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US presidency on stilts If a djinn from the Arabian Nights could merge into one the personalities of, say, Julius Caesar, Kaisar Wilhelm, Churchill, de Gaulle, Don Quixote, John Wayne, Sherlock Holmes, Marx (Groucho, of...		Dawn of a new age Damn these scientist types. They have a way of taking all the fun out of things. And now, they may have really pulled a coup and taken the fun out of making babies as well....
A bullet for a bull Day before yesterday I saw an awesome picture of a burly bull in the newspapers! Not an unusual sight in Spain. The bulls and news about the bulls always occupy spacious...		IG tells the police story If you listen to the Inspector General of Police, Sindh, Kamal Shah, speak on the police for 20 minutes, you may feel no better about the police force than you do...
A free spirit PIA was already flying to New York. It had added Canton and Shanghai to its network. Now it turned its attention to Moscow. It was, as if, the airline was setting...		Help with homework “Doing homework is very important especially for youngsters,” says Mrs Khalda Athar, a senior teacher at Muslim High School. “It gives them a chance not only to revise the subject matter,...
Dishonouring women During the World War II, rape, molestation and dishonouring of the women by the soldiers of advancing armies was so common a practice that the Western world took it as part...		A general’s unusual remarks The top brass of the army is a close network. Its members may have differences of opinion but they do not criticize each other publicly, most certainly not on civilian forums....
Summer crop that gets wasted Larkana is known as the city of gardens and guava dominates all fruit yields, giving popularity to Larkana throughout the country. The guava of Larkana is particularly liked by the people...		A touching tale ‘Mein ne to half fry naheen manga tha — mujhe to omelette laa do...’ I was unintentionally drawn into a little incoherent babbling as I was sitting next to the child...
Behind the façade Last January, Attorney General John Ashcroft invited Pakistan’s then Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider to Washington for consultations on his controversial USA Patriot Act. Had the meeting materialized, a cozy casement could...		Life on foreign shores I wonder if it is surprising or inspiring that a decade of living in America has somewhat failed to mould the thinking of my friend in the modish cast of Americanism...
Street dentists in Pakistan There has been a letter by the President Pakistan Dental Association to the editor criticizing both the street dentists of the country and the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) for...		Shehnai on its way out History of the evolution of musical instruments shows that a number of devices currently in vogue in our musical ethos originated from different geographic regions. These musical instruments later infiltrated into...
CHAPTERS FROM HISTORY: The first Arab conquest CONTRARY to common belief, some areas of the Indian subcontinent which now constitute Pakistan might have come several times under the Muslims’ control long before Muhammad bin Qasim’s invasion of Sindh...		Socialism or primitive accumulation According to Marx, the inner laws of development of a society manifest themselves in its inner contradictions. And it was precisely these contradictions within the society that the Soviet economists ignored...
POINT OF VIEW: ‘The Politics of Language’ WOMEN’S organizations are devoted exclusively to female problems. But Simorgh Women’s Resource and Publication Centre has this time chosen to discuss a subject that offers a wider scope for study and...		The best and the boring The memories of Pakistan’s victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup flash across the nation as the euphoria for the next month’s battle for cricket honours nears. Many, though are still...
THROUGH THE COVERS: The last of the Cup hopefuls TODAY, I wish to wind up the World Cup discussion that I started some weeks ago. On the agenda today are England and India, the last of the teams that have...		Who will defy the land mafia? It is a deplorable fact that in Pakistan, we constantly try to acquire any piece of land to build on or cultivate regardless of the fact that it may be be owned by another person, a community or that it might be an amenity plot....
To the rich out there Hello, sirs and madams! Please accept my sincere salutation. I dwell nearby to you all, but it is more than likely that you never noticed my presence. However, it should not...		NEWSMAKER IF ever there has been a man caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, it is Dr Hans Blix, a former director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and now the chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq....