Lahore

Mardan is the third player who has played in Pakistan.

First was Yunus Khan, who was born in Mardan, but grew up in Karachi and played from Karachi and made his debut from Karachi another one was Fakhar Zaman who was born and played from Mardan and debuted from Mardan now he's technically and originally from Deer which is very remote area of northern province but he lives in Mardan he went back to Mardan and was called back Now, while he was traveling back to Lahore to NCA to report to that made-in-call squad for the team, he was told to be ready for the Asian Games.

He came back thinking that he was going to play T20.

He came to Lahore and found out that he had to go to England to play Test cricket.

So, how can a player be ready? Now, I hold Baba responsible for the decision that he took this morning.

Although comms says that no, he was right.

Uh, what is interesting now, um, for me, and I think I'll, um, you know, sort of conclude with this, is that, uh, Kyrgyzstan hosted this year's summit, right? But next year, Pakistan takes over the SCO presidency.

Uh, Lahore has also been designated as sort of the SCO tourism and cultural capital.

But obviously, this raises the question that, will the Indian leader, will Prime Minister Modi, travel to Pakistan for the 2027 summit? Now, India could send, you know, a representative, uh, from another ministry.

It could maybe send external affairs minister.

We could also participate virtually if the arrangements are permitted.

Hmm.

Or obviously, if Prime Minister Modi does decide to travel, that will be big, right? Because we might have a bilateral meeting on the side, and it would be his first visit to Pakistan since his Lahore stopover, I think, in 2015.

So that would... that alone, I think, would be read as some sort of political opening and provide scope for that.

winning a series.

And the streets of Lahore were flooded with fans who were rejoicing in India's time.

So amongst fans, I think what you mentioned that you admired Pakistanis or Indians or Australians or English players.

I mean, that is spectatorship.

More than 50 people were killed and over 260 wounded.

In March 2009, gunmen attacked Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore, wounding players and killing police officers and civilians.

International cricket largely left Pakistan for years.

It was difficult to claim the militants were defending Pakistani society when they had reached the stage of trying to assassinate cricket.

This is a country where attacking cricket is less a political strategy than cancelling Eid, oxygen and everyone's mother at the same time.

In May 2010, coordinated attacks on two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore killed 94 worshippers.

That July, suicide bombers hit Data Darbar, the city's great Sufi shrine, killing more than 40.

The targets of Pakistani militants now included hotels, police, politicians, minority Muslims, Sufis, markets and anyone whose interpretation of Islam differed from the person holding the detonator.

To the manager and the coach, if ever you've got a proven goal scorer, doesn't matter what age they are, bung them on the team because you never know when you're going to need that 42-year-old to stick up and bop her head on it into the back of the net.

From the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore, Sunday 28th April 1946.

Derby County win FA Cup final.

100,000 people watch thrilling encounter.

This can now be outsourced to experts living anywhere in the world, and politicians who don't grasp this opportunity quickly will soon look like dinosaurs wandering around Portcullis House, feeling themselves moaning about the farmer's tax.

The aides will continue to waste their time trying to book regional radio appearances, while their competitors pay some bright spark in Lahore, £1,000 to reach 40 million people.

Those who fail to adapt will find their profiles and their careers slipping away, one zero view video at a time.

That was John Power.

And so literally...

the state of Punjab was cut into half and suddenly Lahore that was part of Punjab became part of Pakistan and and Amritsar where the golden temple is became India and so you had families torn apart and you hear a lot of stories of partition we call it partition and everybody knows what we're talking about it's the partition of India And millions were, it was the largest human migration brought about by colonial powers.

And so when we were divided, we talk a lot about the Punjabi division rather than of the Bengal division.

I come from Bengal, so I know a lot about that and what happened.