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Time to go Track-III IN an issue of Newsweek back in 1987, an American was asked by its correspondent to express his reaction to Mikhail Gorbachev’s reformist Glasnost and Perestroika winding down statist communism and the Cold War....		The solution is simple WHEN Mani Shankar Aiyar came to Pakistan recently, there was a bit of deja vu about it. Now a Congress politician and a columnist, he is a former consul-general posted at the Indian Consulate in Karachi. It came as no surprise, then, that among all the Indians who...
Ploy of Pemra A TEENAGE boy approached his grandfather, a stalwart of the Pakistan Movement, and asked, “Dada, I like Sunil Shetty and Hrithik Roshan’s films. Does that imply I do not love my country? The perplexed grandfather replied, “Better ask Pemra.” After challenging your patriotism in the newspapers, Pemra is no more....		Wake up, woman THIS is a wake up call for women who really believe they are closer to having equal rights in this modern age of clones and clowns. After all, we have the...
Learn to harness brand loyalty ONCE upon a time, profitability and social responsibility had an inverse relationship and resided in enemy camps. In the modern age, the corporate world has found that they are not mutually exclusive, rather they can peacefully coexist in a win-win situation. Proactive and progressive businesses in the world have learnt...		Travel perfect KAMRAN Gulzar, a twenty-year-old student from Lahore, has been using the wagon to commute from Thokar Niaz Beg to the Secretariat on Mall Road for the past few years. Recently, however, he has started taking the bus...
Work from your home IT was when my husband and I decided to swallow the madness pill and quit our jobs and start our own business that we discovered the myths about how great it...		Plan in haste, repent in leisure LONG ago, Lahore became a big cosmopolitan — second biggest in Pakistan and fourteenth in the world — with a large fleet of vehicles, few usable roads, and even fewer traffic...
The summer delights of chilly Norway LOOKING out of the window at 10.30 in the night, it was difficult to believe my eyes. The verdant, lush lawns of the Blindern Studenterjhem glimmered under a relentless, fully active and awake Sun that seemed to be in...		An opportunity that should be availed of POLIO is a crippling disease, especially in children in whom it can be the source of lifelong paralysis. The poliovirus is highly contagious, and in places where vaccination rates are low, it can spread easily from child to child....
Dasvidania, Moscow UPON our arrival in Moscow, a plumpy but pretty Valentina and her lanky and lean male counterpart, Luna were attached with us as interpreters. Besides being fluent in English, they spoke...		States of consciousness CREATIVE processes have shown that each higher rational stage that succeeds on the sealing of the preceding rational stage sheds its crude and rough mass, descending in a highly sensitive and complicated form of matter....
Tobacco and the Mughal court MEDICALLY, it is now established that smoking is hazardous for health and, therefore, to discourage habitual and addicted smokers, there are laws and social restrictions which are in force to keep...		The role of literary journals THE Quaid-i-Azam Library of Lahore arranged a discussion on the role of literary journals in the development of literature. Salim Akhtar presented his paper, which was confined to a survey of...
Hot Seat SHEEMA Kirmani has many facets to her life, being a classical dancer, theatre actor and a social activist. Today she shares her choices in terms of music, movies and books with...		A typical Latif landmark CAPTAIN of the Pakistani cricket team, wicket-keeper Rashid Latif was banned for five One-Day Internationals for violating the International Cricket Council’s code of conduct. His crime; he acted to claiming a catch when he had not, thus guilty of cheating...
Fitness is the key EVEN the most skilled team is as good as its level of fitness. If the boys are not fit, the skill cannot come to the team’s rescue. In fact, you can...		The boss says it all, but ... THROUGHOUT the Test series we set the criterion that if the match enters the last day, the moral victory should go to Bangladesh. It happened only once, in the first Test,...
A cry for justice THE 1980s saw the hype to go to the Middle East to earn a livelihood reach its peak. Phrases like Dubai chalo (let’s go to Dubai) became famous throughout the country. As a result, many people from Pakistan...		Of critics and criticism BEN JONSON said: “Critics are a kind of tinkers that make more faults than they mend ordinarily.” Dryden asserted: “The corruption of a poet is the generation of a critic.” J.P. Sartre complained: “They read quickly...
Survival of the fittest WHEN our family shifted to Lahore in the late ’60s, Azam’s grocery shop was at a walking distance from our rented house in Block B of Model Town....		Stop procrastinating THIS is with reference to the article Stop procrastinating (August 10). The writer has rightly complained of the indifferent and non-indulgent behaviour on the behalf of the present-day civilized man....
MOSAIC: Japan to have 20,000 centenarians IN A fresh sign of the rapid ageing of Japan’s population, the number of people aged 100 or older is expected to reach a record high of 20,561 by the end...		Newsmaker PALESTINIAN parliamentary speaker Ahmed Qurie, also known as Abu Ala, ended days of political crisis and uncertainty, in Palestine when he accepted President Yasser Arafat’s offer to become the prime minister. The crisis had been the result...