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Poverty, Education and Floods in Pakistan We hear the problem of poverty in the country but many of us have not seen it by themselves as I did. It is a different experience to see how poor our fellows are. One feels sorry for them and also tries to help them because of their need. I want to tell my recent experience of the poverty situation in the country. I was part of a government survey team to make a report on the damages done by the rain & floods. I live in the city area as many of us living in; it was my first experience to visit any backward area. I have seen houses made of mud but never went in them. We were asked to see how many houses are damaged.T he damage was categorized as partial and complete. If any room of the house was damaged completely it is in the partial category and if all rooms or most of them are destroyed it is in the complete category (destroyed means roof of the living should fall to the ground). I don’t know what damages the government will gi

Cricket, Spot Fixing, Match Fixing The case is with Scotland Yard and every one knows that they use scientific method to spot the crime. I am certain that they will do it professionally and perfectly this time also. I can not say any thing about the roll of ECB in investigation because I am not expert. But one thing is sure that they will have a close look on the issue. As after the Chairman PCB alleged their player they are also doubtful about their own player. We might not see some of them in the Ashes or at least in the next season. It is for some time that we are hearing the term match fixing and spot fixing. I think it all started with a South African captain Cronje the inquiry started in India. Then what happen to that inquiry I don’t know as with the other inquiries about the matter in Pakistan and abroad. But the matter was never been seen as open as this one is every one is aware of the spots which were fixed. I played some cricket but I never called any match to be

FRIENDS OF BUTT, BUT……..? It seems to be fashion to criticize PCB and its Chairman but I can not stop my self today. Only because of Ijaz Butt’s decision of appointing one of his friends Intikhab Alam as Manager Pakistan cricket team. I have many friends I love them too, I give sacrifices for them too but not on price of my country or damaging anyone else. I think friendship is friendship and business is business. I am always prepared to help them or at least try to help them or any thing I can do legally. I always say to my friends that If one day u feel like crying…….. call me…… I don’t promise u dat…. I’ll make u laugh… But at least I can cry wid u….. If one day u want to run away… Don’t b afraid to call me….. I don’t promise to ask u to stop… But at least I can run wid u……….. If one day u don’t want to listen to anybody… Call me and……. I promise to b very quiet….. But… If one day u calls me n there is no answer Come fast to see me… Perhaps I

Who is Better Captain: Afridi or Yousaf? Who is better the captain….Yousaf or Afridi? A simple question answered in Faysal bank T 20 Cup final. When I heard that Lahore and Karachi are in the final I left all my activities and glued to TV screen. I was thinking about strategies applied by the captains in the final. It was my anticipation that if it is the game played on strategy Yousaf will win. And it all happened according to my anticipations. The field placing, batting order, and especially the bowling were perfect to restrict Karachi. The main threat was Afridi in batting and Yousaf have already planed to bowl his main bowlers at him. Only one over which is I think will be part of plan was bowled by part timer. It was also a tight over and it put a lot of pressure on Afridi. In twenty twenty if you miss couple of deliveries you will be under a lot of pressure. Every one knows that if Afridi misses some deliveries in even one day match he feel pressure and Yousaf took a

Javed wants powers ……….? And Mohsin Khan Chief Selector These days every one wants to be in news these days, as does Javed. So if he says that he wants powers to exercise do not believe it. Ijaz Butt may also have enjoyed that and laughed heartedly. It seems to be a joke because Javed has raised his voice I think for the fourth time but he does not give any attention after that. I think that he just want to record that he has raised his voice and demanded some powers. So if in future any objection rise against him he can say that he was powerless. Otherwise he is enjoying this; “ Mila hai sabkuch toh faryad kya karein Dil hai pareshan toh jazbat kya karein” He is having every thing other than powers (work) and many of us want the same type of job where we have every luxury but no work to do. I have an old joke of 90’s political era. A person went to an office with a “letter”. The boss of the office asked him; “what can you do” He replied; “oh I can not do any thing you

King Robert Bruce and Taimoor Some days ago I was sitting with friends we were having discussion about our leaders. One of our friends told us about the generosity of Robin Hood and the other discussed the heroics of King Robert Bruce. Then one who was sitting quite during all this discussion said that he has been punished many times due to King Bruce. We were astonished to hear that and asked how .he replied with a bright smile like Nona Leza (not like Mona Lisa) that “the spider and the king” was most difficult story for me when I was in my school. The other who was also sitting quietly said that the original story was of Timor and the ant. Every one became silent because no one has the correct of complete knowledge. At that time I said that it may be the story of any one but if we think about the logic it is difficult to think about spider falling to ground but if you talk about ant it seems to be logical and rational. History of both Now I want to give a brief account

Mother Tongue, Education and Pakistan Dr. Zahoor Ahmed Awan wrote a column in daily Aaj on 17 October 2010 in which he discussed the bill passed in the provincial assembly of KPK, the assembly wants to teach the students’ science subject in Pashto. I am also a teacher but I don’t know the spelling of Pashto how can I teach my students in Pashto. I am also worried about my future as well as other of my colleagues who don’t know how to say salaam in Pashto .If government arranges some courses for the teachers for Pashto I think I will the first to refuse to attend these types of courses because I have no background. I prefer to use English which is very weak but I can do better in it. As I am teacher my duty is to brief my students on different topics I feel it convenient to describe any thing in Urdu and I can do it in many ways. I can give many alternative words both in Urdu and also in English .Also I can tell my students the origin of the word and their uses in different

November 3………Lawyer’s Black Day On November 3, 2007 General Pervaiz Musharraf imposed emergency  and ousted 62 Judges of the higher court you will read many critique on it therefore I want to show you the lighter side of it . Once I was reading an article about first clean sweep series loss of WI against England and in it they said that it was a white wash on WI (then I was in class fourth).I thought that it means that their faces were black therefore they were white washed as if some one wants to humiliate any one their faces must be black washed. In those days a white team got a clean sweep and at once I thought they will be black washed or it would be called a black wash but to my astonishment in the newspapers it was also called as whitewash for a long time I thought that that it was by a mistake. Today when Asma Jahingir asked that the lawyers will lift flags and wear black arm bands this very thought came into my mind that they should wear white bands instead of blac

Wind energy in Pakistan On 2-11-10 talking to the media Federal Minister for information Qamar Zaman Qira told the news men that there are 23 interested in producing electricity from wind. He further said that the government has given them land for that purpose too. I don’t know when the tender was issued, when the land was issued and what is the rate per unit of electricity finalized I will do some search for it later but now I want to discuss the procedure of electricity made by wind. It is a kind of energy which is called renewable energy. Energy is the building block of our universe. We use energy for different activities in our daily life e.g. for lighting and warming our homes. Energy provides us heat and electricity. We use energy for cooking food and watching television. Energy is necessary in order to power vehicles for our transport and for the machinery in factories. But all the energy types, we use, have its base in natural resources. We also use these resource

Media, Root of All Evil Nowadays most the people thinks that media is the root cause of most of the problems. For example they think that all the tensions are caused by the breaking news, discussions and analysis made by experts. Many simple matters become complicated due to media. Pros and cons are always there. Important News Hour by Hour People think that media is exaggerating things but I don’t think so. If we analyze the matter it happen like this that once we hear an important news it is repeated on other channels they gets expert opinion from two or three people and then starts other topic. If a person keeps sitting and watching the news channel he will hear the same news and the same expert opinion again, and also if he is switching the channels he will get the same type of matter from other channels too. Then if he say that media is over exaggerating it, I think it is his own fault. No one has that much time to sit and listened news completely. It is the redundant