Shaheen Shah Afridi has been ruled out of the Asia Cup, as well as the seven-match T20I series at home against England in September because of a knee injury.
Pakistan will play against arch-rivals India in the Asia Cup in Dubai on August 28.
Every player of our playing 11 is a match winner. Wishing my team the best of luck for upcoming Asia Cup.
To the fans, keep me in your prayers for my quick recovery. I’ll be back soon Inshallah pic.twitter.com/jW9gGpWWQX
“Shaheen Shah Afridi has been advised 4-6 weeks rest by the PCB Medical Advisory Committee and independent specialists following latest scans and reports. This means Shaheen has been ruled out of the ACC T20 Asia Cup and home series against England, but is expected to return to competitive cricket in October with the New Zealand T20I tri-series, which will be followed by the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Australia 2022,” said Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in a press release.
“Shaheen had suffered a right knee ligament injury while fielding during the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle.” “I have spoken with Shaheen and he is understandably upset with the news, but he is brave young man who has vowed to come back strongly to serve his country and team. Although he has made progress during his rehabilitation in Rotterdam, it is now clear he will require more time and is likely to return to competitive cricket in October,” said PCB Chief Medical Officer Dr Najeebullah Soomro.
Shaheen’s replacement for the ICC T20 Asia Cup is yet to be announced.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday (August 20) proposed the formation of a committee comprising Federal Railways and Aviation Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, and PTI leader Dr Shireen Mazari — to investigate the “torture” of Dr Shahbaz Gill.
“They will also not be blamed for being pro-PTI,” Fawad tweeted.
“These people have a point of view on torture, which is independent of their parties’ narrative […] hence, they should be given the responsibility of inquiring the events,” he said.
میری ذاتی رائے میں خواجہ سعد رفیق، مصطفی نواز کھوکھر اور ڈاکٹر شیریں مزاری پرپینل بنا دیں جو ڈاکٹر شہباز گل پر تشدد کی انکوائری کرے اور ملوث لوگوں کو شناخت کر کے کٹہرے میں لائے، اس ہینل پر یہ الزام بھی نہیں لگ سکتا کہ یہ Pro PTI ہے
The PTI has alleged that Gill was tortured in custody and was sexually abused.
On Friday, Khan said in a series of tweets said, “All the pictures and videos show clearly Gill was tortured both mentally and physically, including sexual abuse — most too gruesome to relate.”
Talking to media persons outside the capital’s Police Lines Headquarters today, Chaudhry asserted that physical or mental torture won’t be allowed under any circumstances.
“I personally believe […] and this is not my party’s demand but mine […] that an independent panel should be formed and the torture should be investigated. And then the faces of those who tortured [Gill] and those who passed its orders should be brought forward in public,” he said, requesting the Supreme Court to take notice of the incident.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Attaullah Tarar warned the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Punjab government that “all of you” will be arrested if a single PML-N worker is sent behind bars.
Tarar, who was speaking to the media, warned Chief Minister (CM) Punjab Pervaiz Elahi’s government that they “will face the consequences of the trend of revenge they had set”.
“Pervaiz Elahi sahib, you and your son (Moonis Elahi) will face the consequences of this new trend that you have set,” warned Tarar, claiming that Moonis had been issuing instructions for action against PML-N leaders despite not having any official authority.
“Pervaiz Elahi and his Punjab government are being controlled through remote control from Bani Gala. This is his old habit. For God’s sake, stop this, the country has already borne much loss.”
He also linked the action against his party’s members to the “promotion of an anti-state narrative”, alluding to PTI leader Dr Shahbaz Gill’s remarks against institutions.
Tarar alleged that CM Elahi had “fully facilitated [former Prime Minister] Imran Khan in promoting this anti-state narrative”, adding that Elahi was “at the forefront of exacting revenge from us”.
He went on to claim that Elahi and Moonis had directed jail officials not to hand over Gill to Islamabad police even when the court had approved his remand in police custody.
Court issues arrest warrants for Ata Tarar, 11 other PML-N leaders
A judicial magistrate Friday, August 19, issued the arrest warrants for a dozen PML-N leaders, including prime minister’s special assistant Atta Tarar, in relation to a ruckus created at the Punjab Assembly.
A case was registered against the PML-N leaders over the ruckus which took place in April during the chief minister’s election — when Hamza Shehbaz was elected to the top office.
According to several tipsters, the upcoming game in the GTA series may be an improved version of the legendary GTA Vice City with superior visual enhancements.
The upcoming Grand Theft Auto was announced in February when Rockstar said that work on the game was already underway and that it was going to be the best GTA ever.
