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Wither heritage AT the beginning of 2004, a directive was taken by the former prime minister, Mir Jamali, at the special request of the Punjab Chief Minister, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, to hand over the two historical and most financially profitable sites on...		It’s nothing but a bad precedent A FEW months ago, it was administratively decided to hand over the management of the historic Lahore Fort and Shalimar Gardens to the Punjab government. It was a totally irrational action on part of federal government authorities to bundle out...
Causes of terrorism A SIMPLE and easily comprehensible method for explaining a maxim is to narrate a relevant story. Ensuing true story in the following paragraphs reveals the causes that transformed an ordinary person into a terrorist....		Public safety is a non-issue ON June 16, a photograph of a bus which skidded off a bridge and plunged into a dry riverbed was carried by various newspapers. Forty innocent people lost their lives for...
Nuptial nonsense YASMIN, a teenage Afghan girl, was married off to a 20-year-old man when she was barely 12 years of age by her father, who lived in Bara, Khyber Agency. Yasmin, now...		Mixed response to safari RECREATION-starved Karachiites seem to have welcomed, though with some apprehension, the opening of a safari area at the Safari Park. Apart from adding one more place to the otherwise deficient...
Mangoes online THEY came, were relished and they conquered. Yes, its mangoes we are talking about that add zest to our dreary, sweaty summers....		Celebrating K2 K2 is known as the finest and most dangerous mountain in the world, mainly because of the massiveness in the size of this mountain and a number of unsuccessful attempts made on it by various expeditions....
Demographic dangers WHAT is development if it is not related to human beings? This is precisely what was discussed and stressed on at the Millennium Summit held in September 2000, where more than 140 world leaders reaffirmed their commitment...		Charms of Chaman CHAMAN is expected to be the focus of many an eye in the near future. It is going to be the last check post at the Gwadar Highway which will provide...
The Atiya-Shibli story FEARING that I may forget to mention a particular chain of thoughts which have oppressed me ever since Atiya Begum died in 1967, I will digress for a while from the main theme of the subject under discussion. I had an uninterrupted...		A loss to Urdu literature IT was only in recent years that I found myself among the lucky recipients of Naqd-o-Nazar, a prestigious critical journal published from Aligarh under the editorship of Prof Asloob Ahmad Ansari....
Significant battles IT is said that in World War II two significant battles played a pivotal role in Germany’s defeat. Here is a brief account of the two battles. On Sept 2, 1939, Germany attacked Poland and overwhelmed it after 28 days of intense fighting. A lull, called the ‘Phoney War’, followed during which Britain sent its army...		Hot Seat ZEBA Bakhtiar’s taste in movies, music and books is very selective and she only appreciates those works of art that are ‘beautiful and visually appealing’ because she ‘doesn’t like ‘ugliness’....
I want Pakistan cricket to move forward ONE thing is for sure, Bob Woolmer would never want to be just the next coach. Acknowledged as “super coach” for his innovations in using technology, Woolmer, a former England batsman who successfully transformed South Africa as one of...		Let the scoreline speak for itself I HAVE often in the past talked about the rather irritating tendency of Pakistan Cricket Board officials to think in public, plan in public, and, of course, wash their dirty...
A man of vision NUR KHAN is a sports person and cricket is only one of the games that he follows. He does not get too passionate as he did about hockey and squash. He...		Writing history as it occurs — II WORKING class demagoguery is in full swing as Michael Moore’s Bush-bashing, elite-trashing “Fahrenheit 9/11” is creating history by breaking all box-office records, leaving audiences clapping, crying, stunned and gasping...
Endless renovation HAVE you ever purchased a property that needed a thorough renovation? If not, you can’t understand what a trying experience it is....		The flip side of honour WITH reference to the article The flip side of honour (June 13), the media is trying to perform its duty by informing the masses about many crimes being committed on a...
MOSAIC: Asian dust DUST and sand storms are plaguing North East Asia nearly five times as often as they were in the 1950s....		Newsmaker Marlon Brando, the mumbler as some used to fondly call him, was a performer who literally changed the complexion of silver screen acting the moment he appeared as the brutish, shooting-from-the-hip Stanley Kowalski in the adapted film version of Tennessee...