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A peace ploy PRESIDENT George W. Bush announced the long-awaited roadmap for the resolution of Israeli-Palestinian conflict recently amidst growing anxieties and suppressed hopes. Launched in the name of the Quartet...		The two-state policy will fail THE tragedy of Palestine is too big for words. Told over and over again, it surprises us with new facts each time it is told. Tear and blood flow through it. There is no end to the variety of storytellers: they range from Palestinians to non-Palestinians...
Guide to bad sales MOST companies spend their marketing budgets generating awareness, but spend little time, and effort, equipping their sales force with the knowledge to sell. This despite the fact that in today’s competitive environment, selling is anything but easy. This is why developing an effective sales guide is critical. A good sales guide educates the sales force...		Dealing with death THE father was sitting in the centre of the large courtyard, surrounded by people of various age groups. They had gathered there to offer prayers for the departed soul of his 12-year-old girl who died due to blood cancer. She was the darling of the whole village, and despite coming from traditional Baluchi family, she was like a tomboy...
Selling war and peace THE Americans who have taught the whole world the concept of selling and marketing seem to have forgotten the basics themselves. President Bush has completely failed in his attempt to convince the world that the war was justified....		Green is in SOMEHOW, most Pakistani sites prefer the colour green. Take, for example, Pakistan Development Gateway’s website, www.pdg.org.pk, which even has a Pakistani flag on the left side to bring home the point....
PIA stretches its wings WHEN PIA claimed, as it often did, that it was more than an airline, it meant that it had taken imitative that fell more properly in nation-building. The air link between East and West Pakistan, the helicopter services, the Northern Areas operations in Gilgit...		Turning teaching into a business IT is an acknowledged fact that the standard of education in Sindh leaves a lot to be desired. The provincial authorities rightly face criticism for being inefficient and negligent in their duties, which has resulted in the present...
Fighting vitamin E deficiency VITAMIN E is a fat-soluble vitamin that exists in eight different forms. Each form has its own biological activity, the measure of potency or functional use in the body. Alpha-tocopherol is the most active form of vitamin E in humans, and is a powerful...		Lost in time THE Hyderabad Fort, commonly known as Pucca Qila, does not seem to go much in antiquity though the city itself can claim its origin in the remote past....
G.M. Syed and Indian Muslims THE All-India Muslim League (AIML)’s 31st session at Karachi, in late December 1943, was the last AIML session to be held before its bifurcation into the Pakistan Muslim League and the Indian Union Muslim League at the AIML Council meeting at Karachi on December 14-15, 1947. At this session, G.M. Syed gave a welcome...		Musafiran-i-London DESPITE the enormous research carried out on the life and works of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan during the past hundred years, there are certain aspects of his personality, as well as...
The big booty IF only Saddam had planted bushes to the liking of George Bush Sr in the gardens of each of his many palaces spread all over Iraq, about 12 years back, the future of the ill-fated country that is Iraq would have still been in the hands of the much-hounded Saddam. Bush, after all, has a fondness for bushes....		Why is Abdullah Husain unhappy? ABDULLAH Husain is very unhappy on the boisterous reception given to Arundhati Roy on her visit to Pakistan. He has given vent to his feelings in a letter addressed to the...
Jagmohan Dalmiya, the king of cricket? THERE shall be peace in our time.” Those were the words of British Prime Minister, Sir Neville Chamberlain, as he stepped off the plane in England and waved the signed treaty from his meeting with the German Chancellor...		Let us keep our fingers crossed WITH so much going around these days on the Pakistan-India front, there is much speculation in the media and in private discussions about the possibility of sporting links getting revived between...
Passionate about Pakistan? MACABRE as it is, the body of a 65 year-old Muslim woman was found covered with bacon in a hospital mortuary in London. She had died of cancer. “How could anyone think of such a thing...I do not know why they chose my mother?”....		Of women drivers ONCE upon a time there was a truck driver who came across a lamp lying by the side of the road. He stopped, picked it up, examined it and then rubbed it. In a matter of seconds, smoke started to come out of it and suddenly a jinn...
Up in the wilderness BHURBAN is one of the many small towns doting the slopes, valleys and mountaintops around Islamabad, and creating a truly jungle main mangal scene. Beauty combined with wilderness, Bhurban is undeniably...		Challenge of the Islamists THE Musharraf government has only itself to blame for the electoral success of the MMA in the last general elections (Challenge of the Islamists, May 11). With Nawaz Sharif and Benazir...
MOSAIC: World Biodiversity Day BIOLOGICAL diversity — or biodiversity — is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. The biodiversity we see today is the fruit of billions of years of evolution, shaped by natural processes and, increasingly, by the influence of humans. It forms the web of life of which we are an integral part....		Newsmaker THE US may be clever enough to oust Saddam Hussein on the dubious pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction, but the organizational power of the Iraqi Shias nullified all their efforts. And now with Ayatollah...