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It’s a thing of joy, or is it? THE stunning Miss Ireland, Rosanna Davison, was crowned Miss World 2003 recently in the Chinese city of Sanya. The new Miss World, aged 19, crooned, “I am thrilled and delighted. It is a great honour...		Desire for health OUR dear friend Yousuf, at times affectionately called Yousuf, is hospitalized in a precarious condition. He is in extreme pain and agony. As I pen this story, I feel besieged by the dreary thought that he would depart from this world before daybreak tonight....
A true giant among men A GREAT man, true Muslim, eminent scholar, authentic researcher and a successful preacher, Dr Muhammad Hameedullah died on December 17, 2002, in Florida, USA, at the ripe old age of...		An Act which has lost its utility THE Employees Cost of Living (Relief) Act 1973 was promulgated by the first Pakistan Peoples Party government in 1973. This was a remedy devised in response to massive complaints of exploitation...
Pop shock! TILL this age in the history of the world, harsh lines have gotten demarcated between different nationalities, races and religions, yet not between cultures. Development has reduced...		Welcoming the new year IT’S that time of the year again, when you get ready to party, pop the corks and let the good times begin. But it is also that time of the year...
CNIC blues NADRA has declared that on 31st December 2003, old National Identity Cards will stand cancelled throughout the country. It is in reply to this that a Pakistani lawyer Shaukat Ali has...		The killer mountain IT has become known as the highest rock and ice wall in the world. For most of the year it remains wrapped in clouds, avalanches thunder under it incessantly. This is Nanga Parbat that was first climbed...
A forgotten priority THE determinants of a national priority vary from country to country. The inferences depend on the spectacles one uses. The health scenario focuses on economics and building of national character. Sound health plays...		Khuhawar Monuments A COUPLE of weeks back, I paid a visit to the historical town of Gajji Khuhawar, a small place in Warah taluka in Larkana. Warah, literally meaning cradle in Persian,...
Arms and politics WE plead incessantly for talks. The Indians refuse. Forget the recent camaraderie, for it is too recent to be trusted. They want the existence of their economic and military superiority to get them what they have not been able to get with their military confrontation....		Last days of Junagarh THE month of November, 1947, was a month of tragedy for the newborn state of Pakistan as India occupied two states which had legally and formally acceded to Pakistan as part...
‘The First Man’ in Urdu THE last novel by Albert Camus, titled The First Man, which was published posthumously, has been translated into Urdu. This may serve as pleasant news for the readers of Urdu literature,...		Hot Seat BEING the only source of entertainment in the 1950s and the ’60s, films sharpened the aesthetical sensibilities of noted playwright Asghar Nadeem Syed. Pakistani films of the time were closer to...
Squash in limbo ELEVENTH seeded Amr Shabana re-wrote the World Open squash history by becoming the first Egyptian ever to crown himself with glory in the biggest prize money mega-event that witnessed several upsets in Lahore last week....		A close call for both sides BY the time the curtain fell on the first Test between Pakistan and New Zealand, the Pakistanis were able to gain some momentum in the series. Having reached that point after...
Mainstream hockey returns to Karachi THE new synthetic surface laid out in Karachi at the Hockey Club of Pakistan is an act of great significance as far as the citizens of this ill-fated city are concerned. While life continues at its normal...		America actually IN the employment parched landscape where the jobless, a burgeoning 8.8 million, still surf the Internet and scour the ‘Help wanted’ signs while despairingly clinging to hope, it has been a year of disaster and decline. The Bush White House with....
Waiting for the Big Cat HAD it not been for the reopening of air links from January 2, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee would have crossed Attari to Wagah on foot, and then taken the...		Scarf vs secularism I read with great interest the article Scarf vs secularism (November 16). However, I was surprised to find that he has made absolutely no mention of the scarf problem of Western...
MOSAIC: Breathe easy UPPER respiratory tract infections are a significant health burden in childhood, states the Journal of American Medical Association. The average child has six to eight colds each year, each lasting seven...		Newsmaker FINALLY the argument about what to do with Ground Zero is over and the concerned parties have come up with the design of the new building that will replace the destroyed Twin Towers of New York. The empty spot of the Twin Towers in the skyline...