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Blood Balti 2007

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Blood Balti

2007

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Music and BBQ all day

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Day & Date : Monday 2^nd April 2007

Time : 10am, non stop BBQ start (Hallal)

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PANZ NEXT PROGRAMME

We are haapy to announce our next programme to acheive our goals.

1 March 23 rd Programm
Celebration day March 24, 2006 Saturday 4 pm
Venue: to be announced

Programs:

* Speech competition under 15 years Topic: Resolution of Pakistan

There will be 3 Trophies for top three speakers
* Millie songs Entertainment ( elders and children )
* Refreshment ( Tea/cold drinks & snacks )

2 Seerat Ul Nabi S.A.W. Programme April 15, 2006 Saturday
Vanue : To be Annonced

* Speeches on Seerat Ul Nabi S.A.W & Hamd O' Naat
* Food will be provided

3 14 August Programm
Celebration day August 14 ,2006 Tuesday 6 Pm
Venue : To be announced

Syed Waqar Ali
President
Pakistan Association of New Zealand

CHRISTMAS EVENING

Thank to all community members and supporters to celebrate a successful evening with Pakistani Christian community in New Zealand. I personally congratulate to all of my team and community members because as I said before, that we can’t achieve any goal without community support and team work. All families and friends who attended this Christmas evening and share their happiness with Christian community are appreciating.
I appreciate and thank to all of PANZ members, sponsors and PWCS, who provided sound system without any fee and show us their interest to make success this programmed.
Thank to all Christian Community to participate and share their happiness with us.
Thank to Mr. Shahid Azad and his team to guide us in this programme.
Thank to Atta Bhai to do hard work for this successful evening.

WAQAR ALI
President
Pakistan Association

ختنے ایڈز سے بچاتے ہیں: رپورٹ

نئی تحقیق سے معلوم ہوا ہے کہ مردوں کے لیے ختنے ایڈز سے بچاؤ کا موثر ذریعہ ہو سکتے ہیں۔ یہ تحقیق فرانس کی ایک ایجنسی نے کی جس میں جنوبی افریقہ میں تین ہزار مردوں نے حصّہ لیا۔

تحقیق کے دوران حاصل ہونے والے اعداد و شمار کے مطابق ختنوں کے ذریعے دس میں سے سات مرد ایڈز سے محفوظ رہتے ہیں۔ یہ اعداد و شمار برازیل کے شہر ریو ڈی جنیرو میں ایک کانفرنس میں پیش کیے گئے۔

اقوام متحدہ کی صحت کے بارے میں کام کرنے والی ایجنسیوں نے کہا ہے کہ ختنوں کو ایڈز سے بچاؤ کے مؤثر طریقے کے طور پر پیش کرنے سے پہلے اس ضمن میں مزید تحقیق کی ضرورت ہے۔

ریو ڈی جنیرو میں بی بی سی کے نامے نگار نے بتایا کہ اگر مزید تحقیق کے بعد بھی ایسے ہی نتائج سامنے آئے تو کنڈوم کے ساتھ ساتھ ختنوں کو بھی ایڈز سے بچاؤ کی ترکیب کے طور پر پیش کیا جا سکتا ہے۔

اس سے پہلے بھی کئی بار تحقیق کے بعد کہا جا چکا ہے کہ جن مردوں کے ختنے ہوتے ہیں ان کو ایڈز کی بیماری لگنے کا امکان کم ہوتا ہے۔

کہا جاتا ہے کہ ختنوں میں جو کھال کاٹی جاتی ہے اس پر جسم کے باقی حصے کی نسبت ایڈز آسانی سے اثر کرتی ہے۔ اس لیے ختنوں کے بعد ایڈز کا امکان کم ہو جاتا ہے۔

ختنوں کے اثرات جاننے کے لیے یوگنڈا اور کینیا میں مزید تجربات ہو رہے ہیں۔

بی بی سی کی نامہ نگار نے بتایا کہ اس تحقیق سے ختنے ایڈز کے خلاف مؤثر ثابت ہو بھی گئے تو اس عمل کو وسیع پیمانے پر متعارف کروانا مشکل ہوگا۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ ختنوں کا محفوظ طریقہ متعارف کروانا اور مختلف معاشروں میں اس کے بارے میں رویہ تبدیل کرنا آسان نہیں ہوگا۔

