Pakistan's World Cup Squad

Pakistan's Squad for World Cup..

Muhammad Hafeez
Kamran Akmal
Ahmed Shehzad
Asad Shafiq
Younis Khan
Misbah-ul-Haq
Umar Akmal
Shahid Afridi
Abdul Razzaq
Sohail Tanvir
Wahab Riaz
Umar Gull
Shoaib Akhtar
Abdur Rehman
Saeed Amjal

The Share of one's own Life.

It was the seaside somewhere in the United Kingdom. A man woke up early in the morning and went out for a walk. The weather was really good. The sun was about to rise and that morning blueness was making everything look pretty. The man kept on walking and after few yards saw a young boy who was bending down, picking something up and throwing it in the sea. Looking curiously the man went near the boy. He saw that there were many starfishes on the sand which were pushed on the shore by the sea waves over the course of night. The water was moving back going and the starfishes would probably die within a few minutes. That boy was efficiently picking up the fishes one by one and throwing them into the sea water again. The man stood there, watched for a couple of minutes and said to the boy;

' Dear boy, there are thousands of fishes here, your little help will not be enough to save them all'.

The boy smiled, picked up another star fish, threw it into the water and replied.

'Sir you are right, but my little help made a difference to this fish. It got a new life, the more lives I save the more difference I will make'. 

Dr. Abdus Salam, Jewel of Pakistan.

It was second world war when the Punjab government imposed 'War tax' on the people. The tax was collected from them and passed to the British government who used it for the care taking of the army. The tax abolished with the end of second World War in 1945 but the Punjab government still had a few lakh rupees of collected tax in their account.

Malik Khizar Hayat Tawana was the Chief Minister of Punjab at that time and he had two choices, either pass the money to the British government or donate it to some other fund of the government. He hit upon an interesting plan and announced that he will send 4 most intelligent students of Punjab for higher studies to UK. Four students were selected and sent to London. In these 4 studens there was one whose father was a low ranked officer in the Dept. Of Education, District Jhang and could never have dreamt of higher studies. He had passed matric in 1940 with record numbers and did his masters from Govt. College Lahore in 1946. He went to London on the expenses of Punjab Government and later on Won a noble prize in Physics. This is the First and Only noble prize of Pakistan and the name of Student was Dr. Abdus Salam.

Note: Dr. Abdus Salam was a 'Qadiyani' and couldn't get much appreciation in Pakistan and shifted to Italy later.

IMP: This part was taken from the Article of Javed Chaudhry, the famous Pakistani writer, written on Sunday, January 16, 2011 and translated in English.