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The eye of the storm THE effort of the Hindu extremists to convert the Babri mosque into a temple, connived at by the present Indian government, is a return to the practice of the mediaeval times. The pre-monotheist...		Modern-day fables MANKIND hopes to reap rich benefits from the Human Gnome Project that has been recently completed. The complete set of instructions for making an organism is called its gnome....
In search of Danyal Moti THIS story relates to the days when the entire law-enforcing agencies of Pakistan, assisted by American agencies, were trying to retrieve the abducted journalist, Daniel Pearl, from his captors. For the...		The Enronomix THE Enron bubble has burst. The biggest corporate crash in US history has occurred during junior Bush’s presidency. Four thousands have been rendered jobless. A few thousand more have lost their...
Diplomats and heightened security precautions INCREASING security precautions in the light of the latest adverse developments in the country are making some diplomats on transfer from Pakistan to welcome the shift. Some of them say they...		Getting caught in the Gurmani case AMUSING certainly, but there is something of a fable in this anecdote. An office worker gets off to a bad start by quarrelling with his wife and he has a disastrous...
Come April WHEN effusive spirits get into their heads some exciting jape to outwit gullible friends and to lead them up the garden, they usually preserve it for the April 1. Practical jokes...		Of waterlogged demonstrations NEWSPAPERS of March 24 took me way back, a life time - 38 years to be exact, reminding that nothing had changed in this period of nearly four decades. Those who...
Gwadar: the 21st century city GWADAR, along with Balochistan, has finally received the long overdue and deserving attention, thus becoming the focal point for future endeavours within the country....		Hometown of the Bhuttos STRAWS of paddy were spread everywhere in and out Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, a famous town of Larkana district. Villagers were engaged in their daily customary work. A newly built colony having...
Meet the Doc from Dallas MY schoolgirl crush was Dale Carnegie; How to Win Friends and Influence People, my bedside bible. Did I win friends? Nope. Decades later, Wayne Dyer came along and stole my soul....		A dentist whose work became history IT is common knowledge that the former President of Pakistan, General Ziaul Haq’s remains were identified by his denture after he died in an air crash that resulted in an inferno,...
From the bottom of Bush’s heart WHEN the Industrial Revolution swept England, the nobility did little to promote education. Members of the Royal Society scoffed at the idea of a much needed expansion of schools as its...		Thomas Merton ‘in the ruins of New York’ A TEACHER, clergyman, mystic, monk, hermit, social worker, civil rights activist, writer on spiritual and social themes, former communist, one of the most famous American Roman Catholics of the last...
Being a child is no child’s play A child’s growth will correspond to the type of nourishment it receives in its early age. Old people are heard saying that they are indebted to the solid and pure food they received in childhood....		The flag of Pakistan WHAT does Pakistan’s crescent-spangled green with a white strip flag stand for? No one has spelled out its enduring significance in ideational terms more succinctly, more cogently...
Understanding Palestine IN Ahdauf Tasweef’s diary, a Palestinian mother is heard saying: “Now it is only in the face of death that we have a feeling of joy. The world we live in has gone topsy-turvy”. Thanks to Asif Farrakhi’s newly published compilation, ‘Ashiq Minalfalastin’. I have peeped into this topsy turvy world...		Rewind ’92 PAKISTAN Cricket Board will celebrate tenth anniversary of the ‘92 World Cup victory with a dinner on March 30, 2002. Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board, Lt. Gen Tauqir Zia has also announced...
No surprises in team selection LAST week we had talked about the ever quickening pace of run scoring that has become the trademark of modern cricket, and yet another confirmation came in an emphatic manner...		Time to do away with umpiring controversy THIS one is my last column in the World Cup series, and with this will also come to an end the weekly frequency, and I would return to the more practical...
Nullah Leh: when rivers turn into sewers THE Population Environment and Communication Centre of SDPI arranged a visit to Nullah Leh for its participants on the concluding day of a 3-day workshop on ‘Linkages between Environment and...		IT imperatives THIS letter is with reference to the article IT imperatives published in the Dawn Magazine issue of Feb 3, 2002. It was too long and completely unnecessary....
MOSAIC: A potent discovery WHEN you go to hospital the last thing you want is to contract the super-bug MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus). A nasty bacterium that can be harboured harmlessly by healthy people, it...		Newsmaker IT’S hard to describe the look in those big, piercing olive-green eyes. When freelance photographer Steve McCurry first took her picture for National Geographic in 1984, in a school situated...