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Present Tense: The Baloch imbroglio The November 15 blasts outside the PIDC House in Karachi have brought the simmering unrest in Balochistan into focus. Initial....		Mystic Notes: Best creation of God I have been writing Mystic Notes for Dawn Magazine for the last 12 years. Soon after contributing a few stories and articles to the Magazine, I realize that it requires...
Society: Take care These days, many such phrases are in vogue. At formal and informal gatherings, on television talk shows, radio programmes...		Aviation: To serve the passengers I am a movie buff. That’s why airports and the men and women who run them have always fascinated me. The 1970 classic....
After The Quake: Spirited efforts Their eyes had a vast sadness yet their welcoming smiles were genuine to the core. They didn’t ask for anything, yet gave everything they....		Net-Clip: The ultimate journey Three years ago, me and my mother were among the estimated three million Muslims who performed the Haj. One of the five pillars of....
Travel: A wonderful city It was an adventurous flight from Karachi to Hyderabad (Deccan) via Mumbai. The flight became adventurous after we landed...		Health: Some untold stories Azra, in labour and writhing with pain, created quite a rumpus in the camp when she refused to be examined by a female Cuban....
Diary of a Vagabond: Our dogs and their dogs So amongst the august American royalty beside the children and handicapped persons, dogs have the bluest blood of them all. Kindly do not even dare to compare them with ordinary Pakistani...		Health Interactive I would like to know if being a hepatitis B carrier is of any serious concern, particularly for a guy in his early 20s. And I would also like to know if it is all right to marry a person who carries hepatitis B...
Hot Seat Cricket is not just a game but a way of life for Sikander Bakht, the former Pakistani fast bowler, who enjoyed a brilliant Test career from 1976 to 1981....		Of Time: Winds of change Confucius once said: “They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. It is only the wisest and ...
Chapter From History: The Berlin airlift The end of World War II created an atmosphere of mistrust and competition for territorial and doctrinal ascendancy amongst the two Allied superpowers, Russia and the USA....		Point of View: The cities in Ghalib’s life Do the cities and towns too play some part in the mental development of a writer? At least Shamim Hanafi thinks so. He cites the example of Ghalib and enumerates four...
Comment: Talented but under-funded It would not be disputable to say that Pakistan achieved a great feat by overcoming the formidable Taiwan in the final of the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Zone group at Lahore....		Through the covers: Through the covers A COUPLE of weeks ago we had celebrated the achievements of Brian Lara, who had become the leading run scorer in Test cricket, and Inzamamul Haq, who became only the fourteenth...
Different strokes: In the larger interest of the game Halfway through the first round, Pakistan finds itself at the bottom of the league table, having lost the initial games and drawn...		View From America: Rate my professor.com Sheila swore never to study English literature. Her teacher, let’s call him Mr Smarty Pants, was an insufferable bloke. He was a high....
From Here, There, and Everywhere TOKYO: Christmas decorations light up above a Japanese couple. Christmas Eve in some parts of the world may find parents battling...		MOSAIC In a message to the Intergovernmental Meeting on great apes and the Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP), organized sometime back by UNEP AND Unesco...
Newsmaker “Back in 1933 when King Kong was released, it completely thrilled the audiences and to many of that generation, it was the greatest...		Covering a disaster This is with reference to Covering a disaster by Khalid Hassan Khan (October 30), in which he criticized the role of....