[PICTURES/VIDEOS] Will the stadiums in Pakistan be ready on time for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025?

[BouncerGuy]

World Champion Stadium Fully Prepared for Champions Trophy

The new Gaddafi Stadium will be unveiled tomorrow.

The first match between Pakistan and New Zealand will kick off on February 8.

Renowned singers Ali Zafar, Arif Lohar, and Aima Baig will perform at the opening ceremony tomorrow.

There will be a spectacular display of drums, fireworks, and light shows.

Entry to the opening ceremony will be free for the public.

PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi's personal monitoring, day and night visits, remarkable speed, and highest standards.

The state-of-the-art stadium has been completed in a record time of just 117 days.

Brighter LED lights, 2 new larger score screens installed.

The best view of the match from every enclosure for cricket fans.

All fences in front of enclosures removed, comfortable imported seats.

New hospitality boxes, world-class facilities for cricket fans and players.

PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi praises the entire team for their hard work in the stadium's reconstruction.

"I would like to thank the workers first, who made the impossible task possible," said Mohsin Naqvi.

"FWO, NESPAK, contractors, and PCB teams turned the dream of stadium reconstruction into reality," said Mohsin Naqvi.

"Despite criticism, the entire team worked tirelessly, and Allah made our path easier," said Mohsin Naqvi.

"We prostrate before Allah in gratitude for completing a major task," said Mohsin Naqvi.

 

[BouncerGuy]

World Champion Stadium Fully Prepared for Champions Trophy

The new Gaddafi Stadium will be unveiled tomorrow.

The first match between Pakistan and New Zealand will kick off on February 8.

Renowned singers Ali Zafar, Arif Lohar, and Aima Baig will perform at the opening ceremony tomorrow.

There will be a spectacular display of drums, fireworks, and light shows.

Entry to the opening ceremony will be free for the public.

PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi's personal monitoring, day and night visits, remarkable speed, and highest standards.

The state-of-the-art stadium has been completed in a record time of just 117 days.

Brighter LED lights, 2 new larger score screens installed.

The best view of the match from every enclosure for cricket fans.

All fences in front of enclosures removed, comfortable imported seats.

New hospitality boxes, world-class facilities for cricket fans and players.

PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi praises the entire team for their hard work in the stadium's reconstruction.

"I would like to thank the workers first, who made the impossible task possible," said Mohsin Naqvi.

"FWO, NESPAK, contractors, and PCB teams turned the dream of stadium reconstruction into reality," said Mohsin Naqvi.

"Despite criticism, the entire team worked tirelessly, and Allah made our path easier," said Mohsin Naqvi.

"We prostrate before Allah in gratitude for completing a major task," said Mohsin Naqvi.

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[GoUgandaCranes]

I had more fun following the stadium updates over the last few months than I've had following cricket. My final observation is that they did deliver a decent product.

If they now just update the flood lights in Rawalpindi, I'd be satisfied.

Yes, I know they cut a lot of corners, mismanaged many things, & even the final stadiums that they are handing over have incomplete & pending work but overall I am content with that.

Good job to all the labor who made it possible.

 

[shah9425]

I had more fun following the stadium updates over the last few months than I've had following cricket. My final observation is that they did deliver a decent product.

If they now just update the flood lights in Rawalpindi, I'd be satisfied.

Yes, I know they cut a lot of corners, mismanaged many things, & even the final stadiums that they are handing over have incomplete & pending work but overall I am content with that.

Good job to all the labor who made it possible.

Yeah I hope everything goes smoothly

 

[kingusama92]

I had more fun following the stadium updates over the last few months than I've had following cricket. My final observation is that they did deliver a decent product.

If they now just update the flood lights in Rawalpindi, I'd be satisfied.

Yes, I know they cut a lot of corners, mismanaged many things, & even the final stadiums that they are handing over have incomplete & pending work but overall I am content with that.

Good job to all the labor who made it possible.

I've been reading your updates throughout the process.

Great work brother!

Definitely lots of mismanagement at the higher levels and the workers are the unsung heroes here.

 

[jnaveen1980]

The more I watch GSL, the more I realize it's designed badly. These are THE most expensive enclosures outside the hospitality boxes and look at all the grills that there are.

Imagine you spend a fortune to sit here & you get a seat that is on the right hand corner. A grill in front of you and then Mitchell Starc decides to bowl around the wicket & now the screen is right in front of you.

20K+ well spent I guess


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It looks real shabby. Sometimes i wonder they pay guys to praise this on social media. You see some random suspicious account that is recently open praising PCB. They probably learnt from Rohit PR team.

