March 13, 2005

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Urban unrest IT would be extremely hard to subscribe to the official claim that there is peace in the demographically largest city of the country, Karachi....		About suicide attacks PAKISTAN initiated the war of 1965 with India on August 31 by crossing the LoC in Kashmir. The Pakistan Army achieved significant success with inroads aimed at capturing Srinagar....
Wedding meals “BABU - ek roti ka sawal hay ... Allah tujhey salamat rakhey ...” I was distracted by this sound which came from a dark corner of the road. Undecided, I stopped...		For the love of youth THE future of any country depends on its youth. If its youth is mentally and physically sound, it is believed that the country’s future will be a bright one....
Plagiarized highrises WHILE addressing a large group of architects and related professionals, during a moot on December 10, last year, the President of the Institute of Architects...		NET-CLIP: Chatting etiquettes ASK any Internet user what his/her favourite online past time is and the most likely answer will be ‘chatting’. Whether using mIRC or instant messengers, almost anyone who is using Internet...
Exploring Japan BEAUTIFUL, succulent, historic, cultural, relaxing, nostalgic, profound just name it and you will find it all in Japan inter wined with a genuine and heart warming hospitality of its people....		DIARY OF A VAGABOND: An Arab with a Pakistani soul THAT evening, in the Food Court, at the City Centre, over a bowl of soup I met one of UAE’s most amazing personalities; Mr Suhail Al Zarooni whose name is mentioned...
Opportunities in emission trading Malik Amin Aslam is the Minister of State for Environment. For a country like Pakistan, whose credentials in environment and sustainable...		Hot Seat GETTING hold of Dr Tipu Sultan is no easy task. The Dean of Anaesthesia of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the ex- Dean of Medicine at the University of...
The heart has its reasons DESPITE the fact that Sigmund Freud may have a different definition of it, ‘love’ is an eternal feeling....		CHAPTER FROM HISTORY: Transformation of England WITH the beginning of the famous Norman Rule in 1066, the political landscape of England took a new shape. Prior to that, the country had seen many civil wars, invasions, change...
POINT OF VIEW: A gentle soul MUSHFIQ Khwaja is no more with us. His death has brought an abrupt end to a scholar’s journey, who always wanted to come up with something new in the field of...		Kolkata calling THE second Test match at Calcutta, now known as Kolkata, is as accidental an event as it is enormously enthusiastic....
The fastest Pakistani in town MOVE over Shoaib Akhtar, there is a new speedster in town. And he’s now just chucking balls at fearless batsmen; he’s grabbing speed by the guts and whizzing past amazed onlookers....		THROUGH THE COVERS: A poor start to the Indian tour WHETHER or not Pakistan finally wriggled out of the tight spot in the first Test of the series will have been known by the time these lines come out in print....
Encounters of a desi kind ON a sunless chill-soaked afternoon, after a spicy masala dossa at Edison, known as ‘little India’ in New Jersey, gorging on a meetha paan...		Mukhtaran’s moral war IN the sweltering heat of Multan in June of 2002, members of the influential local tribe of Mastoi sexually abused a boy and then plotted another vile crime as cover-up....
Gone haywire AS is typical of most local ventures, new ideas and products are introduced with so much pomp and show that one thinks that this might be ‘different’, this might actually ‘work’....		Newsmaker SOME things are so timeless that they can’t even be termed classic. And this is the case with the fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen almost two centuries ago....
MOSAIC: Polar bears in peril THEORETICALLY a protected species, the polar bear has in practice been exposed to an increasing number of man-made perils, leading researchers to worry that it could be completely extinct in just...		An Indian odyssey With reference to Pervez Hoodbhoy’s lead article An Indian odyssey (February 20), the article has helped me do away some impressions I had about the Indians’ claims towards cultural modernity....