January 16, 2005

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Will Sharon negotiate? WHEN Mahmoud Abbas was the prime minister of Palestine (April 30-Sept 6, 2003), Ariel Sharon gave several reasons for not talking to the Palestinian Authority (PA). One of the reasons was that Yasser Arafat was undermining him....		The elusive peace MAHMOUD Abbas’s election as president of the Palestinian Authority after Yasser Arafat’s death represents the commitment of the Palestinian people to a peaceful and democratic transfer of power, and if Israel is interested in a durable peace in the Middle East, it must address the grievances of the Palestinian people, says Prof Shameem Akhtar, former chairman department of international relations, University of Karachi....
World within, world without WE celebrated the New Year night to our hearts’ content at the palatial kothi (bungalow) of our aged friend G. N. Aagboot, a shipping magnet hailing no one knows from where. He holds the national identity card and a Pakistani passport, and has been living in Karachi for decades. No one doubts his identity....		Judgment is the key UDGMENT is the key factor when it comes to getting involved in a relationship, and while analyzing a person one must be rational and fair instead of being emotional or biased. We are all unique individuals. There is no magic formula to judge a person and no one is perfect. Sometimes emotions become hard to suppress which is why it’s important that in a relationship....
Horrible habits I HAVE a number of nasty habits, and some goods ones too. I do not know from where I acquired them. Some say most habits are inherited; but my parents...		E-mail etiquettes ELECTRONIC MAIL, or e-mail, is well-known among many people for its innumerable advantages. Ask any novice Internet user and the virtues of e-mail will start flowing in: it is quicker to...
Tsunami of tears SOMETIMES, the lines on the palm of your hand do not indicate how old you will live. But the fault line does, especially when it lies on an ocean floor. The December 26 Asian tsunami killed nearly 150,000 people and displaced up to five million in 11 countries in the Indian Ocean basin....		The plight of women EVERY so often we read in the newspapers, the tragic tale of a woman being burnt or publicly humiliated by her near and dear ones. Call it karo-kari or call it...
A cosmopolitan city MUMBAI is the financial and trading centre of the Republic of India. It is the chief seaport on the western coast with an excellent harbour sheltered from the Arabian Sea....		Losing sight of the heavens BEYOND the limits of Karachi, just after the Toll Plaza, is one of the favourite hangouts of the city’s residents. With families, people converge on dhabas or small roadside restaurants, off National Highway to enjoy an outing away from the rush and the madness of the city....
A sensitive Lilliputian I WAS tending my dahlias in the morning and noticed that their petals were dusty. So I sprinkled them with water profusely. At that very moment, the Lilliputian Yajuj emerged...		Pilgrims’ progress THE grand annual congregation of millions of the Muslims from all parts of the world during the lunar month of Zil Haj is not only a religious ritual, but also an occasions to pay homage to Hazrat Ibrahim (Biblical Abraham), the founder of monotheism, or “belief in a living God”, as Montgomery Walt defines it in Muhammad at Madina.....
All the world’s a stage ... FOR the last few years, stage productions in Lahore have been monopolized by those who are more into commercial theatre. With the passage of time, commercialism brought vulgarity into stage plays,...		The coffin IT was 68AD. Jerusalem was besieged by the Roman army under the command of General Vespasian. It seemed that the full might of the Roman empire was given the task to...
Hot Seat Of the few great actors produced by our television, actor and producer Talat Hussain is very much a perfectionist. Asked why he decided to be an actor by profession, he reveals:...		Adios Gen. Aziz RELYING on assumptions, people come, pass their time and go without any accountability for constant failures, building their fortunes at the expense of government exchequer. Sports are no exception....
Who’s really to blame? PAKISTAN’S much maligned domestic cricket set-up has again become a target of the backlash of the critics as a result of the national team’s predictably poor performance in Australia....		It’s 34 to 1 BANGLADESH finally registered their first historic Test victory, against Zimbabwe at Chittagong, handing the visitors a crushing defeat. The winning margin of 226 runs itself speaks volumes about the convincing manner...
‘The best advice I ever had’ BACK in the old days, Jim Collins took his teachers’ advice to heart and has since reaped richness — intellectually and financially. It was not a ‘to do list’, but a ‘stop doing list’....		To see or not to see NOT so long ago, I was watching TV and there wasn’t anything particularly interesting on. So I decided to watch a movie with my friends. I thought I should check out...
Taken for a ride UST to get a taste of the good old days in the late ‘80s when I was in Karachi, earning my bread and butter as an advertising man and a pen pusher, and riding a mini bus out of necessity when fortune, like power supply in Karachi, fluctuated and rested on the low, I got an intense urge to ride a mini bus when I visited my country last April after 14 long years....		Strong family ties WITH reference to the article Strong family ties (December 26), I do agree that strong family relations play a vital role in the upbringing of children. No doubt, parents deal with...
MOSAIC: Flood threat worldwide THE number of people living in the path of potentially devastating floods is set to double — from one to two billion — within two generations unless adequate preventative steps are...		Newsmaker THE NEW Year has started with the break-up of the year — Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have announced their separation after four and a half years of marriage. For months there had been talk of their break-up and it is said that the two made a last attempt to reconcile by spending the New Year weekend together in the Caribbean. But it seems things didn’t work out and their fairy tale union came to an end....