February 2012
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HEC releases Pakistan's top universities lists →
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Fake anti-polio drive to capture Osama →
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Expired polio vaccines not deadly: experts →
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Polio not confined to conflict zones →
“The four new cases bring the total detected cases to 13 for this year,” World Health Organisation (WHO)`s polio chief Dr Nima Abid told Dawn. It is pertinent to mention that during the same time last year, the number of confirmed polio cases in the country stood at eight.This time around, one case each has been reported from Bahawalnagar in Punjab, Khyber Agency in the Federally Administered...
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How India has had remarkable success in polio... →
There are 7,000 impromptu vaccination booths across the capital. Across India, these regular National Immunisation Days aim to reach more than 170 million children under five - the group most at risk from polio. I’m here to witness India’s successful fight against polio.
Several of the booths in Delhi are staffed by volunteers from Britain; they are all members of Rotary - the...
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Institutional memory must not rot in file cabinets →
BRR: How can inclusive policy making come about particularly in making private sector an engine of economic growth?
Dr Vaqar Ahmed: In a recent meeting with universities, one of the vice-chancellors of a leading Islamabad-based university categorically stated that the research being conducted by academia in the country is largely irrelevant to our society.So, in order to boost research on...
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Dimensions of development →
Dr Akmal Hussain
“Freedom is necessary for creativity because creativity requires intellectual space to make a leap of the imagination. As Asadullah Ghalib the great poet asked: “If the first footstep of my creative imagination covers the universe, where will the second step take me?” Allama Iqbal in the same vein suggests: “Take the development of the Self to such heights, that God may ask...
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“Blessed is he who is so concerned by his own faults that he cannot see the...”
– hadith
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Your head will collapse.: food treatments or... →
zuleikha:
Ammonia hydroxide: similar in chemical composition to urea found in human urine.
Ammonium sulfate: Similar in chemical composition to the wash for meat trimmings, this substance is used as a dough enhancer in some commercial bakers. The chemical feeds dough-rising yeast and…
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“Le rughe della vecchiaia formano le più belle scritture della vita, quelle sulle...”
– unknown
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war facts
jahanzebjz:
Even though the war, officially, is in Iraq and Afghanistan, it was Pakistan that, in 2009, had more casualties than Afghanistan in the same year and Iraq in 2011.
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elementary school: i went to bed at 10
everyone: omg thats so cool
middle school: i went to bed at 10
everyone: wow loser
high school: i went to bed at 10
everyone: omg lucky
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“I came to the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) and he...”
– Hadith on the authority of Waabisah bin Ma’bad (radiAllaahu anhu)
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Education crisis →
As per ASER’s findings, over 65 per cent of the mothers surveyed were illiterate. While the priority should be educating children, perhaps the situation can also be turned around by supporting adult literacy campaigns focusing on mothers.
contd…
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Economic uplift as self-discovery →
Niaz Murtaza
Starting small, Pakistan could initially help entrepreneurs climb the technological ladder within existing export sectors where it is currently restricted to low-end products, e.g. textiles; then help domestically cost-efficient sectors, e.g. petrochemicals, become export-competitive; and then finally tackle other challenging sectors.
Pakistani governments have shown some finesse...
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The polio story →
Dr Hasina Shahani, the secretary general of the Pakistan Paediatrics Association (Sindh), says this is one reason why many children contract the disease in spite of receiving multiple doses. If they are suffering from diarrhoea or are debilitated, immunity may not develop. In Pakistan, 40 per cent of children are underweight and 50 per cent have stunted growth.
contd..
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What is your child learning in school?: ‘94 per... →
me: Sigh
Around 94 per cent of grade III students in Sindh cannot read sentences in English, Urdu or Sindhi after being taught in grade II, according to the Annual Status of Education Report 20ll (ASER) Sindh, which was launched on Monday
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“Saudi Arabia has confirmed Valentines Day will be on Wednesday, February 15th...”
– Dawah Addict. (via consumo-dunque-sono)
me: LOL!!!
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“sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2)...”
– If you are a closet-nerd like me and do not completely understand wisdom of Valentine’s day, copy paste above in Google Search for a plot of butt. (via umalik)
me: haha..this is very cute!
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Anonymous asked: why do you keep posting non-Pakistan related stuff on this blog?
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“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see,...”
– Joan Didion (via zushan)
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Demystifying the village-naming hierarchy →
The British divided CCA in two part of LBDC, “Left side of LBCD” and “Right side of LBCD.” If a DISTY (another water channel) were developed from the left side, it would be named 1-L, the second 2-L and so on. If a DISTY was dug from the right side, it would be named 1-R, second 2-R and so on.
The Cultural-able Commanded Area is equally divided on both sides of a canal, with chak numbers, which...
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Sale of 3G licences →
me: when the world moves towards 4G…we get 3G…oh well.
Editorial (Dawn)
THE government, especially the Ministry of Finance, must have heaved a sigh of relief to learn that many top names in the world’s telecom industry are interested in obtaining the third- and fourth-generation licences it plans to auction towards the end of the coming month. The Pakistan Telecom Authority’s market...
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Universities: telling the good from the bad →
Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
First, the ideal university should be a bastion of critical inquiry covering every conceivable field of human endeavour. It has first-rate faculty that does first-rate research on super-massive black holes and discovers new extra-solar planets, figures out quantum computation and the folding of proteins, documents the mating habits of macaws and tarantulas, and deciphers the...
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“Narrated ‘Aisha: (the wife of the Prophet) Allah’s Apostle (peace be upon him)...”
– Hadith