After the disappointing perfermance at World Cup, Pakistani players started arriving homeland; Middle order Batsman Mohammed Yousuf has arrived home on Monday.
He is the very first player to reach home from West Indies. He flew to the country at Jinnah Terminal Karachi through a foreign airline.
Getting news of his arrival, the media men in large number reached the airport in the morning.
Owing to failure in World Cup, Mohammed Yousuf could not face media and left for home from Domestic Departure Lounge instead of arrival. His friends carried home his luggage. Here is the Source
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at least younis had the fortitude to face the QAUM and not hide in london, dubai, or sneak through back door! still doesent excuse his performance but at least he isnt a coward!
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Pakistan vice captain Younis gets harsh welcome from fans at airport - From the Herald Tribune
The Associated Press
Published: March 27, 2007
KARACHI, Pakistan: A group of Pakistani cricket fans chanted slogans against vice captain Younis Khan as he arrived home after the team’s shocking exit from the World Cup, witnesses said Tuesday. “Bring a donkey for him and ask him to sit on it and roam him around the city,” said Rana Majid, one of the angry fans at Karachi International Airport when Khan arrived from London late Monday. “He has brought disgrace to the country and he should stop playing cricket for Pakistan,” :hoonh: said Mohammed Ahsan, who was also at the airport.
Pakistan’s Cricket Board was cagey Tuesday about when the rest of the squad would return after its humiliating loss to minnows Ireland in the West Indies, which was followed a day later by the murder of coach Bob Woolmer at a hotel in Jamaica.
“Some players will come to Karachi while some of them will reach Lahore,” Cricket Board spokesman Ahsan Malik told The Associated Press. “I have no knowledge about their flight plans, they might reach Pakistan by Wednesday morning.”
Khan was the second Pakistani player to return home. Earlier Monday, star batsman Mohammad Yousuf also landed at Karachi airport but managed to evade waiting journalists, according to local media.
Khan had less luck.
Just one airport security official accompanied him from the arrival lounge, and people gathered around the Pakistan vice captain the moment they saw him heading toward his car. Khan responded angrily to the slogans against him. “Who will make me sit on the donkey?” :gadha: he asked before being hustled into the waiting vehicle by some relatives.
“Such things do happen in cricket, so why are you all so angry?” said one of the relatives, who did not give his name. The car then sped off.
Cricket is a passion among Pakistan’s 160 million people, and the loss to Ireland sparked anger among fans eager for a repeat of the country’s 1992 World Cup triumph. Some burned effigies of skipper Inzamam ul-Haq.
On Monday, the government urged the international media to go easy on the team, saying it was shocked by the killing of Woolmer, a former England test player who had coached the talented but unpredictable side for nearly three years.
“Our players are already traumatized and they have lost somebody who was very close to them, who was very dear to them,” said Tasnim Aslam, spokeswoman for Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry.
Police have identified no suspects in Woolmer’s death. The Pakistan team was allowed to leave Jamaica Saturday after police fingerprinted and took DNA samples from all team members.
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Did S.A. face the same anger from its people when they were booted out of the semis in the previous world cup :) or this Jahaalat only is a trait of our people?
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as i said before, he had the guts to come to karachi str8 after wc and not run through back doors, a sign of a captain to me, not being scared, and facing the music, leading from the front shall we say! !
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Yeah, it was sickening to see people behave that way. I again salute Younis Khan for his arrival and he had the guts to come out of the arrivals and not through the departure gates like MoYo did. Take some courage to do it considering our dopie X-skipper hasn't done that yet. It was always gonna be tough on the first person to have come out this way.
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Yeah, it was sickening to see people behave that way. I again salute Younis Khan for his arrival and he had the guts to come out of the arrivals and not through the departure gates like MoYo did. Take some courage to do it considering our dopie X-skipper hasn't done that yet. It was always gonna be tough on the first person to have come out this way.
We might see Inzimam getting whooped pretty soon ....
Pakistan’s players have no reasons to fear a return home, according to team spokesman Pervez Mir.
The squad finally left their Heathrow hotel, which has been their base for the last couple of days since their return from the World Cup in the Caribbean, to make the journey back to Pakistan.
Since their surprise exit from the tournament and the even more shocking murder of coach Bob Woolmer in his Jamaican hotel room, emotions have been running high in Pakistan.
However, Mir said the players had nothing to fear when they touch down in their homeland.
“Pakistan are a very proud nation, they respect their players but tempers do sometimes flare,” he said. "People are disappointed and there are always certain people who are a bit over the top but I’m sure the PCB [Pakistan Cricket Board] have made all the necessary arrangements for the players and there is no reason for concern, especially when you go back to your own country.
“When you go home, you are never nervous but, of course, there is that disappointment. But let’s look forward to the future and future victory. I’ve always said we don’t have a copyright on winning games.”
Mir also dismissed suggestions any Pakistan players were suspects in the Woolmer murder inquiry.
“I would say that the Pakistani team was never a suspect. We had nothing to do with it,” he added.
“We were part of the same inquiry as everybody else so of course we were questioned.”
He said it was “absolutely absurd” to say Woolmer had argued with members of the team, including captain Inzamam-ul-Haq, before his death.
“There were a lot of rumours that I had rowed with Inzamam and that was a joke,” Mir added. "But at least I was here, thank God, to answer those questions. Mr Woolmer is not here,.
“He was a very good man, a good coach and a father figure. Let’s remember him for all those things rather than tarnish his memory.”
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Did S.A. face the same anger from its people when they were booted out of the semis in the previous world cup :) or this Jahaalat only is a trait of our people?
Since Cricket is but just a game, there is going to be a winner and a loser. Losing a game of cricket or a tournament is no shame. As long as all players put their 100% and it shows. Victory or loss is partly ability and partly luck.
The reason people are mad at the team because it is clear to almost all of them that our players did not play to their potential and made little effort to actually win the two critical group matches. Crashing out of WC after group matches and playing only three games (losing 2) is very different than reaching semi-final and then losing. I bet if the team had not even made it to the semis, but had shown fight in Super 8's they wouldn't be facing angry crowds on their return.
However groping and insulting national players in public is highly distasteful and inappropriate.
after getting slaped from behind 
said Rana Majid, one of the angry fans at Karachi International Airport when Khan arrived from London late Monday.