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A message of 28 May, 2014 even more relevant today on 28 May, 2016.

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

AoA.

Today, we all Pakistanis thank and bow our head before Allah, for His Blessings, in making this country a nuclear power, which came into being in the name of Allah.

The entire nation is also grateful to Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and all those who (then) advised him wisely, for nuclear detonations on 28 May, 1998, which was also an announcement to the world that Pakistan was a declared nuclear power.

Sir, leaving aside the fact that Pakistan is a nuclear power and that this fact did help in restraining our main adversary India, from its planned aggression against Pakistan, on many occasions in the past, the realty remains that the balance of power is gradually tilting towards India, due to its unbridled spendings on defence, which currently has almost crossed the $40 billion mark. And very soon it may touch $60 billion, which amount is half of the Chinese spendings on defence.

Although, Indian economy is no match to the Chinese economy, which has exports of over $200 billion per month against the Indian exports of around $200 billion per annum.

The main thrust of Indian defence in future, looks like to be in gaining complete ascendancy over Pakistan, in the fields of anti-missile shield and nuclear submarines; notwithstanding, the fact that even if Pakistan can’t fire a single nuclear weapon towards India; and if they are able to make a first nuclear strike against Pakistan, the proximity of the two countries, will render India badly vulnerable, to the deadly nuclear radiation, over its own population and land. At least between India and Pakistan, a nuclear war is a mutually assured destruction (MAD).

However, to stop any nuclear showdown, India along with the whole world, must know absolutely clearly, our threshold and red line, beyond which MAD will be the only naked reality and fate of this world.

Whether, its war or peace, Pakistan can’t remain oblivious of its responsibilities, in moving forward with the time, in the fields of nuclear science and technology.

However, Pakistan must not make this fatal mistake of thinking that just being a nuclear power of some sorts, this situation is going to be a deterrent of war and guarantee for peace, in future.

Past was past and now its a changed world on 28 May, 2014; 16 years after 28 May, 1998. As such, Pakistan must, repeat must, move towards developing thermonuclear (Hydrogen bombs) and Neutron bombs (which don’t destroy the structure of buildings but its radiation kills all the life).

It is said that India already possesses the Hydrogen bomb, which is on an average 100 times more lethal than an atom bomb.

So to say that India and Pakistan have parity of nuclear weapons, is a very dangerous false sense of security, for the Pakistani strategic planners.

Pakistan must also have strategic planning for acquiring and developing the missile shield and the nuclear submarines, along with raising at least 2 more strike corps.

In fact, we should also start conceptual planning and R&D, on Star Wars possibilities in the future.

Sir, the secret of the success is to remain a step ahead of our competitors. Moreover, the statecraft, preparation for war and readiness is ordained to Muslims by Allah in the Holy Quran, where Muslims are required that they must keep their horses READY and FIGHTING FIT, and to the enemies of Muslims, their 20 horses will look 200.

Mr. Prime Minister, during your recent sojourn to India, you must be knowing very well the reasons for the importance and focus given to you over the other SAARC leaders, As they say, weakness invites contempt and aggression. Whereas, strength and power, breeds respect and peace.

As such, please don’t take my above suggestions as war mongering.

Pakistan needs peace not war, for its development and growth. But alas..! a Pakistan weaker than the strongest of its neighbour, will never be in peace, which is the biggest ground reality.

Sir, I also take this opportunity to bring to your kind notice that within 24 hours of the BJP government taking over the reigns of the government in Delhi, one of its minister has spoken about abolition of the article 370 from the constitution, which stipulates a special status for Kashmir. Moreover, the extremist Hindus have also started a campaign to stop Muslims from the FAJR AAZAN.

Last but not the least, a great statesman is not the person who wages the war and wins it. The greatest statesman is he, who achieves his objectives, without waging a war. But then there is always a limit to the extent a weak party can go.

Here, I will again quote the famous words of the Shaheed Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto, when he told Henry Kissinger that “If you spit and ask me to clean it I will clean it. However, if you spit and and ask me to lick it, I will never do that”.

