ICC Replies to PCB

Cricket-governing body International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday replied to the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) letter on recent ball tampering incident, saying it has already punished South African cricketer Faf du Plessis as per the rules, The PCB had asked the ICC in a letter about different standards of punishment for ball tampering charges for Pakistani players and others. The ICC said it could not give more details about its reply to the PCB. On last Saturday, South African cricketer Faf du Plessis was fined 50% of match fee after admitting to ball tampering by the ICC.

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Injustice of ICC to PCB - PCB asks for the clarification upon Several Issues of Pakistani Crickters

Sports, Cricket News : Najam Sethi, the PCB chief, said Saturday that he would ask for explanation from the International Cricket Council (ICC) over inconsistency in penalizing players for ball tampering.

“Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is writing letter to ICC seeking explanation of inconsistency by match referee in application of ball tampering rule to Afridi vs Faf,” Sethi tweeted.

Earlier, South African player Faf du Plessis was fined 50 percent of the match fee by an ICC match referee despite pleading guilty of tampering the ball in the second Test against Pakistan in Dubai.

The lenient penalty promoted strong reaction from current and former Pakistani players, who accused the world cricket body of practicing double standards.

Speaking to media persons in Karachi, Shahid Afridi said that “our cricketers should not be subjected to discriminatory treatment on such charges.”

Top five regrets of the dying

A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life?

There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'.
Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.
Ware writes of the phenomenal clarity of vision that people gain at the end of their lives, and how we might learn from their wisdom. "When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently," she says, "common themes surfaced again and again."
Here are the top five regrets of the dying, as witnessed by Ware:
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
"This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it."
2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
"This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence."
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
"Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result."
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

"Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying."

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
"This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called 'comfort' of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again."

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Coal Reserves in Pakistan Thar Coal the Largest Coal Reserves in Pakistan

Pakistan must turn to coal – both from its own large untapped reserves and from imports – to fuel power generation beyond the next decade if it is to ease the energy crisis which is capping economic growth, trade and industry.
 
The Thar coalfield is located in Thar Desert, Tharparkar District of Sindh province in Pakistan. The deposits - 6th largest coal reserves in the world, were discovered in 1991 by Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) and the United State Agency for International Development.
Pakistan has emerged as one of the leading countries - seventh in the list of top 20 countries of the world after the discovery of huge lignite coal resources in Sindh. The economic coal deposits of Pakistan are restricted to Paleocene and Eocene rock sequences. It is one of the world’s largest lignite deposits discovered by GSP in 90’s, spread over more than 9,000 km². comprise around 175 billion tonnes sufficient to meet the country’s fuel requirements for centuries.

 

Distance from Karachi :	360 Km
Total Area :	9,100 sq. Km
Coal Reserves:	175 Billion Tons

The Thar coalfield with a resource potential of 175 billion tonnes of coal covers an area of over 9,000 sq km in the Thar Desert in Thar Parkar district, in southeastern part of Sindh. The investigated area is covered by stable sand dunes and there are no rock exposures. To establish the coal resources in six selected blocks a total of 237 holes were drilled. The coal resources of the area within clastic sediments ofthe Bara Formation of Paleocene age. The measured reserves are over 2,357 million tonnes, indicated millions tonnes and inferred 1,362 million tonnes.

The number of coal seams varies from hole to hole and a maximum of 20 seams have been logged in some of the drill holes. The thickness of coal seams ranges between 0.21 to 22.81 meters. The cumulative coal thickness varies and attains a maximum of 36 meters in one of the drill holes. Clay stone and loose sand beds form the roof as well as the floor-rock of coal seams. The overburden consists of three kinds of material; dune sand, alluvium and sedimentary rocks. The thickness of the overburden varies from 114 to over 203 meters. The sand dunes above the average ground level in the area will also add another 30 meters of thickness to the overburden.

