Pakistan and Muslim World - Current Affairs

The Pakistan Day being celebrated today is a milestone in Pakistan’s history, in which the Lahore Resolution of March 23, 1940 made a pledge for a free Nation for the Muslims of sub-continent India. The Lahore Resolution had two aspects. First, through it Muslim League proposed to organize the Muslim majority provinces of India into two distinct regions with homogenous Muslim Populations. Second, the Lahore Resolution used the words ‘autonomous and sovereign’ for the constituents units (Muslim majority provinces) which had to be organized into two regions in the northwest and east of India.

As soon as Pakistan emerged as an independent state in 1947, the people of Pakistan favoured a strong relationship with the Muslim world. The Muslim world is relatively weak today and faces many problems. Extremism and fanaticism are not the answer to the problem confronting the Muslim world. The path to progress lies through moderation and political stability. It lies through the acquisition of modern education and technology, thereby building economic strength.

We should celebrate Pakistan Day today with the resolution that Pakistanis and Muslims all over the World would espouse the cause of education, moderation and social justice to alleviate the conditions of a comman man.

Life After Partition - Book Review

LIFE AFTER PARTITION: Migration, Community and Strife in Sindh 1947-1962 Sarah Ansari

By the 1990s, ethnic politics had come to dominate Sindh, with calls for Karachi to become a fifth province in its own right. Life after Partition examines the historical background to these developments by focusing on events in the province in the years immediately following partition, when migrants from India and local people in Sindh found themselves living alongside each other in the newly created state of Pakistan. How far they retained distinctive notions of community and identity, and what its impact was on processes of accommodation and integration forms the main focus of this study of life in Sindh between 1947 and 1962.

Dr. Sarah Ansari, former British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, teaches history at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr Ansari has published extensively on the history of nineteenth and twentieth century Sindh, as well as on issues relating to Muslims in South Asia and in other parts of the world. She is also a member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. At present, she is carrying out research on the social history of Pakistan during the 1950s and 1960s, and is beginning work on a monograph dealing with the history of women in Muslim societies since 1800.

240 pages, Hardback
Price: Rs 395
Karachi Oxford Bookshops:
Park Towers, Sharae Firdousi, Clifton . Tel.: 5875355

Boss First - Humour

A manager, a secretary and a CEO of a business firm in a large city were walking through a park on their way to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a genie comes out in a puff of smoke. The genie says, "I usually only grant three wishes, so I'll give each of you just one."

"Me first! Me first!" says the Manager."I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world." Poof! He's gone. In astonishment, "Me next! Me next!" says the Secretary. "I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach, an endless supply of pina coladas and the love of my life." Poof! she's gone.

"You're next," the Genie says to the CEO. The CEO says, "I want those two back in the office after lunch."

THE MORAL OF THE STORY : Always let your boss have the first say.

Health Tip - Useful Note

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack.

Without help the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken
before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged,as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let up until help arrives or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a phone and, between breaths, call for help.

Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives!

Interesting facts - Useful Notes

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be:

- 57 Asians
- 21 Europeans
- 14 from the Western Hemisphere (north and south)
- 8 Africans
- 52 would be female
- 48 would be male
- 70 would be non white, 30 white
- 70 would be non Christian, 30 would be Christian
- 89 would be heterosexual, 11 homosexual
- 59% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people
and all 6 would be citizens of the United States
- 80 would live in substandard housing
- 70 would be unable to read
- 50 would suffer from malnutrition
- 1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth
- Only 1 would have a college education
- Only 1 would own a computer

Welcome Note

Welcome to Pakistan Magazine. The blogsite shall cover articles on education, books publications, social issues, arts & culture, sports, trends and fashion in Pakistan. Jokes, lighter side of life and anecdotes would also be part of this blogsite. I hope to have the postings shortly which should be informative,useful and interesting.