With best wishes and highest regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

Subject: An urgent proposal to the Prime Minister
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

AoA.

A Watt saved is a Watt produced and the cost of installing 1MW powerhouse is approximately PKR 1 billion. We can save a minimum of 1000 MW per day, if countrywide all markets and offices are very strictly closed at 6 PM, along-with all TV and Cable TV is also shut down at 9 PM.

Extraordinary problems needs extraordinary solutions.

The above proposal will also give peaceful load shedding free nights to the teeming millions during the long hot and humid summer season, who can’t afford UPS, generators or solar power systems.

Hope your government will swiftly act to implement (even if issuance of an ordinance is required) the above proposals in the larger public interest, without fearing any backlash of the vested interests.

With kind regards and best wishes,
Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Lahore.
31 May, 2014

Thank you America..!

America informs Pakistan that US can’t fund for F-16’s.

Sir, what is the guarantee that if Pakistan pays for its F-16’s, its money and the planes will NOT be confiscated by the US; and over and above that the US will NOT demand the storage charges of these planes from Pakistan, a Non-NATO ally?

US is now punishing Pakistan for allowing free use of the airspace to the 49 member NATO forces, worth over$250 billion, for 15 years of War on Terror in Afghanistan.

Yes, a nation like Cuba, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, China and Iran can survive by not being a friend of the US, but it is well neigh impossible, to be a friend of the US, and survive.

Now once for all Pakistan must seriously ponder that after giving so many sacrifices (in men and material detailed as below, for the friendship and the cause of America, are the Americans worthy of Pakistan’s friendship:
1. Pakistan as a non-NATO ally, played it’s more than due part, in making the US a sole super power, was ditched (after becoming the sole super power) by America, to live and sort out with all those people or Hydras (Hydra story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow one or multiple heads), who were created, raised and armed by the US, (this fact is on record to have been openly admitted by Ms Hillary Clinton) to defeat the invading forces of the USSR in Afghanistan.

2. It should also be appreciated that in the 9/11 episode, no Pakistani was involved; and if US agencies had been vigilant enough in the first place, the twin towers and Pentagon, would never have been attacked.

3. Pakistan as a non-NATO ally, whole heartedly participated in US imposed Afghanistan war, along with around 50 other countries.
However, it is a different story that Pakistan suffered more than 10 times more men and material losses (and still continues to suffer) than the combined losses of all the about 50 NATO countries, which took part in US imposed Afghanistan war. And quite surprisingly, the US still expect from us to do more.

3. On the the other side, no one from the West, even offered support to Pakistan, for righting-off, of its foreign loans, or allowing without any preconditions, Pakistani products for sale, in their own markets.

4. During US imposed Afghan war, US president visited Afghanistan more than once.
However, they decided never to visit Pakistan, which was so much staunch non-NATO ally that it didn’t even charge a single penny, from the USA, for use of Pakistani air space. Whereas, America offered $20 billion to Turkey, for use of its airspace, during the Iraq war.

5. The Pakistani, is still fighting the full might of Hydra, which is not even sparing our school kids and young students, for being an American non-NATO ally.
Although, most of the NATO countries have left Afghanistan yet, for Pakistan, the 15 years old war against terror, is continuing unabatedly.

6. Under the circumstances, how much prudent and appropriate it would have been for the US, to repay the services of its most staunch friend (since, Korean war and CENTO/SEATO era), which was blown to smithereens, during US imposed Afghan war, by asking the Afghanistan’s government to DO MORE and to hand over to Pakistan, the terrorist master minds taking refuge in Afghanistan, where some US forces are still present.

7. Moreover, even more appropriate action from the US, would have been to demand from India, to immediately stop acts of terrorism against America’s most friendly and ally country (whose soldier gave ultimate sacrifice to save the lives of American soldiers captured by the rebels in the Somalian city of Mogadishu) through India’s old policy of sponsoring mercenaries to destabilise Pakistan; which doesn’t need any proof.
Because firstly, Indian PM Mr. Narendra Modi, himself, proudly admitted Indian role in the dismemberment of Pakistan; and secondly, its National Security Advisor Mr. Ajit Doval, openly confessed sponsoring TTP mercenaries in Pakistan, for defensive offensive operations.

