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Lab of a different kind WITH the recent deal over the LFO, yet another political arrangement is being experimented with in the country....		It’s democracy vs dictatorship THE New York-based professor of Sociology, Ms Shahnaz Rouse, believes that the Pakistanis need to disentangle religion from the concept of the nation-state....
Perspectives on suicide This is in continuation of our discourse on suicide last week. It very rarely happens that a person commits suicide in normal conditions....		Going up in smoke Government efforts spanning over a period of more than a year to check the hazards of smoking and curb the trend among juveniles have been well appreciated as a good beginning...
The potential of a child There are many ways to help a child gain the confidence to function well in today’s society. They need to be able to stand up for themselves, speak up and say...		NET-CLIP: Teenage years TEENAGE years are one of the most exciting, yet challenging spans of life as a person is in the process of stepping out of childhood and into the initial stages of...
Beauty and the Afghan STANDING at a little over five foot nine, the 25-year-old Afghan brunette, Vida Samadzai caused a global sensation last year when she became the first Afghan woman ever to appear in a swimsuit competition....		At the confluence of history, beauty and fortune GWADAR district, with its 600-kilometre long coastline and un-irrigated tracts of Kulanch and Dasht valleys, has always been an important chapter of Makran’s history....
Our next Murree PERHAPS the British should have never left the subcontinent. In the teeth of opposition from intractable locals, who clung with great tenacity to intangible dreams and impractical traditions...		Makli crumbling brick by brick LAST month, the Makli Hill necropolis of Thatta was to have hosted the annual award giving ceremony of All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS). The main purpose of holding the function in...
Throw away the bottle Modern science has failed to produce a milk that has the unique properties of breast milk, and it is unlikely that such a proprietary food will be formulated in the foreseeable future....		HOT SEAT SUFIA SHAHID started watching films when she was in college, as before that “there was this restriction, a kind of a curfew by the family to keep the kids away from...
From a vantage point This is the post 9/11 era, not only in America but also across the globe. And what affects the sole superpower has its ripples floating way beyond one’s imagination....		CHAPTER FROM HISTORY: Delhi under British heels If you wish to test the veracity and significance of the Italian old adage ‘Vengeance sleeps long, but never dies’, you will only have to leaf through the bloodstained pages of...
The incurable canker Has there been a period in the history of mankind when man has not placed self over everything else? From survival to self-aggrandisement, the nucleus of his activity has been his ego....		The complexities of playing with India THE stories are folklore, the moments are legion. And they are different from the two sides of the border. In India, they haven’t stopped talking about the four victories over Pakistan in World Cup matches, so far a perfect record....
THROUGH THE COVERS: Fashionable, but not practical EVER since Pakistan Cricket Board had a new chairman, there have been a few things happening on the domestic scene. I have tried to refrain from being judgmental on such happenings...		Piercing the veil a la NYT A Pakistani student at Stanford has produced a documentary about re-inventing the Taliban. This she has done on an assignment for the New York Times ...
Of exhibits and displays VIBRANT with a capital V and full of movement, as many as 39 paintings by senior landscape painter, Ghulam Rasul, opened at the World Bank building last week. To fill the...		DIY interior designing I recently underwent the task of redesigning my room. My previous structure has been torn down entirely and a new one has taken its place....
NEWSMAKER EVER since the sudden cancellation of their wedding plans, just days before the D-day in September last year, amid a flurry of unprecedented media frenzy, there had been frequent reports of their break-up....		Our Charlie Wilson With reference to Ms Anjum Niaz’s contribution Our man Charlie Wilson (December 21, 2003), kudos for Ms Niaz, for exposing the known hypocrisy, of the late Zia ul Haq of Pakistan,...