August 23, 2007
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What price development?
 Karachi’s shoreline measures almost 135 kilometres, embracing various beaches within its fold. The view at a glance from the Clifton side of the seashore is a mix of nostalgia and distaste...
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Small achievements
 Children are hardly attracted to what is being taught and the teachers, on their part, know little about how to make learning enjoyable. School councils exist only on paper...
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How Pakistanis see India
 Whatever the consolations of India''s inefficiency, it''s impossible to ignore the fact that Pakistan''s position in the world centres around its murky role in the ‘war on terror’ while India''s...
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Entrepreneur par excellence
 “The rural women in Bangladesh are the real heroes. Micro-credit has worked wonders, but it has not been easy for them since family support has not always been forthcoming....
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Disruption in the name of celebration
 The way occasions like Independence Day and other religious festivals are being celebrated by young people has become a cause of concern for citizens...
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A walk on the Margallas
 What distinguishes Islamabad, the so-called “devoid of soul” city, from the other metropolis of the country, is its topography. The beautiful backdrop of the Margallas can be a bewitching....
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Exploring Zanzibar
 Everyone who visits Zanzibar — the island with the most poetic name in the world — wants to be the only person there. Trouble is that more and more of us...
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I am loving it!
 Getting up early in the morning has never felt so good. Mornings have become so appealing that most days the alarm doesn’t get the pleasure of startling me out of sleep at six....
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Sleep disorder
 Q: What are the facts on sickle cell anaemia? My relative’s infant child has it. I thought this was found here only in African-Americans. We are Caucasian. Will this baby reach adulthood?....
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Ancient wisdom
 Who exactly discovered that the gum resin extracted from the root of that smelly thing called ‘heeng’ has culinary, medicinal and many other incredibly useful properties...
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What’s On...
 Partner lifts shamelessly from Hitch, the Hollywood rom-com which starred Will Smith as a romance expert and Kevin James as his bumbling client, but also includes bits “inspired”...
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The green tea effect
 There is an old Chinese saying, “Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.” If you are a tea addict then you can certainly understand what the ancient...
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It’s all about chelo kebab
 Keep this to yourself, but the only weapon of mass destruction (WMD) likely to be found inside Iran is chelo kebab. This, more than any nuclear mischief, is what the US...
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