8. Just to refresh the memory, it is hoped that America will never forget the following acts of Pakistan, which no other country has done, as a friend of the United States:

a). Allowed U-2 planes to use our airspace and airport for flights over the USSR.

b). Allowed U-2 planes to use our airspace and airport in East Pakistan, for flights over China.

c). Pakistani efforts in bringing your country closer to China.

d). Pakistani security forces risked their lives to save the lives of Americans, in the burning US embassy in Islamabad.

Americans must remember that InshaAllah, Pakistan will more than adequately manage its security issues without F-16’s, but the US will badly miss the help and assistance of Pakistan in the years to come.

Party has not finished, rather it has just begun.

Respected Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Sahab,
اسلام و علیکم
Sir,

The subject mentioned article is submitted for your personal kind perusal and is based on an old maxim quoted as below:

“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton”.
(i) The British were given to believe the real reason which tipped the balance in their favour in wars was the superior character of its young men built in boarding schools while playing games like cricket.

(ii) Eton was one of the famous English boarding schools that trained English boys for careers in the military, civil service and the church. (DAANISH Schools of the Punjab Government are a great example of a visionary project to turn around the fortunes of the future generations of Pakistan).

(iii) Famous public schools saw team sports like cricket not just as outdoor play, but as an organised way of teaching English boys, the discipline, the importance of hierarchy, the skills, the codes of honour and the leadership qualities that helped them build and run the British Empire.

(iv) Through the game of cricket-the ideal that cricket was played not for victory or profit but for its own sake, in the spirit of fair play, the British imperialists sought to justify their conquests and glorify the self image of English elite as “unselfish acts”.

(v) Though it suited the English ruling class to believe that it was the superior character of its young men built on playing fields that tipped the balance, the Napoleanic wars were won due to the economic resources of England. It was progress in trade and industry which made England, the world’s greatest power.

As such, a humble effort is made with the subject mentioned article reproduced below, to raise this nation’s full economic potential in trade and industry, through a physically super-fit Pakistani population, which must collectively believe in the saying “healthy body healthy mind’.

Last but not the least, we have to consider the 200 million population of Pakistan, as a huge manpower asset of this planet, which needs to channelise its positive energy into specific future goals, set by the nation’s visionary leadership. The national leadership must also determine, how to achieve these goals.

ARTICLE.

It is no secret that how politics coupled with corruption, has spoiled the sports in the country, which has earned the DUBIOUS distinction of the worlds BIGGEST nation, NOT to have earned a single medal in the Olympics, since the year 1994. While, much smaller and poorer countries like Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Kenya, have proved that winning medals at international level is just a matter of commitment, dedication and simple hard work, sans politics.

In the past, luckily our cricket, hockey, squash and some other sporting teams and players have been bringing laurels for Pakistan; with very little money, extremely small size governing boards and minimal politics.

Gradually, the foundations of key sports in Pakistan were eaten up by the greed of money, rampant corruption, nepotism, politics and incompetencies of the successive governments, sports managers and the players combined.

If, we have to put the sports in Pakistan back on the right track, two basic things are necessary.

Firstly, a vision and secondly, visionary and totally focused sports leadership, to put Pakistan back on top, at the worlds’ sports map.

As far as, the vision is concerned, nothing ever said about sports can match the following quote of Mr. Nelson Mandela, “Sport has the power to change the world…it has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than government in breaking down racial barriers.”

Now, taking a cue from the above mentioned statement of Mr. Nelson Mandela, it is suggested that Pakistani government should slightly re-phrase it and declare the following as its VISION statement:

“Sports has the power to change Pakistan…it has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite Pakistani people in a way that little else does. It speaks to the Pakistani youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope for the entire Pakistani nation, where once there was only despair, lawlessness, hunger, unemployment, poverty, drugs, suicide bombings and alarming increase of suicides due to the economic hardships. It is more powerful than government in breaking down the menace of terrorism which has blown the country to the smithereens.”

