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Sunday, 5 March 2017

Peshawar Zalmi vs Karachi Kings at Dubai, Live Streaming on PSL TV, PSL 2017

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In Pakistan, the live cricket streaming of this match will be available on PTV Sports Live, along with the live cricket telecast on Ten Sports, PTV, and Geo Super TV. 

 

 

Peshawar Zalmi will take on Karachi Kings in the third qualifying final of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2017. In Pakistan, the live cricket streaming of this match will be available on PTV Sports Live, along with the live cricket telecast on Ten Sports, PTV, and Geo Super TV. In United Arab Emirates (UAE), the live cricket streaming will be available on OSN Play, along with the live telecast on OSN Sports. In United Kingdom (UK), the live cricket streaming is available on Prime TV Online, along with the live cricket telecast on Prime TV. Also, in Bangladesh and West Indies, the live cricket telecast will be available on Gazi TV and Flow TV respectively.

The winner of this game will gain entry in the finals of the second edition of this Twent20 league from Pakistan. Darren Sammy-led Peshawar Zalmi were defeated by a run in the first qualifying final by Quetta Gladiators. The following day Karachi Kings registered a 44-run emphatic victory over former champions Islamabad United in the second qualifying final paving their way for the third game. In the two seasons so far, both teams have played each other four times out of which Zalmi have won thrice. The only time Kings managed to win was this season in the reverse fixture.

Going by the past records, Zalmi clearly have the edge over Kumar Sangakkara-led Karachi Kings. But given the way Karachi Kings have fought back in this season despite losing three consecutive matches initially, both teams have an equal edge over the other in this very important game. Therefore no team will be hoping to get thrown out of the tournament coming this near to the finale which definitely makes this a cracker of a game.

 

Live PSL: Karachi Kings vs Islamabad United 2nd playoff live stream

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SHARJAH – After a jaw-dropping game last night, Sharjah will expect another nerve-breaking contest when Karachi Kings take on Islamabad United in the 2nd playoff of the HBL PSL 2017.

The match will be played at Sharjah Cricket Ground, and as per schedule, it will begin at 20:00 local time (16:00 GMT | 21:00 PKT).

PSL 2nd playoff: Karachi Kings vs. Islamabad United Live Score

Courtesy to the most anticipated master blaster innings from Sir Christopher Henry Gayle in the 20th game earned a place in playoffs.
He smashed 44 runs off just 17 balls with five mighty sixes and two fours in 15-over low scoring games.
It was the much-needed knock from the big man, as he was off-colour throughout the tournament.

Courtesy to his blistering inning, Karachi will now meet Islamabad United again in the second playoff.
The winner of this game will play Peshawar Zalmi in the 3rd playoff to decide the second finalist.
On the other hand, Islamabad United will be gutted with their performance in the last game against Karachi. The way they snatched 2-run victory over Zalmi, they looked all favourite for the Karachi game. But cricket is the game of glorious uncertainties.
Who knew that the man who has been out of form all the tournament would click and takke the game away from United in just 17 balls.
Islamabad United have the last chance to make it to the finals now. If they lose another, they will be out of the tournament.

EXPECTED LINEUPS


Islamabad United Team
S Badree, Rafatulla Mohmand, BJ Haddin†, Misbah-ul-Haq*, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Sami, Rumman Raees, Saeed Ajmal, Shadab Khan, DR Smith, SR Watson, Zohaib Khan

Karachi Kings Team
Babar Azam, RS Bopara, Chris Gayle, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Amir, KA Pollard, KC Sangakkara*†, Shoaib Malik, Sohail Khan, Usama Mir, Usman Khan

PSL 2nd playoff: Karachi Kings vs. Islamabad United Live Score



Broadcasters beaming live #HBL PSL 2017

MENA – OSN
Africa – Startimes and cricketgateway.com
Bangladesh – Gazi TV and cricketgateway.com
The UK – A Plus, Channel 44, Prime TV, Geo TV and cricketgateway.com
Caribbean – Flow TV and cricketgateway.com
Singapore – cricketgateway.com
USA – A Plus and cricketgateway.com
Afghanistan – Moby and cricketgateway.com
Australia and NZ – cricketgateway.com
Europe – cricketgateway.com
South America – cricketgateway.com
Pakistan – Geo Sports, PTV Sports, Ten Sports, cricketgateway.com
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Thursday, 1 September 2016

The roots of religious radicalism.

