Australia's cricketers will have "significant concerns" if they are asked to play one-day internationals against Pakistan in the extreme heat of the UAE in August
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The Express Tribune Newsletter: June 21, 2012
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Cricket: Whatmore has hurt the team̢۪s progress, says Mohsin
KARACHI:
Former Pakistan coach Mohsin Khan has criticised current coach Dav Whatmore, holding him responsible for 'hurting the team's progress and balance' before adding that the team would have shown better results if he was allowed to continue.
Mohsin had an impressive short stint as coach which included Test-series wins over Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and a whitewash of England in the UAE. However, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) decided against appointing him on a full-time basis and, instead, chose Dav Whatmore as the head coach. Mohsin, however, said that the decision to replace him is not going in the team's favour.
"The team's progress has suffered immensely," Mohsin told The Pak Sar Zameen. "It pains me to see the players, who had the killer instinct, fighting spirit and motivation, performing in such a way. Whatmore has disturbed the balance and the team combination with flawed selection and decisions.
"I can say with confidence that if I had continued, results would have been better because I know the players. They are not being utilised properly."
Mohsin also launched an attack on those who appointed the foreign coach.
"There are some people who jolted Pakistan's ascent by making the unnecessary change. Such people do not serve the country but only their vested interest. Foreign coaches have never served Pakistan well. Richard Pybus and Bob Woolmer are examples. We won the 1992 World Cup and 2009 World Twenty20 with a local at the helm. The PCB said that Whatmore's a professional coach. A teacher doesn't need time to teach students and should get his job done straight away, just like I did."
'PCB chief was misinformed about me'
The PCB Chairman Zaka Ashraf said that the board repeatedly attempted to contact Mohsin but the former coach never responded. Mohsin, however, said that Ashraf was misinformed and misguided by PCB officials. "Nobody contacted me. There's no issue of communication nowadays. The chairman must take action against these officials."
Published In The Pak Sar Zameen, June 21st, 2012.
Orignal From: Cricket: Whatmore has hurt the team's progress, says Mohsin
PCB announces Rs700m deficit budget
KARACHI:
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has approved a deficit budget of Rs700 million for the fiscal year 2012-13 in its recent Governing Board (GB) meeting chaired by the board's chairman Zaka Ashraf.
The amount is an improvement on the Rs1.1b deficit budget that was announced last year.
"The amount is a tremendous improvement," a GB member told The Pak Sar Zameen.
A major chunk of the budget has been set aside for infrastructure development. The board had initially planned to spend a lot on administration but the GB members were against that move and asked Ashraf to allot that to development instead.
"There are several stadiums that need renovation. There are academies and high-performance centres that need modification so we believed that infrastructure development should get the major share of the budget and the chairman agreed to that."
The PCB is building two high-performance centres in Karachi and Multan along the same lines as Lahore's National Cricket Academy. It also intends to build a new stadium in Islamabad and Larkana and the addition of a new head office in interior Sindh was also discussed.
The GB members also raised questions over the continued existence of Javed Miandad in the PCB who, despite being paid a hefty amount per month, does not play an active role in the board. Meanwhile, four regions have also been added to Pakistan cricket – nominated by Patron-in-Chief Asif Ali Zardari – which did not please the GB members.
"Dera Murad Bugti, Larkana, Fata and Bahawalpur are now active regions. Bahawalpur is a good inclusion and Fata has tremendous talent but the other two regions have been included on political grounds. The teams of Quetta and Hyderabad don't even have 11 good players."
Published In The Pak Sar Zameen, June 21st, 2012.
