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TopicPakistani cricket fans

Topic: Pakistani cricket fans

‘Mauka Mauka’ man got chance at good life after ad. ‘India-Pak commercial made me an overnight star’

It has been a decade since the first of the 'Mauka Mauka' ads aired during the 2015 ICC World Cup. They soon became a fixture before India-Pakistan matches.

Dussehra, Diwali, Danish Kaneria—Ex-Pakistani spinner’s Hindu pride awakens in the right season

For Indians, Danish Kaneria is ‘a Pakistani Hindu in distress’; for Pakistanis, he is Vibhishan, fast becoming the top choice for their flagship ‘Go To India’ programme.

Make My Trip ‘discount’ for Pakistani cricket fans is awful—It makes us look small on a big day

The full-page advertisement offers discounts to Pakistani fans for each wicket they lose in the India-Pakistan match.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.