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(un)United Nations WHILE the happenings in Iraq, and indeed the runup to the attack itself, have left the world a horde of bewildered souls, the most unfortunate part of the deal has been the brazen toothlessness of the United Nations....		The UN can never be irrelevant LOUISE FRICHETTE, the first Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, is of the firm opinion that the world without the UN would be a much worse place. The world body has had its lows, but is not generally given the credit even when due, regrets Ms Frichette....
Spell of evil AFTER offering Eid prayers, the brothers in faith hugged each other and exchanged Eid greetings. They were obviously happy. Most of them had relished sumptuous Iftar-dinners for the entire 29 days of the holy month of Ramazan. The pious....		A gifted teacher WHEN we think about one of the greatest and most wonderful of inventions, the telephone, our thoughts wander to its inventor, Alexander Graham Bell. However, many of us don’t know or...
PC pains “DON’T tell me about your aching neck, or your backache. Tell it to your computer.” Sound odd? Not for someone like me who has concerned parents and a passion for computers....		Labourers abound IN modern Human Resource Management literature, the term labour market, implies of a global market from where one can hire the best of expertise. But here, what I am referring to is large groups of workers seen at busy places...
Dining out WHILE most humans eat to live, in Pakistan most of us live to eat. With a decline in home cooking, eating out has become a major pastime; in fact, no outing...		Treasures of the North WITH the arrival of cold breeze, streets and bazaars of Rawalpindi/Islamabad are seen decorated with dried fruits. Among them is the dried apricot of Gilgit-Baltistan, famous for its dietary and taste....
The stigma that really matters I AM a student of nursing and during my mental health nursing clinical rotation, I came across a few patients who were brought to psychiatric ward after they condition had worsened. On inquiry, I knew that the root cause...		The Day of Judgment AS I looked back to preserve the serene image of Siral, my awestruck eyes captured it for those rainy days in the future when once again I will be chained in...
Marriage and Islam MARRIAGE, a holy bond between a man and a woman, has been celebrated for the longest time in all cultures and religions. In Islam, the concepts of marriage and family life are of utmost importance, ruled by the Shari’a or the legal tradition in Islam....		Aali and his dohas IT is after a long time that Jamiluddin Aali has appeared as his true self. His newly published volume, Dohay, brings before us once again the poet who, in previous years,...
Women in the Mughal court THIS is the story of three royal ladies — Mughal King Akbar Shah’s mother Qudsia Begum, his favourite wife Mumtaz Mahal and paternal aunt Daulat-un-Nisa Begum — and how they tried to influence the nominal monarch’s dealings with the British, and might have succeeded had they not been confounded by intrigues in the Red Fort itself....		Hot Seat EINSTEIN once said to his Princeton University students: “Never read good books! Only read the BEST!!! Life is short ... If you concern yourselves with only the good, you will never...
PTV caught napping IT was one dramatic irony after another. First, the PCB had used lucid initiatives to reel in the New Zealanders to come and play cricket, yet the entire nation, bar the...		‘Good luck to Dawn’ TAUQIR Zia is finally out. The ex-Corps Commander of Mangla has stepped off the pedestal and will no longer be the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board. At least this is...
It’s too good to be real WITH the resignation of Tauqir Zia one more ad hoc administration of Pakistan Cricket Board has come to an end, or so I would like to believe. But my gut feeling...		What’s with Harvard? PERSONALLY, I know of at least one “traveller” who, unable to tread the two roads, chose the one “less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.” Today, he is a name in corporate America. Giving up all his earthly...
Canine cravings AS a child, I grew up thinking that domesticated dogs understood just one language — English. It never occurred to me to question this fact. I spoke to my first dog,...		The Companions in Istanbul WITH reference to the piece, The Companions in Istanbul (November 2), I would like to point out a number of wrong facts. First of all, the revered name of Sahabi Hazrat...
MOSAIC: Why we see red when we look at ocean plants? GREEN was the dominant colour for plants both on land and in the ocean until about 250 million years ago when changes in the ocean’s oxygen content — possibly sparked by...		Newsmaker HE is a 45-year-old kid living a life of fantasy in a dreamland called Neverland. The only problem is that he likes to share his world with pre-teens and teen boys who later accuse him of molestation. Michael Jackson is in trouble again....