tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84548371252844192802024-03-12T16:54:37.611-07:00tête-è-têteS.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-56906867461079363652010-05-07T15:04:00.000-07:002010-05-07T15:04:26.854-07:00M&M<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIwtDl_do5scAhypKTDGIWDFidhZ_mkp7oDo71jkEZEteU3zfV6mW7CFYVxaD5zW789Xx86f4q4a9OI9uyEQfyoasfq7t5z7a0JUaHXw8uO8JSa8ZHrfrM2t9ZXCvzNJAHcDPqLH1rMzh/s1600/210682025_ecd449924c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIwtDl_do5scAhypKTDGIWDFidhZ_mkp7oDo71jkEZEteU3zfV6mW7CFYVxaD5zW789Xx86f4q4a9OI9uyEQfyoasfq7t5z7a0JUaHXw8uO8JSa8ZHrfrM2t9ZXCvzNJAHcDPqLH1rMzh/s400/210682025_ecd449924c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">The wall of M&M's at the M&M store in Las Vegas.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"><br />
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</div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-50732367331456921172010-04-27T09:02:00.000-07:002010-04-27T09:02:03.150-07:00Pakistan Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai China.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">The theme of Pakistan pavilion at expo 2010 is "Harmony in Diversity". The pavilion area is around 2000 meter square. The design inspiration of the pavilion comes from 'the Lahore Fort, Pakistan'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">China</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> owes its successful bid for the World Exposition in 2010 to the international community's support for and confidence in its reform and opening-up. The Exposition will be the first registered World Exposition in a developing country, which gives expression to the expectations the world's people place on </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">ChinaShanghai "has full confidence that the 184-day Expo will run smoothly," Han told Vicente Loscertales, secretary general of the Bureau of International Expositions, who oversees the work of organizers of each World Expo.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-28829469837369622842010-04-26T12:34:00.000-07:002010-04-27T05:57:04.085-07:00Moulin Rouge comes to Karachi.<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">After Smash hits, Phantom of the Opera, You only Marry Twice, Tom Dick and Harry & Bombay Dreams; Warid Telecom, Shah Sharahbeel and Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Present a stage musical "MOULIN ROUGE" - NOW IN KARACHI!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Moulin Rouge is a romantic musical based on a story of a young English poet named Christian who falls in love with the star of Moulin Rouge </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Cabaret"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">cabaret</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Actor"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">actress</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> and </span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtesan" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Courtesan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">courtesan</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> Satine.</span></span></span></span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" data-original-id="BLOGGER_object_8" href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cimg%20src=" http:="" id="BLOGGER_object_8" img="" object_element.gif"="" www.blogger.com=""></a></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">With a total of 35 actors and a crew of 15 back stage artists Centre Stage Productions put up a phenomenal show.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Performances include matinée shows on </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">25th April, 2nd and 9th May. The play is on at arts council, Karachi from 22nd April-9th May. Now this is a must watch.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih3xurqcSnjayB5iv5LOYCo4Vcp7cXo0b97qeaQ45UNYgE2wJbxe_I_25D5xfABUrAvY8MpPEYKQTXy6i3mBmU9pTI6xiugX2rMnQmztC-wmGnJoo46NT_UggeR6oizBy203SsHW3pgzpd/s1600/23805_366969759876_366942119876_3711069_3382752_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih3xurqcSnjayB5iv5LOYCo4Vcp7cXo0b97qeaQ45UNYgE2wJbxe_I_25D5xfABUrAvY8MpPEYKQTXy6i3mBmU9pTI6xiugX2rMnQmztC-wmGnJoo46NT_UggeR6oizBy203SsHW3pgzpd/s400/23805_366969759876_366942119876_3711069_3382752_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-86628832638575292462010-04-25T10:09:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:42:54.576-07:00Subtitle Distraction!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Ever saw a movie in English language with English subtitles? Or even a movie in some other language you do understand but it has English subtitles sliding on the bottom?? Now of course I am not doubting my ability to understand english. Its just that I dont need english subtitles but not all movies have an option of tuning them OFF. Especially the ones you illegally download free from the internet, you dont often get a choice!</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Yah so ever noticed that you keep your eye balls on the subtitles and in that course you actually start to miss whats going on? I get so annoyed with myself and try hard not to look at the subtitles again. While watching 'Finding Nemo' and its stupendous work of animation and excellent dialogues, I admit I could never fully concentrate on them. I even tried promising and disciplining myself over this issue but to no gain. In the end, i had to buy a DVD!</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">I guess I have just given a new advertisement idea for 'STOPPING VIDEO PIRACY'? maybe ...</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_5YGSNxl7hIrsAzeyITWtNCtmtfzOO93yyML5xkmTM0_mvWu8XwbcZkvhK5ryVfKDam3rAX6RcfDJL1lQSN1h1dEu3PmNcy2cHmn715thUumaOQCJmUpOyfGwuVPzFxoDBFFc0Dt8tDq/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-04-25+at+18.07.59.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_5YGSNxl7hIrsAzeyITWtNCtmtfzOO93yyML5xkmTM0_mvWu8XwbcZkvhK5ryVfKDam3rAX6RcfDJL1lQSN1h1dEu3PmNcy2cHmn715thUumaOQCJmUpOyfGwuVPzFxoDBFFc0Dt8tDq/s320/Screen+shot+2010-04-25+at+18.07.59.png" /></span></span></span></a></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></span></div></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-86347984706860959952010-04-25T03:38:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:43:27.374-07:00Who to Compensate?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">With the recent events of the volcanic ash cloud over the European Union which grounded more than 95000 flights as result of 6 six days ban imposed by the FAA, millions of passengers were stranded abroad. It is reported that while the flights were being cancelled, some airlines took it upon themselves as a moral obligation to provide their passengers/customers, some were least bothered.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">So it all happened. Passengers were left with two choices. Wait where ever they are (extend their stay) until the airspace opens or ditch the flight and arrange other means to get home. One not so mobile BAE employee, travelling with his wife and two young daughters said:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">' On the first day i waited. I camped at the Madrid Airport (Spain). Next morning i rented a car, then taxi, then ferry and then a taxi again to finally reach home after 5 days (Bristol, UK). The extended travel plans took about 1200 quids out of his savings account' </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">Now in the aftermath of the volcanic event, angry passengers are demanding compensation from the airlines for the all extra expenses they incurred due to extended stay (accommodation/food for those who stayed and travel costs fro those brave ones who set out to find their own way). Passengers personal travel insurance is a 'no-blamer' since it conveniently ignores any compensations in the events of 'ACTS BY GOD'.