March 4, 2004

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A case of nerves Kamila, 23, has a broken engagement. After being engaged for seven years to her cousin Abdullah, 26, she just got a phone call that he was going to marry his American girlfriend. She is not only depressed...		Fem Men In For the longest time gender and relationships had a fairly simple definition: man and woman were the breadwinner and the homemaker respectively. Today things seem somewhat different; a form of...
Outbreak The Kachho belt consists of more than 500 villages in Sindh, spanning Taluka Sehwan, Johi, K.N. Shah, Mehar and Shahdadkot. Since 2002 this area has been facing an endemic of the skin disease called cutaneous lieshminiasis...		Troubled shores Hundreds of different size boats, standing at Karachi’s seashore of Ibrahim Hydri, are seen bobbing their heads. Fishermen, mostly barefoot in rough clothes, can be seen getting ready to go onto the open sea or off-loading their boats...
Studying in the lap of heritage One forgets just how much Lahore abounds in historical architecture until one finds it in the most unexpected of places. A case in point is the Government Fatima Jinnah College for...		Giving away a part of you When Sohaib’s parents brought their then six month-old sickly-looking child from Rawalakot, Azad Kashmir, to the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantations (SIUT) last November, little did they know that they would be making history when...
Winds of change Q: What was the mandate of the previous women’s commissions and what happened to the recommendations put forward by them? A: There have been several women’s commissions...		Oxygen’s role in emphysema I am writing this to you while I am hooked up to an oxygen tank. It’s set at 2. Is 2 a good setting? Is oxygen doing anything for my...
It takes a community to raise a child After completing her matriculation, Sadia (all names have been changed) is taking a computer science course and hopes to do her Bachelor’s in the same subject. Life hasn’t been really fair to her or her younger sister Irum who is a class...		Eight days A week Don’t expect Bad Santa to be the typical Christmas movie. Think of it more as a character-driven black comedy with a Christmas backdrop. Billy Bob Thornton plays Willie, a foul-mouthed, bad-tempered, complete alcoholic with...
Post Mark: Breaking the habit Shabnam Nasir’s cover story (TR Feb 26) on various habits was a great read. But the piece by an alcoholic’s daughter and sister was painfully alarming. It is pretty shocking to...		Singaporean cuisine Chicken soup Ingredients: 1 cup chicken cut into strips 1tsp garlic crushed 6 cups chicken stock...