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Courtesy:- Ali Moeen Nawazish Monday, March 19, 2012 In a poll conducted of fresh graduates who were just starting new jobs, a number which amounts to more than 400,000 a year, and people in the middle of there careers, a majority of them indicated that a lack of good and cheap transport was keeping them from getting better jobs. The 27% of mid-careers said that they had better job offers but because of distance they could not avail the opportunity. Whereas the 42% of fresh graduates said, that at least a third of their salary went into transport expenditure and the 51% said it became difficult for them to avail better job opportunities due to lack of transport access. The fresh graduates living away from the business districts and “posh” employment areas also ended up fairing badly in terms of career progress then those who were in closer proximity to these areas.

Courtesy:-  S Rahman Disclosures about Mehrangate scandal are horrible like the ones revealed by the one-time Mehran Bank chief, Yunus Habib, that expose the dirty game played hand in glove by agencies’  superiors  and some politicians whose combined aim was ensuring the ouster of Pakistan People’s Party from national  politics. Or, plainly speaking, to show the door to the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed’s government. And to everybody’s surprise the politicians who stand exposed include some self-righteous and self-opinionated leaders like Mian Nawaz Sharif and Mian Shahbaz Sharif who shout themselves hoarse day and night in painting others as corrupt and themselves as pious, neat and clean. 

Courtesy:-  Mohammad Malick March 16, 2012     To open or not to open – that is the question. Parliament is all set to discuss and decide the issue of the reopening of Nato supply routes, which were shut down in the wake of the Salala massacre. While the executive buck is being passed on to parliament for cosmetic purposes – praised be the citadel of democracy – the expected resumption of business as usual, sanctioned by the army as usual, has already begun albeit in the guise of humane considerations.

Courtesy:- Francis Campbell March 16, 2012   On March 17,  St Patrick’s Day  will be celebrated the world over by many millions of people of Irish descent. In Karachi, too, the legacy of St Patrick is felt strongly through institutions and people. The St Patrick’s High School in the city caters to hundreds of students each day and has produced many illustrious alumni who have contributed to Pakistani society through service in politics, business, education, religion and the military. In the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Clifton, two religious sisters from Ireland maintain that the personal tie between Karachi and St Patrick first started more than 150 years ago. Sr Berchmans and Sr Mary have between them over 90 years of teaching experience in Pakistan and have taught thousands of Pakistani women and girls in Karachi, Lahore, Sialkot and Murree. That commitment to Pakistan has been praised by the Government of Pakistan and on March 23, the Governor of Sindh Dr I...

Courtesy:- M A Niazi   March 16, 2012 Pakistanis were not very surprised when an American soldier ran amuck in Kandahar and shot up 16 Afghan civilians, which came hot on the heels of another incident of American callousness in Afghanistan, i.e. the burning of copies of Holy Quran at the Bagram Airbase. Just as Pakistan had experienced the Raymond Davis affair, in which a CIA contractor had shot two Pakistanis, with his rescue vehicle running down a third, and had thus learned the hard way that CIA contractors were not benign presences who could be given the free run of the country, so have the Afghans learnt at the cost of massacre in Kandahar and the cost of being occupied by the USA. The common aspect of both incidents is that Washington’s dirty little secret is out!

Courtesy:-  Khawaja Manzar Amin The President of the militarily most powerful (and most indebted) nation in the world, and the Prime Minister of its potent manipulator, have held crucial talks in Washington, which, if considered successful or even satisfactory by Tel Aviv, can ignite its longed-for war with Iran, throw the Middle East in turmoil and plunge the fragile, recession-hit economies of the world into a freefall.  The social and political costs of the premeditated aggression will be no less volatile, especially in the Muslim lands and among their expatriate communities. One way or the other, hardly anyone will remain unaffected by the conflagration, if it is allowed to happen by the international community.

Courtesy:-  Muhammad Ali Shah & A. Ercelan In celebrating the contribution of nature to human prosperity, we must also recall society's ingratitude to our rivers despite their generosity. For our own sustainable security, we cannot continue to make nature a slave to our greed. The damage by heavy rains and severe floods are one reminder of the furious rebellion by cruelly mistreated forests, soil and water.