September 16, 2004

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Dripping poison In a far-off village, in Gambat, in the province of Sindh, forty-year-old Ghulam Sarwar has been consuming arsenic-laced water for decades. For years no one understood the cause of the discoloured patches on his skin. It is only recently that the skin problems that he has been suffering from have been diagnosed as those of arsenicosis....		Poisonous waters of the Punjab No serious effort is being made at the government and local level to address the issue of deadly arsenic contents which have been found in potable water of 10 cities in...
Marriages made in hell “One in three South Asian women in North America is abused,” I read on a placard held by members of a group called Sakhi that marched through the streets of New York as part of the Pakistan Independence Day parade. Staggering proportion. Surely they were talking about a different nationality and not Pakistanis, or perhaps a different class....		Hair blues I have never got a worse offer than the one I got from Dr Hari. His implicit question was whether I would prefer to be bald and poor or hairy and rich. At 32, baldness has reared its ugly head and made my life miserable....
The medicinal uses of Attar Attar is a specific type of fragrance which was first made by Abi Ali al Sina, who was a Muslim physician belonging to the Fatemi period. It has a mesmerizing effect and the scent lasts for several days on clothes. Its diffusive nature leaves a pleasant after-effect....		Metro Mughal Male Grooms wear has evolved over the years, as has the man getting married: gone is the shy, young boy who was thrust into a stiff three piece suit and thousands of...
Saving lives A31-year-old mother of two young children, Saima found herself sitting in a clinic at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Lahore. Seized by apprehension, she waited with bated breath for the doctor to tell her more about her second stage breast cancer....		A visit from a Gandhi Soft-spoken and gentle, attired in a cotton sari, and deep in conversation with her Pakistani counterparts about the social and political conditions in our two countries, Usha Gandhi could easily pass for one of the many peace activists that visit Pakistan every now and then from India. It comes as a pleasant surprise then, to find the unassuming lady to be no other than...
Taking life for granted “Oh, come on Aunty!” said my nephew looking straight into my eyes that morning at breakfast, with the most disbelieving expression on his face. “I am not kidding,” I assured him. The Arabic word taskheer had come up in our conversation. Keeping aside the numerous meanings it implied (like utilization, employment, subjection and subjugation), how I always...		Rehabilitating the disabled It is a pleasant late August afternoon. The sun is dipping slowly into the horizon. A cool breeze gently stirs the trees in the Nisar Shaheed Park. Joggers and walkers in their running shoes and tracksuits are busy chasing away their health worries. Some people sit on the benches gossiping. Others are doing push-ups or just...
Mad cow disease Q: Would you please discuss CJ disease? I believe it is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. What causes it? How does it affect a person? A: Not many years back, a mention of Creutzfeld-Jakob (KROITSfelled YAH-cope) (CJ) disease would bring only puzzled looks, even in medical circles. It was first described in the 1920s by the two gentlemen...		A rose garden Creating a rose garden is a worthwhile undertaking whichever part of the country you reside in. It may be a little more difficult in cities such as Karachi, but it can still be done, particularly if you concentrate on indigenous rose varieties as against introduced ones....
Eight Days A Week I’m not sure it’s entirely fair for me to be reviewing Mujhse Shaadi Karogi because the DVD I picked up from the video-wallah’s turned out to be just about two hours long, meaning that there were at least 30 to 40 minutes missing. As a result, the version I saw of the movie has a choppy and incoherent...		Cookies delight Almond biscuits Ingredients 2 cups white flour 1/2 cup ground sugar 1 egg 2 tsp baking powder...