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A smokescreen? AMERICA’S ‘Iraq democracy’ project, designed to claim legitimacy of its two-year old brutal occupation and planned plunder of the oil-rich Arab state, scored a temporary success as the scheduled January 30 elections took place in a rather peaceful ambience, and the scale of violence was much less by current Iraqi standards....		It’s a farcical situation THE Jan 30 elections in Iraq lacked legitimacy. They were a farce staged by the US in order to fool the Iraqi people and the international public opinion, says Dr Talat A. Wizarat, former chairperson, department of international relations, University of Karachi....
Call it exaggeration A MIDDLE-aged woman was a television addict. It always occurred to her that she could never survive without watching programmes on television. The only time that she did not watch television was when she was found fast asleep dumped in a soft sofa a few feet away from...		A passing infatuation SITTING erect and tense before the silver screen of his P4 PC, he was watching the silver bar moving back and forth on the bottom left corner ... come on man...
A clash of generations “I LIVED in Pakistan for 18 years, but have been in the UK for four years to acquire education. Am I a western or an eastern Muslim?” The question was followed...		The learning process TRADITIONALLY, young people in Pakistan are asked to do a job, or as they say, enter practical life, as soon as they graduate — sometimes even before that. Graduation in our...
The father of fairytale THIS year, the world is celebrating the 200th birthday of the famed Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, also known as the father of fairytale. The yearlong bicentennial celebrations will be marked...		Preserving wildlife LIKE any other area of human activity, in the field of wildlife too this country has suffered immeasurably. The major factors, in the forests of Sindh are firstly deforestation of the riverine belt which was the natural ...
Combating cyberterrorism COMPUTERS have dramatically changed the way we live. Financial institutions, businesses, public utilities, governments, and individuals use online computer technology in their routine activities as an indispensable tool....		To Shanghai with affection LAST year I had the opportunity of visiting China’s financial hub, Shanghai. I was invited to HPAIR — Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations. This is a grand annual event organized by Harvard University where delegates from all over the world participate and debate on issues mainly concerning Asia....
Desperate measures TYPHOID fever (TF) remains an important public health problem in many developing countries. It is responsible for about 16 million cases and more than 600,000 deaths a year. Almost 80 per cent of cases and 80 per cent of deaths occur in Asia while others occur in Africa and Latin America....		Saving Gandhara treasures ONCE upon a time, naturally in Greece, the great Plato claimed that all Greeks were made of gold, the Mediterranean of silver and rest of the humanity of iron. His disciples...
Mystery master SHERLOCK Holmes is the world’s most popular detective character. This famous fictitious character was first created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his story Study in scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual....		A reputed institution THE Aligarh Movement has often been called one of the most significant factors responsible for Islamic renaissance in India. It provided the Muslims with an important institution, which helped them achieve...
Different seasons URDU poets, while portraying basant celebrations, have particularly highlighted two of its basic features: the yellow dress worn by those celebrating the event, and music. Inspired by the flowers blooming in...		Hot Seat ALL it takes is a song to emerge from the clouds of anonymity and rise to the glory of fame; at least that is what has happened with Fakhr-e-Alam....
What Woolmer promised ... ONCE upon a time, not too long ago though, there lived in the land of pure million upon millions of unsuspecting and gullible people who believed in anything and everything but themselves....		Forget it sooner rather than later SO that was it. Pakistan pushed Australia hard, but did not have enough firepower to finish the job in the best-of-three VB Series finals. In the end it was a case...
A forgotten sports complex TASTEFULLY designed and built with a huge sum of Rs70 million, the magnificent structure of the Women Sports Complex’s Phase II in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Karachi stands today as a symbol of government...		Signing his life away! ONCE he was suicidal. Now, he’s gone into deep depression. The unbearable lightness of calamity to come is driving Hafeez, a Pakistani store owner, father of three little girls, close to the edge; he can blunder further into an emotional whirlpool and allow the forces of injustice to suck him under for good....
How to look beautiful HERE is a question and answer session in which useful beauty tips are given to people belonging to different spheres of life....		Obsessive, compulsive ONCE I get an idea in my head, no matter how silly or wise, I can’t get it out. It’s almost impossible to exercise logic and restraint at such a time,...
They die with dignity WITH reference to Amar Jaleel’s column They die with dignity (January 30), he equates Socrates with personalities that actually did not die with dignity....		Think nine steps ahead THIS advice of thinking nine stpes ahead may be a stiff advice to follow but sometimes against a competent adversary it is necessary. There may be a snake in the grass...
MOSAIC: Mountains falling apart GLOBAL warming is destroying some of the world’s tallest and most stunning mountains In Peru, the glaciers capping 18 peaks in the Andes are melting, and if “climatic conditions remain as they are, all the glaciers below 18,000 feet will disappear by around 2015,” said Patricia Iturregui, president of Peru’s National Environment Council.....		Newsmaker STRANGE are the ways of the heart and stranger still are the choices it makes. Who would have thought that the elegant authoress Tahmina Durrani will find the charms of chotay mian Shahbaz Sharif just too hard to...