Hi kids!
I wasn’t surprised when I got another mail telling me to be fair and stop printing articles and stories of my nieces and nephews. This is quite a common complaint. But...
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Cover Story: The stars speak
Zahid quietly hovered around the breakfast table, waiting for his father to get through with the newspaper. As soon as his dad put down the paper, Zahid picked it up and...
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Debate: Cable culture
Nowadays cable television is extremely common to every household. Nearly every house has a cable connection, because the VCR and dish antenna are now obsolete. The cable offers hoards of entertainment...
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Feature: Quaid-i-Azam: a man of principle
It is known to all of us that besides being a dauntless leader, our dear Quaid was a brilliant barrister who as one of his contemporaries described “used to cast a spell...
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Story Time: Passport tragedy
One day while I was surfing and browsing and also chatting on the Net, I received a mail from a Tourism Company saying that I had won a free trip to...
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Story Time: The lost game
As I was searching the Internet for games, I saw a game in which you had to fight with only a knife and a gun. When I started playing, I...
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Story Time: A bad prank!
A girl in a pair of denim jeans and a Tommy Girl red top hanging a cool black bag talking on her mobile came smiling towards us. She had the most...
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Benefits beyond boundaries: The V World Congress on Protected Areas
A Protected Area is defined as “An area of land and/or sea specially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed...
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Computers: Computer images: tips and tricks
After the summer vacations we all submitted our assignments for the drawing competition. When the result was announced Sara’s painting was awarded first prize. Her painting was also selected for the...
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Country Hopping: Slovenia
Slovenia is situated in south-central Europe, bounded north by Austria, east by Hungary, west by Italy, and south by Croatia. On the west it has a narrow, indented coastline on....
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Book: Batman and robin
Batman Fans! It’s time that you put aside your DC Comics and took a step further. The fourth and the latest Batman movie — Batman and Robin — has been novelized...
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Movie: Catch me if you can
Catch Me If You Can is based on the true life of the most successful con artist in history, Frank William Abegnate (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), who managed to earn a...
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Web Site: Musical greetings
Bored with the so-very-common E-card websites? Fed up of sending and receiving the usual boring cards on the Internet? Well, here’s something just for you....
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Music: By the way
Red Hot Chili Peppers who made a funky first appearance some 20 years ago are up and running again. They are back, with their latest masterwork, By The Way, a career...
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Game Talk: Smackdown 4: Shut your mouth
The latest instalment in the Wwe SmackDown series has finally been released on the Play-Station 2. Every aspect of the game has been updated. The Video entrances are again impressive with...
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Miscellanea: Annual book fair
One of the biggest and most visited annual book fair was held from August 30 to September 9 at Paramount Books. Thousands of books on every subject from leading publishers around...
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Weekly Update: Fate of wrecked oil tanker in limbo
KARACHI: Bickering among foreign stakeholders over the removal of a Greek-registered ship responsible for the worst oil slick ever in Pakistani waters has left the ship’s fate in limbo....
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Death of an innocent
I went to a party Mom,
I remembered what you said
You told me not to drink, Mom...
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Recipe: Potato potpourri
Chatpatty chips
Ingredients
large potatoes, cut length wise
2 tbsp chili sauce
2 tbsp soya sauce...
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Vocabulary: Confusing Words
Practice, practise — English usage the noun is spelt with a ‘c’ and the verb with an ‘s’. In American usage practice is used for both noun and verb....
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Super Sis
I have a very big problem. When I was in class VI I had my first crush on my class fellow ‘A’, then in class VII I had crush on my cousin. Then in class VIII I had a crush on one boy in my school then...
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Quotes
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
— The Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)...
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Dumb and Dumber
This is an interesting dialogue between two robbers, Dumb and Dumber. They are in the middle of robbing a rich man’s house when they hear police sirens......
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Briefs: Japan soon to have 20,000 people aged over 100
TOKYO: In a fresh sign of the rapid ageing of Japan’s population, the number of people aged 100 or older is expected to reach a record high of 20,561 by the...
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Mail Box
IT IS obvious that the standard of education is extremely low in Pakistan. This may be due to the lack of facilities. In many small towns there are no proper school buildings, due to which both teachers....
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Poet''s Corner
The times I miss you
I miss you in the day
When the sun is bright and shiny
I miss you in the night...
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