Chemical analyses of coal samples from the drill holes show that the weighted average of as received values of the Ash content ranges between 5.14 and 6.56 %, Volatile matter 26.50 and 33.04 %, Moisture 43.24 and 49.01 %, Sulphur 0.92 %, 1.34 % and 1.3% and Heating Values range between As Received 5,780 and 6,398 Btu/lb, Dry10,723 and 11,353 Btu/Lb MMM Free 6,101 and 6,841 Btu/lb, DAF 11605 and 12,613. The Volatile Matter Dry Ash Free (DAF) basis varies between 57.72 and 60 % the rank of coal is Lignite B to Lignite A.

KPK Budget 2013-14 Rs 344 Billion

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led coalition government in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa has approved its budget for province for fiscal year 2013-14.
Giving detail of the budget, Senior Minister Sirajul Haq says the budget has been distributed into three categories: welfare, development and administrative.
The allocation for each is as follow:

• About Rs. 162 billion for welfare
• About Rs. 118 billion for development
• About Rs. 63 billion for administrative

Siraj says that Madinah is the model state for our government in the province.
Following are 19 unique points of the budget from KPK government:

1. Land record is being computerized
2. Thana Culture to be change right from the police station
3. Public can lodge FIR on telephone and Online and they do not need to go to police station
4. 11,000 villages to be developed
5. 10 small hydro power projets announced
6. Mobile courts announced for the province
7. Over 57 projects of sports, culture and tourism to get over Rs. 100 million
8. Special package for Kalash Valley minority community announced
9. For environment protection, the KPK government sets aside Rs. 1.27 billion
10. Over 157 projects for road infrastructure to get over Rs. 10 billion
11. Mass Transit System for Peshawar is undergoing planning phase
12. Subsidy of about Rs. 2 billion has been reserved on wheat
13. Pension, minimum, increased Rs. 5,000 from Rs. 3,000
14. Clean water project to be completed
15. Peshawar to be made ‘City of Flowers’
16. Green Peshawar Project announced to overhaul the city for which Rs. 1 billion has been reserved
17. Traffic projects to completed within current fiscal year to ensure smooth flow of traffic in Peshawar
18. Peshawar Uplift Project announced for which Rs. 4 billion allocated
19. Welfare projects for specials persons, educational institutes, beggars, women and kids announced

Some Other Vital Measures

1. Monitoring system comprising up to 500 monitors
2. Free medical treatment to 800 cancer and 26,000 TB patients
3. Self Sufficiency scheme to be launched under which Rs. 50,000 to 2,00,000 loan free loans will be given
4. Position holder student to get scholarships up to Rs. 360 million
5. Rs. 500 million allocated for Cancer patients
6. Rs. 100 million set aside for Hepatitis patients
7. Rs. 3 billion have been reserved for Education Emergency and Improvement Proram
8. As many as 15 percent increase has been made
9. Minimum wage to be Rs. 10,000

PTI Sky Train Project Peshawar KPK

Question comes to mind whether PTI was in good preparations and did home work before they started election campaign? if they did then what happened to them, as it feels like they have lake of leadership and are unable to manage the KPK govt. as expected.Even though it is early to say anything about PTI results or output and there can be number of reasons that must have been kept in mind to make the firm opinion about delivering the results. Practically facts are different because KPK was already in a very bad political,security  and economic conditions. Also there are many things where Federal govt has direct authority to take decisions i.e Drone attacks and talks with the "Taliban" etc. Projects require budget which is not up-to that level where all the major projects can be initiated at once. Lets hope for the good results by PTI soon :)

PTI Sky Train Project Peshawar KPK – PTI KPK Government Projects:

ESHAWAR: With growing traffic congestion irking all time high to the citizens of Peshawar, PTI’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government decides a landmark project for Peshawar City.

According to officials, the project would require, however, massive funding and would provide relief to locals regarding traffic flow. “The World Bank has shown interest in starting the Sky Train project in the provincial capital of the province,” they further said.
The provincial government has planned to run ‘Sky Train from Chamkani to Hayatabad area of the city.
Senior Minister Jamat e Islami JI Sirajul Haq has confirmed that the provincial government is planning the launching of sky train for which the World Bank has shown interest.

