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Make Yourself an Expert
The most valuable people in any organization have deep smarts — business-critical expertise built up through years of experience which helps them make wise, swift decisions. If you wish to become this go-to person in your company, but don’t have the time or opportunity to accumulate all the experience of your predecessors, acquire the knowledge in a different way — by consciously thinking about how the experts around you operate and deliberately learning from them. Of course, you shouldn’t aim to become a carbon copy of another person. Deeply smart people are a unique product of their particular mind-set, education, and experience. But you should be able to identify the elements of their knowledge and behavior that make them so valuable to the organization.

Today’s Management Tip was adapted from “Make Yourself an Expert” by Dorothy Leonard, Gavin Barton, and Michelle Barton.

My tweet message to Syed Talat Hussain, Najam Sethi, Mubasher Luckman, Dr. Shahid Masood, Imran Khan and Shahbaz Sharif

@nayyarahmad: @talathussain12 @najamsethi @najam_sethi @mlucmans @shahidmasooddr @cmshehbaz @imrankhanpti Salima Hashmi b arrested & sacked 4 her remarks against Pak Army.

Silence of Pakistani political Parties is deafening

Is it only the responsibility of the Jamaat Islami in Pakistan to raise voice against the genocide of Muslims in Burma?

Why all other political parties like PPP, PMLN, PTI, PMLQ, MQM, JUI and ANP etc., are mum on the burning issue?

My tweet message to Pope and Dalai Lama

@nayyarahmad: @DalaiLama @Pontifex @Pope An Eye Opening News for UN, USA, EU, UK, OIC, Red Cross, HRW, Pope, Dalai Lama & Myanma… http://t.co/kMV8AnzyEW

My tweet message to PM UK, Barack Obama and UN

@nayyarahmad: @Number10gov @BarackObama @UN An Eye Opening News for UN, USA, EU, UK, OIC, Red Cross, HRW, Pope, Dalai LamaMyanma… http://t.co/kMV8AnzyEW

The nation demands arrest & sacking of Salima Hashmi from the CT Punjab cabinet, for her remarks in Bangladesh that Pakistan Army was occupation army in East Pakistan and that Pakistan should apologise to BD.

Pakistan should apologize to Bangladesh: Salima Hashmi
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MONDAY, 25 MARCH 2013AUTHOR / SOURCE: ANISUR RAHMAN KHAN AND HARUN UR RASHID

