actually a satire on modern day poets who write ‘azad’ Urdu poem by using all the ‘azadi’ they can get. The poem describes a situation of fighting cats in a garden. I hope it brings a smile to you just like it has been bringing smiles to me for the past 20 years.
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Owais Mughal
This is the photo of the Learning Resource Center at the Government Boys Primary School, Ghareebabad II in Nushki, Balochistan. Photo credits belong to Mr. Qudrat Barrech who is a teacher at this school. One can see interesting things in this photo. I am very happy to see this mini library in an area as remote as Nushki. Photo is dated May 11, 2007.
