PCB removes Shahid Afridi as ODI team captain

The Pakistan Cricket Board has removed Shahid Afridi as one-day captain for the upcoming series against Ireland. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

KARACHI:The Pakistan Cricket Board has removed Shahid Afridi as one-day team captain for the upcoming series against Ireland.

Chairman of the board Ijaz Butt told a media conference in Islamabad that senior batsman Misbah-ul-Haq would take the squad in the two one-day matches against Ireland on May 28 and 30.

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Reason.tv: The Meaning of Socialism: National Review's Kevin Williamson

By the Left Coast Rebel

My favourite character of the picture is at the 4:15 mark. Nick Gillespie asks National Review's Kevin Williamson, "what's the continuing romance of socialism?" Williamson simply responds, "I think it is a variety of perpetual adolescence...

Reason.tv: The Meaning of Socialism: National Review's Kevin .

By the Left Coast Rebel

My favourite character of the picture is at the 4:15 mark. Nick Gillespie asks National Review`s Kevin Williamson, "what`s the continuing romance of socialism?" Williamson simply responds, "I think it is a figure of perpetual adolescence_"

This truism - the perpetual adolescence of advocates of socialism, especially in academia and the youth - is absolutely spot on and something that I have witnessed over and over first hand.

Left Coast Rebel: Reason.tv: The Meaning of Socialism: National .

Reason.tv: The Meaning of Socialism: National Review's Kevin Williamson

By the Left Coast Rebel

My favourite character of the picture is at the 4:15 mark. Nick Gillespie asks National Review's Kevin Williamson, "what's the continuing romance of socialism?" Williamson simply responds, "I think it is a variety of perpetual adolescence...

This Weeks Book Tour Info For The National - The Crypto-Capers Review

This Weeks Book Tour Info For The National Writing for Children's Center

Children`s Author, Renee Hand`s 6-day Author Showcase hosted by the NWFCC kicks off Monday, May 16


Award-winning children`s author, Renee Hand is being showcased the entire month of May at the National Writing for Children Center. Part of this case includes a 6-day virtual book tour.

CWA Young Crime Writers' Competition National Shortlist and Video .

The Crime Writers' Association has released the names of the 13 regional winners of its short story competition for new people age 18 and under. The young authors will now get to wait until National Crime Writing Week (13 - 19 June) when the list of the success will be revealed.

The last level of the contest is beingjudged by Edwin Thomas, the 2010-11 Chair of the CWA, andcrime writer Martin Edwards.

From a patient's perspective – how the National Health Service .

If you aren`t from the UK, it might be difficult to think how the scheme really works. Do you just rock up at any physician or hospital when you look like it? What are the criteria? What`s it like being an NHS patient?

The "patient`s perspective" in motion is mine - I was natural and brought up in London, have parents, sisters, a brother, a mate and a 3 yr old son who are all ordinarily resident in the UK and therefore NHS patients.