 

PWCS EID SHOW

        Pakistan Welfare & Cultural Society

                                  proudly presents

                                            its

                        traditional annual Mega Event

 

 

 

             Eid Show

           { featuring spectacular comedy play}

  

              ''Ishq ney kia Pagall"

                     and lots of more items

                  Free Admission

 

Time:        5pm

Date:        13th of January 2007

                 (saturday)

Vanue:      ASB Show Ground

                 Logan Campbell Centre 

                 Greenlane

 

For further info contact:

Nasir Khan     021542648

Aamir Khan    021520076 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Evening For Pakistani Christians

To acknowledge the presence and services of Pakistani Christian Community  living in New Zealand, Pakistan Association of New Zealand has arranged a Christmas Evening in their honour on 18th of December 2006.The programme will include speeches and songs as well as Pizza Dinner.Christian brothers and sisters of Pakistani origin are specially requested to attend this programme as this initiative is expected to strengthen the fraternal bonds within community..Hon Minister Ethnic Affairs Chris Carter is also expected to come to this programme. Christmas Evening will start  7pm at Mt. Albert War Memorial Hall New North Road Auckland.For further details or suggestions please contact the following

Syed Waqar Ali

President-----8277715,   Mob 021702750

Atta Qureshi

Vice President---0212070071

Quaid-i-Azam

Jinnah, Mohammed Ali (1876-1948), Indian politician and longtime leader of the Muslim League. Jinnah became the founding father of Pakistan and its first governor-general (1947-1948).

Jinnah was born in Karachi, a city in what is now Pakistan. (At that time, India and Pakistan were part of a British colony known as British India). Although his family, who were Muslim, came from the state of Rajkot in western India, Jinnah’s father was a prosperous merchant in Karachi. After being educated in Karachi and Bombay (now Mumbai), Jinnah studied law at Lincoln’s Inn in London, England, and was admitted to the bar in 1896. After serving briefly as a magistrate in Bombay, he practiced law in that city and soon rose to the top of the profession. He possessed strong advocacy skills and relied on his rhetorical ability to win many cases.

Jinnah’s first important contact with political affairs was in 1906, when he acted as private secretary to Dadabhai Naoroji, president of the Indian National Congress, a political organization that was working for Indian autonomy from British rule. In 1913 Jinnah joined the Muslim League, formed to protect Muslim interests against India’s Hindu majority, though at the time he still hoped for accord between the two groups. In 1916 he was elected president of the Muslim League and in 1919 became the representative of Bombay Muslims in the Imperial Legislative Council, a national legislative body with limited authority under the British colonial government. In the same year, however, the government enacted the Rowlatt Acts, which gave the Indian colonial authorities emergency powers to suppress so-called revolutionary activities. Jinnah, a staunch nationalist, resigned from the council in protest.

In 1920 the Indian National Congress launched the noncooperation movement, a mass campaign to boycott all aspects of British rule in India. Jinnah disagreed profoundly with the movement and resigned from the Congress. Jinnah advocated a moderate approach of cooperation with the British and gradual transfer of power. He continued to believe in the possibility of Hindu-Muslim unity, and worked strenuously toward that end in his second and third terms of office as president of the league. The differences between the Congress and the Muslim League were deep. Moreover, there was a serious personality clash between Jinnah and Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the Congress. These differences emerged clearly in the Round Table Conference of 1930, where Indians and British members of parliament met to discuss India’s political future. Jinnah’s frustration at the impossibility of settlement led him to suspend his political activities for four years, during which time he practiced law in England. In 1934 he returned to India on a visit to preside over a Muslim League session and decided that he must remain permanently in India to look after Muslim interests.

