There are two kinds of people currently following the Africa Cup of Nations: Those who are stunned by Zambia’s advance to the finals of Africa’s biennial championship and liars. Once the semifinals were set there were precious few observers (outside of certain wildly optimistic circles in Mali and Zambia, I suppose) who saw anything other [...]

Riot police at Port Said stadium (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images) At a time when all of the continent’s and indeed the world’s sporting attentions should be focused on the African Cup of Nations being played in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon instead they have to look away toward Egypt where unimaginable tragedy has struck. Scores have died [...]

(Reuters) – Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a deputy minister called the biggest disaster in the nation’s soccer history. Violence at football matches across north Africa has increased significantly since political unrest began sweeping the [...]

Charlie Brooker in Tokyo: 'In Japan geeks are comfortably mainstream': Video game aficionado Charlie Brooker makes a pilgrimage to Japan, a mecca for electronics, games and comics, and feels right at home among Tokyo’s unfathomable futuristic madness• Browse our Tokyo city guide• See our immersive video experiment• Play classic games in our arcade People often [...]

This post was due from last 3 months, and due to my laziness, i didn’t write it yet. Anyway, when i joined KalSoft Qatar (QDS), this was one of the project which was going on from several months. Al Sadd Club is one of the most famous club of Qatar, in fact middle east, and [...]

Halal food is everywhere. According to recent news reports, it might have been “secretly” snuck into your sandwich at a football match or fed to your “unwitting” child in their school dinner. It’s also found in hospital canteens, pubs and sporting venues. But what is this frightening food that the Mail on Sunday proclaims is [...]

Monitoring Desk ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Football Federation in line with its emphasis on Vision Plan 2020 and Youth Development Program is hosting the PFF ‘D’ Certificate Coaching Course for Region-2012 at Jinnah Stadium, Pakistan Sports Board, Islamabad on Thursday. The six-day course is being conducted by Shehzad Anwar as instructor and will conclude on January 24. [...]

Here’s a profile I wrote on Professor Carl Hobert, Founder of Axis of Hope, a non-profit organization on conflict resolution. It’s all about the Children           It’s the first class of the semester, and a group of students shuffles across an oval wooden table in SED Ryan’s Library. Hardly familiar with each other’s names, they follow [...]

Jonathan Wilson might be the greatest football writer working today. If nothing else, he’s in the conversation. So it was with great interest that I read his recent lengthy post for the Guardian Sports Blog on the state of football in Africa. The title of the post poses the question: “Is African Football Progressing?” His [...]

Quelle surprise. Leo Messi has won his third Ballon d’Or in a row. Who would bet against a fourth, or a fifth? I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that Cruyff predicted he’d win seven overall. Barring injury, or boredom on behalf of voters – the same boredom that saw Charles Barkley and Karl Malone win [...]

Relevant links is one of the most heard concepts in link building. Online marketing aficionados will no doubt have heard it at least multiple times during their career, especially when they have just started out grasping the basic concepts of search engine optimization. A simple glance at any SEO forum can prove that as users [...]

(Note: Twoand a half years ago, I read a short story by Kanza Tariq. That story has beenthe basis of loose inspiration for this one. However, aside from inspiration, Icredit her story with nothing else. This piece of fiction has been writtenentirely by me, and is a work of my own imagination.)  The room is [...]

  The IAEA’s confirmation that Iran had a full-fledged nuclear-warhead development program up until 2003 and the agency’s suspicions that come elements of that program have resumed or continued? The fact that an inexperienced and untested young man may now have his hands on North Korea’s nuclear football, with the country’s leadership determined as ever [...]

Just read this article on Dawn (by AFP) and thought I’d share it: http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/30/offbeat-stories-from-2011.html Among offbeat and zany stories from the year just ending: – The bad news for a group of employees in a Canadian technology company was that the firm was closing down and laying them off. The good news, received the same [...]