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Posts Tagged ‘Mohammad Ali Jinnah’

The Language Barrier in Education

By Ahmad Abrar Maula Quraishi • Jul 31st, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going”. - Rita Mae Brown
Pakistan came into being on August 14, 1947. The Muslims got their freedom from the British. It was a very big success for our nation. The struggle of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali [...]



Mice Hearted Lions!

By Mian Usman • Jul 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Courage, bravery, honour, Faith, straight forwardness and many more such traits are related to a “Man” in books of history. The scenario has changed now, the future historians say in year 2080 would not find such typical characteristics in Men of the past (our time) What has gone wrong? Let’s study the root causes.
The first thing that [...]



Tolerance and Patience: Two traits we hardly find in us now.

By Mian Usman • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

With an ever changing fast track life style and unstable priorities, its becoming difficult for us to tackle our anger, frustrations, disappointments, grudges and self created distances from others. Our society often reflects and present us a some what non-tolerant and aggressive people by nature. Although their are many contributors to it but the major [...]



The Rise of Religious Extremism in Pakistan

By amicus • Apr 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

In Pakistan, the relation between Islam and state has been a matter of great controversy. From the time of its inception, the opinion in the country has remained divided as to whether Pakistan is to be an Islamic/‘shariah’ state or a ‘modern’/‘secular’ Muslim-majority state.
The roots of this controversy could be traced to the various statements [...]



The Rapists of the “Motherland”

By Alaq • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

The rapists of the motherland “Pakistan” pillaging and plundering our natural resources from the last 61 years. What messege we learn from past? Nelson Mandella said, “The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices.
We should look back [...]



Only Three Years …. Please

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Aug 16th, 2008 • Category: Misc


INDEPENDENCE- The Moment of Truth!

By fzuberi • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I will start with the line that one of my very old teachers & friend messaged me this morning…
“Sixty-one years ago a nation was searching for a piece of land, today THAT same piece of land is searching for its nation…”
Is this really where we are…. after these past sixty years?
Or is it what is [...]



All What I have

By Asim • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Misc

It is all what I have,
My soul and my existence
Imprinted and embedded
In these lines, drawn and felt
In this star and crescent
Long are those trails and hidden
Stories of my ancestors
Some in me and some in graves
In its lap, intoxicated in its slumber
My old remains, my ancestors
Years it takes to build this oasis
Which we all call [...]



Main Bhee Pakistan Hoon, Tu Bhee Pakistan Hay

By Maham Javed • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.” These glorious words and many others of our Quaid seems to have fallen in a dark pit [...]



Make-do Politicians

By Fatima Tassaduq • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Umr-e-Aziz Younhe Raigan Guzar Gai
Girtay Puttoon Ki Sada Bun Ker
Pakistan is an Islamic democratic state and the people of Pakistan got this country to live according to the will of Allah. People of Pakistan wanted such a place for themselves where they could implement the golden Islamic values in their true spirit, and where [...]