Moreover, sports raised in the country on modern and scientific lines can be one of the biggest economic sector; providing employment, reducing poverty and drastically improving public health and fitness levels.

Under an sports advisor to the Prime Minister, we need to have a Pakistan Sports Commission (PSC) responsible for central planning under the banner میرا پاکستان sports system.

Under the this system, Pakistan will root out talented young children and put them in special academies from as young as four years old. If they are able to progress, athletes who make the cut should be put into a relentless training programme, filled with targets they must regularly hit, and paid by the government a monthly wage of Rs.60,000/-

Each year, the best athletes should then be sent to national training centres to be established at all the provincial capitals, where they will compete to enter Pakistan’s national team.

If they will succeed, they will move with their families into these training centres and live there all year round. These centres will train the sportspersons having the following mission statement:

“There will be no breakthrough without the hardest hardship. You cannot be a champion without going through the ultimate pressure”.

For as long as they will be successful, the national team members will benefit from perks including air tickets for their parents to watch them compete and, in some cases, sponsorship deals.

Sportspersons who will win medals in international competitions, or with national titles, can attend university after their career ends, with the tuition fee paid for, by the government.

The Pakistan Sports Commission (PSC) should have three units under the Advisor on Sports to the PM, namely the administrative departments, sport competition management centres, and other support and services institutions.

The PSC will be closely tied with All Sports Federations of Pakistan and the Pakistan Olympic Committee (POA). Besides forming strategies for sport development, overseeing their implementation, and developing mid- and long-range sport development plans, the PSC will be responsible for 9 number of functions as detailed below:

1. Creating a national sport framework

2. Promoting physical activity and exercise participation in schools and local and regional communities

3. Organising national sporting events

4. Organising international sport events in Pakistan.

5. Enforcing antidrug and anticompetitive measures.

6. Supporting research into the development of sports.

7. Implementing regulations governing the sport industry, sport market, and sport-related business activities.

8. Implementing national physical training standards and supervising public health in coordination with the Ministry of Health.

9. Overseeing sport activities with foreign associations and teams, and sport-related cooperation and communication with foreign countries.
To fulfill the nation’s Olympic strategies and ambition, the PSC and sport authorities at the provincial level will play a key role in promoting sport development in Pakistan.

One of the strategies should be the sponsorship of the Pakistan National Games (PNG), modelled after the modern Olympic Games; the PNG will be the largest and most important sport extravaganza in Pakistan. Each province-level administrative unit should send a team to compete in the PNG. The preparation for and competition at the PNG will allow the government to cultivate elite Pakistani athletes for major world competitions.

The essence of Pakistani Olympic strategies and ambition will be a unique system of selecting and training elite athletes.

Pakistan will become one of the few countries in the world that dedicate and use spare-time sport schools extensively to train and prepare future elite athletes. A spare-time sport school will be a boarding school specialized in sport and established to train Olympic hopefuls. Students will be selected for their athletic talent. They will take academic classes in the morning and engage in rigorous sport training sessions in the afternoon. These sport schools will serve as a reserve pool for elite sport teams at the provincial and national levels.

The Sports Law of Pakistan should became effective within six months of the formation of the PSC, becoming the first fundamental legal document for sport.

The Sports Law will establish the main tasks and key principles in managing the sport industry, confirming the importance of mass sport, and identifying the duties and responsibilities of sport-related organizations.

Essentially, the law will set the framework for the development of modern sport in Pakistan. The enactment of the law will signify that the sport industry in Pakistan has entered a new era under the protection of the country’s legal system.

Based on the Sports Law, local governments at provincial and city levels will have the right and authority to make their own rules for managing sport within their jurisdictions.

The Plan for Olympic Glories should also be released by the PSC within six months of its formation. The plan should outline three goals:

(a) restructuring the system in elite sport training and management.

(b) enhancing the elite athlete delivery pipeline and system (including sport schools).

(c) endeavours to maintain the nation’s leading position in world sport competitions.