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">Now the European union aviation laws state that if a flight gets cancelled, the airline is responsible for all the 'reasonable' expenses, the definition of 'reasonable' is unclear. Many airlines argue that they have done their part when they provided free coffee/dinner and bedding to the stranded passengers at the airports. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">Ryan Air (the worlds most economical airline) CEO was reported as saying:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">"A passenger payed 30 euros for his flight, i can refund him but i dont see Ryan Air paying thousand of Euros of compensation"</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">If we think from the business perspective, the aviation industry also took a billions of dollars of hit. Most national carriers are at the mercy of their governments to bail them out to be still operational. Ever their insurance policies ignores the 'ACTS OF GOD'. So is it fair to ask them for compensation? Think about the following cycle:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">Airlines pay you the compensations --> Airlines Go Bankrupt --> Airlines Require government Bailout money --> Government uses the tax payers money (What else) --> Government raises taxes. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">So in the end, whose paying? The general people. So my advice to the passengers is, take the hit for now !</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHq12VLgroUOyVAasd0u6YJmv8hVMLOoSc0Z8te3kyYQWygrqp_spr9Dyz3lzORZdVZk6Cc1i6OL2XfLOZZ_AjmFWsYIrp9SECTb8z3MBOkXxhIUCHgPJOhjx6yC_GO1YSEAR1-cfla1Q/s1600/_47707806_98569927.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHq12VLgroUOyVAasd0u6YJmv8hVMLOoSc0Z8te3kyYQWygrqp_spr9Dyz3lzORZdVZk6Cc1i6OL2XfLOZZ_AjmFWsYIrp9SECTb8z3MBOkXxhIUCHgPJOhjx6yC_GO1YSEAR1-cfla1Q/s320/_47707806_98569927.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-41318215366232032852010-04-24T13:45:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:45:12.480-07:00iPad- Not quite what we were expecting.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Apple unveiling the iPad I so knew this would be the next hip thing with youth everywhere after apple notebook, iPod and the very chic Blackberry but surprisingly in Pakistan it didn't become as popular as in US. It was thought to be a perfect portable substitute for a PC and a phone in one.Perhaps it failed to meet the expectations. Its inability to multi task and the fact that its lacking an in built camera is one of the major drawbacks that has affected its popularity amongst locals. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBnBlbvqaNmk406N21AxOVzkpXTIXt48cbkJq5FrmOJzX2sF0c_lYauhYiBoU_YLv6i8ufK_tSbsof77i_H81M16FTqfsX71abhU306xxU7UDr0G0O0EY-7CZKTxwR3jWtmqiFo3yp57B/s1600/9cb4b_apple_media_pad_mockup_1-403x480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBnBlbvqaNmk406N21AxOVzkpXTIXt48cbkJq5FrmOJzX2sF0c_lYauhYiBoU_YLv6i8ufK_tSbsof77i_H81M16FTqfsX71abhU306xxU7UDr0G0O0EY-7CZKTxwR3jWtmqiFo3yp57B/s320/9cb4b_apple_media_pad_mockup_1-403x480.jpg" /></span></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The iPad does not support Adobe Flash either which might make the browsing experience troublesome.The fad for the gadget is seem to be fading before it even became the apple of the eye of many.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWwH5hlmQbbBORt1S_MqS3n01e2py71EeuSHZkIyxEoVlqXVd1ock0pb67O93I5SnoJBhSVkkHYGi_R0UIO2fhRCj9ebf9H-qp_1i6XSf6HRL851MojX0tFE0OZB3UtEdPVHa15KQ-FV5j/s1600/dd37a_apple_media_pad_mockup_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWwH5hlmQbbBORt1S_MqS3n01e2py71EeuSHZkIyxEoVlqXVd1ock0pb67O93I5SnoJBhSVkkHYGi_R0UIO2fhRCj9ebf9H-qp_1i6XSf6HRL851MojX0tFE0OZB3UtEdPVHa15KQ-FV5j/s320/dd37a_apple_media_pad_mockup_2.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span></span></span></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-81339757103317255452010-04-23T14:56:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:43:57.528-07:00Greme Smith. Arrogance or Confidence?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Under the ‘quote unquote’ section at the cricinfo.com I came across something said by Greme Smith (Captian, South Africa)</span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">“I read their opener (Karim Sadiq) said he was not scared of facing Dale Steyn and I wouldn't be either if I grew up in a war zone”</span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The comments were referred to the debutant Afghanistan cricket team due to play South Africa in the T20 World cup next month in Caribbean. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It seems easy for Greme to mix sports with politics and make this rather insensitive statement. Nobody chooses to grow up in a war zone (Afghanistan). He should be rather applauding that yung Afghanistan cricketers are trying to work on the image of their homeland through sports. I think Greme Smith doesn’t remember the days prolly when he was growing up. In the midst of the ethnic riots between the white and the black population of South Africa, he should feel lucky that a sport such as cricket is even survived!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Moreover I was shocked to hear such comments from Greme Smith (I admit I had high regards for him before I read this). Maybe he’s doing a lot of biased newspaper reading, now that he is playing not much international cricket due to his fragile thumb which keeps getting broken (5</span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">th</span></span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> reported injury in just over a year during the IPL in March 2010). I truly respect the talent in Dale Steyn but he is not unplayable. He is still relatively inexperienced himself so Greme should just hold on his horses. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or maybe this arrogance could be a product of Greme spending a lot of time with Australian crickets during their IPL campaign. My advice to Greme: Don’t let your big mouth bite you in the ass when you step into the ground to play Afghanistan. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cec9e2; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbzUYR0uumTi43DQtTSfPu2HgztczikiHj3oABd60pnxpAYACw2BxalhSugTrdQd4uNe3KZBHO0P81ylXB3MB908r5bFoGp-BFK-QWBD-4JyrzJGdoCfw701zILZM39WvdViKQ1MAscxK/s1600/user14314_pic182_1246997333.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbzUYR0uumTi43DQtTSfPu2HgztczikiHj3oABd60pnxpAYACw2BxalhSugTrdQd4uNe3KZBHO0P81ylXB3MB908r5bFoGp-BFK-QWBD-4JyrzJGdoCfw701zILZM39WvdViKQ1MAscxK/s320/user14314_pic182_1246997333.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">It was reported that Belgium was set on Thursday to slap a ban on wearing the Islamic burqa </span></i><i><span style="color: #3d6b1c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">in public</span></i><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">, the first such clampdown in Europe, </span></i><i><span style="color: #3d6b1c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">just a day</span></i><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;"> after the French government promised a similar law.</span></i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> <i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered parliament to debate a law banning women from wearing full-face Islamic veils in public, officials say.</span></i></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">Last year he went onto the extent of saying that such veils oppressed women and were not welcome in France.