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Dear doctors, mind your writing
Jan 7th
Noor Bibi got her thyroid tumour removed some years back. After the operation, her doctor prescribed her a dose of Thyroxin for lifetime – a vital drug for people living without thyroid glands. She bought the drug from a chemist and lost the prescription. Then, for two years, she would More >
what camera you’re using’ photography with a Minolta 110 camera,
Jan 6th
KARACHI – Omer Sidat is a management professional and a textile technologist, pursuing a career in textiles. His only other passion is photography, and if it were not for textiles, he would have been pursuing a full-time career in photography. Sidat said, “I started photography with a Minolta 110 camera, More >
opportunity to study at jail Of jails and reforms: Juvenile inmates in Sukkur jail might get an education
Jan 3rd
Of jails and reforms: Juvenile inmates in Sukkur jail might get an education SUKKUR Seventeen-year-old Mohammad Ramzan Ujjan had never been to school. But he is happy that he has the opportunity to study at jail. “My elders were busy in tribal feuds,” he explained. “Nobody had the time to More >
How Jinnah discovered his faith in Islamic idealism
Jan 3rd
Over the last six decades historians and analysts have discussed the mystery of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s political ‘conversion’ from Indian nationalism to Pakistani separatism. It seems ironic that he was the supreme advocate of the Two-Nation Theory, the idea that Hindus and Muslims were two separate nations and could not More >
Use of Gutka banned, again in educational areas
Dec 30th
Use of Gutka banned, again Although previous bans have had played little or no role in dissuading people from chewing the extremely harmful Gutka, the Sindh government has decided to take another crack at banning the sale and manufacturing of the cancerous consumable.
An announcement by the Sindh Home Department More >
It’s that time of year again
Dec 25th
A ROUND this time every year, thousands of students have their first taste of Brownian Motion — random, haphazard motion of particles in a free-for-all whirlpool — even before they have actually studied what this scientific theory is about. Put simply, it means it is time for college admissions in More >
Bad times hit Art and artist hard in Pakistan
Dec 25th
Bad times hit artists hard ISLAMABAD – Art and artist – both in visual and performing genre – survives in Pakistan but at a very heavy price. Musicians, painters, singers or actors live in most difficult times, while the state institutions, meant to promote art and culture, ignore them. The More >
I found Miss Honey!
Dec 24th
T HE first movie that I ever watched was “Matilda” in which a teacher, Miss Honey, proves instrumental in changing the life of a brilliant six-year-old student. It was after watching the movie that I started my own search for “Miss Honey”, a teacher whose job would not just be More >
Basic problems of Government Education in Pakistan
Dec 24th
Basic problems (Education) and Government Respect of Civil government is responsibility of every citizen of country, before one week I was read research about one political since student he has describe in his views “problem of political parties in state and attitude before power and after then completely opposite, we More >
Democracy and education
Dec 23rd
THIS is apropos of the letter ‘Flawed democracy’ by a member of the Punjab Assembly, Zafar Zulqurnain Sahi (Dec 2), in which he has analysed the reasons why democracy cannot function in Pakistan.
He says democracy primarily never existed in its true spirit in Pakistan. Ours is a distorted form not More >
Childhood dilemmas: ‘Is a child a property?’ Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC)
Dec 22nd
Childhood dilemmas: ‘Is a child a property?’ LAHORE: “Section 89 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) provides a valid ‘defence’ to care-givers of children when they employ mild to moderate punishments,” said Rashid Aziz while addressing a forum, Tackling Corporal Punishment, organised by the Society for the Protection of the More >
Drug addiction and rehabilitation
Dec 22nd
IT was distressing to see pictures (Dec 14) of over 50 men and children shackled in a seminary, which is also believed to be a rehabilitation centre in Sohrab Goth, Karachi. Some of the children in the picture do not seem to be more than eight years old. It was More >
Stop beating children up! Society for the Protection of the Rights of Children (SPARC)
Dec 22nd
LAHORE – Society for the Protection of the Rights of Children (SPARC) organised a consultation with a focus on the elimination of corporal punishment from all settings. SPARC’s monitoring of cases from print media showed that around 29 cases of corporal punishment had been reported in the print media from More >
Recruiting the right man for the job
Dec 21st
Recruiting the right man for the job It is puzzling why the government summoned a dozen or so of our envoys to Islamabad just to endorse the steps it had taken recently to realign Pak-US relations when the country is fully united behind its stance on the matter. It’s not More >
‘Bacha party’
Dec 20th
This is with reference to Anjum Niaz’s article titled ‘Bacha party’ (December 17). The problem of dynastic politics is indeed one of the greatest predicaments besetting the Pakistani politics today. This trend of political power being handed down to the offspring of the powerful like private property is a major More >
Student Movement in India
Dec 20th
Student Movement in India “Though, the student movement in its organized form is of a recent origin in this province, yet spasmodic student activities can be traced as far back as 1905. During this year there was a strike in the King Edward Medical College, Lahore. It was perhaps the More >
Semester system needs closer examination fundamental ‘reforms’ in education lack of enforcement of discipline
Dec 19th
Semester system needs closer examination The semester system – one of the fundamental ‘reforms’ in education – has failed to bring the promised results mainly because of a lack of enforcement of discipline.
Complaints about indiscipline on the part of students and (few) teachers’ indifference at the Punjab University as well More >
Protect kids who have food allergies HealthDay News
Dec 19th
Protect kids who have food allergies
Depending on your child’s sensitivity, a food allergy can range from very mild to life-threatening.
The American Dietetic Association offers these suggestions to help protect kids who have food allergies:
* Always check food labels for potential allergens.
* Make sure you inform all family members, teachers More >










