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ORIGINAL copy of a letter written by Allama Muhammad Iqbal Sahab poet of the East.

An 86 Years Old Letter of Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal Poet of the East

Link:- https://www.snayyar.com/an-84-years-old-letter-of-dr-allama-muhammad-iqbal-poet-of-the-east.html

Keep Innovation Jams Small
and Focused

Bringing together people from different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm a problem — otherwise known as “jamming” – has become a popular way to unearth new ideas. Although the process is widely hyped, many companies struggle to make it work. Here are three rules of thumb to help:

Let participants choose. It’s a mistake to assign people to a challenge. You’ll see much more creative energy if you let participants decide which problems to work on.

Keep the team small. Don’t let everyone get involved. Instead, create teams of no more than four. This size affords diversity but also allows the team to engage quickly.

Clearly define the problem. Make sure everyone understands the business, technological, and other challenges involved so each team member isn’t trying to solve a different problem.

Today’s Management Tip was adapted from “Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work” by Alessandro Di Fiore.

“Rejection doesn’t mean you aren’t good enough; it means the other person failed to notice what you have to offer.”

— Mark Amend

Today daily the News reports that “Supreme Court, in its judgement dated 31 July, 2009, has already rejected Mush claim of involving others”.

So all and sundry, who are saying that Musharraf’s trial on treason charges will open a pandora’s box, should relax now.

Gujarat government’s failure to protect people during 2002 riots figures in US report

PTI | Apr 21, 2013, 02.06PM IST

A US report on human rights says activists in India continue to allege that investigative bodies showed bias in favour of Gujarat’s chief minister Narendra Modi.

WASHINGTON: India’s civil society continues to express concern over the Gujarat government’s failure to protect people or arrest those responsible for communal violence in 2002, a US report on human rights has said.

The report, titled ‘Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012′ released by the US state department, as mandated by the Congress, says human rights groups continue to allege that investigative bodies in their reports showed bias in favour of Gujarat’s chief minister Narendra Modi.

“Civil society activists continued to express concern about the Gujarat government’s failure to protect the population or arrest those responsible for communal violence in 2002 that resulted in the killing of more than 1,200 persons, the majority of whom were Muslim, although there was progress in several court cases,” said the report, which was released by US secretary of state John Kerry on Friday.

“Human rights groups continue to allege that investigative bodies showed bias in favour of Modi in their reports,” the US report said.

The chapter on India in the report runs into 60 pages, according to which the most significant human rights problems in India in 2012 were police and security force abuses, including extra-judicial killings, torture, and rape; widespread corruption at all levels of government, leading to denial of justice; and separatist, insurgent, and societal violence.

“Other human rights problems included disappearances, poor prison conditions that were frequently life-threatening, arbitrary arrest and detention, and lengthy pretrial detention. The judiciary was overburdened, and court backlogs led to lengthy delays or the denial of justice,” the report said.

“Authorities continued to infringe on citizens’ privacy rights,” it said.

“Separatist insurgents and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, the northeastern states, and the Naxalite belt committed numerous serious abuses, including killing armed forces personnel, police, government officials, and civilians. Insurgents were responsible for numerous cases of kidnapping, torture, rape, and extortion, and they used child soldiers,” the report said.

For the second consecutive year, Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast saw considerably less violence than in the past, it added.

The state department said, law enforcement and legal avenues for rape victims were inadequate, overtaxed, and unable to address the issue effectively.

“Law enforcement officers sometimes worked to reconcile rape victims and their attackers, in some cases encouraging female rape victims to marry their attackers. Doctors sometimes further abused rape victims who had come to report the crimes by using the ‘two finger test’ to speculate on their sexual history,” it said, while referring to the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi.

How they got a Job – Nice Lessons

Story A

A young boy went for a Job interview.
As he was waiting outside for interview, he picked up a waste paper from the floor and threw it into a dustbin, while all others who has come where watching.
By chance the interviewer was passing by and saw it. and the Boy got the job.