Orignal From: PCB announces Rs700m deficit budget
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- PML-N nominates Mehtab Abbasi for PM
- Four die of poisonous gas in Rawalpindi
- Benazir Bhutto's 59th birthday today
- PML-Q decides to file case against CM, Law Minister, others
- Dr Afia Siddiqui is alive: Pak embassy spokesperson
- Parliament not to be allowed to be undermined: Zardari
- PMs election: PML-Ns meeting today in Islamabad
- Makhdum Shahabuddin nominated for premiership
- PML-Q will back PPP candidate for PM office: Shujaat
- PML-Q will back PPP candidate for PM office: Shujaat
- Karachi: 3 held during Rangers targeted operation in Lyari
- Operation in Waziristan soon: Mian Iftikhar
- Two including doctor shot dead in Karachi
- Altaf flays bar ban on Asma Jahangir
- US engineers make world's first gigapixel camera
| PML-N nominates Mehtab Abbasi for PM Posted: <p> </p><p>Nawaz Sharif telephoned Maulana Fazlur Rehman in order win his favour in this regard and two-member delegation of the PML-N also met Maulana Fazl and invited him for unanimous strategy for establishment of caretaker setup.</p><p><br />However, Maulan expressed his resentment as the PML-N sent common MNAs rather than sending any renowned personality for dialogue.</p><p><br />At this, the JUI-F chief decided to stand by the government regarding election of new prime minister.</p><p><br />Before this, President Zardari invited Maulana to come back in the government while special advisors to the President, Dr Qayyum Somro and Hamidullah Jan Afridi, also called on Maulana Fazlu Rehman at his residence and discussed current issues regarding election of new prime minister.</p><p><br /> </p>
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| Four die of poisonous gas in Rawalpindi Posted: <p><br />The mishap took place at Chak Imral in the outskirts of Adyala where a man named Asif climbed down in a well but got unconscious.</p><p><br />In order to secure the affected person, Rao Khurshid climbed down in the well but unluckily he also got unconscious. Later, their friends Atif Zaman and Adeel Mehmood followed them in order to pull them up but none of them could come on surface.</p><p><br />The area people pulled them out after hectic labour but Asif died on the spot while remaining friends namely Atif Adeel and Rasheed were rushed to hospital but could not survive. <br /> </p>
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| Benazir Bhutto's 59th birthday today Posted: <p> </p><p>Party workers would give blood in order to pay tribute to their great leader.</p><p><br />Benazir Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953: she was an embodiment of extraordinary personality. She was of 29 year old when she led the party after tragic death of her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. In the Muslim World, she was the first woman who came to power at the age of 35.</p><p><br />The PPP leaders and workers are of the view that she was lady of character who not only tried her best to empower women but also sacrificed for uplift of democracy and people.</p><p><br />The PPP Member National Assembly Mir Temur Talpur said that he passed three years along with her when she was studying in London.</p><p><br />Minister for the Minorities Mohan Lal said that Benazir Bhutto continued her endeavours for rights of minorities throughout her life. <br /> </p>
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| PML-Q decides to file case against CM, Law Minister, others Posted: <p> </p><p>Parliamentary leader of the PML-Q in Punjab Assembly Ch Zahiruddin said that if Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif doesn’t take legal action against Sheikh Alauddin till Thursday (today), the PML-Q would go to the court for registration of case against him as he has harassed women in the Punjab Assembly.</p><p> </p><p>He said that Sheikh Alauddin has already used abused and non-parliamentary language against women in the assembly.<br /> </p>
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| Dr Afia Siddiqui is alive: Pak embassy spokesperson Posted: <p><br />The officials of Pakistani embassy contacted with the jail officials in the city of Huston, Texas and inquired about the life of Dr Afia Siddiqui. The jail officials informed that she is fine and fair and she is out of any danger.</p><p> </p><p>Later, spokesman also released a statement that Dr Afia is alive and has had a communication with her family members.</p><p> </p><p>Pakistani ambassador to US Sherry Rehman has also confirmed that Dr Afia is alive. <br /> </p>
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| Parliament not to be allowed to be undermined: Zardari Posted: <p><br />They know how to ensure the supremacy of the Parliament and the Constitution, said Asif Ali Zardari.</p><p><br />He said, “the era of packing the Parliament through the back door by using the defunct Article 58 (2) (b) is over for all times and no back doors and side doors will be allowed to be reopened for sending the elected Parliaments home.”</p><p><br />“Our people will also not suffer a destiny trusted upon them by militants and extremists in the name of religion or in any other name,” he added.</p><p><br />The president said this in his message on the 59th birth anniversary of Benazir Bhutto falling on Thursday.</p><p><br />President Zardari said, “On the eve of her 59th birthday I wish to reiterate our commitment to the values of supremacy of the Parliament and the Constitution and the building of a modern, egalitarian and pluralistic society in which everyone is allowed opportunity to help shape his or her own destiny—values for which she stood and fought for and when the time came even laid down her life for it.”