Salima Hashmi

DHAKA, MAR 24: The Pakistan government should formally apologise to the people of Bangladesh for the atrocities committed by Pakistan occupation army during the War of Independence in 1971, Salima Hashmi, daughter of Pakistani late poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz said in Dhaka on Sunday. “My father wrote a number of poems on the genocide committed in Bangladesh. He expressed the sufferings faced by the people in 1971,” a visibly emotional Hashmi said while talking to the Independent after receiving the “Bangladesh Liberation War Honour Award” at a ceremony in the city.
“I was overwhelmed with emotions while coming over to Bangladesh and receiving the award on behalf of my father,” the daughter of the renowned Pakistani poet, who was outspoken on the atrocities committed by the Pakistani occupation forces during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh, said.
The Pakistani government repeatedly warned my father for writing in favour of Bangladesh’s freedom struggle. We did not know much about the atrocities committed by the Pakistani Army, as information was not passed by the military personnel, she recounted.
Welcoming the present Awami league-led government’s initiative to honour the foreign friends for their outstanding contributions to the Liberation War of Bangladesh, she said: “Pakistani women have already apologised to the women of Bangladesh for the ill-treatment they received at the hands of the Pakistani army.”
Asma Jahangir, a renowned human rights activist of Pakistan and daughter of the late Malik Ghulam Jilani, then vice-chairman of the West Pakistan Awami League, also received the award on behalf of her father in Dhaka yesterday. “It’s a positive step taken by the Bangladesh government. It’ll strengthen Bangladesh’s relations with different countries,” she observed.
The recipients of “Bangladesh Liberation War Honour” and “Friends of Bangladesh” have thanked the Bangladesh government for bestowing the honours upon them for their outstanding contributions during the Liberation War. Some of them shared their emotions with The Independent on Sunday.
The Bangladesh government honoured 68 foreign nationals, as well as an organisation, in the sixth phase of honouring the country’s foreign friends.
Dr Amiya Kumar Chaudhuri, an Indian national, thanked the government for recognising their contribution in the 1971 War of Independence. He was an active member of the Calcutta University Shahayak Samity during the Liberation War. He used to collect funds for Bangladeshi intellectuals by arranging cultural events. “It’s really a remarkable moment for us. We highly appreciate the Bangladesh government’s initiatives to honour its foreign friends,” he said.
Chaudhuri organised a number of seminars to impress upon the then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi the need to recognise Bangladesh’s struggle for freedom.
“We arranged many seminars to mobilise public opinion in favour of Bangladesh. Despite financial problems, we continued the movement to support the people of Bangladesh,” he added.
Dr Dhrubajyoti Lahiry, then a lecturer in Presidency College of Kolkata, was another member of the Calcutta University Shahayak Samity. He said they had extended all-out support to the refugees from Bangladesh. He also arranged seminars throughout India to create mass awareness about Bangladesh’s freedom struggle. “The award made me a little uneasy at first. But, at the same time, I feel happy that the government of Bangladesh has taken a landmark initiative to honour all foreign friends for their role during its War of Independence,” he said.
The undaunted spirit of Bangladesh’s freedom movement, and the tyranny, persecution and anguish suffered by her people were vividly reflected in the paintings of Prof. Dhiraj Choudhury. Appreciating the Bangladesh government’s initiatives, he said, “It would inspire young people contribute to the country’s cause.”
Choudhury, a former professor of Delhi Art College, said, “I arranged a solo exhibition on the theme ‘Happenings and inheritance of Bangladesh’ in 1971. It created public awareness in favour of Bangladesh in the global arena and raised funds as well.”
Dr Tomio Mizokami, professor emeritus of Osaka University of foreign studies in Japan, expressed deep gratification after receiving the award. “It’s remarkable. It’s difficult to express in words. I feel honoured to have received such a prestigious award,” he said.
“During the Liberation War, I came to know about the atrocities committed by the Pakistani Army through print and electronic media outlets. I, then, decided to do something for the oppressed people of Bangladesh,” he added.
“I started collecting funds in Japan. I also shipped food and other essential commodities to the distressed people,” he recalled.
Munshi Mohammad Fazle Kader expressed his gratitude to Bangladesh for receiving the award.
“I’m a simple person. It’s a lifetime achievement from Bangladesh,” he said.
An eyewitness war of the Liberation War, he added, “I was working at the deputy high commission in Kolkata in 1971. I’m one of the persons who raised the national flag of Bangladesh at the deputy high commission in Kolkata.”
“The oppression of the Pakistani army against minorities, and the Bangladesh people, inspired me to work in favour of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. I prepared documents, distributed letters and leaflets and participated in meetings and processions to raise voice against the atrocities committed by the Pakistani Army,” he added.

An Eye Opening News for UN, USA, EU, UK, OIC, Red Cross, HRW, Pope, Dalai Lama & Amnesty International.

Myanmar: 13 die in mosque fire, police blame electrical short circuit for the blaze
AP | Apr 2, 2013, 04.51 PM IST

(Times of India News) Strangly Pakistani media and Al Jazeera TV is Silent.

YANGON, MYANMAR: A fire engulfed a mosque housing schoolchildren in Myanmar’s largest city on Tuesday, killing at least 13. Police, anxious over sectarian violence that has shaken the nation, blamed an electrical short circuit for the blaze and said they were investigating mosque authorities for possible negligence.

Security forces and three trucks of riot police blocked off roads around the scarred building in Yangon. Around 200 people, many of them Muslim, gathered uneasily nearby as some expressed suspicion that the fire had been set intentionally.

Myanmar has been on edge after sectarian unrest between Buddhists and Muslims erupted in the central city of Meikhtila in March, killing dozens of people and displacing more than 12,000. The violence, which has largely targeted Muslims, has since spread to several other towns where extremist Buddhist mobs have torched or ransacked mosques and Muslim-owned property.

