Raising submissive daughters: The dangerous myth of goodness
I have a seven-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son...
Her qualities fill me with pride and pleasure on a more or less daily basis...
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ArchiveFreshly baked goodness
Items like chips and nimco were also available in these places as were good-looking and great-tasting pastries, tarts, and scrumptious patties — there was something for everyone in these joints...
Moreover, some of the city’s most famous bakeries have closed down and been replaced by other commercial concerns or residential spaces...
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ArchiveCRICKET: BIRYANI, CURRY AND CRICKET
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is an imposing stadium...
Cricket, rugby, soccer, athletics...
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ArchiveCRICKET: EATING AND DRINKING CRICKET IN COLOMBO
Want to be bowled over by a soup named after Muttiah Muralitharan and Imran Khan? Ready to face a Saurav Ganguly food platter? No, no one is inviting you to a buffet in a cricket field but, well, it comes close to that...
Cricket Club Caf? (CCC as it is popularly known) has definitely led the way to re-invent the sport that the island nation of Sri Lanka venerates — cricket...
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ArchiveStrauss appointed England and Wales Cricket Board's cricket committee chairman
Former England captain Andrew Strauss is back in the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as cricket committee chairman and will drive the development of the game at all levels as part of his new role...
The 42-year-old, who was knighted on Tuesday, stepped down as ECB's director of cricket last year to support his late wife Ruth's cancer battle and was replaced by former England spinner Ashley Giles...
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Tech‘Need to remove the taboo’: On World Health Day, govt launches mental health app and helpline
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on Friday the launch of the government’s “first dedicated mental health app and helpline”...
The development comes as the world celebrates World Health Day...
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ArchiveCRICKET: REBOOTING DOMESTIC CRICKET
A failing domestic cricket system? Draft selection to the rescue...
The draft system of selection has been a hit with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as its use in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), Pakistan Cup and now the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy shows...
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ArchiveCRICKET: THE RETURN OF INTERNATIONAL CRICKET
The arrival of a star-studded World XI this week in Lahore to play three T20 games marks the welcome return of international cricket to Pakistan after an agonising span of eight-and-a-half years...
It was a telling absence as well for those who may not be crazy fans of the game but believe in their heart of hearts that cricket is a key catalyst in breeding social cohesion in a nation that has forever grappled with multiple ethnic,...
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SportCricket Classics: Was this Waqar’s best spell in ODI cricket?
Ken Rutherford must have been a satisfied man when New Zealand restricted Pakistan to a mere 161 from their 50 overs in the fourth game of a five-match series...
The tourists had won the previous three matches comfortably and it was time for the Kiwis under Rutherford to salvage something out of a lost series...
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ArchiveHealth card scheme to continue, says Health Minister Patel
KARACHI: The federal government on Friday denied any plan to scrap the Qaumi Sehat Card Programme launched by the previous Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government ‘despite serious flaws’ in the health insurance scheme...
The announcement came from Federal Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel during his first interaction with the media here in his hometown after assuming the office last month...
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Blogs‘They took my money and India jersey, and gave me love in return’—my week in Lahore on a cricket visa
It all started with the Pakistan Cricket Board opening up the sale of a limited number of tickets for the one-day cricket matches between India and Pakistan in March, 2004...
The moment we saw that news report, my wife Ipsita and I knew we had to do this...
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ArchiveIn war and in peace, passion for cricket alive and well in Afghanistan
Khushhal has been fighting for the Taliban since he was 13 but now that they have won the war against the former government, he has more time for playing cricket and supporting the Afghan national team as they begin their T20 World Cup campaign on Monday...
“We were fighting for Islam and the [Holy] Quran but we still paid attention to cricket as well,” Khushhal, 18, told Reuters at the Chaman-e-Huzoori public ground, where he was...
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Pakistan'Terrorists cannot win and cricket must not give up on Pakistan'
First came the Zimbabweans to Lahore and got cheered like they were playing in Harare...
Then came Darren Sammy and celebrated near Liberty Chowk like he was from Peshawar, and had conquered Quetta (he had)...
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BlogsAngry green men: The illusion of ill-treatment and conspiracy in Pakistan cricket
While reviewing Inside Out – the 2006 autobiography of former Pakistan cricket captain, Mushtaq Mohammad – EspnCricinfo’s Andrew Miller suggests that the chapter in which Mushtaq details how he was removed from captaincy in 1979, is ‘a typical tale of backstabbing and duplicity …’Miller believes this is typically a Pakistani trait that often plagues the perceptions of former Pakistan cricket captains...
Though Mushtaq’s book is a...
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ArchiveDeadlock persists between India and Pakistan over cricket series
LAHORE: Deadlock over bilateral series persisted when top officials of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) met in Dubai on Monday...
It was the first meeting between the two cricket boards after serving of legal notice...
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