</p><p><br />He said Benazir Bhutto led from the front the battle for democracy against all sorts of bonapartes and extremists.</p><p><br />“She believed in a moderate and pluralistic Pakistan where ballot determined the ultimate choice of the people and where the House elected by the people representing their will was supreme.”</p><p><br />He said Benazir Bhutto also fought courageously against the militants and extremists bent upon forcing their ideological agenda on the people through brute force.</p><p><br />“As she shed her blood in the fight against militancy and for the supremacy of the Parliament and the Constitution, I ask the party workers to donate blood on this day for all those who have also shed their blood or suffered otherwise for Pakistan.”</p><p><br />“On her birthday let us recall the advice she gave to the people a few weeks before her assassination: Please continue the fight against extremism, dictatorship, poverty and ignorance.” It was not a mere slogan; she acted upon it herself by leading the fight from the front,” he added.</p><p><br />The president reiterated that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will continue its forward march to strengthen democracy and for the uplift of the marginalised as envisioned by her.</p><p><br />“We will not be deterred by conspiracies against it or by the hurdles created in our way. Let there be no doubt or mistake about it.”</p><p><br />He said the party survived even the judicial murder of its founder Chairman and the country’s first directly elected Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the abuse of judicial processes to chase and hound Benazir Bhutto into exile culminating in her assassination and the accusations and witch hunting of its leaders and workers.</p><p><br />“It will continue to defy odds and grow from strength to strength,” he vowed.</p><p><br />“On this occasion, let us also remember all our martyrs. Our brave soldiers and members of law enforcing agencies who have laid down their lives so that the nation lives in freedom and without fear. The martyrs of democracy have suffered incarceration, exile, torture and executions. We salute them all on this day,” he added.<br /> </p>
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| PMs election: PML-Ns meeting today in Islamabad Posted: <p><br />The parliamentary party would meet at 11 AM in Punjab House in Islamabad and would review that current situation after Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has been disqualified by the Supreme Court in contempt case.</p><p> </p><p>Party chief Nawaz Sharif would be in the chair while the party would prepare next strategy for communication with other political parties regarding election of new prime minister.</p><p> </p><p>The party would also review the nomination papers of Mehtab Abbasi for the office of premiership. <br /> </p>
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| Makhdum Shahabuddin nominated for premiership Posted: <p><br />Makhdum Shahabuddin would submit nomination papers of prime minister today while Raja Pervaiz Ashraf would submit nomination papers as covering candidate.</p><p> </p><p>After disqualification of ex-PM Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, the government called a meeting in consultation with coalition partners and ultimately nominated Makhdum Shahabuddin for next coming prime minister.</p><p> </p><p>Federal government has offered Shahabuddin to enhance his security but he refused to enjoy special security before he is elected prime minister. </p><p> </p><p>President Asif Ali Zardari has set three conditions for the PPP candidates as premiership; the candidate should be committed to the party, adept in English language and hailed from Punjab. <br /> </p><p>He belongs to Mianwali and his family has been playing pivotal role in politics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br /> </p>
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| PML-Q will back PPP candidate for PM office: Shujaat Posted: <p> </p><p>A meeting of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) parliamentary party was held in Islamabad on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain.</p><p> </p><p>The meeting discussed current political situation besides matters regarding election of the new leader of the house in the National Assembly.</p><p> </p><p>Later talking to newsmen‚ PML-Q Chief Ch. Shujaat Hussain said that his party would accept the candidate of the PPP for the office of the Prime Minister. He said he has no objection to any candidate.</p><p> </p><p>Ch. Shujaat Hussain said the PPP is a major party and it is its prerogative to nominate its candidate. He said there is no candidate of the PML-Q for the slot.</p><p> </p><p>To a question he said load-shedding can be eliminated in three months if his formula was implemented. He said he would try to persuade the new Prime Minister to take steps for its implementation.<br /> </p>
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| PML-Q will back PPP candidate for PM office: Shujaat Posted: <p> </p><p>A meeting of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) parliamentary party was held in Islamabad on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain.</p><p> </p><p>The meeting discussed current political situation besides matters regarding election of the new leader of the house in the National Assembly.</p><p> </p><p>Later talking to newsmen‚ PML-Q Chief Ch. Shujaat Hussain said that his party would accept the candidate of the PPP for the office of the Prime Minister. He said he has no objection to any candidate.</p><p> </p><p>Ch. Shujaat Hussain said the PPP is a major party and it is its prerogative to nominate its candidate. He said there is no candidate of the PML-Q for the slot.</p><p> </p><p>To a question he said load-shedding can be eliminated in three months if his formula was implemented. He said he would try to persuade the new Prime Minister to take steps for its implementation.<br /> </p>