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In his 2011 book Pakistan on the lookout for identification, veteran historian Dr. Mubarak Ali wrote that the roots of Muslim religious radicalism in South Asia may be located in what came to be known as the Khilafat motion (1919-1922).

Eminent student and professor of political science, late Khalid bin Sayeed had suggested the same in his 1968 e-book Pakistan: The formative years. The e book was recently republished by means of Oxford college Press. but to Sayeed, the aforementioned motion not handiest stirred spiritual passions of the region’s Muslims, however additionally of the Hindus. as a result, in view of Sayeed’s assertions on this context, you could conclude that the roots of Muslim and Hindu militancy sprouted from the seeds first sown all through the Khilafat motion.

In 1919, while the already depleted Ottoman regime in Turkey became defeated by a British-led alliance at some point of the primary world conflict, the ulema of India who till then had in large part remained stationed in their mosques and madressahs poured out to agitate against the feasible dismantling of the Ottoman Empire.

Did the Khilafat motion sow the seeds of militancy within the subcontinent?


the ensuing ‘Khilafat movement’, which had begun to ferment over the last years of the first global struggle, managed to seize the eye and hobby of a large variety of Indian Muslims.

Pan-Islamists, a lot of whom had been also operating from in the secular-nationalist Indian national Congress (INC), and ulema businesses were at the leading edge of the movement. The All India Muslim League (AIML), a moderate Muslim-centric celebration which had emerged in 1906 from revolutionary educationist and reformer Syed Ahmad Khan’s Muslim academic conference, become nonetheless suffering to discover its feet.

certainly one of its leading participants, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, a dispassionate however astute lawyer, counseled the League to live out of the movement. In a letter to INC’s respected figurehead, Mahatma Gandhi, Jinnah wrote that the movement changed into certain to stir up untapped non secular passions of the masses and might be a disaster to the destiny of the Hindus and Muslims of India.

Gandhi disagreed. In November 1919, after being approached by way of a few main individuals of the Khilafat Committee, he decided to make the INC a part of the movement. both Mubarak Ali and Sayeed preserve that Gandhi did this to reinforce the anti-British motion that he became already making plans to launch.

alternatively, a senior member of the Muslim League, Dr Ansari felt that the League became being sidelined and crushed via the growing non secular passions of the movement (which also became obvious in the celebration’s main Muslim city middle-elegance constituency). He headed a special party convention in Delhi and invited a set of ulema to the session. This created a rift inside the League. Jinnah’s institution antagonistic the motion at the side of Gandhi’s ‘non-cooperation movement’. It become taking vicinity in concert with the Khilafat motion.

Jinnah insisted that the result of each the movements could be disastrous and chaotic. INC chief Jawaharlal Nehru later wrote that Jinnah noticed the commotion (created through the Khilafat and non-cooperation movements) as ‘mob hysteria.’

the primary major occasion which substantiated Jinnah’s issues occurred in Amritsar in April 1919. Mobs of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh protesters attacked a few banks and killed two British men. The colonial authorities responded by using mercilessly massacring over 350 Indians accrued in a small lawn (Jallianwalla Bagh).

The incident regarded to have consolidated Hindu-Muslim cohesion towards the British however Jinnah continued to insist that the motion became bound to bring the two communities into serious war. He became disregarded and, therefore, his organization within the League remained aloof at some stage in the motion.

to appreciate INC’s selection to participate in the motion, the conservative Islamic birthday celebration the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind issued a fatwa sanctioning Gandhi’s non-cooporation movement. Pan-Islamists which includes Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Muhammad Ali Jauhar have been the maximum vocal proponents of the motion. Their fiery articles and speeches entreated the Muslims to cease their faculties, colleges and jobs ‘for the sake of Islam.’ Many did. The INC sectioned the pass.

Jinnah turned into furious. He puzzled the awareness of any such pass. ‘What are their replacements?’ He asked. ‘where else would the students go, if now not to faculties and colleges?’

Then, Azad and every other prominent member of the Khilafat Committee, Maulana Abdul Bari, declared India as darul harb (a residence of conflict). They endorsed Muslims emigrate to Afghanistan which at the time became being dominated by a Muslim ameer. masses of Muslims (especially from Sindh and former NWFP) offered off their belongings and headed for Afghanistan. maximum have been robbed on the manner, and the rest had been became back by using the ameer. They determined themselves homeless and jobless after they again to India.

The anarchic route that the movement had taken and its violent currents further mutated it whilst, inside the Malabar place, Muslim peasants started to assault Hindu landlords. The rebellion was accompanied via bloody communal riots in Malabar and Multan. The riots had been brutally crushed and Malabar’s Muslim peasant community never absolutely recovered from them.

Then, in 1922, a mob of Hindus and Muslims burned alive 21 policemen (all Indian). The incident passed off within the Chauri-Chaura place. this is while Gandhi pulled the INC out of the motion.

sooner or later, the motion all at once collapsed when Mustafa Kamal, a charismatic secular-nationalist widespread in Turkey, ousted ecu forces from a whole lot of Turkey and abolished the Ottoman caliphate.

via the give up of all of it, the INC changed into weakened; the League was significantly fragmented; and thousands of Muslims had been out of tutorial institutions and jobs. big sections of the Hindu and Muslim groups had been radicalised. This eventually gave start to militant clothing which includes the Majlis-i-Ahrar-i-Islam and the Hindu Shuddhi motion, whose sole cause become to transform Muslims and Christians to Hinduism. The influence of the Hindu nationalist outfit, the Hindu Mahasabha, additionally strengthened. The apolitical but deeply ritualistic and conservative Tableeghi Jamaat and, later, the quasi-fascist, Khaksar motion, additionally emerged from the fragments of the fallen motion.

Jinnah’s caution and function have been vindicated. however the way of life of politics accomplished at the impulse and emotion of the senseless mob had been hooked up in the region.

British tech champion ARM's sale to Japan's SoftBank wins shareholder nod

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Shareholders in British generation agency ARM accepted its sale to Japan's SoftBank on Tuesday, marking the give up of independence for the chip dressmaker that powered the cellphone revolution.

SoftBank swooped at the Apple supplier in July, agreeing to pay $32 billion in coins for a enterprise that it hopes will continue to be at the vanguard of digital innovation.

ARM stated that more than ninety five percentage of the votes cast on Tuesday authorised the takeover.

looking for to win political backing and clean the route for the deal, the japanese organisation's charismatic chief Masayoshi Son spoke to British prime Minister Theresa may additionally quickly before the deal turned into introduced to allay issues that it might be bad for the British era area.

SoftBank, which is paying a forty three percent top class, has promised to as a minimum double ARM's staff in Britain over the following 5 years, preserve its headquarters in Cambridge and preserve its partnership-based enterprise version and tradition.

The commitments will be the first test of recent takeover rules that make such pledges binding. The rules were delivered after Pfizer attempted to shop for Britain's AstraZeneca in 2014.

ARM Chairman Stuart Chambers stated that SoftBank's guarantees on jobs and investment had been criminal commitments, now not simply “fine thoughts and promises and intents”.

“if you study the publish-offer undertakings that SoftBank has made, they may be extremely sturdy, they are without a doubt unparalleled,” he advised Reuters after Tuesday's shareholder assembly in London.

leader govt Simon Segars, who will stay with the employer, stated that SoftBank shared ARM's lengthy-term view on investment, consisting of maintaining and growing the engineers who were critical to ARM's achievement.


“This represents an exciting new bankruptcy for ARM, and an capability to really grow and do the whole lot we had been doing and do more and do it quicker.”

some remained unconvinced, but.

Paul Myners, a former British economic offerings minister, said the sale become more evidence of the city's predilection to “sell at an inexpensive premium, get out, do not invest for the future, do not back the British economy”.

“that is a business this is at the heart of the surroundings of present day era, the net of things, a place in which we lead,” he advised BBC radio on Tuesday, including that it'd not had been viable to sell ARM in 60 days had it been an American, German, French or jap business enterprise.