Rockstar declared its intention to “substantially move beyond” its prior accomplishments with GTA 6 back in February. The statement from Take-Two regarding establishing creative benchmarks is a little more direct. Undoubtedly, it has established the creative bar for creating a Guy Ritchie-inspired open-world videogame.
That was all that was stated, and it’s probably not worth overanalyzing. The statement was potentially just an attempt to quell speculation after a Bloomberg story said to contain information on GTA 6, including the fact that it will have a female protagonist and take place in a fictionalised version of Miami. The veracity of the report has not been confirmed or rejected by Rockstar.
According to Bloomberg, GTA 6’s scope has to be “reeled in” at a certain point, but since it will be updated with “new missions and cities on a regular basis,” it may return to its original magnitude after the game’s release. However, the report claims that GTA 6 will have more inside places than any prior GTA.
Players may have noticed that Rockstar Titles always releases all of its big games in the Fall. GTA 4, which was published in April 2008, is the lone exception. We have four titles in the final two weeks of October, and three in November, if we set that aside. In light of this, we anticipate seeing GTA 6 released in the waning months of the ensuing years.
Right now, Chris Klippel, a well-known GTA leaker, is the source of most trustworthy information regarding GTA VI’s release date. Klippel asserted in March that GTA 6 wouldn’t be available until the latter half of 2024. Later, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier backed this up in a different Twitter conversation and predicted release date of late 2024 or early 2025.
We can expect the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 in October or November of 2024 based on these leaks as well as the prior release dates.
Every GTA game has been launched on a Tuesday since GTA Vice City. There is no justification for using GTA 6 to break the trend as well.
Additionally, the game is reportedly modelled on GTA Vice City. Therefore, it would be preferable to schedule the release of GTA 6 for October 29, 2024, if Rockstar Games really wants to honour how the franchise’s first game helped shape later instalments.
The Pakistani consulate in Dubai has advised Islamabad that Pakistanis visiting Dubai should have a valid work visa, AED 5,000 and a return ticket with them when travelling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The development came after 80 Pakistanis were deported from the UAE for having fake return tickets and other reasons.
The consular staff of Pakistan was informed that over 80 Pakistanis had been turned away by the UAE immigration authorities for various reasons. Forty Pakistanis were flown back to Pakistan on the same flight that brought them to Dubai, and the remaining half were sent back on alternate planes that were available.
The consulate urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inform Pakistani passengers seeking work in the UAE to obtain a valid work visa.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in his interview with The Guardian spoke at length about media freedom during his time as prime minister, forced disappearance in Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
‘We never tried to oppress the media’: Khan
“In my time, we never tried to oppress the media. The only problem was that sometimes the … security agencies — three or four times we found out that picked someone up and immediately when we found out we would immediately have them released,” said Khan.
They [security people] were responsible for picking up people: Khan
“They [security forces] were responsible for picking up people, but according to them they were involved in this insurgency, which was going on in Balochistan and the tribal area bordering Afghanistan. So they would blame that, with some justification, because you could not convict terrorists in the courts because you wouldn’t get witnesses,” said Khan while speaking about forced disappearances and missing persons.
Eventually Afghan women, the Afghan people, will assert their rights: Imran Khan
“Eventually Afghan women, the Afghan people, will assert their rights. They are strong people,” he said. “But if you push the Taliban from the outside, knowing their mindset, they will just put up defences. They just hate outside interference,” said Khan about Afghanistan.
Twitter is allegedly giving user email addresses and phone numbers to marketers without their permission, which has put the social media giant in more legal trouble.
The business admitted in 2019 that it may have utilised the personal data customers provided in exchange for a security feature for targeted advertising.
Two Twitter users filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the social media platform on Thursday in a federal court in Northern California. Billy Moses and Christina McClellan, both of Texas, claim in the 38-page complaint that they would not have given Twitter their phone numbers and email addresses if they had known that the firm would utilise the information for targeted advertising.
According to CNET, the lawsuit is the most recent repercussion Twitter is facing because of purported privacy infractions. Twitter reportedly violated the Federal Trade Commission Act and a 2011 FTC order by misrepresenting how it will use nonpublic user contact information, and in May, Twitter agreed to pay a $150 million fine.
Users of Twitter have filed lawsuits against the social media site for violating their privacy in other jurisdictions, including Washington.
Twitter urged users to enter their phone numbers and email addresses for two-factor authentication, an additional security measure, but failed to disclose that the information would be used for targeted advertising.