 

Pakistani Dramas

Pakistani Drama not just playing as entertainment role but also impacts much on the minds and creates awarness and also discusses many Socio-economical issues as well. Pakistani drama industry is rich  with talented artists

 Having a very great history as Pakistani media produced lots of unforgettable dramas. Pakistan television is a pioneer television in Pakistan so it is also considered as a pioneer in drama making; Pakistani dramas are very popular in the world in many different countries videos of Pakistani dramas are played in their art academies to teach how to make classic dramas. 

Pakistani Drama Writers
Pakistan has got many intelligent writers who have been writing dramas and Pakistan has got lots of versatile actors and actresses who have been performing those characters which have been writing by those intelligent writers. Pakistani dramas are made on social issues, mellow drama is also a very popular kind of Pakistani drama, and some dramas are based on novels or short stories. 

Pakistani Tele-Films
Nowadays tele-films are made in Pakistan, and trends have changed so people are concentrating on making "soaps" rather than serials and series. 

Popular Pakistani Dramas
Popular dramas of Pakistan are: Dhoop Kinaray, Samander, Andhera Ujala, Jangloos, Ghareeb-e-sheher, Chand Girhan, Pas-e-aaiena, Sunharay din, Waris, An kahi, Shezori, Kiran kahani, Uncle Urfi, Alpha Bravo Charlie, Wajud-e-Laraib and others are included.

KPK Aman Match Brings Smiles to KPK People :)

A Match that comes with the smiles on KPK people after a long time. We must appriciates the KPK govt and appriciate Imran Khan for his actions to improve the status of KPK. Although most of the Political parties criticise Imran Khan but even such a bad security situations he is trying to come up with good results.

Peshawar Aman Match, all the SoOoper Stars were there but No Media Coverage, Agar Khuda Na Khwasta koi Dhamaka hota to Sara Din ye Channel Walon ny News Chalani thi.

Billionaire Pakistani "Shahid Khan Owner of " Flex N Gate"

Take a look at Shahid Khan; owner of American NFL team Jacksonville Jaguars and British Football club Fulham & the richest Pakistani ! This guy is an inspiration for all of us. He earned respect and wealth through hard work and dedication not through corruption. Shahid Khan a Pakistani Born  renowned billionaire of USA. Owner of well known

Flex-N-Gate

Jacksonville Jaguars &

Fulham F.C.

Khan was born in Lahore, Pakistan to a middle-class family who were involved in the construction industry.His mother (now retired) was a professor of mathematics. He moved to the United States in 1968 at age 16 to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.When he came to the United States, he spent his first night in a $2/night room at the University Y-YMCA, and his first job was washing dishes for $1.20 an hour. He joined the Beta Theta Pi  fraternity at the school.He graduated from the UIUC School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering with a BSc in Industrial Engineering in 1971.Khan is a Muslim who acquired US citizenship in 1991.

Shahid Khan is 62 years old Pakistani billionaire, who is the owner of American NFL team Jacksonville Jaguars and British Football club Fulham. He had successfully lay down his steps strongly winning interest of the Football team due to his friendly and likable personality and has plans to make this team international. He enjoys a recognized popular status within the society and has earned a strong approval percent of 78% which any politician would desire. His mustache has also become very popular among the followers of the Jaguars and is the advertising spokesman of his team. He had also been the victim of criticisms and has been labeled as a terrorist from Pakistan but he was not moved by such racist comments considering it to be their problem not his.

