KARACHI/LAHORE: Welcome to the fourth episode of ‘Googly Shughali,’ a special web show by Arab News covering the sixth edition of the Pakistan Super League cricket series.
In this episode, cricket’s famous funny ladies Mahwish Bhatti (Maho) and Aimun Faisal lament the postponement of the PSL series last week after a number of players tested positive for the coronavirus. It’s “everyone’s loss,” said Maho, wondering how one could get over the heartbreak.
“There’s no solution to this, just be sad,” Aimun said, reminding her co-host that Pakistanis were already used to almost a decade without international cricket after a militant attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009.
Ultimately the big question Maho and Aimun ask is: was PSL canceled because of the coronavirus or because the Lahore Qalandars finally started playing well? Find out here.
#GooglyShughali: How to get over heartbreak of PSL postponement — Keep being sad
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#GooglyShughali: How to get over heartbreak of PSL postponement — Keep being sad
- Welcome to fourth episode of ‘Googly Shughali,’ a special web show by Arab News covering sixth edition of Pakistan Super League
- In this episode Maho and Aimun wonder: Was PSL canceled because of coronavirus or because Lahore Qalandars finally started playing well?
Hundreds of migrants, including Pakistanis, land in Greece after search operation at sea
- Rescued migrants were taken to a temporary facility on Crete after reaching the port of Agia Galini
- Greece has made deportations of rejected asylum seekers a priority under its migration policy
ATHENS: Greece’s Coast Guard rescued about 540 migrants from a fishing boat off Europe’s southernmost island of Gavdos on Friday, one of the biggest groups to reach the country in recent months.
The migrants were found during a Greek search operation some 16 nautical miles (29.6 km) off Gavdos, a Coast Guard statement said. They are all well and are being taken to a temporary facility on the nearby island of Crete after reaching the port of Agia Galini, a Coast Guard official said, adding most of the migrants were men from Bangladesh, Egypt and Pakistan.
In a separate incident on Thursday, the EU’s border agency Frontex rescued 65 men and five women from two migrant boats in distress off Gavdos, the Greek Coast Guard said.
Greece was on the front line of a 2015-16 migration crisis when more than a million people from the Middle East and Africa landed on its shores before moving on to other European countries, mainly Germany.
Flows have ebbed since then, but both Crete and Gavdos — the two Mediterranean islands nearest to the African coast — have seen a steep rise in migrant boats, mainly from Libya, reaching their shores over the past year and deadly accidents remain common along that route.
Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Italy will be eligible for help in dealing with migratory pressures under a new EU mechanism when the bloc’s pact on migration and asylum enters into force in mid-2026.
The center-right government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said deportation of rejected asylum seekers will be a priority.
