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 ;)
regards

Reforms! What Reforms? Excellent article, a real eye-openner.
Agreed, many so-called reforms are being introduced by the HEC, but the real dilemma remains, that it `s sheer emphasis is on quantity rather than quality. As Dr Hoodbhoy correctly pointed out, the Rs 5000 allowance being offered to the supervisors for every PhD student, only impells them into taking as many students into their supervision as they can, and thats only in balck and white. These supervisors at the same time, have to teach under-graduate classes (even if they bother to do that aptly), and that leaves them little or no time to focus on a couple of students, let alone dozens of them. The result is obvious, incompetent students, who are only intersted in the Rs 5,6, or 7 thousand stipend they get from the HEC, and have no real enthusiasm to gain knowledge. And those who do retain that, lose it in the long run owing to the lack of supervision and academic competition and competence.
The imbalance in the allocation of money to different sectors, is also rampant. HEc`s major focus for the last few years has been IT. So much so that there was such a huge lot of IT students in the very irst year of the program, that more than 80% of the graduates belonging to the very second lot remained un employed, so ultimately had to switch to some other descipline.
On the other hand, a barely noticeable attention is being payed to `promotion` of pure scinces, promotion as in advanced faculty, instead of advanced technology. The accelerators being installed or being planned in the coming years are useless if their are no technicians to work at them, and no proper physicists to extract any uselfull data from them. In this age of LHC, probing into the energy range of 14 TeV, a Van de graff accelerator of mere 5MeV, is pointless and an absolute wastage of money. Instead of giving away so many `indigeneous scholarships` in the field of IIt, resulting in the saturation of students yeilding degrees int hsi category, the emphasis should be on proper and proportionate allocation of money and advancement of reseach in pure sciences, which are at the verge of extinction in Pakistan.
The conditions are severely deplorable in the Pakistan education system, from the base to the top, no doubt.

No Intelligent Design Nor accident Thought provoking indeed, but lacks coherence.
And yes, the series of questions is divergant, or all the answers would converge into one...the ultimate one.

In Conversation with a Dog All I have to say is, ``May Julie`s soul rest in peace``.
Amen

In Conversation with a Dog Should`ve been `Conversation with a bitch`. Would have attracted more readers I bet. A technically and politically wrong choice of a title. Alrite, lemme read on the rest.

Ban on Play Mr. Jinnah Re: # 2 A million people lost their lives in Nagasaki n Hiroshima, for a decision taken not by them but their leaders. Was that a just cause, mass brainwashing, or political bigotry?

My Harvard Reunion Re: # 72 `` I was born intelligent, education ruined me. `` ;)

My Harvard Reunion Re: # 59 Forgot to mention, your piece is a good read on the whole. Keep them coming, but i`d re-assert on the importance of proof-reading, do not forget it next time; it is essential for the credibility and overall appeal of any writing i believe.

My Harvard Reunion Re: # 59 Good excuse. The typo is there even in your intro, actually there are a couple more. And there is something called `proof-reading`, all Harvard grads should be impelled to do it i suppose.
peace

My Fascination With The Bottle Re: # 32 hahahah...another good shot dr saab! Juveniles like these need to be taught some values.
ps. Dr saab you confused `piece` with `peace` in both your above interacts. Is that because you are overwhelmed by Indo-Pak `peace-seek` process, or is it because the Chowk FP`s been bombarded recently with articles on the same? :)
Peace! ;)

My Harvard Reunion seyaaneyaN aakheya aey...``Do not boast about what you can`t justify if asked to``.
may peace find you. :)

My Fascination With The Bottle Hehe, quite an entertaining read khammy, good job!
Te jee aayaN nuu serkaar :)
You made the trajic old memories of my first ever visit to Pak`s favourite hill-station `Murree` reprsie :(. A whole night without relieving, at temperatures in excess of -10C, with all the public `flush-system` bait-ul-khalaa`s locked up, and half of Punjab squeezeed into the same lil` hill top to enjoy the season`s last snowfall predicted, and no room to be found on account of late-evening turn up. Do i need to say more?
Keep more coming....the articles i mean, not the bottles ;)

#6 Raka ji, paTeela tau chhalak uthTa hai zara se hichkolay se! (yukhhhh) ;)

#19 [Soulat can`t think of even pissing without inserting!!] ...lol..good one Dr saab!

Enigma of the Defence Budget Re: # 3 The revised figures of 272 B are clearly a 40% rise int the initially allocated last year`s budget of Rs 193 B. And also it is certainly a 14 % rise as compared to the `revised`+concealed budget ` of Rs 242 B from last year. May be you got confused with the figures somewhere.
regards

Are all Women Witches? Re: # 35 Agreed there...but to me gender-discrimination is a sub-category of power-discrimination. In a society where mighty-manouvers-weak is the rule of thumb, you can`t expect gender-discrimination to be effaced. In other words, justice-for-all, needs to prevail if such sub-forces are to be countered and suppressed.

regards

Are all Women Witches? Don`t know, but all witches are women, that`s for sure.
Peace

Muslims Not Married in America Re: # 26 haha, i wonder how`d u describe a Muslim `man`!
peace :)