'Do films today even have the courage to question the establishment?'
Pakistan have invited Sri Lanka to tour next month as replacements for India, who pulled out on Thursday following the terror attacks in Mumbai in November. A senior Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official said an invitation has already been sent to Sri Lanka to play three Tests, three one-day internationals and a Twenty20 match in January and February.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has informed the game's governing body that they suspect bookmakers are staying on the same floor as the Pakistan players in the team hotel in Colombo. Salim Altaf, the PCB's chief operating officer, said the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit of the ICC has a representative in Sri Lanka who is looking into it.
Members and officials of the Pakistan cricket team that toured India in 2005 and attended a dinner hosted by the Siddiqui family in Hyderabad have said they had never been introduced to any Ayesha Siddiqui.
The state run Pakistan Television reported that Musharraf spoke to Inzamamam, coach Bob Woolmer and the team manager Salim Altaf and congratulated the team.
The PCB is happy with the security arrangements in India and is confident that no harm would come to the players.
An independent Bowling Review Group of the ICC upheld Shabbir Ahmed's 12-month ban from international cricket.
The players were forced to take turns to board a small plane out of New Delhi on Tuesday because Dharamsala only has a small airstrip.
Pakistan will play three Tests and seven ODIs when they come to India in 2007-08.
They were produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate S H Oza in Gandhinagar.
At a press conference organised in Mumbai by the Jamiat Ulama Maharashtra (Arshad Madani), which provided them free legal aid, the acquitted also demanded action against officers for prosecuting them. Five of the six accused -- Adam Ajmeri, Mufti Abdul Qyyum Mansuri, Mohammed Salim Shaikh, Abdulmiyan Qadri and Altaf Hussain -- were present at the press conference.
The Supreme Court on Friday acquitted all six convicts, including three condemned prisoners, in the 2002 Akshardham temple attack case and pulled up the Gujarat police for shoddy investigation in the case in which all the accused faced prosecution under the stringent anti-terror law, Prevention Of Terrorism Act
Former BJP president of Bharuch and senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member Shirish Bangali and general secretary of Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha Pragnesh Mistry were shot dead in the district by two unidentified gunmen on November 2 last year.
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