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Sharjeel Ahmad
Joined on: Nov 30, -0001 Published stories: 88

Articles By Sharjeel Ahmad

Pakistan rubbishing fertile cricketing talent

Talent sprouts from slums. All the big names in history hail from middle or have-not class. But a talent is of no use in absence of opportunities that help groom it. In the cricket crazy Pakistani nation, there are found a large number of aspirant and would-be players. As almost seventy per cent of the […]

M S Dhoni: A marketing goldmine

Success does not come alone but it brings a lot more in its wake. Featuring celebrities, whether from media or sports, in brands promotion is one of the strongest marketing tactics. Before and during the every edition of ICC Cricket World Cup, the cricketers get big deals and lucrative contracts with handsome remunerations from the […]

Corruption for the sake for promotion

Unfair play is the thing that is always rewarded in Pakistan. Historically speaking, all fraudulent men have prospered. On this part of the planet, corruption works as a ladder for promotion. The more you are corrupt, the more you have chances to flourish. The news of promotion of two City District Government Lahore (CDGL) officials, […]

IPL and cricketers’ international commitments

Since its inception in 2008, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been at odds with the Future Tour Program (FTP) of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Both have clashed and disturbed each other on many occasions. Why it is so? Because there is no place of the league tournament in the future plans of the […]

IPL=Cash and Cricket

A player is the native of a borderless world. He has no country, no creed, no colour and no region. Born at Asia, trained at Africa and living in America, he can perform in Australia. National and geographic bond must not impede a player’s skills and circle. After the English County Cricket, the Indian Premier […]

The killing art of demonstration

Like many other manners; we do not know how, when and where to manifest out feelings. The way the paramedics created mess on Lahore’s Jail Road a couple of days back depicts the level of our inhumanity. Due to hours of the wheel jam, a heart patient lady breathed her last in an ambulance. Hell […]

Annual budgets and general elections

Economy and modern politics are greatly interlinked. Economic reforms set political norms. This is common everywhere in the world—from Z A Bhutto’s Roti, Kapra, Makan (food, clothe, accommodation) to Barak Obama’s Change. One thing is clear that this is totally an illusion, a sweet illusion indeed. But the way it is done in Pakistan is […]

Pak, Iran, Afghan summit: A need of the hour

The three neighbouring nations; Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who are set to be the biggest players after the US endgame, have called a trilateral summit to discuss the issues of common interest and regional cooperation. Pakistan is going to host this event on February 16. The presidents of three states will join hands and heads […]

Educational mess on Queen Mary Road

Are educational activities all about creating heavy traffic mess on roads and halting important movements of gentle citizens for hours coupled with generating immense pollution? Yes this is so. Passing by Queen Mary Road, Lahore at morning and noon times, you experience long traffic jams and clouds of smoke causing cough. Why? Just because there […]

Baseball and cricket together

 There is no denying the fact that cricket and baseball have lot to share as technique, action, ground and method of both the sports are almost similar. The major similarities include bat, ball, keeper, bowler, fielders, batsman and umpires. Then what is left? Just wickets, stumps and methodology. Cricket is the national game of the […]

Bob Woolmer: The first to whistle match-fixing

18 March, 2007 was indeed a doomsday for the international cricket as it witnessed the mysterious death an embodiment of cricketing techniques and an unsung hero of comity of cricket coaches, Bob Woolmer. At the same day when Pakistan Cricket Team, whom Bob was coaching, fell to Ireland in a knockout of the ICC Cricket […]

Graft in PU M. Phil admissions

How a country where university admissions are granted through favouritism and nepotism can produces quality scholars and researchers who may unleash innovative and progressive ideas. Though the graft is visible in every public sector university of Pakistan but the University of the Punjab is ‘honoured’ to be at top of the list. Favouritism rules the […]

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