Doves One lil correction, the town`s name is pronounced as chawinda, not chonda. :)

Reforms! What Reforms? Re: # 64 I must say, I have to agree with Charlie on his previous reply to you....These facts and figures would never make any sense to a person who is completely oblivious to the costoms and tricks in research work...
There is on hell of a difference between writing a paper and a book!...and pls pls pls, jerk your notion of `writing` a paper as `writing` in the literal sense away...
....and also take a closer look at the two degree, do you find any difference? even an Honorary PhD is different from a regular PhD...Abdus Salam had 20+ of these..
for heavens sake!

Hole walli Haveli hehe...interesting revenge...nicely done!

Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed: The Naked Sufi Martyr Wow, if the baba ji were alive on this day, I bet hollywood would have employed him...a true stuntsman that he were!
These self-proclaimed, rather ignorant-illeterate-desciples`-procalimed sufi-saints are as much responsible in portraying a warped and distorted version of Islam as those suicide-bombers. As someone rightly pointed out, they neither follow shareeat nor tareeqat, mere stuntsmanship, and are acclaimed to be saints and Muslims, damn it!

Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed: The Naked Sufi Martyr Re: # 31 [All Pakis fascinate me no end]
So will Pakistan, welcome to the land of fascinations! ;)

Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed: The Naked Sufi Martyr Re: # 20 [Sufism is supposed to be islam]
Could you please elaborate on this a bit? Where did you get this notion from?
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Paleoanthropology and Evolution of Humankind Re: # 8 It`s far easier to read an article on Chowk than to join `classes in anthropology`. No? alas, you never cease to not make any sense!

Reforms! What Reforms? Re: # 49 [have a lot of respect for Dr Hoodbhoy. I don`t want that he involves in a publically declared war as it results in the degradation of his own image as well.]

Revolution eats it`s own children. ;)

Reforms! What Reforms? Re: # 34 Well, no one should be doubting Dr. Atta ur Rehman`s credibility as a Scientist here, he is certainly an eminant one, and holds a good place among the leading Chemists internationally.

Reforms! What Reforms? Re: # 24 Well, about HEJ, I quoted more or less, the words of a person who has recently arrived at the same university as I am, on an HEC scholarship, from HEJ! No one, but him, can know better what goes on undercover. According to him HEJ is, `officially` a preferable institute for scholarships, because every student enrolled there has to take up a subjective GRE test(local). Now is this fair by any means, that a local course, and Dr Hoodbhoy`s has unvieled well the `authenticity` of this local GRE well here, be only commenced at one institute...isn`t it akin to deliberately giving the students of that very institute an upper hand over the others? That is the reason that more more Chemistry students have made it to the UK universites this year than all the other desciplines combined! Is it really that difficulat for Dr Atta to introduce such a program at other research institutes also?
Also, as for as the personal accomplishments of Dr Atta are concerned, no doubt both him and Dr hoodbhoy stand out among the top scientists in south Asia, but that does not mean he is a good policy-maker too...and his personas is free of all sorts of corruption? After all he`s been brought up in the same system, and is bound to keep up with it.
lastly for now....we need to be idealists to get out of this quagmire of incompetence and discredit.
more later...
best

Reforms! What Reforms? Re: # 17 Why do i smell something burning? :P

The Woman on the Tracks Very touching, profound and poignant. Well crafted.

tha kaun meray qatl ki Deita jo gawahi
logoN ne tau kholay nahiN derwaazay bhi ghar ke

So there`s a thin red line between the conscious and the sub. While the former may resort to selfishness, the latter can`t but harbor the basic human instinct...hence the endless guilt.

The Woman on the Tracks Re: # 8 It dies everytime she does.

Reforms! What Reforms? Re: # 3 Charlie, OK, send more abroad, import as much uptodate knowledge as you can, that`s the order of the day in most developing countries... I am not against that, but I am sure, if you are impartial, you can count on fingers the number of students amongst these 150 who really deserved that. Majority of such students are there coz of HEC`s bias and favour towards them or their supervisors, or their institute. Within the last single year, I have seen dozen students arriving in Europe for PhDs in chemistry, on one of the scholarship programs of the HEC, most of them are from HEJ....and I think you can figure out well why they have to be in Chemistry or from HEJ!
And it`s not about academic excellence, we all know, at least we two after 14-16 years of education there, how the system works in Pakistani borads of education and Universities, rather it`s more a matter of intelligence, competence and intellectual approach...which is not even considered in any of the local `selection procedures`. Also, do you think a Masters degree holder from PU or QAU can compete with a graduate from a European country, in terms of knowledge?...not even by 10%! Reforms need to brought about at the lower level first...then we can perceive of any advancement at the higher level.

Reforms! What Reforms? Re: # 16 Great post. We desperatley need exchange of knowledge across the borders.
best

The Woman on the Tracks Re: # 4
Umr-i-Daraaz maang ke laaey thhay chaar Din
dau aarzoo meiN katt gaey Dau intezaar meiN

unkil T, y do I always have to correct you when it comes to Urdu poetry? hehe, feels like I have been granted an upper hand in one thing for the least....keep em coming ;)
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