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Archive for August, 2011

Recently the defense Secretary briefed to a committee in parliament that Abbotabad incident happened because Pakistan had not perceived any threat from the west and that now Pakistan is fully prepared for any such eventuality. My question to the people in the government is that is this the preparation of Pakistani defense planning, that whenever Afghanistan wants, she can commit aggression against a nuclear armed Pakistan, kill its people in scores of dozens and then go back without being punished?
 
Let me tell that such unabated killings of Pakistani troops will happen again and again in future and can’t be curbed with protests with Afghan diplomats or NATO people. Now it is an international rule, albeit neither legal nor approved by the UNO, that countries make pre-emptive strikes for even any perceived hostile action against their people or country.
 
So, in my opinion, if at all we are serious in eliminating such future aggressions against our motherland, Pakistan must at least make retaliatory strike on Afghanistan in such a befitting manner, that it will think 1000 times before repeating in future, any such hostile acts. In fact, I believe that in such situations ” Qatal Moozi Qabal Eeza ” i.e. nip the evil in the bud.  
 
Here I am reminded by a quote of Ch. Shujaat Hussain wherein, he said, Pakistan has not made Atom bomb for firing on Shab-e-Barat. Moreover, we should also remember that saying ” Hay Jurm-e-Zaeefi Ki Saza Marg-e-Mufajat. “
 
                                          Pakistan Zindabad

Pakistani police officer Shahzadi Gulfam, serving in a UN peace operation, has received the 2011 International Female Police Peacekeeper Award. Shahzadi holds the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police and is the first Pakistani female officer to receive this award. She is deployed in the UN Mission in Timor-Leste as the UN Police (UNPOL) Team Leader in the Timor-Leste National Police Vulnerable Persons Unit in Dili.

Link:- http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/08/pakistani-female-cop-gets-award/

Dr. Umar Saif Named one of the World’s Top Young Innovators by MIT. Link :- http://www.lums.edu.pk/news_detail.php?id=TlRBeg

Dr. Umar Saif, Associate Professor at the School of Science of Engineering, has been recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 innovators (TR35) in the world. In the last decade, this is the first time a Pakistani has been selected for the prestigious TR35 award.

 “The TR35 recognizes the world’s top 35 young innovators that are radically transforming technology as we know it. Their work – spanning medicine, computing, communications, energy, electronics and nanotechnology — is changing our world”, according to MIT Technology Review.

Dr. Umar Saif has been honoured for his work on technologies for the developing-world. Technologies developed by Dr. Saif’s research group and startups are used by millions of people in the developing-world. Notable among the many of these are: BitMate – that enhances the speed of Internet in the developing-world using peer-to-peer technology, and SMSall.pk – Pakistan’s largest SMS Social Network which has sent close to 4 billion SMS for users in Pakistan.

Dr. Umar Saif joins an elite group of researchers and entrepreneurs selected over the last decade. Previous winners include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook; Jonathan Ive, the chief designer at Apple; David Karp, founder of Tumbler; Harvard Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik for his work on Quantum computers; and MIT Neuroscientist Ed Boyden, one of the inventors of the emerging field of optogenetics, which makes it possible to control neurons with light.

MIT Technology Review selects the top innovators after a rigorous evaluation process. Judges, who are leading experts in their fields from universities such as MIT, Stanford and Harvard, consider hundreds of high-impact researchers and entrepreneurs from all over the world, out of which top 35 are chosen for the award.

“This year’s group of TR35 recipients is driving the next wave of transformative technology and making an impact on the way we live, work and interact”, said Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief and publisher of the MIT Technology Review.

Dr. Saif has won numerous awards for his innovative technology solutions for the developing-world. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He is a recipient of the MIT Technovator Award (Grassroot Technologies); Mark Weiser Award for best paper award at PERCOM, the top rated conference in the field of pervasive computing; Digital Inclusion Award from Microsoft Research and the IDG CIO Technology Pioneer Award. Before moving to Pakistan, Saif worked at MIT and received a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.

“We are immensely proud of this recognition for Dr. Saif and of how it reflects on the cutting edge work being done at our young School of Science and Engineering”, said Adil Najam, Vice Chancellor of LUMS.  “Dr. Saif’s work demonstrates not only the potential for innovation in technology for development but also the level of enterprise and expertise that already exists within Pakistan and the larger developing world.”

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 “I could end the deficit  in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that  anytime there is a deficit of  more than three percent of GDP all sitting members of  congress are ineligible for reelection. “

Why not put it up to Pakistani parliament!!!

Pakistan is calling for its Anna Hazare not for anti-corruption bill but for saving the innocent humanity in Karachi carnage.

Come on just one person from the huge crowd of President, Prime Minister, Ministers, Chief Ministers, Governors, Speakers & Deputy speakers, MNA’s & MPA’s.

Is there  not even one person in this nation of 18 crore people, to just stand up and protest like Anna Hazare, against the unabated killings of innocent perons in Karachi?

The silence of the entire nation and all the organs of the state on Karachi Killings is deafning, but all of us must remember, that if today we fail to move individually & collectively, to stop the daily carnage of humanity in Karachi, then be ready to face the situation, where even our names will be scratched from the annuls of the history.

Na Samjho Gay Tou Mit Jago Gay Aay Pakistan Walo

Tumahari Dastan Tak Bhi Na Ho Gi Dastanon Mein.

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                                                                              By Nargis Javed (U.K.)

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no
tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

— O.S. Marden

The only thing responsible for the Indian demise from the number one world position in Test cricket, is the overdose of T20 cricket; which has mentally and physically drained the players. Moreover, Indian players are not worried about Test cricket form, because of the huge amount of the money, they get from IPL. So, IPL will be remembered as a nemesis of Indian Test cricket No. 1 ranking.