Amman ki Aasha: Rotary Club's Pakistan cricket team expelled from India 'during match'

While an initiative is at hand by two leading newspapers of Pakistan and India with a hope to bring peace between the two countries, it seems at official level nothing has changed.

Readers may be surprised to know that a Rotary Club of Pakistan cricket team was intervened by the Indian CIA staff while they were playing the match in Mumbai on the plea that  the team had a wrong visa.

The Express Tribune reports that The Indian CIA team reached the cricket ground where Pakistan was playing against India in the Wapi area of Mumbai and found that the Pakistani team was carrying a visa for Daman, an area of Mumbai adjacent to Wapi, and thus ordered the expulsion of the team.

The Pakistan Rotary Club team was later sent back to Pakistan.

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Bonn conference not to produce any magic: Musharraf

[ Pakistan Today ] 4 Dec

While there is much uproar of Pakistan's decision not to attend the Bonn conference on Afghanistan as a consequence to deadly NATO attack on Pakistan's military check-posts, leaving 24 soldiers dead, the former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf says that the Bonn Conference will not produce any magical results that could solve the Afghanistan issue. 

Expressing his views in a television interview he said that no one knows who is leading the Taliban and who holds sway over them. 

“Who is the real commander of Taliban? This is an important question. Mullah Umer or Gulbadin Hikmatyar or Haqqani? So who should be talked to? ”

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