It is no surprise, Delhi police chanced upon Sreesanth, among others, on bookie payroll, while phone-tapping suspected underworld gangsters in Dubai as part of their anti-terror intelligence work.

Though attention has been on the temperamental Sreesanth and a few others subsisting on the fringes of cricketing fame and money, this is just the tip of the iceberg, with the betting trail only turning murkier by the hour.

Just when we were beginning to believe, for a change, that this IPL season would end without any major controversy, the spot-fixing scandal happened. Issues of the past such as party brawls, cheerleaders in scant clothing, and Shah Rukh Khan losing his temper, seem trivial in comparison. The very spirit of the game is in question, writes Siddharth Srivastava.

Sharif’s government has a formidable task trying to save the country from ravages of an economic crisis, power and water demand, Taliban and sectarian threats – besides devolving powers and resources to provinces, ensuring at par treatment to all provinces while curbing tendencies of a Punjabi preponderance, and improving ties with the immediate neighbor, India, and restraining its homegrown jehadi forces and military from further misadventures that have earned nothing but disapproval from the U.S.

It is a no-brainer that normalization of ties with India is a sure way to lure investments that in turn would enable Pakistan to bolster its own economy and development in an exponential way and implement energy pipeline projects for both countries from a land-locked but resource-rich Central Asia, writes Priyanka Bhardwaj.

Mashal organization of Bay Area, held a benefit fundraiser to assist a Pakistani girl’s vision to spread education. An effort called the “Malala Fund” was recently incubated by the Vital Voices Global Partnership to help international educational icon Malala Yousafzai in spreading female literacy in Pakistan and beyond, writes Ras H. Siddiqui.

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