</span></i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Sarkozy said the full veils "do not pose a problem in a religious sense, but threaten the dignity of women", Mr Chatel was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. This proposal has provoked intense debate about religious freedom in a secular society, as well as the position of Muslims in France.</span></i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">However, the country's highest administrative body has suggested such a law might be unconstitutional. </span></i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">"Bans like this lead to a lose-lose situation," said Judith Sunderland, senior Western Europe researcher at Human Rights Watch."At a time when Muslims in Europe feel more vulnerable than ever, the last thing needed is a ban like this, treating pious Muslim women like criminals won't help integrate them", she added.</span></i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">There are several types of headscarves and veils for Muslim women - those that cover the face being the niqab and the burka. In France, the niqab is the version most commonly worn.</span></i> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">The interior ministry reports that only 1,900 women wear full veils in France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority.</span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #c1bfd9; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;">These kinds of bans is an attempt to violate the rights of those who choose to wear the veil and do nothing to help those who are compelled to do so.</span></i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><i> </i></span></span>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-68521499874202234062010-04-21T14:34:00.000-07:002010-04-21T14:40:06.096-07:00The Express Tribune launches in Pakistan<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.417em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Karachi</span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">: </span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">The Express Tribune by the Express Media Group was launched in Pakistan on Monday, April 12 2010</span></span></span></span></b></span></div><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU3R4JhdwPK93rwDPO4KYi7UD88TvP6UiIjaQg_8iohLna8f9zJ047kX7e86iPnSEuqlcRxXzygGe713qRMMnbGIE8zVfiDwZHseGCVYz1RcxZIQfcIIJBbFaTW3_4ixbsTYztXLmfW0NN/s1600/TRIBUNE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU3R4JhdwPK93rwDPO4KYi7UD88TvP6UiIjaQg_8iohLna8f9zJ047kX7e86iPnSEuqlcRxXzygGe713qRMMnbGIE8zVfiDwZHseGCVYz1RcxZIQfcIIJBbFaTW3_4ixbsTYztXLmfW0NN/s320/TRIBUNE.jpg" /></span></a></span></blockquote><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.417em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.417em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">The Express Tribune is the first internationally affiliated newspaper in Pakistan. It is a new English language daily newspaper covers a variety of topics ranging from politics to the economy, foreign policy to investment and sports to culture. According to its motto the paper’s mission is to deliver news that is both informative and insightful.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.417em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">The Express Tribune is part of the Express Media Group’s other flagship media brands which include, the Daily Express Express News, and Ex</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">press 24/7, Pakistan’s only 24-hour English language news channel.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.417em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">The paper </span></span></span></span><a href="http://omarrquraishi.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-paper-coming-out-on-april-12.html" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">kicks of its first print</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> with op-eds from </span></span></span></span><a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/5159/a-man-of-destiny/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Ayesha</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Siddiqa</span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">, </span></span></span></span><a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/5168/newspapers-and-other-musings/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Sami</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> Shah</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">, </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/5151/dynastic-politics-democratic-values/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Quatrina</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Hosain</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">and </span></span></span></span><a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/5154/happily-married/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Osman </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">Samiuddin</span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">with news that Zahoor’s </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">cratoon</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">-imagery is too be featured amongst its pages. I</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> happened to give its very first edition a read in my journalism class the very same day of its launch. Reader's came with all kind of views ranging from the critical analysis of the paper to enjoying the fact that international newspaper can now be in print and in their hands. One thing we all reached consensus on that the targeted audiences was definitely the upper class considering the cost of the single edition. However, </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">I must admit that at first glance the online version of the paper </span></span></span></span><a href="http://tribune.com.pk/" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;">http://tribune.com.pk</span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> is quite pleasing to the eye.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.417em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-49636649275214115412010-04-21T14:12:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:46:09.318-07:00I don't care less<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The simple answer is: "Don't give it legs . . ." In other words, don't give it any energy, don't pass along comments, don't repeat gossip, don't participate in conversations where any of this negative behavior exists. This works best in small offices with a single offender; without air to fuel the fire, it soon burns out.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Larger offices take a bit more tenacity to put out the flames. So many people today have become addicted to this kind of destructive behavior.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Before taking public action I would start with genuine self evaluation. I would examine any circumstances where I may have inadvertently lead the offending-party to believe I was in some way being bitchy, backstabbing and/or gossiping myself; they might have taken this as consensus or permission.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I would also review any times when I may have been an involuntary and silent witness to bitchiness, backstabbing and/or gossiping, etc. Without verbally setting the record straight at that moment, silence is often taken for complicity.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I would look at my own motivations. Have there been times when being an "insider" felt good, had merit or benefited me in some way? Do I have personal feelings for the people involved that may cloud my judgment?? If the attack is against me, am I taking it personally?? I would look at my own intentions.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a big difference between bitchiness, backstabbing, gossip, etc. and the exchange of valid information. Someone who has not fully developed independent thinking will find it hard to discern one from the other. The disparity is often found in the intention behind the actions/comments.