Police officer Thet Lwin said about 75 children lived in the compound in eastern Yangon – which encompasses a mosque, a school and a dormitory – and most were able to escape by running out of a door rescue workers knocked open. Security bars blocked most of the building’s windows, which were stained by black smoke in the late morning, hours after firefighters put out the flames.

Mosque member Soe Myint said most of the children, who had been sent to the religious boarding school by their parents, were sleeping on the ground floor when the blaze began and were able to flee.

But 16 were sleeping in a small loft and were trapped when the stairs to it caught fire. Three boys jumped to safety and the rest died, he said.

Soe Myint, who said he helped carry the dead out of the mosque, said he did not believe the fire was caused by a short circuit and urged authorities to launch a thorough investigation.

“The whole mosque smelled of diesel,” he said. “We don’t use diesel at the school.”

But Thet Lwin, the policeman, said the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit “and not due to any criminal activity.”

Every time he mentioned the word “electrical short,” though, angry Muslims shouted and began banging on vehicles with their fists.

He also appealed to journalists for help. “We need the media’s support in Yangon. Please don’t report that there is conflict in Yangon. We’re here to stop conflict,” he said.

Yangon Police Chief Win Naing said authorities were investigating the head of the mosque and a teacher, but no arrests had been made. “As the two people in charge, they are responsible for this and we have to take action against them,” he said.

Win Naing said the fire started in a voltage regulator under the stairs that led to the sleeping loft and that firefighters had to break two locks on the door of the mosque to rescue the survivors. He ruled out arson, saying that three police were guarding the mosque and saw no one approach the building before the fire started.

Zaw Min Htun, a member of a local Muslim youth organization, said he raced to the mosque after hearing it was on fire. He said he entered the charred building and also smelled fuel.

“Muslims are very angry,” he said, calling on authorities to investigate. “The children are innocent. … Someone burned the mosque.”

Hla Myint, whose 15-year-old nephew died in the blaze, waited in a crowd outside Yangon General Hospital, where the dead were taken. Two trucks of riot police were parked nearby.

“We sent him to school only yesterday and today he is dead,” she said. “We are so sad we can’t express it.”

Later Tuesday, several thousand mourners gathered at a cemetery on the outskirts of Yangon for a group burial. The charred bodies of the children were wrapped in white cloth before being lowered into the ground as women wept nearby.

The recent upsurge in sectarian unrest in Myanmar has cast a shadow over President Thein Sein’s administration as it struggles to make democratic changes after a half century of military rule. His government has warned that the violence could threaten the reform process.

Hundreds of people were killed last year and more than 100,000 made homeless in violence in western Myanmar between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims. On March 20, unrest hit the central town of Meikhtila for several days and then spread to several villages farther south, near the capital, Naypyitaw.

The violence has spooked people in Yangon, where late last month false rumors swirled of mosque burnings and authorities told some shops to close as a precautionary measure. Yangon is about 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Meikhtila.

Education is the process of receiving or giving instruction.

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

Walter Cronkite (1916-2009);
American broadcast journalist

Well Done PCB…!

We fully appreciate PCB particularly its Director Vigilance & Security, Mr. Ehsan Sadiq for making water tight and fool proof security arrangements at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore, during the recently held Faisal Bank T20 tournament.

This tournament not only proved a huge success from the PCB, its sponsors and the cricket lovers point of view, but also proved to the entire world, that holding of any type of local or international cricketing event in Pakistan, is not only possible from the security point of view, but is a guarantee of success for the sponsors, as well.

The PCB security wing was so strict and attended to the minutest of security details, that even VIP’s or PCB senior staff was not given any leeway in security matters. It was a gigantic task of security for the PCB, specially on the final day of the tournament, when the entire stadium was full to the brim.

It would have been even better for the PCB, to have invited the ICC and other world cricketing board members, with particular reference to their security staff, to observe and even film the entire security operations, on the final day of the match, for their review and reference.

Anyway, this successful event will go a long way in enhancing the image and reputation of Pakistan, as a country where now cricket can be played in absolutely peaceful and secure conditions; and also allaying any security issues, concerning ICC and all other cricketing boards, who may decide to send their cricket teams to Pakistan, in very near future.