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Deadly implications It would be much too simplistic to assume that the tragic events of December 16, 1971, were the direct outcome of the army’s assault on the unarmed civilian population of former...		Iraq celebrates At midnight, on October 14, we left Damascus airport for the 1,000-km long journey to Baghdad. Roughly, a third of the way passed through Syrian territory and I had hoped to...
My hearing test After I had my olfactory test, all sense-tests look senseless to me. I went for my hearing test with my fingers crossed. A Japanese tester asked me about beeps. I had...		Religion & principles of diabetic management Islam is a religion that specifically aims at human progress and shows the proper way through a number of commands and prohibitions covering every aspect of a person’s daily social and...
More political than otherwise Iftar parties were not the trend during Ramazan this year. The reason could be the preoccupation of the people with the elections, and the political uncertainty that followed....		The state of Jinnah’s Pakistan There was one more match to be played and that was against A.E.R. Gilligan’s XI at Hastings. It was the one match that I should have looked forward to the most....
Tamila and I I really looked up to her. I had to, she was six feet tall and the first Russian I had ever met. Tamila was my swimming instructor....		The four leaf clover Dark rich foliage of the century-old trees for the lives of which, I remember, we girls had campaigned with a ferocity hitherto unrivalled, when it was proposed that they be felled...
The headwaters of perennial poverty Ethos of the East are many, including its forests and its numerous varieties of perennial trees, of which one happens to be poverty that refuses to stop growing particularly in the...		A Roman holiday The most difficult aspect of being on a vacation is returning and facing the queries — getting it all out while without having fully digested the experience....
Ooghi: a paradise Few people here would be able to tell where on earth is Ooghi, even fewer may have visited this untouched paradise on earth. Situated in Hazara, Ooghi is a small beautiful...		A white Eid “He has made plain to you of the religion what He enjoined upon Nuh and that which We revealed to you, and that which We enjoined upon Ibrahim and Musa and...
To teach or not to teach I was returning to my country after a brief sojourn abroad. It was good to be back and even if I didn’t say it out loud. My association with the field...		Healing hands I was shocked when Subhan, my servant, told me that he would take his little son, who had broken his arm in two places, to a kumhar (potter) to have the...
Expressing emotions Emotions are complicated, so much so that one does not know where they fit in the various faculties of the mind, and which of these should one take to be essential....		Sir Salimullah of Dacca In modern subcontinental history, Hindu opposition to Muslim demands and interests has often proved to be a blessing in disguise. It had often caused a new awareness of their invidious situation,...
Between Delhi and Dehradun In a recent article in ‘The Indian Express’, Professor Mushirul Hasan of the Jamia Milli proposed the building of a memorial in Delhi to Munshi Mohammad Zakaullah, author of a 10-volume...		POINT OF VIEW: Research requires patience THE job of research is just like fishing. The researcher, very much like an angler, has to be patient and wait for long. At the end of the day, he may...
Indifferent strokes There have been many instances in the past when the PTV management was remembered with some choice words every time they switched from a cricket match to a scheduled transmission. Last...		A three-tier strategy THE recent meeting of the International Hockey Federation in the Australian city of Perth was a success story for Pakistan as the country not only got as many as three more...
THROUGH THE COVERS: Not the time to go for major changes AT the time of writing these lines, Pakistan and South Africa stand at 1-1 after two matches, with three to go. While the margin was huge and thumping in the second...		The rural-urban divide The rural-urban divide is a fact of life in the country, begging for no answer from any expert. It is the most congenitally distinct feature of this land of the pure,...
End of civilization I have only recently gained command over the art of writing on bark and skin, by using a small quill and some ink I made from herbs. The pleasure it gives...		NEWSMAKER AZRA AKIN, the 21-year-old Turkish model and dancer, took the Miss World crown in a contest that was moved to Britain from Nigeria after deadly inter-faith riots spread out in the wake of a controversy over the annual pageant....