BRUSSELS: The Pakistan Olympic hockey team today [Aug 29] beat a Belgian national eleven by eight goals to zero after leading by three goals to zero at half time. Today’s game was almost a repeat performance of last Sunday’s [Aug 28] match when the Belgian side lost by the same score to the Indian Olympic team. Aziz, Mahmud and Hamid played brilliantly in the Pakistan forward line, and Belgium would undoubtedly have lost by an even bigger margin but for great work by their goalkeeper, Verhaeren, who could not be blamed for the goals scored.

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies in Karachi,] The Pakistan Cotton Merchants Association, Karachi, in a representation to the Government of Pakistan, has protested against the exploitation of Pakistan’s cotton trade by non-Muslim concerns to the detriment of Pakistan and its nationals.

The representation points out that most of these non-Muslim concerns have shifted their head offices to India, but that they manipulate the import of cotton from Pakistan to India through their sub-offices in Karachi in a way that Pakistan’s higher quality cotton undersells in the Indian market.

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2024