February 2012
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Hazards of election economics →
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The government believes it will be able to secure alternate financing by the sale of 3-G licenses, collection of proceeds from PTCL’s privatisation to Etisalat, as well as early resumption of US assistance. But all of this rests on rather optimistic assumptions. They will take time to materialise. Some may not come through in the time frame assumed by the government.
But several...
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Osama Bin Laden compound being demolished in... →
Pakistan has begun to demolish the compound where US forces killed Osama Bin Laden, in the city of Abbottabad, residents and police say. (BBC)
“The Boss: “They could’ve just made money out of it by making it a tourist site” :P
Me: hehehe..true! ”
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Oscar for Pakistan!
“In her acceptance speech, Obaid-Chinoy dedicated the award to all the women in Pakistan, those working for change and “heroes” working in the country.” (Express Tribune)
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HEC releases Pakistan's top universities lists →
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Fake anti-polio drive to capture Osama →
:P
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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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