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Once I became clear with myself, I would openly and actively oppose bitchiness, backstabbing, gossip, etc.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I would choose my own words carefully. And consistently.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">If the problem behavior continues, I would respond with something like the following:</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Humorous: <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Sounds like someone could use a nap!!"</i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Compassionate: <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I'm sorry, it sounds like you are having a bad day; is there anything I can do to help??"</i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Mediator: <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Can we put all the cards on the table and come up with a win-win solution to end this antagonism??"</i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Team Player: <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I'm sorry you don't seem to be getting along with ______, I have always found them to be hard working and accommodating."</i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Mentor: <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I only want the best for you. Participating in bitchiness, backstabbing, gossip, etc. will not get it for you."</i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Confidante: <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I know you must not realize how small-minded that action/comment makes you seem or you wouldn‘t continue to do it."</i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Interrogation: <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Is that fact or opinion?? What is it based upon?? Are you helping solve the problem??"</i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Direct: <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Bitchiness, backstabbing, gossip, etc. has no place in this work environment. Participation is grounds for termination.</i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-22823505141482597962010-04-21T06:31:00.000-07:002010-04-27T06:43:24.480-07:00Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence-The most controversial book of its time.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />
</span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Mr. Jaswant Singh in his book “</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Jinnah: </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">India</span></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">, Partition, </span><st1:city w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Independence</span></st1:city></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">” has opened up the wounds of partition that was haunting people of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> for so long. He mentions his eagerness to write this book as to fill in a gap, i.e. there did not exist a biography of Jinnah written by an Indian political figure. In present day India, where the general perception about the events of 1947 is tragic, may or may not only with regards to loss in land and Muhammad Ali Jinnah is hated for causing this bifurcation, Jaswant Singh presented a totally different view of the leader, in which he has glorified Jinnah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">This book discusses the transition of Mohammed Ali Jinnah from being an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity to becoming a sole spokesman for Muslim independence.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> The uniqueness of the book was that it sought to correct certain misconception of history of partition, perhaps not palatable to many.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Jaswant Singh posed a challenging question to Indian political leadership to have a re-look on the personality of Jinnah. He said one should examine the real reasons for transformation of Jinnah from ‘Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity’ (As titled by Dadabai Gokhale) to </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Pakistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">’s ‘Qaid-e-Azam’. Gandhi called him the greatest leader, Arnold Toyanbee, a doyen among the historians, called Jinnah, the greatest politician of the century world had produced. Jaswant Singh said, "</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">we need to correct it'</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> meaning the views that Jinnah was not the principal villain of the partition of the country.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">His views on Islam’s role in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> are particularly interesting. He describes that Islam in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> has evolved and resulted in diverse human experience. In sub continent it has been a journey from first accepting it as homeland and finally abandoning it. He describes how the demand for the separate homeland for Muslims was made on grounds of Islam. Very subjectively he illustrates this entire journey highlighting that how initially Islam became Indian and then later became a struggle of separation of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">India.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"><st1:place w:st="on"></st1:place></span></st1:country-region></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">According to Jaswant Singh in his book, Gandhi’s acceptance of hindu muslim unity slogan has varied significantly and has mainly been driven by Politics. Gandhi openly supported the Khilafat Movement by the Ali Brothers in their attempt to save the abolishment of caliphate in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;">Turkey</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"> after the first world war. Jinnah, though being a muslim, not only remained aloof from this, but also warned Gandhi to not encourage Muslim fanaticism in the eyes of the British Raj. Jinnah believed that this would only harm the muslims on their mere political front. Jaswant Singh however, is of the view that Gandhi only supported the Khilafat Movement in order to earn popularity among the masses in his early years in Indian politics. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div></span>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-25003206332472090882010-04-11T04:06:00.000-07:002010-04-27T13:56:31.753-07:00Stanleys Facebook Experience<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley hates facebook. He doesnt have a facebook page. Stanley's friends all love facebook. Stanley misses the times when he used to play Xbox and Playstation with his friends rather than talking about how many friends they have at facebook.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Day 1: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Kyle (Stanley's friend): Dude, check it out, i made you a facebook page. Now we can be best friends, we can chat, play poker. And would you please come to my 'Farm' and harvest some crops? Oh yea , and please also stop by my 'Cafe'.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">S</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">tanley: Dude i dont need it. I dont want to be sucked into it. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Day 2: Stanley his doing his homework at home</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley's Dad: Stanley? I was checking my email and i saw you have a facebook page. Why wont you be friends with me?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley: Dad, i am not paying much attention to it. I dont wanna be sucked into it. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Dad: ohh okay..... so it means i am not your friend Stanley?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley: you are my friend dad. dont judge it by my click of a button at facebook. i dont have time.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Dad: Oh so you dont have time to click a button for me?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley: ok dad i'll do it. I will add you as a friend. Now let me do my homework!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Day 3: Stanley with his Girlfriend 'Kara' at school.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Kara: Am i a joke to you Stanley?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley: Umm .... ??? Nooo</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Kara: No is it all that i am to you? A joke?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley: would you tell me what happened? What did i do?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Kara: You lier! you do have a facebook page! and your relationship status says 'single'</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley: Ohh wait. I didnt make that page. I dont even know it has a relationship status. What do i do.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Kara: It under your personal profile settings you fool. Call me only when you feel 'In a Relationship'</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Day 4: Stanley at home updating his Facebook relationship Status</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Dad: Stan? Grandma just called and said you wont be friends with her !</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley: Dad, i told you before that it doesnt mean anything to me. I love Grandma anyway.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Dad: Grandma is in a hospital and you wont even be friends with her?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley: Alright Alright JEEZ, i'll add her as a friend.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Dad: Good ..... and i posted a funny picture hours ago and you still havent commented on it. Dont you wanna 'like it'</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Stanley: Oh man. F*** FACEBOOK!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
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</span></span></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-76653821185349098412010-03-29T10:51:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:46:32.557-07:00Sania Mirza, Shoaib Malik. Nuptial knot?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik may tie the nuptial knot in April, it was reported today. According to some Pakistani media reports, Sania and Shoaib have been in a relationship for the last six months. Based on the news by Geo, Shoaib's mother met Sania's family in Hyderabad and finalized their marriage.The wedding ceremony of both the sports stars will take place in April, while the walima reception will be hosted by Shoaib on April 16 or 17 in Lahore, The News reports.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">However !</span></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Shoaib has formerly been engaged to Ayesha Siddiqui earlier in 2002 who claims to be married to the former Pakistani cricket captain. Ayesha’s father has also tried to threaten Shoaib to give Ayesha divorce before proceeding any ahead.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">On the other side, India’s leading publication Reddif mentioned</span></span></span></div></div><blockquote style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">"Sania and Shoaib fell in love some six-and-half months ago and it could be the reason for the breaking up of Sania’s engagement with childhood friend Sohrab Mirza."</span></span></span></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Hmm, six months !! Meaning both Sania and Shoaib were travelling with pictures of their former loved ones in their suitcases, but apparently not in their hearts. They first met in Dubai, reportedly, where the spark was first sighted. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKaa-TgZ0yYPr3DQ5PsCk0fpfQfr5RXnz6Ohy36nw6_fBQ2Xw1gsLiT5LOlUWA_qbwVN690FKB9x-WOMl721O-BpT_Uh-8z1oiWbLbfuLP08jSh4WyQFLkbzfEze8kFI8BqLoFZeCGxSc/s1600/plan-perfect-wedding-going-bankrupt-800X800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKaa-TgZ0yYPr3DQ5PsCk0fpfQfr5RXnz6Ohy36nw6_fBQ2Xw1gsLiT5LOlUWA_qbwVN690FKB9x-WOMl721O-BpT_Uh-8z1oiWbLbfuLP08jSh4WyQFLkbzfEze8kFI8BqLoFZeCGxSc/s200/plan-perfect-wedding-going-bankrupt-800X800.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">And what other time could have been perfect for the nuptial bond. Shoaib was recently handed a 'one year ban' by the PCB and Sania could not be lower in her international career. She is more recognised as a fashion diva (her long indian earings and her tempting nose ring) on the courts rather than her skills with the racquet. So basically, they both wont have issues being AVAILABLE for the ceremony! </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">It might also not be surprising to see Shoaib's friends (or supposedly so) from the cricket fraternity at the wedding ceremony since many were let go by the PCB. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
</span></span></span></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-52273705717117010052010-03-21T12:32:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:46:52.034-07:00ITS SAD TO SEE US LIKE THIS !<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Though i am not a cricket fan as such, i happened to watch a few minutes of the IPL tournament in the midst of my lazy sunday. More than one times, i heard one the commentators mentioning 'two new franchises added to the IPL for the next season'. This gave me a reason good enough to forget cricket and start researching on these new comers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">What i find, that a sum of over 700 million US dollars have been payed by some of the richest businessmen in India to earn the rights of the franchises! I mean wow! Talk about recession and then have a look at this investment in sports. I might have given an impression here that i am not happy about this expenditure (Also the title), but thats not true. What i am amazed about is India's economic strength and the bravehearts it dwells. NO I AM NOT A TRAITOR!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">What i am sad about is Pakistan got freedom from the British right about the same time, and we are not even in the league of developing countries. If only we can forget about regional/lingual/ethnic differences and work for a prosperous Pakistan. Its about time we had something of our own to be proud of. Its SAD.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKRpCY52_r2Ivhki_EyGX2_e6r298AeUW8T5hyphenhyphenX8NPpkqlEEX8lqtepctODwfGYYFPda3QRtwwTicsWEvHrPNtmiAzDJ9prsgw5HAmzkaqcwT74q1xy6iOCcQI0rdPcqx8bEw72P9glw1/s1600-h/Pakistan-Taliban.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlKRpCY52_r2Ivhki_EyGX2_e6r298AeUW8T5hyphenhyphenX8NPpkqlEEX8lqtepctODwfGYYFPda3QRtwwTicsWEvHrPNtmiAzDJ9prsgw5HAmzkaqcwT74q1xy6iOCcQI0rdPcqx8bEw72P9glw1/s320/Pakistan-Taliban.jpg" /></a></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-2451590110567140642010-03-18T09:29:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:47:30.543-07:00To Karachi With Love – The Art Exhibit<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">The photography exhibition at the second floor started from the 1st week of March and continued till 17th March. This exhibition, titled “<b>To Karachi With Love</b>” was organized by D.U.C.K (Designers United for a Cause Karachi) and ReBuild-ReBound which are non-profit Organizations </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">initiated by a handful of Indus Valley Alumni who are bringing together designers, photographers, sculptors and visual artists to exhibit their work, create awareness and raise funds for humanitarian causes.