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Leftist leftover ALONG a main street in the low-income Garhi Shahu area of Lahore, a large hammer and sickle appeared chalked crudely onto a wall a few weeks ago. It was not known who had put it there, or why....		Looking beyond what we see THE phrase, looking beyond what we see, would appear either absurd or mysterious to most of us. If you are looking at a wall how you can see what is there beyond, or on the other side of the wall? If you are looking at a jewellry box, how you can see what lies within the box?....
From one end to the other AS a college girl I always wondered why some girls cover their heads. I would often ask them that didn’t they find it difficult being so covered in the heat....		A season for shoplifting DAVID Dunn, not his real name, gets paid to watch television screens, over 20 of them on an eight-hour shift. Its not baseball or football that has him glued to the...
Haj has its own wisdom AS Zil-Hijjah, the last month of the lunar year, approaches, millions of believers throughout the world experience a strong sense of longing to visit the Ka’aba and perform the pilgrimage. They dream of beholding the place where the first house ever dedicated for pure worship was built,...		A word called million BY any standards in any language anywhere in the world, ‘million’ is a magical word. Not thousand, not billion and neither trillion. It’s million that really catches our attention, makes our...
Hunting on the roof of the world PAKISTAN was playing a fantastic One-Day match in Karachi’s National Stadium against the English cricket team on December 15, 2005 while I was packing our stuff for the hunting trip for a Marcopolo sheep in the Murghab region of Pamir, Tajikistan....		Avoiding obesity OBESITY has become one of the world’s fastest growing public health problems. According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, obesity affects 10 per cent of the global population....
Beggars of New York NEW York subway is a throbbing and rattling city rushing through the veins of New York like a Wall Street bronze bull gone mad all of a sudden....		Something to think about THE discovery of the double helix and sequencing of human genome remain the greatest events of medical history with untold and countless ramifications. It has led mankind towards new challenges, both scientific and moral....
The one who gave up robbery A caravan, carrying goods, stopped in the desert to spend the night. During the night, the caravan was ambushed by a band of bandits. A man in the caravan, who had a lot of money, rushed around to hide it somewhere....		Hot Seat THAT politicians in our country are out and out philistines is a fact that we all strongly believe. But then there are scholastic figures like Sartaj Aziz among them whose personality contradicts this notion....
Haneef Ramay: a sensitive soul MY first day of the new year ended abruptly in a sad way. I had spent New Year’s Eve listening to Zia Mohyeddin recitals from Urdu classics interspersed with a few excerpts from modern verse and prose....		The list that went too far AT last England’s cricketers can forget their late-night patronizing by Gary Lineker and revel in some real awards. Proper ones with capital letters: no smut, and with references to the empire....
Extra-cricketing issues are vital SO the Indians are here now, and we can look forward to another exciting few weeks ahead of us. The Indians have had a mixed bag of fortunes and results in...		An interesting FIH survey CONTINUING with our discussion of various issues that are under the consideration of the International Hockey Federation’s Rules Board, today I have something very interesting to share with the readers....
Discarding the language barrier WATCHING a drama serial recently on an Indian TV channel, I heard a Hindu mother cry with a sigh of relief, “Bhagwan, tera lakh lakh shuk’r hai.” It was such a simple phrase expressing spontaneous thankfulness which comes from depths of the heart....		English for you This refers to Amar Jaleel’s English for you (November 20). Since the colonial period, the language of the ruling elite has been English. In different parts of the world learning English...
MOSAIC: Asia’s water security THE mountains of Asia, including the mighty Himalayas, are facing accelerating threats from a rapid rise in roads, settlements, overgrazing and deforestation experts have warned in a new report....		Newsmaker “THERE are people who love adventures and there are those who, loving it or not, just find themselves in the midst of adventures. Heinrich Harrer was a guy who lived for the thrills and his fate landed him in more adventures than he bargained for....