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Taking silicons back home IN an era when aeroplanes, telephones, e-mail and fax machines have transformed the lives of prosperous immigrants, the phenomenon of one-way brain drain is losing its intensity. Now it is going...		The general law of terrorism Terrorism is the use of unmeasured violence. In this sense, it is a modification of Clauswirtz’s theory of all wars tending towards the absolute. Wars conducted by regular armies escalate in...
A son’s arm for his father NO fear incapacitates man more than the fear of death, and dying. The impact of Friday 14, June’s devastating bomb blast was so terrifying that the residents of the buildings within the proximity of the holocaust....		US visa blues THE frequent, numerous and time-to-time changes in US Visa laws for immigrants, visitors and students, have equally altered the routine approach to the problem by Pakistani visa seekers at home and...
Social life despite bursts of gloom THE view from the presidential suite on the 14th floor of the Avari Towers, or the VVIP suites below, is always alluring at night. We don’t just see the bare concrete...		Patriotic umpiring THE tension could have been cut with a knife and the Brabourne Stadium resembled a gladiatorial arena. There was a buzz around the ground. I thought back to club cricket I...
The dead will rise in the living HOW does one feel when a catastrophe visits one’s homeland in his absence? The question can elicit any number of responses. Most people would start thinking when confronted with he question....		Women and the workplace I refuse to become yet another anonymous statistic. I joined the female work-force in Pakistan last year, fully conscious of the hurdles a young girl, eager to make out a career...
Improvement through community involvement IN the overall scheme of low-income settlements, Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan’s ideas and methodology adopted were fundamentally different. The whole scheme of things was exploratory and evolutionary in nature, and he...		The seven sisters of Sukkur IN the city of Sukkur, rising from the middle of River Indus, overshadowed by the massive steel railway bridge, lies the mound called by the local people Sat bahan jo asthan...
The dying Indus A couple of months back, I visited my dear friend, the River Indus. The most popular place to enjoy the scenic Indus has always been the Jamshoro Bridge. But when this...		Indian Raj across Atlantic “IT may well be in our interest to sing Musharraf’s hosannas, but it is far from clear to me that he can undertake a series of profound reforms to rescue the...
Compatibility factor WHEN you ask the reason for a divorce, most of the time the answer is “Incompatibility”. Besides others, the dictionary meanings of this word are “contradictory, incapable of existing together in...		Justice, the LTTE way THE ‘Court of Thamileelam’ as the hall of justice of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at Killinochchi in Vanni is called, is announced by the usual fang-bared Tiger, the...
Hero of black Africa IN the 1970s, one African was more popular and labelled as the champion of black Africans than any other person of his time He was Idi Amin Dada, the president of...		Remembering Josh Malihabdi TO many he is one of the greatest poets in the history of the subcontinent. But to me, Josh Malihabadi was undeniably the greatest Urdu poet of the last century....
CHAPTERS FROM HISTORY: Iqbal’s letters to Jinnah during 1936-37 Iqbal’s deep involvement with Muslim politics, in general, and Punjab League’s affairs in particular, had brought him close to Jinnah in mid-1930s....		POINT OF VIEW: When personal aberrations let a writer down A YOUNG man from Faisalabad went to America and settled there. He lives in Chicago and writes poetry as well as fiction in English, Urdu and Punjabi. Pakistani writers going...
A celebration of World Cup-2002 THE World Cup is over. Brazil has yet again taken away the trophy that everyone — at least everyone in Brazil — expects it to retain every four years. And yet...		Juniors are important I HAVE repeatedly stressed in my columns the need to build up a regular Junior string at national level in order to stop the slide in the game that has marked...
THROUGH THE COVERS: In uncertainty lies the beauty SO, the football World Cup has come to an end, and we may well say that the better team was able to make it big when it mattered. It does not...		Some thoughts on sleeplessness TO sleep like a spinning top is the dream of a person who is repeatedly denied a good night’s sleep. A sleepless person forgets that, during an eight-hour sleep...
Women and mental illness Equality, responsibility and accountability, for both men and women, is a well-developed theme in the Holy Quran. Gender biases exist in all societies, but the situation is particularly disturbing in Asian...		NEWSMAKER AT a time when most of his peers are contemplating retirement, American Steve Fossett has gone on and done something that not many have even thought of....