Pleased to announce that on the sidelines of #UNGA2026,
I signed today with my brother, His Highness Prince Faisal bin Farhan @FaisalbinFarhan, the “Agreement between Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the abolition of visa requirements for holders of Diplomatic and Official/Special Passports.”
This important step will further facilitate high-level engagement and institutional exchanges, and contribute to advancing our enduring and brotherly strategic partnership across all areas of mutual interest.
”No white has superiority over a black, no black has a superiority over a white. No Arab has superiority over a non-Arab, no non-Arab has a superiority over an Arab; except by the nobility of their deeds"
"If you see that someone has slipped, correct him, pray for him, and don't help Shaytaan against him by insulting him."
—Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه | Tafsir al Qurtubi ١٥/٢٥٦
Görseldeki kişi, Keşmirli aktivist Shakeel Ahmad Bhat.
1990'da evini basan polisler 18 yaşındaki kız kardeşini pencereden attı, beli kırılan genç kız devlet tedavi etmediği için öldü.
Babası darp edilerek öldürüldü, kendisine ağır işkenceler yapıldı. Karşınızdaki mantıksız bir öfke değil; ailesi katledilen, insanlık dışı zulme uğrayan ve Batı medyasının "Rage Boy" diyerek bağlamından kopardığı acılı bir abinin haklı isyanıdır. İşin aslı budur.
Wishing former Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar a very happy birthday 🎂🥳Here are all the sixes from his then record breaking ODI innings against Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval in February 1989 👏👏
In four separate first-class matches Zaheer Abbas made a double century and a century, and finished all eight of those innings not out. Nobody else in the history of the game has managed it once. Sunil Gavaskar wrote a book about the cricketers he idolised, and Zaheer Abbas is in it. So how is his name missing from every conversation about the past greats?
The records, skills, stories and legacy of Zaheer Abbas are pretty incredible, and going through them properly makes the omission harder and harder to explain.
What were the records he held? He scored two centuries in the same first-class match on eight occasions, which is still the world record, and in four of those he made a double hundred and a hundred, unbeaten in every one of the eight innings. He is the only Asian batsman ever to reach 100 first-class centuries, finishing with 108 hundreds and 158 fifties, and he and Geoffrey Boycott are the only two men to bring up that hundredth century in a Test match. He averaged 87 against India across 19 Tests, with six hundreds. And Zaheer was a pioneer of aggressive white-ball batting decades before the term existed: across 62 ODIs from 1974 to 1985 he struck at 84.80, and among every player on earth with 1,000-plus ODI runs in that window, only two scored faster, Viv Richards and Kapil Dev.
What were his skills? A forward defensive stroke that could run away to the boundary, for a start. (Carl Hooper had the same gift a generation later, and nowhere near the defence to go with it.) ESPNcricinfo described Zaheer going onto the back foot and the front foot with equal facility, sometimes moving from backward to forward during the course of a single stroke, and still sending the ball crashing to the fence. The powerful forearms let him hit the ball out of the ground when he wanted to, but the method was always precision and timing rather than muscle. And he did all of it in spectacles, slightly built, without ever once resorting to force.
What was his legacy? The one man who rated him highly enough to write it down was Sunil Gavaskar. That book, Idols, is about the cricketers Gavaskar most admired, and Zaheer sits in it alongside Sobers, Rohan Kanhai, Viv Richards, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad and Bishan Bedi. Men who faced him, or watched him from twenty-two yards, understood exactly what they were looking at. His own era never had any doubt about him. It is only the lists written afterwards that lost him.
The numbers, the records and the stories all put Zaheer Abbas exactly where his contemporaries always did, which is among the very best who ever played.
They called you the Asian Bradman for a reason, Zed. Somebody should tell the lists.
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