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><div style="clear: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">To Karachi With Love</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"> was one of a series of events aimed to raise awareness about the loss of lives and destruction that followed the suicide blast on Ashura at Bolton Market in Karachi. All funds collected will go to the rebuilding of the market and surrounding area.</span></span></div></div><div style="clear: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">100% of the proceeds will go towards renowned architect, Shahid Abdullah’s efforts to reconstruct the affected area and to the shopkeepers whose livelihoods have been put on hold for the past three months and still await the end of the reconstruction. Their lives may never be the same again but we can help be a part of the change.</span></span></div></div></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">This step taken by handful of Indus Valley Alumni organized this event to exhibit their work and create awareness and also raise funds for those shopkeepers who suffered great loss (about Rs. 30 – 40 billion were lost by the shopkeepers in Bolton Market, Karachi) in the Ashura Blast. It also highlights that the terrorists want the public to be fearful and to be in the dark. The purpose of this exhibition was to pull the city of Lights out of darkness by not letting the terrorists win.</span></span></span></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-80323240083231963972010-02-28T07:53:00.000-08:002010-04-25T12:48:07.005-07:00Magic carpet malfunction leaves many stranded<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3NroHqvlns2_IHol9EiOI3nL_vL5LVMQ9QmUbpz6sd3BtFOJB-BFVPPbJF9n3IDkcqW1-Rady9RMX5j21rVyrPuzJ5l1z1U8kqF3940UejTc3coJXn1SHl6IKFTek8jXCiuCp9-6frplL/s1600-h/Magic_Carpet_Ride.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3NroHqvlns2_IHol9EiOI3nL_vL5LVMQ9QmUbpz6sd3BtFOJB-BFVPPbJF9n3IDkcqW1-Rady9RMX5j21rVyrPuzJ5l1z1U8kqF3940UejTc3coJXn1SHl6IKFTek8jXCiuCp9-6frplL/s320/Magic_Carpet_Ride.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">(February 2</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">nd</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">.2010) At Funland in Clifton, Karachi, 2</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">4 people were left stranded between 40 and 80 feet in the air when a ride called ‘</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Magic Carpet’ malfunctioned. Magic carpet was one of the most popular rides at Funland for many families since the Funland amusement park and the public park besides it seems the very few family entertainment places existing in Karachi.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">It is now shut for about four months. According to unofficial reports there was an accident resulting in several minor injuries after which the management has decided to shut down temporarily.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The ride</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> features a wooden motor drome at an angle of 72 degrees and was 80 feet in diameter. It has been a major attraction and is enjoyed by children and adults equally.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> With the office stinking of pan and gutkha, it was only possible to speak to a representative of the manager outside their office</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">. The management at Funland </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">refuses to accept any case of accident.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8454837125284419280" name="may16"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> Park officials say that the passenger restraint system was working properly.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">However, one of the security staff members stated that “ride was only a year old and has been closed down due to some technical issues”. He also added that their maintenance/technical staff has failed to detect the fault and the chances of getting it fixed are very few. They have also consulted technicians from all over the country who, according to the security in charge, have given up on this one.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: .9pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 36.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: .9pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 36.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">On observation, the remains of the ride lays rusting in the rain and the chilly weather of Karachi;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">without any covers, which would only risk its suitability once the existing technical problems are solved. With magic carpet down and un-operational indefinitely, there only remains less than 8 so called exhilarating rides to entertain the 70% lower and middle class families of Karachi who visit the funland. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: .9pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 36.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: .7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 36.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -26.6pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The question remains that is it the operator error or a rider misconduct or maybe there was something wrong with the ride’s design to begin with. Funland might be an affordable activity for the most of our working class families but the question remains if these rides and their designs are reliable and if not then if such high risks are really worth it. At the same time, one is also tempted to think whether it is bad ownership which has ordered cheap parts and spare parts - from China where the black market for the spare mechanical parts is the largest.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: .7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 36.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: .7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 36.0pt; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">One may find enough staff ensuring rider safety and conform in foreign amusement parks. At the same time, rides are tested for their safety throughout at the expenses of devoting an entire season out of business. On the other hand, Karachi Funland, though being in business 365 days of the year (Except strikes and violent days) and having a much bigger customer base is failing to maintain the standards.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Calibri;"><br />
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</span></div></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-32976855581051219512010-02-25T08:11:00.000-08:002010-04-25T12:48:26.886-07:00Staring is rude..Is it?!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What can i say? I have absolutely no idea what so ever. No, honestly, I don't have a clue.</span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFG8bCagCBYbwIdnRR80SiukYNesNThFRtdbUwknwM3tX9oyXIj04HsbP_3YYGoUt80yl6dYj-keFqq-V4BMJrhBC78mMyYcVZxjzhB2pGIG_riFUAyZ_ezkpCPcD55oztGuHP4zbIY30/s1600-h/10809ist2_807290_abstract_purple_eye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFG8bCagCBYbwIdnRR80SiukYNesNThFRtdbUwknwM3tX9oyXIj04HsbP_3YYGoUt80yl6dYj-keFqq-V4BMJrhBC78mMyYcVZxjzhB2pGIG_riFUAyZ_ezkpCPcD55oztGuHP4zbIY30/s200/10809ist2_807290_abstract_purple_eye.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think in my case people are just THERE. They ARE, and when I find one in my close proximity, I have to check them out just to make sure they mean me no harm. You have no idea how many people carry a little hatchet in their suitcases nowadays.:)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #8e7cc3;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">And I'm not watching only people. I also watch their shoelaces, fingernails, noses, eyecolor, the way they light a cigarette, the way they hold their lips, when they drink from a glass bottle, the way they touch their face, when they're nervous or flattered, their movements, facial expressions... the list goes on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I find people charming.</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div></span></span></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-78044308942830527562010-02-25T07:49:00.000-08:002010-04-25T12:48:56.313-07:00PRESS RELEASE (Journalism Assignment)<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">PRESS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -.3in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b><br />
