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2008-02-23 India-Pakistan

Indian Communist demands ban on Twenty20 cricket

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Posted by john frum 2008-02-23 11:30|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Ness Wadia

The Indian industrialist Ness Wadia is the grandson of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

Ironic that Jinnah's descendants are Indian not Pakistani.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-23 11:39|| 2008-02-23 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Is that a "burkha babe" next to him? How many fatwas has he accumulated?

Posted by AlanC 2008-02-23 12:17|| 2008-02-23 12:17|| Front Page Top

#3 That is his girlfriend, the Indian actress Preity Zinta.

He isn't a Muslim though. Jinnah's daughter married a Zoroastrian.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-23 12:34|| 2008-02-23 12:34|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW
The Star Spangled Banner was written in 1812 on the HMS Minden, a British Navy ship built in Bombay by the Wadia family shipbuilders.

His ancestor Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia began the Wadia shipbuilding dynasty in 1736, when he obtained a contract from the British East India Company. They built over a hundred warships for the Royal Navy.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-23 12:42|| 2008-02-23 12:42|| Front Page Top

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