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Use it, or lose it FIVE years ago around this time of the year, both India and Pakistan conducted their nuclear tests — India, followed by Pakistan....		Terrible toys to play with DR Pervez Hoodbhoy believes that the possession of nuclear weapons has given Pakistan a false sense of confidence and security that encouraged it into adventurism, and may well do so again in the future....
Children of yesterday A bunch of children of yesterday in age group of 55 years and above gathered together under a huge banyan tree at a deserted location in old Clifton. It was their monthly brainstorming session....		Rewarding nobody THE process of linking up performance with rewards starts from the childhood. “Do this and you will get that” is the most repeated phrase in our memories. However,it is just the...
NET-CLIP: At the top SO what is that makes Mt Everest so famous? What is it about this mountain that makes climbers want to risk their lives and reach the top? When in 1923, while...		Punjab pandemonium IT looked more like a fortress, ready to take on an invading army, than an institution of legislation. The Punjab Assembly was up in arms against the freebooters, politically defined as the members of the provincial assembly....
Lord’s is Lord’s When I had first done the cricket commentary for BBC in 1962, I was an intense, young man who took cricket seriously and became a part of the battle on the...		In the company of mountains Phantastiche (Fantastic), an awe-struck German travelling in the PIA Fokker blurts out as he eyes several snow- covered peaks, merely 2,000 feet below the plane, and at least two even higher than the maximum cruising altitude of the aircraft....
Of dreamlands and nightmares Finally the day came when we walked into the promised Kishan Gunga Valley, with the river Kishan Gunga flowing thousands of meters below us and the dark unfriendly rocks all above...		Fresh procedure to straighten the spine OSTEOPOROSIS is one of the most common diseases in the country. Females are more prone to this disease as compared to males. But more importantly, it is a painless condition, that is until a bone breaks due to this disease....
Byron, the uncultured poet THE term ‘Satanic School’ was first coined by Southey in his preface to a vision of judgment of a poem that came rather heavily upon the younger generation of romanticists Keats,...		Don’t blame others THE degradation of our nation and a perceptible and progressive degeneration of our national character has been variously imputed; to feudalism, to a corrupt bureaucracy, to the hegemonical role of the armed forces, to an incompetent civil leadership and so forth....
CHAPTER FROM HISTORY: Voices for peace THROUGHOUT the history of humankind, although the time-span of period of war has been relatively short, the havoc and destruction it has wrought on human societies makes it the most devastating...		POINT OF VIEW: A poet from ‘top to toe’ A POET from Islamabad who was in Lahore recently, bombarded me with a volley of questions, making it difficult for me to defend myself....
The unsung hero of Pakistan boxing BOXING is one of the very few sports in Pakistan that has consistently produced results. However, Pakistani boxers have never been officially pampered like their counterparts, say in hand or cricket....		DIFFERENT STROKES: Fourth ... in a three-nation contest! THAT there are serious problems with Pakistan Hockey, is known to all, and beyond any degree of doubt. But that the national side would lose to some Junior string was not...
THROUGH THE COVERS: Experimentation and more of it THERE are times when one fails to figure out what is keeping Pakistan Cricket alive. Of course, first and foremost, there is the Almighty who keeps all of us going. The...		Whose lie is it anyway? Are you reporters or sheep”? shot an angry woman from the audience. Bristled another: “Why can’t you so-called journalists ask tough questions of Bush?” Thundered the third...
Confessions of a chauvinist  In the words of the esteemed William Shakespeare, and also in my almost humble opinion, ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’. For, perhaps, hell is the fury of a...		Meet me at the gym! Lahoris have found a new hobby and they like to call it ‘working out’, which definitely sounds better than calling it plain old ‘exercise’....
NEWSMAKER HIS health may slowly be evading him, but like an aging bottle of wine, his popularity is as fresh as it was in his prime....		Adam’s mom After reading Adam’s Mom, May 11, by Amar Jaleel, I was in real shock....