Mumbai Attacks: Shocking lousy interview this one, but it will inroduce you to a great site

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/16195?in=00:32:38&out=00:36:12

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tayyab

Sexless and Loveless Marriages this article is about role of sex in marriage. that article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/24sex.html?em i tought would be additional reading on this topic.

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Sexless and Loveless Marriages Pastor’s Advice for Better Marriage: More Sex

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/24sex.html?em

Sexless and Loveless Marriages wasnt so much about sexless and loveless marriages. as it was about what the author does. even that got lost in the lengthiness.

please keep chowk alive. it brings indo pak together in a way that is unmatchable. people from both sides need to meet, even if they meet to argue. increased interaction will increase understanding.

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tayyab

The Taliban and Our National Interest! if we had good schools, there would be no taliban in pakistan. with little hope to make it here, the youth is lured by the promise of a better hereafter.

dealing with taliban would involve creating an environment where the youth is driven by hope.

an education system would help. but fixing education in pakistan would take work and is so obvious.

we are increasingly not interested in the obvious.

our institutions have failed, because they failed to execute what was so obvious. but executing the obvious is not so easy. it is this that distinguishes excellent nations from mediocre ones.

but then again, doing the obvious seems below the dignity of our intellectuals, who are so fond of screwing with the words.

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tayyab

Politics of PPP and Asif Zardari who are you fooling. pakistans stability doesnt rely on stability of one politicalparty. they have won elections. and they should be given a chance.

its for every one to see that they are making a mess of this historic opportunity.

your saying that its unfortunate for them to come into power at such difficult times - well, no one had requested them. they opted for it.

true leadership is for difficult times. not to ditch the country in difficulties.

difficult times also allow leaders to take highly unpopular decisions. there is plenty of low hanging fruit in pakistan. ppp or anyone can make a lot of difference in this country by very little effort.

we need to focus on our strengths. rally overseas pakistanis, make our vast fertile lands productive, do gawadar well and increase efficiency of the government services. any fool can see that these improvements could be made with little effort.

ppp is not focused on national agenda. and its such a shame.

The Correct Turn an interesting idea. could have been developed better.

Urdu News Columnists and Anchors -- should we always believe them? i agree. pakistan is so isolated from the civilized world, it has become like a well. and people can get away with a lot, in this well. The media, needs to be responsible. They are infact turning into a nuisance. By spreading fear, rumours and uncertainity.

pseudo intellectuals with little understanding spread the bad news in garb of learned debates.

Against Zardari\'s Pakistan mr. zardari - from mr. 10% ro mr. 100% - what a journey. the most eligible single.

And Now, The Charter of Demands—The Comedy Continues! This article supports a view which is held largely by gov or is cronies. its hard for a pakistani on the receving end of the current equation, to call "dismissal of judges who support constitution" as having a system.

There is a battle of the Gov. A battle of PM ship, which is for the politicians. And another battle of the People of Pakistan - where they are trying to free political prisoners like aitzaz, restoration of judges, constitution, freedoms, human rights, and above all respect for the Pakistanis.

Real leaders will fight the war for the people's rights. Free and fair elections will automatically follow.

Mushy says that we cannot follow western notions of democracy in Pakistan because the people here are different. When he says that, pakstanis are a breed of apes or something, that he has somehow been able to controle.

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom Re: # 202
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Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom Re: # 205
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Indian Scholarships for Outstanding Pakistani Students Indian Scholarships for Outstanding Pakistani Students -
Good idea. Its a `doable` as compared to say trying to resolve kashmir or siachin. No summit is required to execute it. We will probably have to start small and focus on low hanging fruit. The grander accomplishments will follow.

As mentioned in the article ``Such a gesture should not be contingent on Pakistan reciprocating. `` - This is something india is fully capable of doing unilaterally and pakistan will be forced to reciprocate.

Even from a purely political perspective, its an opportunity for one of the two nations to take lead and cultivate tremendous goodwill - something that we have been trying to achieve via hollow propaganda in this region. The country that reciprocates will never derive the same political mileage from such an offer as the one taking original initiative.

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tayyab rashid

Moving Beyond Talk: A Roadmap for Quality Education Mr. Isphahani, I appreciate your comment. Achievements of UK and other developed world in education and enomic areas are great inspiration for people in the developing nations - they help demonstrate what can be achieved by righly focused human energy and efforts.

