Shoaib Malik does not have to worry about where to stay when he pays a visit to the UAE next.
The Pakistani captain has been gifted an apartment in Ajman by a real estate company - M/s Al-Barakah Group. The other beneficiary is the Sri Lankan off-spinner Ajantha Mendis who has kept himself busy running circles around the Indian batsmen.
Malik was rewarded for his capaincy during the recent four-nation Twenty20 tournament held in Canada. He as well as Mendis will get to move into Burj Manara, which is Ajman's tallest tower.
Malik could pay a visit to Ajman when he leads Pakistan in an ODI series against the West Indies in Abu Dhabi next month.
Meanwhile, Geoff Lawson will not be kept on as the Pakistan coach once his contract expires next April, as the board have expressed their dissatisfaction with his services. "We will suffer a financial loss if we terminate his contract now," the board chairman Ijaz Butt said.
* With agencies
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Farage on Muslim Brotherhood
Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.
