A little prayer for the Pakistan cricket team

Shahid Afridi is trying to whip the team back in to shape

After being trashed and slashed by local and international media any team would have been in low spirits.

I don’t know about PCB and its support to our match winning bowlers like Mohammad Aamir. I cannot predict whether or not the ICC will lift the ban from our star players before the World Cup. But it seems now that after a short – unbearable – break, our players are gaining back their confidence.

May team Pakistan win this ODI series versus a strong and full of confidence competitor, South Africa. Only our support will motivate and encourage these players. I have always supported team Pakistan and will not comment on why ICC will sustain the ban on players accused of spot-fixing.

Our players have enormous potential. If only all of them could perform at the same time will they be able to realize what excellent professional cricketers they are – then let the experts critique them for their performance.

It is amazing how the crowd reacts when Shahid Afridi comes out in the field to bat. No matter how he handles his bat or throws a shot the his fans never get tired of cheering for him. No doubt he has worked hard but his confidence speaks of the support he gets from his homeland.

I hope our team gets back on track asap! I pray that they bring home the big cup!

Not so bright...

I wonder what’s happening in Pakistan? Is there no good left? It makes me think as if nothing happy and joyful is going on in the country. Then I see a certain class of Pakistani metropolitan citizens, who despite of all the killings in the city would not stop having fun. I am talking about today’s youth. I live in Karachi. And I’ve been to Lahore and Islamabad as well. On the television, we see how youth of Pakistan is really concerned about what’s going around. But it hurts my heart that a much bigger portion of this green chunk does not really care. They, like every other Pakistani, are experts at pointing their fingers towards the badly governed system. But they would not try and think of solutions.
Our young ladies, rich or poor, are always talking about shopping and dresses while often including the increasing rates of their tailor monsters. They would tell stories how their tailors stitch so bad and as they are not satisfied, they want addresses and phone numbers of a friend’s tailor.
As of guys, they are into news and sports but there is this rebellious attitude developing in them. I see young kids, in their teens, using such a bad language. Words that I can not even write here are so common amongst our youth, and mostly among our boys. Their parents are busy watching televisions or earning bread and butter.
I don’t know really what’s our system is going to do to us. It’s such a polluted think tank, corrupt backbone and all this is our youth I am talking about. I am afraid Pakistan seems to have future... but not so bright .

What became of the International Aid??

Since Sunday (August 22nd), we have been forced to focus on the Sialkot societal error and murders and the flood updates only. Every channel is discussing Altaf Hussain’s controversial statement recently. But no one is talking about the monetary aid that came in a few days back and was directed to the government.
Let me comment on the Sialkot coverage. Why is it being blown up into such a complex matter? Those who committed the crime can be seen in the two footages – that we will discuss later – and can be at once arrested for interrogation at least if not for punishment. We have seen media talking about how it is our society’s fault that those two brothers died. Let me bring to your attention the fact that a mob does not expect a person being beaten to death in front of so many witnesses. They stand there, watch the episode and then when those beating the victim get tired or slow down a bit, this very mob then talks and get things settled between the two parties. This very mob takes the wounded to the hospital. But as clearly seen in the Sialkot incident, the group thrashing and pounding the victims were not pausing at all. As seen in the footage, a man even broke his stick while torturing the elder brother. He stopped for a few seconds, and started beating him again with his broken weapon.
Lately in Faisalabad, a mob did almost the same to a couple of dacoits. No matter how enraged the mob was, it did not kill the thieves. They lay fainted when the police reached to the site. Now this was a normal mob and people with anger. Common men don’t go on beating people to death.
Let’s talk about the footages now. It’s quite normal for someone among a mob to record a video of what’s happening. That is okay. But the other footage was not a cell phone recording. It was not recorded by any journalist as well. Who is that camera-mystery-man? Do you want to believe that a trained videographer just happened to be there? Well, I leave it to you guys to decide.
Anyways, since then, no one seems to be concerned about the distribution and management of monetary foreign aid that was given to the government. The flood is not over people. Over countrymen need help and we should not forget that for even a day. The media who did such a good job till now, should not divert its attention for even a bit, whatsoever. I am not saying what media did was wrong, but there are other issues that are important and need to be addressed as well.