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| Karachi: 3 held during Rangers targeted operation in Lyari Posted: <p> </p><p>The Rangers launched operation in different parts of Lyari including Baghdadi, Shah Beig Lane, Musa Lane, Dariya Abad and Nia Abad. The anti-terrorism squad of the Rangers, and female officials also participated in the operation.</p><p> </p><p>At least three persons were arrested and weapons were recovered from their possession. The Rangers also raided narcotics and gambling dens on the complaints of kidnapping of some persons from Li Market.<br /> </p>
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| Operation in Waziristan soon: Mian Iftikhar Posted: <p> </p><p>Talking to media in Peshawar Mian Iftikhar Hussain said Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US would have to work on a joint agenda to restore peace in the region.</p><p> </p><p>He said the Taliban should be given a chance to form their favourite team for the negotiations.<br /> </p>
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| Two including doctor shot dead in Karachi Posted: <p> </p><p>According to details, a man was shot dead by unknown people in Khokhrapar area of Malir.</p><p> </p><p>In another incident, some unidentified people entered into a clinic also in Malir area and gunned down a doctor namely Rahim Bukhsh.</p><p> </p><p>Moreover, three persons were injured in firing incidents in different areas including Gulberg, Kausar Colony and Malir Kala Board.<br /> </p>
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| Altaf flays bar ban on Asma Jahangir Posted: <p> </p><p>Talking to former president Supreme Court Bar Asma Jahangir via telephone from London MQM chief Altaf Hussain said that Asma and many other important personalities were being termed as traitors over political differences and raising voice for the oppressed and democracy.</p><p> </p><p>Altaf Hussain expressed his concern and condemned banning Asma to the bars and life threats to her.<br /> </p>
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| US engineers make world's first gigapixel camera Posted: <p> </p><p>It is not the world s first gigapixel camera, but it is the smallest and fastest and opens up prospects for improving airport security, military surveillance and even online sports coverage, its developers say.</p><p><br />A pixel is a small light point in a digital image, concentrations of which together form a picture.</p><p><br />Today s cameras capture images measured in megapixels -- a million pixels -- normally between eight and 40 for an average consumer device. A thousand megapixels make a gigapixel, which is thus comprised of a billion pixels.</p><p><br />Most of today s gigapixel images are made by digitally merging several megapixel pictures.</p><p><br />"Our camera records a one gigapixel image in less than a 10th of a second," project member David Brady told AFP of the project reported in the journal Nature.</p><p><br />Gigapixel imaging captures details that are invisible to the human eye and can later be examined by zooming in without losing clarity.</p><p><br />Dubbed AWARE-2, the device is housed in a box of 75 cm X 50 cm X 50 cm -- most of which comprises electronic processing and communication equipment.</p><p><br />The optical system consists of a six-centimeter (2.4-inch) ball-shaped lens surrounded by an array of 98 micro-cameras each with a 14-megapixel sensor.</p><p><br />Brady said the optical system on its own weighs about 10 kilograms (22 pounds), but with the case about 45 kg.</p><p><br />"The electronic system shrinks by a factor of four in the next generation, however."</p><p><br />In use today are highly specialized gigapixel astronomical telescopes and airborne surveillance systems, which are comparatively large and have a narrow field of view, said Brady of Duke University in North Carolina.</p><p><br />There are also some film-based gigapixel cameras.</p><p><br />"Our technology is most interesting as the first demonstration of high pixel count and wide field of view imaging at finite focal ranges," said Brady.</p><p><br />The cost of such a camera today would be similar to that of a high-resolution digital movie camera, he said -- about $100,000 to $250,000 (80,000 to 200,000 euros).</p><p><br />But as the electronics improve, the price should become affordable for professional and serious amateur photographers within about five years, followed soon thereafter by hand-held gigapixel cameras entering into widespread use.</p><p><br />Brady said the technology could be used, for example, to stream sporting events over the Internet -- enabling viewers to zoom in and watch the game from whatever perspective and resolution they choose.</p><p><br />Similarly, cameras mounted in game parks or at scenic lookouts would allow online tourists to examine a scene in much more detail than if they were actually there.</p><p><br />"Ubiquitous gigapixel cameras may transform the central challenge of photography from the question of where to point the camera to that of how to mine the data," said the Nature report.</p><p> </p>
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