</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; margin-left: -.3in; margin-right: 0in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .3in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: -.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">PROVINCIAL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN </span></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-left: .3in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: -.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">LAUNCHED,</span></span></span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"> </span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">10 August 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -.3in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b><br />
</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -.3in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b><br />
</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>The Launching Ceremony of Provincial Disaster Risk Management Plan for</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Sindh</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>was held on August 12th in a local hotel. </b></span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b><br />
</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>“With the implementation of this plan it is hoped that a disaster prevention frame work will be put in place across the province which will help in protecting the lives of people as well as vital infrastructure against impending disasters, it will also put in place effective mechanisms of preparedness and mitigation against multiple hazards, the plan also envisages how to manage an emergency response in an effective and timely manner he added,” said Senior Member Board of Revenue Mr.</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Ghulam</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Ali Pasha. He further stated that it has been</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Sindh</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Revenue Department endeavor to develop the Provincial Disaster Management Authority into a responsive and smart organization with strong linkages and partnerships in order to make the lives of our people and our province safe.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b><br />
</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Senior Member National Disaster Management Authority,Mr.</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Shaukat</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Nawaz</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Tahir</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>in his speech thanked UNDP, NDMA and others for their effects in making of this Disaster Risk Management Plan of</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Sindh</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>and hoped that all provincial stake holders would follow the strategic direction given in the plan to make</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>SindhProvince safer from Disaster Risks. Mr.</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Ghulam</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Mustafa</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Abro</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>made a presentation of the plan and stated that an action plan has also been made and further this project is first of its kind in </b></span></span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Pakistan</b></span></span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>. Minister Revenue Jam</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Mahtab</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Hussad</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Dahar</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>has congratulated the officers of Board of Revenue and of Provincial Disaster Management Authority for their achievement and efforts that has given</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Sindh</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Province the distinction of being the</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>ris</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>to launch such project and hoped that all stake holders will extend their support to strengthen the disaster Management capability of Government of</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Sindh. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b><br />
</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>The launching was well attended amongst other by officials of Board of Revenue DCO’s ofThatta</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>and</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b>Umerkot, and by secretaries of various department. HANOUT NO. 705/09 (IHB)</b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"><b> .</b></span></span></span></span></span></o:p></span></span></div></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-46963547449704704752010-02-24T07:11:00.000-08:002010-02-24T07:11:43.461-08:00Conservation of Sin.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fD_b52a8Uz4WsjgwZu5ulzN_BjOMFT-pURRY3V3w-OEbYeNcTiiVocNMdG138AiGnZ45vRiF1coFqvLjWcKKwUaWKFCMlSpY7OaYPho8l8cRUBRqk-NBzomvvInNkqJPKty-YG_915YD/s1600-h/Conservation+Of+Sin+900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fD_b52a8Uz4WsjgwZu5ulzN_BjOMFT-pURRY3V3w-OEbYeNcTiiVocNMdG138AiGnZ45vRiF1coFqvLjWcKKwUaWKFCMlSpY7OaYPho8l8cRUBRqk-NBzomvvInNkqJPKty-YG_915YD/s400/Conservation+Of+Sin+900.jpg" width="301" /></a></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-87542349146485838012010-02-23T08:00:00.000-08:002010-04-25T12:49:31.166-07:00All the worlds a stage.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #c27ba0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Shakespeare did not invent the metaphor; 'All the worlds a stage': it was already in common use by the 16th century and he would have expected his audiences to recognise it.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_4f0lXfs51Xudg6HnCjwB9AVAaZOldmkGl49ML0reXnmFIuCGob7YEkvjHQkZndlKspzuhv1uCxam6APynhQW1kihwG-G0nI4e2CW1n-ivmwMAXJ6Qvvl6T3WurIGBJSUCoZ88zg15WgD/s1600-h/All+the+world+is+a+stage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_4f0lXfs51Xudg6HnCjwB9AVAaZOldmkGl49ML0reXnmFIuCGob7YEkvjHQkZndlKspzuhv1uCxam6APynhQW1kihwG-G0nI4e2CW1n-ivmwMAXJ6Qvvl6T3WurIGBJSUCoZ88zg15WgD/s200/All+the+world+is+a+stage.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #c27ba0;"><br />
