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Blowing hot and cold AT the Wagah border on Lahore’s outskirts, troops on both sides of the frontier lower their national flags amidst a colourful ceremony each evening at sunset....		The third option is the way ahead ASGHAR Khan, a former chief of PAF who now heads the Qaumi Jamhoori Party, believes that making Kashmir independent — rather than part of either Pakistan or India — will be good for all concerned....
Lost souls The Angel of death arrived at Babul Taq, a God forsaken place of unpardonable notoriety. More than a thousand years ago, 99 jurists had given their verdict against Mansoor Halaj, the...		Accounting in HR WORKER migration from the traditional agrarian work to manufacturing and services-based industries has been going on for the last two decades. This migration has been accompanied by two conspicuous developments....
Freed and liberated Iraq is free. Free from ten thousand years of tyranny, darkest infamy, cold villainy, centuries of stasis, nights of searing pain, terrible torture, sanctioned starvation, laser-guided precision and free from bombs...		NET-CLIP: Preparing for vacations SUMMER vacations are round the corner. In about a month’s time, most of the country’s schools will close for the mandatory two months’ holidays. But if you are one of the...
The fear of losing out WITH one rebuilding contract after another going the American way, and with all key appointments in post-Saddam Iraq firmly occupied by the Anglo-American alliance, France, Germany and Russia are clearly feeling...		It’s rough in the big time I had first met K.M. Kaiser (KMK) when I had gone to China in 1956. In the absence of Sultanuddin Ahmed, who was the Ambassador, KMK was holding the fort of...
Ten days in the Land of the Rising Sun SOMETIME back, I had the golden opportunity of visiting Japan. I was part of a group of four students and a teacher who were to represent Pakistan....		DIARY OF A VAGABOND: Rattled in Kaghan PICKING up the thread from where we had left it a fortnight ago, as it happened, all the boys who were silly enough to volunteer for the hiking trip to Kishan...
The hazards of meat contamination As meat constitutes a main portion of the diet of most people in Pakistan, millions of animals are slaughtered and thousands of tons of meat are supplied daily to the market....		The declining habit of reading The reading habit of our people is on a sharp decline, if not altogether dead. The electronic media, lack of public reading rooms in cities, high cost of books and periodicals and their non-availability are among the factors responsible for this sad state of affairs....
Music: the cult of tabula rasa When John Woolrich, a composer of Britain, founded Composers Ensemble in 1989, many contemporaries never knew what he meant. But those who had heard his Barber’s Timepiece could imagine....		CHAPTER FROM HISTORY: The concept of ‘hell’ With the development of human society, there emerged concepts of sin and virtue, evil and good. It was observed that some evildoers were punished for their deeds but some of them...
POINT OF VIEW: The man who wrote Kashmir Udas Hai A WRITER, after a silence of about 51 years, has now chosen to speak out. Perhaps, the kind of recognition and applause he won for his one work entitles him to...		The captain who runs to relax RASHID Latif’s remarkable career took-off with the 1992 away series in England. However, it was his remarkable flight home from South Africa and the expose that all cricket was not being played for love of the game and country that really propelled him as a candid, no-nonsense man of principle....
DIFFERENT STROKES: Building up resources THE decision of Pakistan Hockey Federation to build up its talent resources is a step in the right direction. It is also an indication that the Federation is not sitting pretty...		THROUGH THE COVERS: Test status needs to be precious BY all accounts the triangular in Bangladesh was a non-starter. Who won it and who didn’t was no one’s concern. With the World Cup having just been over, there was hardly...
Comity at Columbia with a caveat Surely, he couldn’t be begging America to spare Syria? But, that’s what comes through, watching Ambassador Rostom Al-Zoubi — a bundle of angst — plead Syria’s case before Larry King. He...		Children of a lesser god In a small 12x14 room in Orangi Town, with only a small door for ventilation, 9-year-old Ayesha is busy rolling agarbatti sticks. She is humming the latest Jawad Ahmed ditty when suddenly she has a spasm of cough....
NEWSMAKER STANDING up to the US isn’t exactly a healthy proposition in this unipolar world. But for French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, it has become an occupational hazard that he has been living with for the past year or so....		On positive thinking THIS is with reference to the article, On positive thinking, published on March 30, by Kiran Nazish....