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The state & the street While society has responded responsibly, the inherent weaknesses of our institutions and their working modalities have put them on the defensive, explaining why they could not do what they ought to...		Beyond one-upmanship ON many issues the Pakistani business and industrialist class stands united. It is in a chorus that businessmen and industrialists often demand more incentives. Most of them do not particularly enjoy...
Covering a disaster Thomas Jefferson once said: “A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and what never will be.” Unfortunately, it happened in Pakistan and everyone was caught off-guard....		Children in distress The recent earthquake has left thousands of children in distress. A large number of them have lost their parents. Some have even seen their parents’ dead bodies or witnessed their burials....
Masonry and mud bricks Getting on a plane to Islamabad was no mean feat. It was mayhem at the Karachi airport. It seemed as if everyone wanted to reach Islamabad, and from there to Balakot or Muzaffarabad....		A heinous crime completely out of control of local authorities Seventy-year-old Abdul Ghaffar Khan alias Parwana is constantly on the move for the last four years in search of his missing son. Riding his bicycle, displaying the picture of his missing boy, Parwana is a helpless father...
Eid cards galore With the Eid just around the corner, there is just so much to do that taking time out to shop for an eid card and post it is really impossible. Moreover who uses the Air Mail these days?....		Life up close and personal Banging his boots on the floor, an army officer entered the room in a rush, holding a fresh list in his hands. As he entered, everyone immediately got on to their toes....
A Turkish treat We spent 11 wonderful days in Turkey in the second half of September. The first five days were spent in Istanbul, the only city in the world that lies both in Europe and Asia. Like San Francisco or Rome,..		School days under the sun “We were in the classroom with our Urdu teacher when the ground began to shake. Girls started screaming and ran to the teacher. She tried to cuddle everyone in her arms....
In the right direction A well-managed health institute does a world of good to many patients After spending almost 15 years in the US, a potential return to Pakistan created both excitement and anxiety for me....		Hot Seat Popular film actor-turned-director Ajab Gul’s recent visit to Peshawar was not without purpose. He was part of the campaign to help the victims of the devastating earthquake of October 8 but...
‘I don’t care’ Have you ever fallen in love with someone whom you hadn’t even met? Have you ever desired to meet a character from your favourite book because it meant the world to you? Has a face on TV managed to give you a new life?...		Mutiny at sea – I Mutiny is considered to be the most serious offence of disobedience or defiance committed on board a warship or for that matter, in any unit of the army or the air force....
The moral of the tragedy THE catastrophe of the earthquake has influenced so many of us in a strange way. We have ceased talking in a normal way. All of a sudden we have developed a tendency for moralization....		The reverse swing of fortunes Despite a memorable Ashes victory, to win against Pakistan in Pakistan will not be easy pickings for England...
A fresh season about to start THE English team is here and we will surely be keeping an eye on what happens from now on both on and off the field over the next few weeks....		Saluting the spirit of the people THIS week as I sat down to write this column, I thought of getting back to issues related to hockey, which has been the basic thread in the columns since I started the process some six years ago....
Hey, mambo Italiano! Recently, I met a witch. Well not exactly a witch, but a descendant. His granny, 10 generations removed, was a witch. “I am oozing with mojo,” boasted Paul Alfredo, waltzing in the wind as a marching band roared past,...		Newsmaker All great changes begin with a small act and this also holds true for America’s civil rights revolution. Rosa Parks refused to get up from her seat on a bus to let a white man sit, and this simple act galvanized a movement that changed the social scene of America....
Mosaic All forms of light are electromagnetic waves of varying lengths, states a recent issue of Medicine Digest. Laser light is an artificial light with its waves being identical. Laser light does not disperse as other light sources and,...		Health Interactive QI am a 27-year-old male and in perfect health. My lips are ugly, dry, chapped and black throughout the year. I don’t smoke. Despite using lots of vaselines and balm, my lips stay the same....
From Here, There, and Everywhere BUDAPEST: Hungarians release balloons during a commemoration by the Hungarian right-wing party FIDESZ of the 59th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Communist regime....