Because marketers could utilise emails and phone numbers to determine a potential customer’s identity and learn about where they reside, what items they buy, where they shop, and other useful information, the lawsuit claims that Twitter made money off of this data without user consent.
Due to the possibility of using phone numbers and email addresses to identify a person, there are additional hazards associated with their disclosure. According to the lawsuit, hackers may attempt to access a user’s social media accounts through email or gather other data in order to commit identity theft.
Additionally, the corporation is said to have broken both its agreement with users and California’s Unfair Competition Law. At the time, Twitter’s privacy policy stated that while it doesn’t provide its partners access to user information like email addresses and phone numbers, it may link the data it supplies to other data if a user gives their approval to that partner.
To protect against two security loopholes that might let hackers take full access to a user’s iPhone, iPad, or Mac, Apple owners have been warned to update their products immediately.
Apple stated that there are solid reports suggesting that hackers have already been taking advantage of the flaws in both cases to attack users.
According to Apple, one of the software flaws affects the kernel, the most core component of the operating system used by all devices. The other has an impact on WebKit, the engine that powers the Safari web browser.
By accessing the settings menu on a mobile device or the “about this Mac” menu on a computer, users of macOS Monterey can get the update.
According to experts, a hacker could gain “complete admin access to the device” and “run any code as if they were you, the user,” according to Apple’s explanation of the vulnerability.
People “in the public spotlight,” such as activists or journalists, who could be the focus of sophisticated nation-state eavesdropping, should pay special attention to updating their software, according to Tobac.
The vulnerabilities were previously categorised as “zero-day” issues since a fix had been made available for them for zero days prior to the fix’s release. Such flaws are extremely lucrative on the open market, and cyberweapon dealers will pay thousands or even millions of dollars for them.
Test cricket is a format of the game with the longest match duration and is considered the game’s highest standard. Some players with outstanding performances during their career managed to cross the benchmark of 10,000 runs in Test cricket.
Here is a list of all cricketers who managed to cross the 10,000 mark. It includes three players from India, three from Australia, two from Sir Lanka, two from West Indies, two from England, one from South Africa, and one from Pakistan.
1. Sachin Tendulkar (India)
In Test format, Tendulkar played for India from 1989 to 2013 and scored 15,921 runs with 51 hundreds. No other player has scored more hundreds than Sachin till date.
2. Ricky Ponting (Aus)
Ricky Ponting made it to the list by scoring 13,378 runs with 41 hundreds. He played in the Test format for Australia from 1995 to 2012.
3. Jacques Kallis (SA)
Kallis played for South Africa for 28 years and retired from Test cricket in 2013. He scored 13,289 with 45 hundreds.
4. Rahul Dravid (India)
Rahul is another Indian player who scored more than 10,000 runs in Test cricket. He played from 1996 to 2012 and scored 13,288 runs in 286 innings.
5. Alastair Cook (Eng)
Cook played for England from 2006 to 2018 and scored 12,472 runs in 291 innings with 33 hundreds.
6. Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
Kumar Sangakkara, who is famous for his cover drives, played from 2000 to 2015 for Sri Lanka in Test cricket and scored 12,400 runs with 38 hundreds.
7. Brian Lara (WI)
Brian Lara, who is the only batsman to score 400 in one innings in Test cricket, played from 1990 to 2006 for West Indies. He scored 11,953 runs in his Test career.
8. Shivnarine Chanderpaul(WI)
He played for 21 years for West Indies from 1994 to 2015 and scored 11,876 runs in 280 innings.
9. Mahela Jayawardene (SL)
He played for Sri Lanka from from 1997 to 2014 in Test cricket and scored 11,814 runs with 34 hundreds.
10. Allan Border (Aus)
Allan is a former Australian cricketer who played from 1978 to 1994 and scored 11,174 runs with career’s highest of 205 in an innings.
11. Steve Waugh (Aus)
Steve Waugh is another former Australian player who crossed 10,000 runs in Test cricket. He played from 1985 to 2004 and scored 10,927 runs in his Test career.
12. Joe Root (Eng)
He is the only player who is yet to retire but has scored 10,000+ runs in Test cricket during his career of 10 years. He made his Test debut in 2012 and is still playing for England. So far, he has scored 10,466 runs.
13. Sunil Gavaskar (India)
He played for India from 1971 to 1987 and has scored 10,122 runs in his Test career.
13. Younis Khan (Pak)
Younis Khan is the only Pakistani player who made it to the list. He played for Pakistan from 2000 to 2017 for 17 years in Test cricket and has scored 10,099 runs in his career. He scored 34 hundreds with personal best of 313.