At the same time, their 100% literacy and tall building were not achieved in a single day and sometimes, we tend to ignore their journey which brought them to this point of inspiring success. And it is in the journey that lessons exisit for nations like ours (both india and pakistan). I am sure there was a time when nothing existed even in Uk and their conditions matched ours. What is important is to learn from how they achieved it.

Pakistani universities face a number of very fundamental management problems. They fail to deliver an environment where even half decent faculty would like to stay and teach. The problems are obvious and easy to solve. However, what is not understood is why there has been no cencern to solve them and no systematic effort to this end.

What we lack is not infrastructure. What we lack is also not very clear because we do not have any systematic management going on where we can make credible assessments of what is needed. Building are the last thing that I would recommend. What we have presently remains largely underutilised. Students flock to Uk or US universities for good reasons.

What I am recommending is that we optimize our systems so they are ready to absorb injections of further financial investments inthis sector. We need to start fixingour act. I am afraid that our current human resource which is available at these universities is mostly unsuited for the jobs. Why I say this is that the conditions are not conducive for self respecting people to work here - so anybody and everybody who could find a job in US or europe or canada has foundone. Others who could not leave for one reason or the other inspite of potential (and there are many) have lost hope and do not feel motivated. And no one cares. Performance is not even an issue here. The corporate culture at universities cannot handle and is ill prepared to accomodate highly talented people. So tangible and intangible attributes of our universities are unsuited for attraction, retention and development of world class faculty. hence developing internaitnally comparable university is nothing more than a dream - thats what we are chasing.

This is not the environment in which universities can improve and they will not improve regardless of how much money goes into them. We need to overhaul educaitnal management and organiatinal systems and culture. It will be difficult to do with the people who are a part of this system at this time and who have helped perpetuate it all.

What ever is flowing into higher education at this time is not delivering a proportionate value. We need to fix things. ANd the article above proposes a fraework to do that.

tayyab

Moving Beyond Talk: A Roadmap for Quality Education From what I gather, A world class university - more than anything else - is the most compelling place to teach. A university which can be positioned as the most compelling place to teach will become the most compelling place to learn and to invest in. Hence world class students and lots and lots of funds will follow.

Teaching is the core business of a university. Universities exist to enable teaching, learning and thinking. All other functions and work processes, policies, procedures and everything else should be geared to the end of building an attractive destination for these activities.

How people do that is no secret. Why we are not trying to achieve this level of organizaitoonal efficiecny and effectiveness is a mystry.

Quality of educaiton does not lie in the curriculum design etc. What harvard teaches is available on the web. But surprisingly, there is only one harvard.

Our efforts t do quality higher educaiton are beating about the wrong bush.

This is what I gathered from my interactions with you who spared time to participate in this discussioon.

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tayyab rashid

Moving Beyond Talk: A Roadmap for Quality Education soysauce, attracting worl class talent is the key to building world class univeristy. However, funds alone are not the determinant of where talent goes. Financial and general management systems in pakistani universities are not yet at a level where a credible statement can be made about the financial capacity of pakistani universities. And if education holds the key to a nations well being, i am pretty sure Pakistan has the resources to pay up and meet internatinal benchmarks on faculty salaries. The only obstacle is the will and guts to divert resources to where they matter most - educaiton.

At the same time, my concern is that since our universities are not well managed, they are not prepared to handle top brain (even if money can be arranged). To my mind, talent needs a certain environment to be productive. The entire HR of our universities needs serious retraining and retooling their skill sets to meet the requirements of the people we are vying for.

Thus a need to fix university work processes and upgrade people. I have a very strong feeling that if appropriate environment can be created, attracting top class teachers shuld not be a big deal.

Thats why the proposal presented in the above article presents a framework to overhaul our higher eduaitonal institutions and to build work processes which have build in mehcanism for continuous improvement and innovation. that will create an atmosphere conducive for excellence in hgiher educaiotn in Pakistan.

Right now, most of these places fail to deliver on basics. They cannot ensure clean washrooms. Higher educational quality is like foreign language to them. So there is no question of attracting top class faculty or students - no matter how much you pay them.