Day: August 21, 2021

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Pre-season training camp for white-ball players to commence on Sunday

Lahore, August 21, 2021 (PPI-OT):A pre-season training camp for men’s white-ball players will commence on Sunday at the National High Performance Centre with practice matches to be played at the Gaddafi Stadium.

The camp will be supervised by the NHPC coaching and support staff, led by Head of International Player Development Saqlain Mushtaq.

Twenty-six players will take part in the camp for which the players will start assembling later today. Throughout the camp, the prevalent Covid-19 SOPs will be observed.

During the camp, the players will work on their fitness and cricketing skills with a special emphasis on their preparation for the hectic white-ball international cricket season which begins next month.

White-ball players returning from the West Indies will be asked to join the camp after a few days of rest.

White-ball players to participate in the camp:

Arshad Iqbal (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Danish Aziz (Sindh), Fakhar Zaman (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Haris Rauf (Northern), Hussain Talat (Southern Punjab), Iftikhar Ahmed (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Imad Wasim (Northern), Imam-ul-Haq (Balochistan), Khushdil Shah (Southern Punjab), Mohammad Haris (wicketkeeper)(Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Mohammad Hasnain (Sindh), Mohammad Nawaz (Northern), Mohammad Wasim Jnr (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Salman Ali Agha (Southern Punjab), Shadab Khan (Northern), Sharjeel Khan (Sindh), Sohaib Maqsood (Southern Punjab).

Additional players to help during net sessions and practice matches:

Abrar Ahmed (Sindh), Ahmed Bashir (Central Punjab), Imran Randhawa (Southern Punjab), Mohammad Ilyas (Southern Punjab), Mohammad Imran (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Muhammad Akhlaq (Central Punjab), Raza Ali Dar (Central Punjab), Rohail Nazir (Northern), Zeeshan Ashraf (Southern Punjab).

Camp schedule – first week:

22 August – Scenario-based 50 over practice match

23 August – Fitness and Strength and Conditioning session in the afternoon

24 August – Scenario-based 50 over practice match

25 August – Skill practice session

26 August – Fitness, Strength and Conditioning session in the afternoon

27 August – Scenario-based 50 over practice match

For more information, contact:
Media Manager,
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore 54600, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-5717231-4
Fax: +92-42-5711860
Website: www.pcb.com.pk

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Pakistan Press Foundation remembers journalist Abdul Razzaq Sarbazi on his 8th death anniversary

Karachi, August 21, 2021 (PPI-OT):On this fateful day, eight years ago on August 21, 2013, the body of the missing journalist, Haji Abdul Razzak Sarbazi, was found in Karachi. A copy editor for the Balochi-language newspaper Daily Tawar, Abdul Razzak had been missing from the city since March 24, 2013.

Speaking to Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), Saeeda Sarbazi said her brother never said anything about whether he was receiving threats for his work. Saeeda had identified the body as that of her brother’s by the clothes he was wearing when he went missing and via his feet, as they were the only part of his body that were identifiable.

The corpse was found from the outskirts of Karachi in the remit of the Surjani Town police station. Baloch’s family had alleged despite approaching the police, courts, human rights organizations and the national press, they were unable to find any clue about his whereabouts till August 21.

His sister said that Baloch was a writer and had nothing to do with militancy. The Daily Tawar, whose headquarters are based in Quetta, was a pro-Baloch nationalist newspaper that acts as a voice for secessionist groups in the Balochistan province. The paper was known for its coverage of the many conflicts between these groups and the government.

Eight years later there has been no progress in the case of Baloch’s death. Speaking to PPF, Senior Investigation Officer Surjani Town Police Station said that the case had been marked as a Category-A case which meant that none of the accused had been arrested and the case had been closed until the family of the deceased nominate someone or someone voluntarily confesses to the crime.

Abdul Razzaq’s wife Fareeda told PPF that she was a complainant in the case but whenever she visited the police station, officials asked her to nominate someone else otherwise they would have to close the case. She said her husband had no personal conflicts with anyone. Fareeda said that they were struggling to seek justice and had even protested demanding justice but no one, not the government or organizations had supported them.

Fareeda said they had been warned to step back as the people behind the incident could be influential. President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Shehzada Zulfiqar said that none of the accused had yet been arrested in the case. Zulfiqar said that they always demand justice but the involvement of some influential people restrict authorities from arresting culprits. “This is unfortunate that we still don’t have the right to freedom of expression,” he said.

Karachi Press Club Secretary General Rizwan Bhatti told PPF that Abdul Razzaq wasn’t a member of the press club but they had still demanded authorities for immediate action against the murder and to arrest the culprits. Bhatti said that in many other cases regarding journalists, the accused enjoy impunity.

For more information, contact:
Secretary General,
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)
Press Centre, Shahrah Kamal Ataturk,
Karachi-74200, Pakistan
Tel: +92-21-32628729
Fax: +92-21-32217069
Email: owaisali@pakistanpressfoundation.org
Email: ppf@pakistanpressfoundation.org
Website: www.pakistanpressfoundation.org

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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari strongly condemns terrorist attack on a Chinese cavalcade in Gwadar

Karachi, August 21, 2021 (PPI-OT):Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a Chinese cavalcade in Gwadar resulting in loss of precious human lives. In a statement, the PPP Chairman demanded that the Federal government provide adequate security to Chinese citizens working on different projects across the country.

He said that Federal government must remove Chinese concerns about the protection and safety of their citizens in Pakistan. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also expressed sympathies with the families of those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack, and demanded best possible medical treatment for those wounded in the attack.

For more information, contact:
PPP Media Cell (Sindh)
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)
Peoples Secretariat Shikarpur Colony,
Behind Mazar-e-Quaid-e-Azam, Karachi, Pakistan
Cell: +92-305-3370383
Email: contact@ppp-tu.com
Website: https://www.ppp.org.pk