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IT imperatives WITH so much of capital, time, and collective imagination being relentlessly pumped into the resource pool for Information Technology, it becomes an economic and moral compulsion to analyze how the perceived...		Walking along the Constitution Avenue On a bright sunny day, I thought I would take a long walk, going straight ahead in the belief, like Candide, that to use one’s legs as one pleased was a...
The children of Mount Mustaqbil THE stinking smell of charred flesh and bones, blazed vegetation, decomposed crops and exploded bombs and missiles subsided. A few frightened children headed out to take stock of the violent world...		The wonderful world of window shopping There has always existed a breed of window shoppers in this world. In the past, the group was in a minority but as consumerism spread and the rich and poor divide...
A man of diverse pursuits and incredible energy He was one of his kind in Pakistan. He made strict rules for himself and followed them zestfully. His interests were very versatile, and he was full of enthusiasm for his...		Grieving is something immensely personal WHAT you gain on the swing, you lose on the roundabout. One of the roundabouts of modern air travel is that it has knocked the romance and mystique out of travel....
Gender bias relationships Only a person who is struggling very hard to reconcile religion with modern views of gender equality would claim that Islam affords men and women an equal status. Verses such as...		The real world It wasn’t a particularly exciting morning to begin with. I had picked up an argument with my dad which sort of ended into a heated battle of views. I was hard...
Rehabilitation of carpet children THE use of child labour in various industries had tarnished Pakistan’s image no end a few years back, particularly for carpets, sporting goods and surgical instruments. Their export plunged in the...		Boston: hub of the universe “Boston,” said Henry Wallsey in 1794, “is the Bristol, New York, Liverpool and the London of America.” In the intervening two centuries, Bostonians have expanded that list, transforming their city into...
The shifting sands of Sher Garh ON the banks of the old bed of River Beas, Sher Garh is a typical Pakistani village where people live in the face of urban attractions and where lush green fields...		Just a feeling Where is the way for the Kashmiris, where the light of freedom dwelleth? The world they pace in, is the one where dwells the paradising palace of politicos and the egoists...
A wake-up call for America After World War II the rest of the world witnessed a tug-of-war between the two great superpowers, USSR and America. Being well equipped with the deadliest weapons, the weaker nations never...		To greener pastures and back This is a sequel to an article I had written earlier titled, Toward Greener Pastures. Before I left I felt very happy and eagerly awaited my arrival into the land I...
Moenjodaro: can we save the relic of the dead? Newspaper reports have revealed that the world-renowned archaeological site and one of the UNESCO-protected remains of Moenjodaro are fast crumbling to extinction. Though there are many reason for this mess but...		Prelude to the 1965 India-Pakistan conflict Filtering out the pomp and sentiment, which unfortunately is found in abundance on both sides of the border, if we keep digging for substance, we will for sure come across writers...
Post-modern sensibility in Urdu literature Urdu literature has a tendency of accepting new ideas, thoughts and forms of expression from western literature. Moulana Altaf Hussain Hali was one of the major poets’ critics influenced by western...		CHAPTERS FROM HISTORY: Jinnah and Direct Action ALL through his public life, Jinnah was known as an arch constitutionalist. He swore by constitutionalism, asserting that ‘the constitutional way is the right way’. And when the Congress abandoned the...
POINT OF VIEW: A quiet storyteller WITH a number of new publications scattered on the table before me, I found myself confused. After all, one can read only one book at a time. And frankly speaking, not...		Pakistan-West Indies history of previous Test encounters THE upcoming Test and limited overs international away series between West Indies and Pakistan will see the two sides square off in two Tests and three limited-overs internationals at Sharjah’s 28,000...
THROUGH THE COVERS: An effort to avoid another whitewash FOR the last several weeks something or the other is keeping me away from talking about the unprecedented ‘home’ series that Pakistan is going to play with West Indies in the...		Historical trivia in old road names They lie in the heart of Karachi — Clerk Street (Sharea Iraq) and Marston Road, running East to West and Somerset Street (Raja Ghazanfar Ali Road) stretching northwest to southeast. A...
The third sex: myth or reality IN streets of both the city and villages everyday, we come across several colourfully-dressed, shy and naughty people called hijras who fascinate everyone from children to old men by their jokes,...		NEWSMAKER AFTER being away from home for more than two years, John Walker Lindh, also referred to as the American Taliban, returned home....