In politics, if you can please some people some of the time, then you have done well

Following South Africa's curtailed tour last October and the Kiwi whistlestop tour in December, Karachi and Peshawar are again in line to bear the brunt of vague security concerns

Wasim Bari, the chief selector, has been busy looking at various players not originally announced in the probables list

You would be forgiven for thinking that the biggest series in international cricket in recent memory had already been postponed

The publication of confidential correspondence between the Anti Corruption Unit and the PCB, detailing the former's concerns over match-fixing in the Pakistani camp during two ODI tournaments in 2002, raised some uncomfortable issues, and leaves more

Akram is not the property of the Pakistani people or of the PCB

The end wasn't as spectacularly chaotic as the reign had been

About the only thing that brings about more discussion and hand-wringing thaninternational cricket in Pakistan is the state of the domestic cricket, writes Osman Samiuddin

More than any individual part, it is now the sum of the whole that is looking increasingly impressive for Pakistan

You could fault Moin Khan for many technical reasons - but you can't argue with his persistence and his heart