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Pakistan Link n By Mowahid Hussain Shah Small Country, Big Footprint

he World Test Champion-
Advisory Board ship Final pitting New Zea-
Dr Sohail Masood Tland, a nation of 5.1 million,
President versus India, a nation of 1.3 billion,
Arif Zaffar Mansuri is a symbolic coming of age of this

ArifMansuri@PLpublications.org remote South Pa-
cific nation.

Editor When I was
Akhtar Mahmud Faruqui in New Zealand in
afaruqui@pakistanlink.com 1985, I was struck
how it, under Prime
Editor Urdu Link & Bureau Chief (Pakistan) Minister David
Shabbir Ghori Lange, had barred
urdulink@yahoo.com the USS Buchanan, a nuclear-ca-
Resident Editor Urdu Link pable ship, in February 1985, from
& Director Video Operations docking at New Zealand ports, fol-
Anwar Khawaja lowed up by legislation in 1987 that
akhawaja@pakistanlink.com declared New Zealand a nuclear-free
zone and banned all nuclear-capable
Manager Sales & Advertising ships from entering the country’s
sales@pakistanlink.com territorial waters. New Zealand’s
anti-nuke posture caused a con-
Regional Offi ces
siderable firestorm in Washington,

ironically, at a time when Pakistan
YKKB was being pressured on its nuclear
ykkb03@gmail.com program.

When New Zealand was a New Zealand beat India by eight wickets to win the inaugural World Test Championship final at Southampton on Wednesday.
Sacramento, CA New Zealand 249 (Conway 54, Williamson 49, Shami 4-76) and 140 for 2 (Williamson 52*, Taylor 47, Ashwin 2-17) beat India 217
Sacramento@plpublications.com member of the UN Security Coun- (Rahane 49, Kohli 44, Jamieson 5-31) and 170 (Pant 41, Southee 4-48) by eight wickets. Taylor and Williamson found the right
cil, it refused to back down from balls and all their experience and expertise came to the fore as they first steadied the ship and then saw it home

San Fransisco/Bay Area, CA supporting a UN Security Council
Sanfrancisco@plpublications.com resolution it had co-sponsored; the land Parliament banned most semi- an anti-slavery federal holiday. of Pakistan” in 1954, was a New Zea-
resolution passed 14-0, with the US automatic and assault weapons. In For the first time ever in US lander.

New York, NY

Newyork@plpublications.com abstaining, on December 23, 2015, contrast, the aftermath of the Christ- history, a native American, Deb Australia – across the Tasman
demanding an end to Israeli settle- church massacre saw an Australian Haaland, on March 15, 2021, was Sea – is a huge continent nation,

Houston, TX ments in occupied territories. politician, Fraser Anning, gloating confirmed to lead a Cabinet agency. albeit with a smaller heart and has
Houston@Plpublications.org There were noticeably disarm- over the tragedy and blaming the New Zealand has its own indigenous been Washington’s doormat. Inhu-

ing features in Kiwi culture – the victims. He, in turn, was egged one Maori population. It took the dra- mane has been its stance towards
Phoenix, AZ lack of tipping, a social welfare com- refugees seeking sanctuary. In an
Phoenix@Plpublications.org
ponent of the state, a slower lifestyle, Behind New Zealand’s cricketing success interview given to BBC on June 18,
Ontario, Canada and bucolic beauty of its landscape. Filippo Grandi, UN High Commis-

Ontario@Plpublications.org There was an aura of tranquility is its ably managed cricket board. The sioner for Refugees, remarked on the
amidst natural splendor. budget of NZ cricket is less than that of dismal treatment of refugees: “All of
Letters to the Editor In a real sense, New Zealand this is not only morally reprehensi-
garnered global attention because ble, frankly, abysmally reprehensible

Readers are welcome to express their opinion Surrey County Cricket Club. They have
in these columns. Please keep your letters of the massacre at two mosques in on the part of rich and privileged
brief and to the point. Letters without full Christchurch on March 15, 2019. shown good sense of what they have, what countries.”
name, complete address, and a daytime

phone number will not be published. There, its Prime Minister, Jacinda Counter-intuitively, gargantuan
Also, copies of letters sent to other news- Ardern, displayed a leadership mas- they need to do, and which direction to size and resources are sometimes in-
papers are not encouraged. Letters can be

mailed, faxed or e-mailed to the Editor at ter class in rising to the occasion. dicative of miserly action. The Cov-
the Pakistan Link Headquarters address Her empathy turned the tables and go. New Zealand has learned to do id crisis unveiled the scale of misgov-
listed below.
Pakistan Link (ISSN 1074-0406) is pub- won the hearts of the aggrieved. Un- much with less ernance and incompetence in India.
lished weekly for $85 a year by JAZ LLC, like America, where shooters get no- Behind New Zealand’s cricket-
DBA PL Publications, LLC. toriety through the media – relegat- ing success is its ably managed crick-
Periodical postage paid at Anaheim, CA ing victims to secondary facelessness day later by an Aussie teenager at a matic inclusive step of elevating a et board.
and additional mailing offices.

POST MASTER: Send address changes to – Jacinda refused to take the name press conference on live TV. Maori female, Nanaia Mahuta, to The budget of NZ cricket is less
Pakistan Link, P O Box 1238, Anaheim, CA
92815 of the Australian perpetrator who, From America’s declaration of foreign minister on November 2, than that of Surrey County Cricket
The management has the right to refuse in turn, had been incited by online independence from Britain in 1776 2020. Her predecessor as foreign Club. They have shown good sense

to print any advertisement, news, article,
letter or any other material. In case of hate emanating from the Western to Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation minister, Winston Peters, is also of of what they have, what they need to
any errors in advertisement the manage- Hemisphere. She then followed up of emancipation on January 1, 1863, Maori heritage. Incidentally, the do, and which direction to go. New
ment will not be liable for more than the

amount paid for the advertisement to the by calling for stringent gun controls to June 17, 2021, it took 245 years to first biographer of the Quaid, Hector Zealand has learned to do much
Link. and, on April 10, 2019, the New Zea- have Juneteenth (June 19) marked as Bolitho, who wrote “Jinnah, Creator with less.
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The printing of Pakistan Link is unfail- ver half a million Pak- 4. About 36% of Pakistani-
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