Zaheer Abbas from his recent book From A to Zed, regarding crowd trouble in Karachi during a Pakistan v India match- "as troublemakers moved threateningly towards Sunil Gavaskar, Imran Khan calmly pulled a stump from the ground and used it to hold them at bay until order could be restored. It was an extraordinary moment that revealed both his courage and his instinctive sense of responsibility, qualities that defined his leadership far beyond his remarkable performances with bat and ball"
@landpalestine They particularly hate it when Jews are against Zionazism because they don’t get to use their go to “antisemitism” nonsense. They will never convince us that we have to murder Arabs to exist. I coexist just fine with them. Genocidal freaks
NYC banning AI in schools is exactly the kind of thing I want to see. Keep the teachers. Keep the books. Let kids actually learn how to think, write, and solve problems instead of outsourcing everything to AI. Education should make kids smarter, not more dependent.
He is the very much loved father of my nephews, and a former brother-in-law who my family and I adored.
He is also a great and principled man, a source of hope for millions upon millions of people who are being badly let down by their corrupt leaders, and he is the victim of a terrible injustice. That is why.
Treating national players like cockroaches and humiliating them will not make things better. They keep firing coaches & players and keep getting the same results. Try firing the top leadership of PCB. That's where the problem is flowing from
This is a disgraceful way to treat players and coaches who spend their entire lives pursuing the honour of representing Pakistan. This is how they are treated in return.
Imran Khan, when he was 29 years old on October 24, 1982:
“I wake up about an hour before I have to leave for the cricket ground: about 10am in this country, 9am in Pakistan. I have a travelling radio clock. I take a shower, get ready and have breakfast - usually just eggs and cereals.
We keep water buffaloes in Lahore, but the milk is rather watery. Here I drink three-and-a-half pints of milk a day when I'm playing and I find it gives me a lot of sustenance.
An hour before the match I do some training at the ground to loosen up, stretching all the muscles that come under pressure while bowling: back, back of legs, shoulders and stomach. I get nervous, particularly before I go out to bat, just as I did when I started my career. You have just one chance; one mistake and that's the end of you. But once I get to the wicket, I'm okay.
In Pakistan we get two hours for lunch, but when I'm bowling I can't feel hungry. I get so dehydrated all I want to do is drink. But I force myself to eat, otherwise, by the end of the day, I feel totally drained. Even when I'm on holiday I don't like big lunches.
And I don't like eating Pakistani food over here because most restaurants don't cook it very well. I like Italian and French food though, and really miss English steaks when I'm home.
I like to see my friends as much as possible. When I first came to England at 18, for the Test, the lack of strong male friendships here was what surprised me most. I arrived half-way through my A-levels, from Aitchison College, the best public school in Pakistan. It used to be called "Chief's College'; it was originally designed for the sons of princes and maharajahs. They had a very high standard of sports and I was selected for my national team from I went to Worcester Old Grammar School when the tour ended, and it was the toughest nine months of my life, mainly because I'd never lived away from home before. I couldn't believe the English winter. I didn't like boarding. I was very particular about sanitation and had always been used to having my own bathroom...”
- An Interview with Angela Wilkes, published in 1982
The most notable thing the current PCB admission has done is tacitly support the jailing and mistreatment of World Cup winning captain Imran Khan —Pakistan's products of toxic dysfunctionality deserve sympathy, not ire
https://t.co/pKf9Jyr2nN
There will be i am sure all sorts of analyst looking at the demise of Pakistan cricket
Theres many reasons & they all need exploring
But if you don’t have the courage to mention Mohsin Naqvi & the disastrous chaos he has led than stay out of it