The Government of India Act of 1935 transferred considerable power to Indian provincial governments, and in the general elections of 1937 the Congress won a majority in 7 of 11 provinces. The Congress refused to form coalition governments with the Muslim League as Jinnah had proposed. As a result, tensions between Hindus and Muslims grew rapidly. In Hindu-majority provinces, many Muslims felt they were unfairly treated, and at one point Jinnah demanded the appointment of a royal commission to inquire into their grievances. Most Muslims concluded that no legislative weighting or other safeguards could protect them in a united India, where the Hindus would be an overwhelming majority.

In March 1940 Jinnah presided over a Muslim League session at Lahore, where the first official demand was made for the partition of India and the creation of the state of Pakistan, in which Muslims would be a majority. During three decades of political life, Jinnah had believed in the possibility of Hindu-Muslim unity, and it was with the utmost reluctance that he came to the view that partition was essential.

Having reached this conclusion, however, Jinnah never swerved from it. His tenacity through constitutional discussions between the league, the Congress, and the British government in 1942, 1945, and 1946 made partition certain. During these years Jinnah came to be known as Quaid-i-Azam, or “Great Leader.” When Pakistan was created on August 14, 1947, he became its first governor-general, and the title of Quaid-i-Azam was officially bestowed on him by a resolution of the first constituent assembly. Jinnah died of tuberculosis in Karachi in 1948.

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Racism flares in West Auckland

Three Muslim women in West Auckland have reportedly been the target of violent racial attacks over the past 10 days, and there is a concern that many more victims are not contacting authorities.

On Saturday, the women were shot at while waiting at a bus stop.

The bullets fired from a car shattered the glass they were sitting beside - and the women believe the men only stopped firing because they ran out of bullets.

The women are now too scared to be identified, fearing a revenge attack.

But they are not alone. Women from North African countries like Sudan are also regularly subjected to abuse.

At the Ttirangi markets last weekend someone from a passing car hauled a rock the size of a fist at a teenager's face.

The common link appears to be the attackers - European teenage boys in a white car.

However, the women did not contact police until much later because they did not understand how the 111 system works, and did not know if police would consider the attacks to be serious.

Auckland police have now appointed a North African liasion officer to work closer with the Muslim community.

And while the women say while they are frightened, they still want to be in New Zealand.

"They are good people. The country's very safe and good. I like it too much," says one woman.

Their tolerance is something police can only hope will rub off on those carrying out the attacks.

Awesome Yousuf cracks Vivian Richards’s record

 

 Awesome Yousuf cracks Vivian Richards’s record

KARACHI: Run Machine Mohammad Yousuf capped his fabulous year with yet another century to break the West Indian legend Vivian Richards’s 30-year-old record of most runs in a calendar year and help Pakistan set the West Indies a daunting 444-run target on the penultimate day of the third and final Test at the National Stadium here on Thursday.

It was Yousuf’s last Test day as a batsman this year and like all of 2006 it was, using Brian Lara’s words, slightly unbelievable.

So incredible were Yousuf’s feats — most runs and centuries in a calendar year, a record six tons in five Tests and a few more that he completely overshadowed the rest of the happenings during the course of the day.

It was a day when opener Mohammad Hafeez (104) played the best Test innings and Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq ended his run draught with a fifty as the home team brought themselves in a perfect position to win the Test and the series by reducing the tourists to 39-2 at stumps.

The West Indies’ only hope of saving the match now rests on the aging shoulders of Lara, 18 not out, as they are still 404 runs behind and need to bat out an entire day to avoid losing the series 0-2.

But it was also a day when all those details became rather insignificant.

Consistency has seldom been the hallmark of Pakistan batsmen which makes Yousuf’s run feast all the more important — 1788 runs from 11 Tests ahead of Richards record of 1710 that ‘The King’ established in 1976.

In doing that Yousuf reached a few other milestones too that included breaking his own record of eight successive tons in a year which he set in the previous innings (102) of this Test. It was his sixth ton in five successive Tests, bettering the great Don Bradman’s record of six centuries in six matches.