The PSC should also promulgate the guidelines for a national fitness program. The guidelines should be drafted with the aim of improving the health and the overall physical condition of the general population.

The guidelines will encourage everyone, especially children and adolescence, to engage in at least one sporting activity every day, learn at least two ways of keeping fit, and have a health examination every year.

The aim will be that by 2020 about 40 percent of Pakistan’s population would be regularly participating in physical activity and that clear improvement would take place in the physical fitness level of Pakistani citizens.

In this modern era sports needs professionalisation which will lead to commercialisation; this means that sports associations become profit-making entities and that there will be a club system and professional sports leagues will also be formed. Sports clubs operations will cover ticket sales, advertising, club transfers, commercial matches, and television broadcasting.

This will open for world wide sports playing and related job opportunities for Pakistani sportspersons.

Best Regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

All forex accounts exempt from scrutiny, Senate panel told..http://tribune.com.pk/story/1093337/all-forex-accounts-exempt-from-scrutiny-senate-panel-told/#comment-4696201
The stance of SBP director and the lawyer reported in your news (Express Tribune) of April 28, 2016 is NOT correct.
The law was amended on 19 December 1999 and immunity to probe was withdrawn.
SBP issued Circular 30 of 2000 as well to this effect. Now they are pleading ignorance.
Section 5 of protection of Economic Reforms Act, 1992 was amended in 1999 and outward remittances were restricted.https://t.co/pDFRxgF0oM.
“Provided that such immunity shall not be available to citizens of Pakistan residing in Pakistan and to firms, companies and other bodies registered or incorporated in Pakistan in respect of any new foreign currency account opened ordeposits created on or after the 16th day of December, 1999 or to any incremental
deposits thereafter in an existing foreign currency account”–https://t.co/XuxoxIFIs8

@AAliZardari @cm_qaimalishah                                    ARY reports today that the death toll due to famine & diseases, of kids in Thar area in 2016, has reached the figure of 233.

How you, your party’s & your Sindh govt’s leadership sleeps in the midst of an on going human tragedy?

Can the dereliction of duties resulting in such a huge death toll in just 112 days of 2016, be called a crime of genocide/act of terror, liable to be tried in a military court?

Can any PPP leader inform that the kids of Tharparkar are not the citizens of Pakistan and are they responsibility of some other country?

Why can’t the Sindh government protect the lives of its subjects, who are killed in this particular area, regularly year after year after year?

Why not in these days of famine and draught, the capital of Sindh province should be shifted to Mitthi in Tharparker, where CM, ministers and entire government officials, must stay put in tents?

 

 

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

Sir,

In line with your governments openly declared hall mark policy about across the board accountability, an independent joint audit (private audit firm+FIA+NAB+Headed by the Auditor General of Pakistan) of PCB should be held, where one PSL’s dinner in Lahore at Expo Center, cost around Rs.4 Crore; and later on, PCB Board of Governors (BOG) approved this huge expense on just one dinner, without any objections, for which entire BOG members of the PCB are collectively responsible.

Moreover, former renowned Test cricketer Mr.Sarfraz Nawaz’s reported open statements over media, about a top PCB functionary, getting in Delhi, Rs.40 & Rs.6 crores respectively, on fixing (losing) the matches of ODI World Cup 2015, vs Indian and West Indian cricket teams (played in Australia) needs full INVESTIGATION & ACCOUNTABILITY, with the help of IB and the ISI.

Furthermore, PMLN’s Senator Mr. Mushahid Ullah Khan also openly aired his opinion, in a recent TV program that an inquiry should be conducted, about the way our team played and lost T20 world cup matches vs Indian and the New Zealand’s team in India, which also needs investigation by the IB and the ISI, as selling of motherland is the highest degree of treason, punishment for which should be death from a firing squad, as per the opinion of great West Indian legendary cricketer, Sir Vivian Richards.

Accountability of the CONCERNED is also needed in the PCB for auction of the media rights in 2015 (for 8 years period till 2023) at almost the same or even less amount, at which the media rights were auctioned by the PCB, in 2008.

