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10. Robert Lewandowski [Bayern Munich, Poland]  Lewandowski found his form this season at Bayern. He has established himself as the world’s preeminent classic No. 9 striker. He scored 39 goals in 40 starts for Bayern Munich in this season, including   a barrage of five in nine minutes   against Wolfsburg. 9. Gareth Bale [Real Madrid, Wales]  Bale gets short shrift to accommodate Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid. Their talents often overlap rather than compliment. He’s still brilliant. Bale is lightning fast down the wing. He’s a lethal, left-footed finisher. When he’s in form and fit, he can’t be defended. 19 goals and 10 assists in the Primera Liga this past season, in just 21 starts. We’ll give him a pass for his sparse beard, his wonky man bun, and his lame heart celebration. 8. Manuel Neuer [Bayern Munich, Germany]   Neuer is a true testament to German engineering. He’s a superb shot-stopper. He has expanded and rede...

6th September (Defence Day) is one of the most important events of Pakistan’s history. On September 6, 1965, Indian army crossed the international borders of Pakistan without a formal declaration of War. It was a time when not just our brave soldiers but the whole nation was cast into the mould of a cohesive unit to defend our home land and defeated the Indian Army and made them retrieve on all fronts. The long-standing border disputes, communal tensions, and conflict over the question of Kashmir flared up in a full-scale war between India and Pakistan in September 1965. Skirmishes at the Rann of Kutch flared up almost accidentally in the Spring of 1965, and India and Pakistan found themselves drawn into the first of their two undeclared wars.The dispute goes back to the days of the British rule in India. The Rann was the bone of contention between the princely state Kutch, and the British Indian province of Sindh. When British India was partitioned, Kutch acceded to India and...

Pakistan_The Land of Adventure, Remains and Nature.It is a country with its own fascinating history and cultural heritage. Pakistan was the site for one of the world's earliest human settlements, the great prehistoric Indus Valley Civilization, the crucible of ancient empires, religions and cultures. Pakistan is endowed with a rich and varied with things that can wonderstuck the world. The city of sirkap near taxila is one of these astonishing remains. The second city at Taxila is called Sirkap, remains of gandhara civiliziations, which means "severed head" and is the name of a mythological demon that is said to have lived on this site. The remains belongs to four distinct super-imposed periods of pre-Greeks, Scythians and Parthians. The city founded approximately in the first quarter of the second century B.C by the Bactrian Greek King Menander. The Parthian King Gondophares following the Greek pattern, built the city with its main street in the middle st...

When she was born, she heard her father's sigh And tear drops fell from her mother's eye For she, the female had entered the world Into unwelcoming hands, she was hurled As a child, she was strictly told Some rules according to which she was to mould Walk slowly you must never run Talk softly, beware, never have any sun You are inferior you are weak You must obey, you must act meek You are an invalid without a man You must not ask why? This is life's plan And she believed all this was true Like a beast, kept in the zoo She thought she belonged to the cage The bars around her never aroused rage Her father, her brothers kept the keys To the chains which prevented her release While she lived on pretending to be happy and content Till one day from her home she was sent Years passed by, her hair became grey Set aside old woman, and just pray My grown sons told me, for I came in their way Listen to a woman? Why should they! Fo...