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<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.17em; padding-top: 0.5em; text-align: justify;"><span class="mw-headline" id="In_limerick"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">In limerick</span></span></h2><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">The poem was compressed into </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Limerick (poetry)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">limerick</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"> form by the historian </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Conquest" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Conquest"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">Robert Conquest</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">:</span></div></div><dl style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">Seven ages: first puking and mewling,</span></div></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">Then very pissed off with your schooling,</span></div></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">Then romances and then fights,</span></div></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">Then judging chaps' rights,</span></div></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">Then sitting in slippers, then droolin</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzr0dbldgIeA7xCtBzbkWCDbHCOuX03r71uSfCVUotQFAR9N72ED5f9oqC2uJEooPNBXyf432HdpEJ6eLLq3tJEZNzjD9kcOI0u78LzOmBZsigUt9iHB-BpBiA9k0bxztCGaI3AQ52_K0R/s1600-h/inteligenta+lemnului+900.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzr0dbldgIeA7xCtBzbkWCDbHCOuX03r71uSfCVUotQFAR9N72ED5f9oqC2uJEooPNBXyf432HdpEJ6eLLq3tJEZNzjD9kcOI0u78LzOmBZsigUt9iHB-BpBiA9k0bxztCGaI3AQ52_K0R/s320/inteligenta+lemnului+900.JPG" width="204" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">The whole world is a stage", says Shakespeare in a poem and by associating ideas: the stage as a chessboard or a piano keyboard cannot have but an ambivalent role: the theater stage and the musical stage.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span></dd></dl>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-68238174934757843442010-02-22T07:59:00.000-08:002010-04-25T12:50:09.962-07:00Bangladeshi Deputy Council commemorates Mother language day in Karachi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Qh4eFF6GECmCW00v4q5mu9sxK5MhjJll-lq9pC0sI4bj2o8rEy1Mo-hVNanFVAjfwvxmrLZmebzwA6qJr7-wAd34oRKRZpZ7UX5SA3E9s6Bs_md7UxKQuSCBtVNrkvwds53WiEcLZXMy/s1600-h/imld_poster2004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Qh4eFF6GECmCW00v4q5mu9sxK5MhjJll-lq9pC0sI4bj2o8rEy1Mo-hVNanFVAjfwvxmrLZmebzwA6qJr7-wAd34oRKRZpZ7UX5SA3E9s6Bs_md7UxKQuSCBtVNrkvwds53WiEcLZXMy/s320/imld_poster2004.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">KARACHI: Bangladeshi Deputy Council hosted an experience sharing seminar at Avari Towers (Karachi) on Sunday 21st February to commemorate International Mothers Tongue Day. Many eminent scholars,writers and prominent political figures like Mr. Jawed Jabbar were present at the event. Speakers brought in the limelight the emotional significance of the language of the region -Sindhi and its contribution to literary world. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Mother Language Day was proclaimed by UNESCO's General Conference in November 1999. The International Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multi</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">lingual ism.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-84053006930275973142010-02-22T07:39:00.000-08:002010-04-25T12:50:35.545-07:00The best reason for a big event<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
<h3 class="entry-header" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
<div class="entry-content" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; position: static;"><div class="entry-body" style="clear: both;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">....</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">is being </span></span></span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">big</span></span></span></span></strong></em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Nah, HUGE. Ordinary big isn't good enough any more.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Big events, grand openings, national events that just can't be missed. These work (if they're big enough).</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Big events, if they're truly big, change the rhythm and demand a different sort of attention and preparation. We can push through the dip, expend emotional labor and do things we never thought we'd be able to do if there's a charette and a deadline and an audience.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Human beings respond to emergencies and to hoopla. We like doing what others are doing, and we'll suspend social disbelief if we're being carried along by the pack (or the mob).</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The challenge comes when we institutionalize the event and make it normal.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If you're going to have an event, better make it big. Or even bigger than that. It needs to be awe-inspiring, frightening, on deadline and worth losing sleep over.</span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></span></h3><div class="entry-content" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; position: static;"><div class="entry-body" style="clear: both;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div></div></div>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-50305739742287167762010-02-21T10:16:00.000-08:002010-02-21T10:39:11.516-08:00You Can If You Think You Can!<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><b></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><b><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></span></center><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">this is one of the very inspiring poems shared by my teacher every now & then. every time he recites it; it rejuvenates in me the energy and passion to strive for better and best.</span></span></center><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><center style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></span></center></b></span></center><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><center style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></span></center></b></span></center><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><center style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></span></center></b></span></center><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><center style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">You Can If You Think You Can!</span></span></center></b></span></center></b></span><center><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If you think you are beaten, you are,<br />
If you think you dare not, you don't.<br />
If you like to win, but you think you can't,<br />
It is almost certain you won't.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If you think you'll lose, you're lost,<br />
For out in the world we find,<br />
Success begins with a fellow's will.<br />
It's all in the state of mind.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If you think you are outclassed, you are,<br />
You've got to think high to rise,<br />
You've got to be sure of yourself before<br />
You can ever win a prize.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Life's battles don't always go<br />
To the stronger or faster man.<br />
But soon or late the man who wins,<br />
Is the man who thinks he can.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div></center><br />
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<center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span">~ C. W. Longenecker ~</span></span></span></center>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8454837125284419280.post-63965594967191097552010-02-20T12:05:00.001-08:002010-02-20T12:05:32.577-08:00As great as your dominant aspiration<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.<br />
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James Allen</span></span></span>S.I. Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005490717849582885noreply@blogger.com2