Archive for 'Education and Culture'
Do You Question
Posted on29. Dec, 2011 by Bakhtiar Hakeem.
By Bakhtiar Hakeem You are my audience if you are in forties, rather than thirties. I seek you more if you are in fifties, and most sought out, if you have crossed sixties. It would be interesting rather intriguing; for the sake of this exercise, if you are one of a grade twenty-two, grey-haired, wisest [...]
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Occupied
Posted on13. Dec, 2011 by Raja Mujtaba.
By Ashfaq Saraf who is an engineer by profession. He is from Indian held Kashmir. Through endless alleys in a distant fog, I recall belonging to certainty, I recall feeding a stray dog, I recall fading away into generosity, I recall the birth of a pensive yore When children would shy away From [...]
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Choice is no longer an alternative
Posted on29. Nov, 2011 by Inshah Malik.
Response to the post ‘nudity, niqab and illusion of ‘free choice’ on express tribune blogs dated November 28, 2011 Women’s exclusive politics is a subject oriented gimmickry, searching justification of ‘free will or free choice’. In a world like ours, conservatives have for long believed in a pre-destiny. But exceptionally so, the free woman of [...]
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Quest
Posted on20. Nov, 2011 by Humayun Gauhar.
Opinion Maker By Humayun Gauhar From the petty temporal to the sublime metaphysical is a transition that should be made sometimes before one returns to the mundane temporal again. This week we will go ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ and take a leap into the great unknown. People searching for self-awareness ask questions because they [...]
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Pakistan: Targeting The Symbols Of Our Culture
Posted on06. Sep, 2011 by Waqar Khan.
By Adeela Naureen Man with a beard and head cover, man on a prayer mat and a family observing basic tenants of Islam, these are some of the new targets TV channels, social media and cinema in Pakistan have chosen to home on to. Are men with the beard and head cover and women with [...]
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Emotional Intelligence: A Deficit in Pakistan
Posted on18. Apr, 2011 by Jawad Raza.
By Jawad Raza Khan:
One cannot forget the suicide committed by the widow of Raymond’s victim in Lahore, as now the family of the victim including his parents have been given “khoon baha” (blood money) alongwith the US citizenship but who else than media can be made more responsible for creating such an ugly mess after the Lahore incident resulting into yet another human loss.
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CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS & PERSONAL INTERESTS
Posted on28. Mar, 2011 by Bakhtiar Hakeem.
By Col Bakhtiar Hakeem General What we finally do is all what matters. Before deciding to choose between a glass of Pepsi or a cup of tea, between Kala Bagh dam and rental power projects all of us go through a process of decision-making. Sometimes it is simple, short and quick, sometimes complex, lengthy and delayed. [...]
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Iran: Nowruz, the feast of peace and purity
Posted on23. Mar, 2011 by Kourosh Ziabari.
By Kourosh Ziabari:
Nowruz is a festival for peace and purity. You can find in it both enjoyment and spirituality. Terrestrial and divine beauties can be seen in Nowruz simultaneously. Nowruz is an opportunity for the enrichment of the self and integration and solidarity of those who celebrate it all around the world.
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Cosmos and cosmic language-Part I
Posted on17. Feb, 2011 by Raja Mujtaba.
By Dr Ghayur Ayub:
Conversely, the cosmic language is entirely different ball game. It has non structured rules based essentially on intuition which brings it closer to spirituality without disconnecting it from theology or logic (philosophy). In this way it links theology, philosophy (logic) and spirituality completing the basic framework of any organised religion. As cosmic language is a comparatively new system with close links to spirituality, and spirituality being the main attraction of 21st century, this language can emerge a new dynamic phenomenon in the current century.
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Anglo-Saxon Law Is The Tool
Posted on05. Sep, 2010 by Naveed Tajammal.
By Naveed Tajammal:
When the European powers colonized in Asia and Africa, they not only destroyed their language, culture and social and religious values but they even replaced their laws and the source of jurisprudence.
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