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Unknown articles-I: Valuable articles on Partition DO you want an article on Pakistan?’ wrote Dr Spate from Lahore on July 26, 1947. ‘I have been invited by a Muslim sect to help on geographical questions in the boundary settlement’. We wish it were possible to quote in its entirety the ensuing correspondence...		Attitudes and environment IT is generally assumed that people with higher income are more informed and more concerned about environmental issues as compared to the poor. On the surface this appears to be true, since the affluent have greater access to education...
Psychic hotline EVERYBODY wants to know about the future; what’s going to happen in their lives and eventually to the world. Is there going to be war? Are the conditions in the country...		Rolling out the red carpet THE much-lampooned Central Board of Revenue is on a charm offensive, beginning with the big tax-payers following its new policy of using far more of the carrot and far less of...
The Long March EVERY nation or a revolutionary movement needs a setback that becomes a defining moment and charts the course of its destiny. In 1933, Chiang Kai-shek launched a massive offensive against the...		Why mothers suffer AS a child, I always noticed my mother used to eat less at the usual family lunch or dinner. I couldn’t figure out why. Time quickly passed by. Now, I watched...
Save our nation ‘VALUES are becoming a thing of the past’, ‘Things have come to such a sorry pass that it has become extremely difficult for the common man to survive’. Comments such as...		A tale of two duels TWO duels took place on Friday and Saturday (Feb 28 and March 1), the first in the nation’s capital, Islamabad, and the second in far away South Africa. The televized fight,...
Sibi Mela: an ancient event FAIRS are celebrated everywhere in the world with great cultural and historical backgrounds, sometimes to commemorate a special event or seasonal change, such as the Orange March in Northern Ireland, Bulls...		The Blue Mosque IN the 17th century, in Qustuntuniya, Istanbul, the Blue Mosque was built. It is part of history that Mustafa Kamal Pasha used to say his prayers in the Blue Mosque....
Armageddon in sight WARS have been disliked, even loathed by a great number of people, throughout history. It is considered to be a highly contemptible idea and the country initiating warfare is automatically and...		In search of freedom THE destitute women of Pakistan, who have been hurt beyond belief in this atmosphere of visionlessness and callous injustice, are largely silent and feel numb to the core of their hearts. They can see and hear, but cannot tell....
All-purpose footpaths FOOTPATHS, needless to say, are for the pedestrians, to keep them from jeopardizing their lives and limbs by walking on the busy roads and the streets in heavy traffic. Our roads...		Menander: The Greek Buddhist king AFTER the departure of Alexander the Great, 39 Greek kings and four queens ruled over Gandhara (Peshawar valley), Punjab and Afghanistan. Coins in gold, silver and copper from that period have...
History’s most wicked crime THE problem of the 20th century,” the great African-American thinker, Dr W. E. B. Du Bois, declared in 1903, “is the problem of the colour-line — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the...		Akbar’s Ibadatkhana IN the medieval period, religious intolerance was regarded as a virtue and tolerance as a vice. Bossuet, one of the famous theologians of the period, proudly claimed that Catholicism was the...
The chosen one MY niece is a servant addict. It is third-degree addiction. She goes berserk the day she is without a servant. Poor soul has many reasons for this reaction. She lives in a big one unit house with many doors, windows and ventilators. And despite her tall length, she can hardly reach the top for dusting. Add to this five furnished rooms....		A war of words IT was called everything — from clash of the titans to outright war. India and Pakistan were playing cricket after a lapse of almost three years. In Saudi Arabia, the pressure was felt even more. About 1.6 million Indians and 800,000 Pakistanis....
Pakistan got just what it deserved ANYONE who loves cricket has two teams: his own and the West Indies. That none of the two are in the Super Six stage is a matter of personal sorrow and...		Who is the fastest of them all? THE controversy over who has been or is still the world’s fastest bowler rages on. The focus on speed commenced in the 1970s, when the Australian duo, Lillee and Thomson, ruled...
OIC: a platform for cooperation TODAY when the world has entered the third millennium, an era marked by advances in science and technology, it is unfortunate that one billion Muslims constituting one fifth of the world population, contribute well below five per cent of the scientific knowledge....		The patriot I AM a patriot. No, I was a patriot. I was so ridiculously in love with my country that it often became a pet peeve at every gathering. The Pakistan flag...
Need for better transport AN efficient and developed public transport system in a country not only ensures easy mobility of its people but also offers them wider choice in selecting their place of work and...		In a man’s world SHAANA ha Shaana is an idea that has been borrowed from the West. It is something that induces a feeling in women, in Muslim countries that ‘prosperity’ can never be attained...
MOSAIC: Jackson has his own say THE SWEET taste of revenge was Michael Jackson’s when footage aired on American TV showed the British journalist Martin Bashir contradicting himself by lavishing praise on the star’s parenting skills and...		Newsmaker KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED, allegedly the number three man in Al Qaeda hierarchy after Osama bin Laden and Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, was captured last week in a pre-dawn raid on a Rawalpindi neighbourhood, along with two other suspected....