Skandakumar, SL High Commissioner for NZ & Australia, emulates the Chappells’ underarm bowling act at a Maori ceremony, thereby underlining New Zealand’s superior sports ethics vis a vis the Aussies
Pic dated 17 August 1947 from www.bbc.com = The search for Jinnah’s vision of PakistanJinnah passed away just a year after Pakistan’s creation. And ever since his death, the country’s state, various governments, and the moderate, liberal, and conservative intelligentsia have been locked in continuous battle over the question of the country’s raison d’être and ideological composition. According to moderates and liberals, Jinnah envisioned Pakistan as a project to conceive and initiate an entirely modernistic, flexible and pluralistic strand of Islam, which could then go on to inspire the rest of the Muslim world. On the other hand, conservative and religious intelligentsia insists that Pakistan was created as a jumping pad to launch a theological state. They maintain that this was to be done through legislation from above and evangelical activity from below, which would then shape a ‘unique’ Islamic state for the Muslim Ummah.
