SPIR launches IR programme for professionals
A couple of years ago it was said that if the human race is wiped out in the next fifty years, it will not be because of disease or an asteroid hitting the earth, but because of foreign policy and global politics. In a world where thousands of nuclear weapons exist and more countries are trying to a
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Why we need a library?
For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers, for others it’s abandoned factories or lost cities. But for those who enjoy reading, a huge beautiful library is a place of endless pleasure. In traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. It can be defined as the
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Vacillating over summer vacations
As the month of June is fast approaching, students, teachers and parents are facing severe problems and unrest due to the confusion over summer vacations. The government, particularly of Sindh, has not been able to make up its mind whether to announce two months summer vacations from June or July.
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Book Review - Pakistan: Beyond the Crisis State
Maleeha Lodhi’s edited volume Pakistan: Beyond the Crisis State feels like fresh air in an increasingly challenging situation Pakistan finds itself today. The book is an important contribution to contemporary literature on Pakistan in several ways.
First, it takes the scholarly debate on the cou
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US educational assistance – fears and reality
Long live US! Osama Bin Laden is dead and each and every cell of his body has been destroyed so that he may not be able to self-reproduce. Probably, it is one of the ugliest excuses anyone has ever used to cover a shameful defeat and insulting withdrawal. No one in the CIA, Pentagon or White House i
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A song of despair and self-immolation
Change in literature is often inexorable yet it cannot evade the eventualities of anno domini. Great happenings dramatically alter the pattern of the literature, where the perplexities and intricacies of these proceedings convoke new trends. Nothing changed the literature much as wars, hostilities,
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Where is the man who sold his soul?
In Civilization and its Discontents, Freud asks, "What does man wish for and aim to achieve in life?" The answer that he gives is far less interesting than the question that he has given birth to. But Doctor Faustus is the answer! Doctor Faustus, a central character of Christopher Marlowe’s play, is
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Notoriety crawls inside men
My cell continues purring, it is not a mechanical existence, it is but a collection of defiant hopes and sultry despairs, half ripe, half sour, Nida drew back her sinister looks while placing her hand on the shoulders of Hina.
“This is my all-time friend, from advent of virgin looking morning t
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The way the Egyptian Walk
Editors are inclined to be impressed by “important” interviews with big politicians. Readers, on the contrary, want to read about ordinary people. And Sanna Negus gives the readers just what they want. “Hold onto Your Veil, Fatima! And Other Snapshots of Life in Contemporary Egypt” is far from the m
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Images of Vice
This is a perverted civilization, a perverted culture, perversion has burst its way deep into alleys zigzagging into walled city of our whims and vices mushrooming tirelessly around us, we supplement them because we are prisoners of our vices, they have enslaved us, slaves can not become masters.
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