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Trial and (t)error PERCEPTIONS of a country are largely created by its people, culture and products. In today’s world, media access makes it possible for the whole world to identify countries on the basis of their international and national celebrities, their unique cultural norms and traditions and their distinctive products and services....		Justice must prevail WHEN people are deprived of their basic rights, they get frustrated and resort to extremist behaviour. Terrorism is one manifestation of such behavioural deviance, says Dr Unaiza Niaz, who is a consultant psychiatrist and adviser to the Pakistan Commission on Women on psychiatry....
Mahmood and Ayaz perform Umra IT was rumoured that Mahmood would this time take along his favourite servant Ayaz on his journey to the holy land to perform Umra. Soon it turned out to be true....		Don’t worry, be happy A PROPER, healthy diet plays a significant role in the improvement of health of any person. But the psychological factor is just as important. Dr Alexis Carrol, the Noble prize...
A competitive market POLYPHONIC tones, colour screen, multimedia messaging, downloadable games, Bluetooth technology, VGA camera with flash, noise cancelling speaker phone, 1.3 megapixel camera, multimedia card etc....		Guru of ‘faith’ AS the history of popular music rolls, one fact shines through: talent wins. You can plagiarize and survive for any length of time. You can hype and fool people more than once. You can even hide behind image-makers, or alluring videos, or the cut of this season’s clothes; but then you die.....
Helping oneself FOR the women of Taluka Johi, in District Dadu, a new activity is helping them earn money and learn new skills....		The calm and cozy town The central Sri Lankan town of Kandy is the place to be if you want peace and tranquility of the countryside and the atmosphere of a town ...
A preventable disease KNOWLEDGE in the field of viral hepatitis has recently made considerable progress. First we only learned the identity of two of these specific viruses; that was twenty years ago. Hepatitis B virus was discovered in 1965 and the Hepatitis-A virus was discovered in 1973....		A virtual dustbin of history IT is the irony of fate that instead of protecting and preserving our heritage, we in Pakistan, prefer to sit idly by and watch history turn to dust. The Sindh provincial...
Entrepreneurial excellence THE explosion of information technology in the past two decades in India has created a few men of such enormous wealth that the fabled Nizam of Hyderabad of days of yore may look no more than a lord attendant in the country of these new self-made billionaires....		The reign of Akbar KNOWING the importance that coins have for numismatists in exploring various facts in the era of their circulation, it may be of some interest to the readers to know about what...
The colourful rituals WITH the arrival of Shab-i-Barat, I am reminded of a Hindi novel which I have recently read. It is a novel which has originated from the rituals of Shab-i-Barat....		Hot Seat ACTOR, designer and choreographer Shaiyanne Malik says she watches a lot of movies and loves to watch Indian films, especially those starring Shahrukh Khan. She says without any qualms, “I simply...
Memoirs of a volunteer IN this day and age when supposedly there isn’t any such thing as a free-thing, nearly 160,000 people from around the world volunteered to be part of the Olympic dream. Eventually 50,000 made the final cut. I was one of them....		A good omen for Asian hockey AFTER a long time, the Indian hockey team has arrived in Pakistan to play an eight-match series. Half of the matches will be played on Indian soil. This is a good...
A popular and successful tour IN 1974, I was manager of the Pakistan team during its tour of England. I was a media person and managing teams was a new experience for me. I also had...		It’s the team that matters THE West Indian victory in the ICC Champions Trophy is something to celebrate for the true lovers of the game regardless of nationality or any other factor. There was a time...
Hearts divided LAST week, when I went into the furniture store, Laverne Poole was just another salesperson, polite but distant. She sat smug behind her computer, letting customers roam free among sofas and chairs, deciding on beds and dinettes. When asked about any specials, she blandly offered to take 30 per cent off from the merchandize I’d buy....		Transport travesties I LEARNED many new things after shifting to a new house. The most important, and perhaps inevitable thing, was my introduction to the public transport system of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. I learned, through trial and error, how to get home from college, not to be cheated out of transport fare and not to fall asleep on the bus....
Beyond borders HAVING obtained their degrees from institutions as prestigious as the University of Punjab, the University of Pennsylvania, the Sindh University, the Oxford University, the Lahore College and the London School of...		A vanishing art form WITH reference to the article, A vanishing art form (September 19), a pehlawan quoted the golden days of the Talpurs when they used to get immense fringe benefits. However, that is...
MOSAIC: Cloud forests THE Earth’s cloud forests, vital and unique habitats for thousands of rare and endangered species, and suppliers of year-round water supplies for farmers, rural communities and many rapidly growing cities, are...		Newsmaker THE Taj Mahal has stood tall along the banks of river Yamuna for 350 years now as an elegy in marble that Shahjahan commissioned in memory of his beloved Mumtaz Mahal. On Monday last, hundreds of heart-shaped balloons....