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Shoaib Akhter banned for 5 years!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

~~PCB~~ Nasim Ashraf followed the foot steps of his mentor, Gen.(retard) Pervez Musharraf and banned Shoaib Akhter for 5 long years, the tenure which is required for a Pakistni assembly to function properly. The reason is violation of players code of conduct. From CricInfo:

“The board has lost confidence in Shoaib Akhtar and therefore felt his presence in the field was damaging to the Pakistan team, for Pakistan players and for the image of Pakistan cricket,” the PCB chairman, Nasim Ashraf, told AFP. “The committee has recommended a five-year ban for Shoaib Akhtar. He will be ineligible to play in Pakistan or to play for Pakistan anywhere else in the world. [It is] a sad day for me and for Shoaib Akhtar. He is such a talented player.”

This is utterly cruel and I don’t support it! 5 years is a long time. It’s beyond the limits of punishment one player can get. So many corrupt players like Wasim,Ejaz, Ramiz etc were found guilty on various cases but never been punished. Nasim Ashraf has done same thing with Shoaib which Musharraf did with Qader Khan. No I am not comparing Khan and Akhter as there is no comparison. The point is that we live in a state where actual corrupt person is never caught and only those are targeted who are unable to defend themselves. I never supported his “extra” activities but it doesn’t mean I support something which is unfair.

Imran Khan on other hand has called for suspension of Ashraf. Hanif Abbasi, Member of NA has said that he would discuss this issue in Parliment.

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Metroblog’s lame attempt of April fool Prank?

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I must say that this time Google couldn’t entertain me with their April fool prank. On other hand Sean of Metroblogging HQ tried to have fun with readers of Metroblog Karachi by coming up with a post.

Dear Readers of Karachi Metblogs,

It is with a sorry heart that we at the Metroblogging headquarters in Los Angeles have to announce that Karachi Metblogs will be shutting down for a while while we decide what is the best future for it. While I could certainly try to sugar coat this and blame corporate restructuring, the truth is we are just sick of the constand bitter rivalry within the ranks of the authors which has lead to absolute chaos on the site. Honestly, not a day goes by that one author isn’t e-mail me complaining about this or whining about that, and quite frankly I just don’t care enough to keep putting up with all of it. It’s become a nightmare and it has to end. To solve this issue we are forced to start afresh close the site entirely, step back, and decide what is the best future for this site. As the loyal readers of the site, we feel that your input in valuable and we’d like to get your thoughts on some of the options we are considering. Please take a moment to vote in the poll below and let us know what you think would be the best option for the site at this point. Please know that this wasn’t an easy decision for us, but for our own sanity we had to do something. I’ll be disabling comments because I’ve seen how long comment threads get here and really don’t have the patience to sort through something like that.

Karachi Metroblogs has been a great experience for us at Metblogs and we hope that it shall return to the forefront very soon, please bear with us. Until then KMB Rests in Peace.

It was not enough , our very own doctor saab came up with a seperate post and he even showed a screen shot of login error.

Ironically I am able to post comments in old posts other than first two which is quite interesting that I am able to post comments on a suspended blog. On other hand reason given by Sean is so lame that it’s hard to believe. Anyways, for me it was not a thrilling stunt. Better luck next time.