Yousuf took his tally in this series to 665 runs surpassing the record of most runs scored by a Pakistani batsman in a three-Test series, previously held by Zaheer Abbas who scored 583 against India in 1978. Yousuf also became only the sixth Pakistani to score centuries in each innings of a Test.

Yousuf hit 124, his ninth century this year, and together with opener Mohammad Hafeez (104) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (58 not out) guided the home team to a position from where a defeat seems highly unlikely.

The highest run chase in Test history (418) was achieved by the West Indies against Australia at St John’s, Antigua in 2002-3 but Lara’s men would be aware they are away from home and batting on a track where it is still not easy to play shots.

After the heroics of the local batsmen earlier in the day, medium pacers Umar Gul and Shahid Nazir made an already good day even better for Pakistan.

Umar made a terrific start as he got the scalp of Chris Gayle on the fourth ball of the first over, an inside edge shattering the stumps. Two overs later, Shahid reduced the West Indies to 17-2 trapping the other opener, Daren Ganga, leg before. Lara and Ramnaresh Sarwan (11) survived the final five overs of the third session in fading light to take the fight into the fifth and final day.

At the start of the day’s play, all eyes were on Yousuf. He began at 1, still requiring 46 runs to erase Richards’s record. Slowly a crowd of over 10,000 assembled at the National Stadium and cheered every run the bearded batsman scored.

The moment they had been waiting for finally came when on 44 Yousuf produced an elegant on-drive off Corey Collymore to reach the milestone and the crowd erupted in jubilation. He raised his bat in acknowledgement and received a standing ovation.

The Lahore-born batsman continued to bat with the same concentration and, like Hafeez, marched towards a century.

Hafeez got there first as he completed his second Test ton with a four off Jerome Taylor at mid-on. It came off 258 balls after a marathon 405-minute stay on the crease and the figures aptly reflected the huge effort made by the man, trying to make his bones as a regular Pakistan opener. After adding 149 runs with Yousuf, he departed on 104, allowing Inzamam to take another shot at regaining his lost form.

The Pakistan captain has been having a horrific run of form in recent outings and was in a desperate need to get some runs.

Yousuf, meanwhile, was in no such problem. He made full use of two dropped catches, one by Ganga off Sarwan at 68 and later by Taylor off his own bowling at 87, to reach his 23rd Test century off 145 balls with his 14th four. He put on 94 with Inzamam before getting bowled round the wicket by Sarwan. His 124 came off 195 balls in almost five hours.

Pakistan later lost Shoaib Malik (10) and Abdul Razzaq (10) but Inzamam scored the first fifty of this series — an unbeaten 58 from 91 balls to raise his confidence.

Pakistan are well set to win this Test after a nine-wicket triumph in Lahore and a drawn match in Multan. They might have been in a better position had a declaration from Inzamam come a bit earlier but the captain was in no mood to take any risks. He knows Lara is capable of doing anything after watching his smashing 216 in Multan and wanted to play it safe.

With cloudy weather making the days shorter here, such a defensive strategy might cost Pakistan a win but even a drawn Test would give them a 1-0 series win — something that they seem happy to achieve.

Scoreboard

Pakistan won toss

Pakistan 1st inns 304 (Imran farhat 47, Mohammad Yousuf 102)

West Indies 1st inns 260 (C H Gayle 40, D Ganga 81, D Ramdin 50; Umar Gul 4-79)

Pakistan 2nd inns (overnight 130-2)

Mohammad Hafeez c Ramdin b Taylor 104

Imran Farhat c Ramdin b Powell 20

Younis Khan lbw b Gayle 38

Mohammad Yousuf b Sarwan 124

*Inzamam-ul-Haq not out 58

Shoaib Malik b Collymore 10

Abdul Razzaq c Gayle b Sarwan 10

Extras (b13, lb21, w1) 35

Total (6 wkts dec, 123.5 overs) 399

Did not bat: †Kamran Akmal, Shahid Nazir, Umar Gul, Danish Kaneria

Fall: 1-43, 2-122, 3-271, 4-365, 5-384, 6-399

Bowling: Taylor 24-8-60-1; Collymore 22-10-52-1; Powell 24-6-70-1; Bravo 19-1-68-0; Gayle 15-2-38-1; Sarwan 17.5-0-70-2; Chanderpaul 2-0-7-0 (1w)



