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[30 Apr 2010 | Comments Off | Nadir Hassan]
Clean Bowled

Pakistan cricket and scandal go together like strawberries and cream. Newsline runs down some of the major controversies of the last 20 years.

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[30 Apr 2010 | Comments Off | Khalid Hussain]
Pakistan Cricket: An Ex-player Speaks

These days television talk shows on sports are full of discussions and debates on what’s wrong with Pakistan cricket and Abdul Qadir is one of the former Test cricketers who regularly features in them. But the ex-chief selector says he is getting sick and tired of such programmes.

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[30 Apr 2010 | Comments Off | Khalid Hussain]
Squashed

From being the world champions in the ’80s and ’90s, Pakistani squash players have hit rock bottom in international rankings.

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[30 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments | Khalid Hussain]
Interview: Aamir Atlas Khan

“In Pakistan it seems that the people governing sports just don’t care,” Aamir Atlas Khan.

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[30 Apr 2010 | Comments Off | Khalid Hussain]
Pakistan Hockey in the Doldrums

Pakistan’s last-place finish at the World Cup shows the desperate state of hockey in the country. But what can be done to improve it?

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[30 Apr 2010 | Comments Off | Afia Salam]
Interview: Siraj-ul-Islam Bukhari, Karachi Cricket Association

“The structure of the game of cricket has been destroyed because stakeholders at the grassroots level have no say in the development of the game,” Professor Siraj-ul-Islam Bukhari, Secretary of the Karachi Cricket Association.

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[30 Apr 2010 | Comments Off | Khalid Hussain]

It was in the 1972 Olympics that Pakistan hockey suffered one of its biggest scandals ever. Pakistan went to Munich as favourites for the Olympic hockey crown but returned with more controversy than glory.

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[30 Apr 2010 | Comments Off | Newsline Editorial Staff]
Pakistan Hockey: The Experts Speak

Newsline talks to several former Olympians to discuss Pakistan’s hockey crisis.

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[30 Apr 2010 | Comments Off | Khalid Hussain]
Interview: Qasim Zia of the PHF

“If we want to excel in sports, we will have to invest in it,” Qasim Zia, president of the Pakistan Hockey Federation.

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[22 Mar 2010 | Comments Off | Farah Zahidi Moazzam]
Golden Girl

Life has not always been filled with golden victory laps for sprint champ Naseem Hameed.