He enjoyed the days of his childhood in Lahore and has a younger brother. His mother Zakia is a retired math professor from whom he got the motivation for education and his late father Rafiq used to sell serving equipment teaching him hard work and self sufficiency. He used to make and sell radios and made his friends pay for borrowing his comic books as a boy and unlike any other Pakistani he also had a flair for the cricket and the National team. In 1967 he had moved to America where his application had been accepted by the University of Illinois at the age of 16 to study Mechanical Engineering. He had stepped out with just $500 in hand and so being responsible got a job which offered only $20 per hour, at which he decided that his destiny was in his hands and he was ready to take the major decisions of his life like he became part of a fraternity group of all-white. He then met and later married Ann Carlson and now is the father of two children.
He successfully built his own company for 800 thousand dollars whose expertise are bumpers which has rare qualities like rust proof, single handed and light weight ensuring sales of 3.5 billion dollars per annum. He is one of the renowned richest people in America out of the 400. He got his American nationality in 1991 and has been living a successful life in America for over 45 years. During the period of 9/11 he was one of the Pakistanis who faced strict attitude from the American people and the authorities in charge. He was also once detained for 5 to 6 hours on the bridge crossing between America and Canada. Still his generous and mild personality was not inflicted enormously but was insignificantly disturbed by this behavior. He agrees with the American mindset that the one thing needed to be changed is the extremist group and consider that on the name of religion people are doing horrible things.
His interest grew in the American Football during his time in University and with the opportunity of his financial success he was able to buy a team of his own. He believes that apart from the business ventures he expects his player to play their best game. He considers it to be his duty to provide the best locker room in the whole of NFL, where his players enjoy luxury and comfort having a completely accessorized status. Though he expects his team to be facing a more competitive team, his team has not been able to outgrow the standard of straight loosing seasons. He considers his life every success, failure and the choices that he had made part of his destiny and fate from which he could not turn his face away.

Emergence of Terrorist Attacks in Pakistan

Attrocities of Terrorist in Pakistan by killing the poor people and making their lives more difficult is started in the result of poor foreign policies made by  different Pakistani leaders in different times times.
Seeing the whole scenario of Pakistan makes all of us to think in which direction Pakistan should move. A true leadership in this case helps to guide the Nations's direction to choose the right countries block.

Terrorism in Pakistan has become a major and highly destructive phenomenon in recent years. The annual death toll from terrorist attacks has risen from 164 in 2003 to 3318 in 2009, with a total of 35,000 Pakistanis killed between September 11, 2001 and May 2011. According to the government of Pakistan, the direct and indirect economic costs of terrorism from 2000-2010 total $68 billion. President Asif Ali Zardari, along with former President ex-Pakistan Army head Pervez Musharraf, have admitted that terrorist outfits were "deliberately created and nurtured" by past governments "as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives"

The trend began with Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's controversial "Islamization" policies of the 1980s, under which conflicts were started against soviet involvement in Afghanistan. Zia's tenure as president saw Pakistan's involvement in the Soviet-Afghan War, which led to a greater influx of ideologically driven Muslims (mujahideen) to the tribal areas and increased availability of guns such as the AK-47 and drugs from the Golden Crescent.
The state and its Inter-Services Intelligence, in alliance with the CIA, encouraged the "mujahideen" to fight a proxy war against Soviet forces present in Afghanistan. Most of the mujahideen were never disarmed after the war ended in Afghanistan and some of these groups were later activated at the behest of Pakistan in the form of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and others like the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The same groups are now taking on the state itself, making the biggest threat to it and the citizens of Pakistan through the politically motivated killing of civilians and police officials.

From the summer of 2007 until late 2009, more than 1,500 people were killed in suicide and other attacks on civilians for reasons attributed to a number of causes – sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims; easy availability of guns and explosives; the existence of a "Kalishnikov culture"; an influx of ideologically driven Muslims based in or near Pakistan, who originated from various nations around the world and the subsequent war against the pro-Soviet Afghans in the 1980s which blew back into Pakistan; the presence of Islamist insurgent groups and forces such as the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba; Pakistan's thousands of fundamentalist madrassas (Islamic schools) which are thought by many to provide training for little other than jihad. and secessionists movements – the most significant being the Balochistan liberation movement – blamed on regionalism, which is problematic in a country with Pakistan's diverse cultures, languages, traditions and customs.

Malal Yousafzai "They thought that the bullets would silence us"

Whisle sharing the thoughts Malayousafzai with BBC, she actually targets the real cause and the solutions and ambitions for the prosperity of the Pakistani Nation. www.pk212.blogspot.com

Her Statements: 

"I will be a politician in my future," the told the BBC. "I want to change the future of my country and I want to make education compulsory."

