Miscellaneous
Public Flogging
Well everyone must be aware of the latest buzz on the media. The bizarre images of police public flogging young boys. As a society we need to see are we ready to take this kind of inhumane acts? Well media campaign has been successful in suspension of those who were involved in this incident but [...]
Key to successful Marriage
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Want your marriage to last longer? Then choose a wife who is five years younger to you and from the same cultural background, suggest experts from the Geneva School of Business. They claim this formula increases the chances of having a long and happy marriage by a fifth.
One couple that seems to fit [...]
Chile – An Example
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LOCATED on the Pacific Rim ‘ring of fire’, the world’s most seismically active region, Chile suffered one of its worst earthquakes in the early hours of Saturday. Measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale, the tremor made some kind of geological history. According to one report the last earthquake of bigger magnitude recorded took [...]
Our source of National Pride
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Nationalism is best understood in contrast to patriotism. Patriotism is simply love for one’s country, whereas nationalism is the sense that one’s nation is the best, often because it is more sacred than other nations. For the past few months, ‘Wake Up Pakistan’ – a campaign targeting this country’s youth – has been [...]
Writing Competition
The Diplomatic Academy Vienna (www.da-vienna.ac.at) in partnership with the Center for Global Communication Studies (http://www.asc.upenn.edu/) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania will host a conference from March 16 – 18, 2010 in Vienna, Austria, organized by the American Austrian Foundation (www.aaf-online.org). The conference will bring together a diverse group of [...]
Austerity???
ONE reason why the government lacks credibility and fails to mobilise the people to cooperate with it is its inability to implement its own policies. It announces one measure and does the opposite. The latest example of this duplicitous exercise was the cabinet meeting – described as a ‘picnic’ by some – on PNS [...]
Eunuch – New Liberties
Transgender rights represent a relatively new frontier in civil liberties activism. In Pakistan, eunuchs have historically been disregarded and marginalised by mainstream issue advocates. The discriminations against eunuchs reveal our petty-bourgeois mentality that is mostly reluctant to recognise gender deviance.
Over the years, the complete isolation of eunuchs from the very fabric of our society has [...]
NADRA – Beyond Excellence
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Self-explaining Picture
She changed her sex from female to male. She scored 906 in Intermediate and her mother now thinks She/He will able to support the family now.
Question: Women are still insecure, vulnerable and weak in our rural areas. Yes or No??
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Beautiful Isn’t??
I read this sad story somewhere a while ago and would like to share it….its amazing…
There was once this guy who was very much in love with his girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper-cranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small fry in his [...]