 

[YousafTheBeast]

That Karachi stadium looks trash, mostly because the roof is so low.

They could’ve just removed the roof like they’ve done with the Gaddafi stadium and it would’ve looked much better.

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

It looks real shabby. Sometimes i wonder they pay guys to praise this on social media. You see some random suspicious account that is recently open praising PCB. They probably learnt from Rohit PR team.

My gut feel is that some of it is organic, & a lot of it is not. There's been a recent uptick in support of certain characters & all of it is being done in a similar pattern so it's easy to see the inorganic nature of it.

One thing about Pak is that we are not excellence oriented. I have scavenged through more local content these last few days than I've done in my entire life. I've consumed content from the accredited journalists, the random no bodies who are making videos, workers inside the stadium, etc. & one thing common with all of them is that they have no clue what perfection or excellence is & are easily happy & amazed at very ordinary & substandard things. I've even had a discussion with the chief on site engineer of Habib Constructions about putting barbed wires in stadium partitions & while my question was extremely polite, his reply was a personal attack so I let go. .

Just posting below two examples as reference. Instead of asking why the project was only started 5 months ago, they are praising that this is a record achievement & the impossible has been achieved & our future generations must be thankful to this one person. This one is even funnier, PHA planted grass the way it was done 30 years ago & people were celebrating it. I've seen 100s of meters long rolls of grass brought in by giant trucks & a machine transplants them in 5 minutes & here we had 200 labor manually picking grass from one lorry and planting it at another place & people were like woah, this is a miracle. It's hard to debate with such people because one internally continues to burn on the inside so it's good to take a backseat & observe as a spectator & hope that there are no disasters.

As an example of continuous PCB mismanagements (& I hope the news that has reached me is wrong) is that they are planning a firework show tomorrow to celebrate the inauguration ceremony of GSL. It's already dusty & so much pollution in the air & this is what they are thinking about. You have lights, lasers, etc. do that, why do fireworks?

Yeh mercurial ka tag aur our general approach to life that includes thought processes like "ho jaye ga", "Allah nay chaha tau laazmi ho ga", "kar lain gay, na hoa tau konsi qayamat a jaye gi", etc is holding us back in becoming one of the really competent nations.

 

[Major]

My gut feel is that some of it is organic, & a lot of it is not. There's been a recent uptick in support of certain characters & all of it is being done in a similar pattern so it's easy to see the inorganic nature of it.

One thing about Pak is that we are not excellence oriented. I have scavenged through more local content these last few days than I've done in my entire life. I've consumed content from the accredited journalists, the random no bodies who are making videos, workers inside the stadium, etc. & one thing common with all of them is that they have no clue what perfection or excellence is & are easily happy & amazed at very ordinary & substandard things. I've even had a discussion with the chief on site engineer of Habib Constructions about putting barbed wires in stadium partitions & while my question was extremely polite, his reply was a personal attack so I let go. .

Just posting below two examples as reference. Instead of asking why the project was only started 5 months ago, they are praising that this is a record achievement & the impossible has been achieved & our future generations must be thankful to this one person. This one is even funnier, PHA planted grass the way it was done 30 years ago & people were celebrating it. I've seen 100s of meters long rolls of grass brought in by giant trucks & a machine transplants them in 5 minutes & here we had 200 labor manually picking grass from one lorry and planting it at another place & people were like woah, this is a miracle. It's hard to debate with such people because one internally continues to burn on the inside so it's good to take a backseat & observe as a spectator & hope that there are no disasters.

As an example of continuous PCB mismanagements (& I hope the news that has reached me is wrong) is that they are planning a firework show tomorrow to celebrate the inauguration ceremony of GSL. It's already dusty & so much pollution in the air & this is what they are thinking about. You have lights, lasers, etc. do that, why do fireworks?

Yeh mercurial ka tag aur our general approach to life that includes thought processes like "ho jaye ga", "Allah nay chaha tau laazmi ho ga", "kar lain gay, na hoa tau konsi qayamat a jaye gi", etc is holding us back in becoming one of the really competent nations.

You sir just described Pakistan. Top post

 

[Slim]

the only important thing here is its completed and thats good but lol at Nawvi getting credit

He's being addressed as Mohsin Speed & a messiah who has carried out a miracle. I fully expect Nqvi the interior minister inviting nqvi the PCB head, nqvi the senator, & nqvi the business man & award them with Sitara e Imtiaz (highest civilian medal in Pak)

Pakistan isn't for beginners tbh, maddening infuriating place even at the best of times.

I dont understand the reluctance to give Naqvi credit. He overachieved. Its not his fault that former pcb chairmans were absolute donkeys and didnt do zilch.