"They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed," she said. "And then, out of that silence, came thousands of voices."

The Taliban's actions sparked large protests in Pakistan and condemnation worldwide.In a BBC interview published Monday, 

she said the Taliban are "misusing the name of Islam.""Killing people, torturing people and flogging people ... it's totally against Islam," she said.

The Taliban banned girls from schools in the Swat Valley in 2009. Malala anonymously blogged for the BBC in opposition to that order and became an open advocate for girls' education, telling CNN in 2011, "I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up."

This year, the Malala Fund has been created to support education for girls around the world.
Malala's name has been mentioned in speculation about the Nobel Peace Prize, due to be announced Friday. Her memoir, "I am Malala," will be published Tuesday. And on October 18, she is expected attend a "Youth, Education and the Commonwealth" reception hosted by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.In the BBC interview, she said she wants to return to Pakistan someday and continue her fight.

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20 Facts about Pakistan to be Proud of

We all hear and read about how people criticize and insult Pakistan, and unfortunately there are times when we cannot blame most of the reasons due to the increasing violence. But if there’s one thing I’ve been taught, it’s never to generalize. The good points of Pakistan have been hidden in this layer of violence.Lets reconsider our potential by reviewing our past/present achievements.

                                               

1. In the last five years, Pakistan’s literacy rate has grown by 250%, the largest increase in any country to date.

2. Pakistan is the first Islamic country to attain nuclear power.

3. Edhi is running the World’s largest Ambulance network.

4. World’s youngest certified Microsoft Experts Arfa Kareem and Babar Iqbal are from Pakistan.

5. Pakistan has the sixth largest military force in the world.

6. Pakistan’s national anthem tune ranks first in the top three tunes of the world.

7. Fourth largest broadband internet system of world is in Pakistan

8.  World’s largest deep sea port is Gwadar.

9. About 50% of the world’s footballs are made in Pakistan.

10. Pakistan is notable for having one of the best trained air-force pilots in the world.

11.  Pakistan has world’s youngest civil judge, Muhammad Illyas.

12.  The highest railway station of Asia is in Pakistan.

13. First PC virus was created by two Pakistani brothers. (Maybe not something to be very proud of, but it still might have required an impressive level of intellect to do so).

14. Dr. Abdus Salam – Nobel prize winner (Physics 1979).

15. LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) attracts students from Middle East, the Far East, Central Asia, and other parts of South Asia.

16. Ustaad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, hailed as the most important Qawwali singer of the 20th century and received many awards around the globe such as The “Legends” award at the UK Asian Music Awards (2005).

17. World’s 7th largest Pool of Scientists and Engineer.

18. The Shah Faisal Mosque in Islamabad can accommodate almost 100000 worshipers. Completed in 1976, it could at that time probably hold the city’s entire population.

19. Karakoram Highway runs through the northern areas connecting Pakistan with China’s Xingjiang province is often described as ” Eighth Wonder of the World” due to the marvel of civil engineering as it has taken 15 years to complete by the Pakistan Army Engineers in collaboration with China. It’s been labeled as ” World’s highest paved international Road” under world’s toughest terrain.

20. Air Commodore MM ALAM has a world record of shpoting down 5 planes in less than a Minute.

Shahid Afridi Splice Restaurant Opened In Lahore
Cricketers came to business now. 

Due to change in the atmosphere and the financial conditions more of the actors and cricketers are inclined to start the businesses besides their base profession.

Pakistan former captain and swashbuckling all-rounder Shahid Afridi has opened a new restaurant in Lahore 'Splice'. On 20th February
On the occasion of opening restaurant famous cricketers were present. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former Pakistan cricket team captain Imran Khan attended the opening. Left arm bowler Wahab Riaz, middle order batsman Umar Akmal also showed up for the event. Model Waqar Ali Khan was also present.
Shahid Afridi manages business in Karachi also. His men's boutique 'Shahid Afridi Kurta Collection'and Women's boutique widyaan is running successfully. Branches of men's boutqiie have opened in different areas of Karachi whereas Widyaan is also gaining popularity among people.