An immediate high powered audit is also required about the reported approximate expense of Rs.90 Crores, incurred on arranging the PSL; and till finalisation of the audit, the concerned top notches of the PCB, may be advised to not to leave the country, on any pretext.

Sir, I am fully confident that if you issue necessary orders for the implementation of the above necessary audits of the PCB, your image, reputation and prestige will rise to the sky.

With Best Wishes Kind Regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

Vivian Richards writes in his book “VIV RICHARDS” and gives his opinion on match fixing and its punishment at page 219, quoted as below:

“The problem needs to be taken more seriously and be throughly investigated.
Anyone caught and proved beyond doubt to be involved in match-fixing should be given the maximum punishment, both within the game and under the laws of the country in which it happens.
In my view, it’s a kind of treason, selling your country out.
At one time that would have meant being put in front of a firing squad.
How can anyone sell out his or her country for a few bucks? It is beyond my comprehension.”

All Pakistani cricket teams matches of T20 World Cups of 2014 and 2016 and ODI World Cup matches of 2011 and 2015 must be investigated by a joint investigation team of the ISI and the IB.

 

Pakistani cricketers always bear the burden of representing the image and the hopes of millions of their fans. Their on and off the field behaviours, have a social and political significance, that goes well beyond the field and enters into the homes of all the citizens as well as, into the most powerful institutions. The victory in a world cup ODI or a T20 contest, can move nearly all sections of the Pakistani nation, in an incomparable manner.

Thus, for the ordinary Pakistani cricket fan, PCB is not just an organisation; rather, it is a mini Pakistan (and its chairman a mini Prime Minister) and looked upon like the institution of the Pakistani armed forces, where they can’t imagine, any compromise shall be made, on the image and reputation of the country; and where rather than lowering the national flag and pride, our sons sacrifice their lives.

Hence, the PCB and not the players…. needs a turn around..!

We should not be so naive to expect production of a Mercedes car from the manufacturing plant of a motorcycle.

Moreover, as Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” As such, we must not expect miracles by sending players to army institutions, for some rigorous training. If that was the case, why armed forces sports teams world over and in Pakistan, are NOT the number one teams, in all the sports they participate?

Nowadays, like the management, sports is a science and the role of the amateur handlers is over. Only QUALIFIED professionals can train sportsmen, for producing world beaters.

Until and unless, PCB itself is turned upside down, our cricketing standards will keep on sliding into the abyss. The culture of taking work from the qualified professionals can NOT be handed over to the existing SENIOR staff of the PCB, who can’t even develop a multi-media presentation. Everyone knows how many managers and above, in the PCB, can truly handle the computers, beyond the emails reading?
It is suggested that PCB must be totally revamped (with a vision statement of BETTER THAN THE BEST) from the top to the bottom, to make it function like a top class world level organisation, with zero tolerance for old amateurish and bureaucratic style of working, which breeds intellectual, moral and financial corruption, nepotism and favouritism, in each and every sphere of its operations. Right now, PCB has become the last and final resting place of the great nincompoops of Pakistan.
However, the greatest harm the PCB is doing to the nation is that it is being run on a system, which is doing double damage; in the shape of production of mediocre run of the mill players; and at the same time, talented players (like Awais Zia) are facing hurdles, in coming into the lime light.

If the PCB wants to survive in the fast changing world of competition, it must change its old habits and rebuild itself, inside out. PCB must know that a professional organisation is “of and for professional people”.

For the inside out rebuilding, the PCB must come out in a crystal clear manner that “how it want to be thought of” and then consider every thing that the PCB “say and do.”

Every PCB department must also be converted into a “cost center” responsible for its revenues and expenses.

Side by side, the PCB must also shun its CULTURE of politics and self serving policies. This is absolutely necessary, because culture of an organisation is the environment under which all it’s employes perform their duties. What is needed by the PCB is to create a culture of team work, which stimulates the employees for working with absolute honesty and recognises and rewards employee efforts and permeates the entire organisation.