West Indies 2nd inns

C H Gayle b Umar Gul 2

D Ganga lbw b Shahid Nazir 2

*B C Lara not out 18

R R Sarwan not out 11

Extras (b4, lb1, nb1) 6

Total (2 wkts, 9.2 overs) 39

To bat: R S Morton, S Chanderpaul, D J Bravo, †D Ramdin, J E Taylor, D B Powell, C D Collymore

Fall: 1-2, 2-17

Bowling: Umar Gul 5-0-25-1 (1nb); Shahid Nazir 4.2-2-9-1

Series: Pakistan leads the 3-Test series 1-0

Umpires: M R Benson (England) and D J Harper (Australia). TV umpire: Riazuddin. Match referee: R S Mahanama (Sri Lanka)

Previous matches: November 11-14 1st Test Lahore, Pakistan won by 9 wickets. November 19-23 2nd Test Multan, match drawn

‘It’s only Allah who can give you strength to achieve such feats’

Man is weak and it is natural to come under pressure on such occasions,” is how Mohammad Yousuf described his feelings at the time when he resumed his Karachi Test innings on Thursday morning at 1, writes Khalid Hussain.

Several overs and some boundaries later, he was on 48 and had reached a territory where no other batsman had set foot on since Test cricket began 129 years ago. He had scored 1711 runs, the most by a batsman in a calendar surpassing Sir Vivian Richard’s record set in 1976.

“It is only Allah who can give you the strength to achieve such feats,” he said later after having hit 124, a record ninth Test century in 2006 and breaking batting records like ninepins.

“Allah gave me the will to do it and I am thankful to him,” added Yousuf who attributes his stunning run of form to his conversion to Islam last year.

And he has a point. Before his conversion, Yousuf averaged nearly 48 in 59 Tests but it has shot up to an astonishing 91 in the last 14 Tests that he has played as a Muslim.

A man of few words, the modest Yousuf said all his batting success is for Pakistan. “I am happy because these records are great for Pakistan,” he said.

He dedicated the nine centuries he has scored this year to his family. “My parents, wife and brothers and sisters pray for me all the time and I would dedicate these centuries to them.”

Yousuf said he was pleased to have broken Richards’s record saying that he rates the West Indian legend as the greatest century-maker alongside his countryman Brian Lara. “Richards and Lara are the best when it comes to playing big knocks and I am happy to be placed in that group.”

Yousuf has erased two of the records in the ongoing Karachi Test that were previously held by Richards. The first tumbled when he scored a record eighth ton in the first innings and the other when he reached 48 on Thursday, surpassing the 1710 runs Richards scored in 1976.

Yousuf added that one of the reasons behind his batting success in the last 14 Tests may have been the technical help he has been receiving from the likes of his former teammate Mushtaq Ahmed, an accomplished Test leg-spinner, and current coach Bob Woolmer. “I started doing my practice in a different way for the series against England last year and later against India with Mushtaq helping me work on my game on a cemented slab,” said Yousuf, who has punished both pacers and spinners with complete authority during the current run-spree.

He also acknowledged the in-put of Woolmer. “The coach has helped me correct my balance and that has been one of the major factors behind an improved performance.”

Yousuf expressed that he would try his best to take this golden form into the away series against South Africa and in next spring’s World Cup in the West Indies. “I always try to give my best and leave the rest on Allah.”

He admitted that things would not be easy for him and the other Pakistani batsmen on lively South African wickets where a high bounce can make life difficult for the visitors. “All teams except the Australians struggle in matches away from home and we are no exception,” said Yousuf. “I haven’t seen many batsmen performing well in away matches because things get tough when you are not playing at home. But I believe we would manage in South Africa.”

Yousuf is not given into talking big but even he has been affected a bit by the run feast. When a reporter asked whether he would go on to break Don Bradman’s record of six centuries in successive Tests he smiled and said, “I have already done that in five Tests.”