While chaos, politics and leg pulling is rampant in the rank and file employees of the PCB, how it can be expected to produce players, who will not be equally, if not more, afflicted by these malaise? As they say in the IT jargon, garbage in garbage out, or output can not be more than the input.

However, the top notches of the government and the PCB, must know very clearly that the PCB can not be turned out into a first class world level organisation, by just transfers, postings, change of designations, hiring or firing of employees.

In fact, such steps breeds even more discontent and ill will, among the employees and the general masses.

To achieve the desired results, PCB needs a total and complete overhaul, disregarding any political or other pressures for serving any vested interest(s), examples of which (running the organisation on an absolutely 100% merit basis) can be seen in many Pakistani organisations like LUMS, SKMCH & RC, IBA, NUST and the GIK etc.

Till such time, the PCB itself is turned into a center of excellence, it can’t produce a bunch of players, who can be the world beaters, on a consistent level.

In any team game, a team do not need champions like Don Bradman or David Beckham to be the world beaters. But, greats like Don Bradman and David Beckham in any team, can not excel, without the cooperation of other team members.

For our players to consistently excel at the international arena, PCB coaches need to repeatedly hammer into the minds of the players, the following famous quote of Aristotle.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”

Now, world over competitive sports is not considered just a past time hobby or entertainment and fitness activity. Rather, sports activities are considered and handled as a science. As such, the PCB must shun business as usual, decades old approach.

Moreover, the PCB think tank must “PLAN FOR SUCCESS” with clear and measurable objectives.

The PCB must also not forget that the world’s best and most expensive coaches are NOT the recipe for the success. If this notion was true, rich countries like the USA and the Saudi Arabia, would have been the world champions, in many sports like football etc.

The recipe for success mostly lies in the smooth working of a well defined system, lead for which must come from none other than the PCB chairman.
Gone are the old decadent ways of assembling players for a camp, just before the tour to show their fitness and playing abilities. It must be the specified duty of the think tank and the selectors to devise a plan to monitor 24/7 the health, eating habits, general behaviour and performance of the CONTRACTED players, in a scientific manner. These contracted players must not be allowed to have a free reign, even during the off days, as they are almost like paid employees of the PCB.

Moreover, the FINE TUNING and grooming of the marked pool of all the talented and upcoming players (non-contracted) should be the SPECIFIC responsibility of the NCA staff, who must constantly produce, highest calibre five players, for each position of the game, both for the men and the ladies teams.

As such, rather than hiring a foreign coach for the national team, we need to hire an experienced and QUALIFIED foreign expert, who has the experience of running the sports academy on professional lines, may be from Australia. This expert should be assigned the task to turn NCA, into a center of excellence, second to none in the world.
It will not be out of place to conclude, by mentioning the quotes of the three famous sports coaches, for the motivation of our players, who are under tremendous pressure to perform on a consistent level.

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
– Vince Lombardi

“When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.”
– Pat Riley

I’ve never played for a draw in my life.

Alex Ferguson

In England, it’s a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it’s much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

Alex Ferguson

I’m going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don’t fly. They’re the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over – so it’s teamwork.

Alex Ferguson

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

Alex Ferguson

 

 

1. If we can lose 2 matches with Shahzad and Umar Akmal there is no risk dropping them from the team for match against Australia.

2. We must not only have to win against Australia but badly need to win with a huge margin. As such, there must radical changes in the team selection and batting order.

3. In the match against Australia, we need power hitters and also these power hitters must come higher in the order to bat fearlessly; not like the timid way Ahmad Shahzad & Umar Akmal batted vs NZ.

4. As a changed tactic, one regular power hitter batsman must also come low down the order, to score maximum possible runs during the last five 16-20 overs.

Proposed team with batting order against the match vs the Australian team:
1) Sharjeel Khan
2) M Hafeez
3) S Afridi
4) Sarfraz Ahmad
5) Shoaib Malik
6) Khalid Latif (power hitter)
7) Imad Waseem
8) Nawaz
9) M Sami
10) Wahab Riaz
11) M Amir