Moral of the story:
People are valued for their character and habits

StoryB
A man was working in a bicycle shop.
A cycle had come for repair and after repairing the man cleaned up the bicycle and it looked like a new one.
All Other workers were making fun of him for doing redundant work.
Next day when owner came for the bicycle, he was very happy and offered the mechanic a job.

Moral of the story :
Good and extra work never goes waste.

Murder case be registered against Musharraf : Lal Masjid Commission Report.

Some excerpts of the report are as below:-

ISLAMABAD: Giving a clean chit to the military leadership, the Lal Masjid commission report holds former president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf, former prime minister Shaukat Aziz and his political allies, responsible for the 2007 operation on the mosque in which 103 people were killed.

The commission, consisting of Justice Shehzada Sheikh of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC), recommended that those responsible for the operation should have murder cases registered against them and suggested that the former rulers of the country should be forced to pay compensations to the aggrieved families.

The 304 page report, that was submitted to the Supreme Court by the commission on March 22, 2013, pointed out that after six years it was not easy to condone the lack of accountability that public position holders responsible for execution of this tragic incident have faced. Such an attitude is evidence of their irresponsibility, apathy in attitude and callousness in dealing with this human tragedy, declared the report.

Link:- http://dawn.com/2013/04/21/lal-masjid-operation-report-holds-musharraf-govt-responsible/

India tops global remittances list, received $69 billion in 2012

PTI | Apr 20, 2013, 11.58AM IST

WASHINGTON: India is the largest recipient of remittances in the world, receiving $69 billion in 2012, the World Bank has said.

India topped the list of countries receiving remittances, followed by China ($60 billion), the Philippines ($24 billion), Mexico ($23 billion) and Nigeria and Egypt ($21 billion each), it said on Friday.

Other large recipients include Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Lebanon.

According to the latest edition of the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief, officially recorded remittance flows to developing countries grew by 5.3% to reach an estimated $401 billion in 2012.

Remittances to developing countries are expected to grow by an annual average of 8.8% for the next three years and are forecast to reach $515 billion in 2015, it added.

“Migration and remittances offer a vital lifeline for millions of people and can play a major role in an economy’s take-off. They enable people to partake in the global labour market and create resources that can be leveraged for development and growth.

“But they are also a source of political contention, and for that very reason deserving of dispassionate analysis,” said Kaushik Basu, the World Bank’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics.

Officially recorded remittance flows to South Asia are estimated to have increased sharply by 12.8% to $109 billion in 2012, the World Bank report said.

This follows growth averaging 13.

8% in each of the previous two years, it added.

As a percentage of GDP, the top recipients of remittances, in 2011, were Tajikistan (47%), Liberia (31%), Kyrgyz Republic (29%), Lesotho (27%), Moldova (23%), Nepal (22%), and Samoa (21%), the report said.

Remittance flows to developing countries have more than quadrupled since 2000.

Global remittances, including those to high-income countries, are estimated to have reached $514 billion in 2012, compared to $132 billion in 2000, the report added.

In addition to large numbers of unskilled migrants working mainly in the oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, India also has a large skilled diaspora the US and other high-income countries, the World Bank report said.

Flows to Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal have also been robust, helped by strong economic growth in the GCC and India.

Remittances to the region are projected to remain buoyant in the coming years, reaching USD 140 billion in 2015, the report said.

The World Bank had on Friday announced the establishment of the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), envisioned to become a global hub of knowledge and policy expertise on migration issues.

KNOMAD was initiated in response to the rapid growth in migration and remittances over the last decade.

Nearly one billion people – that is, one out of every seven persons on the planet — have migrated internally and across international borders in search of better opportunities and living conditions, with profound implications for development.

“The role of remittances in helping lift people out of poverty has always been known, but there is also abundant evidence that migration and remittances are helping countries achieve progress towards other Millennium Development Goals, such as access to education, safe water, sanitation and healthcare,” said Hans Timmer, Director of the Bank’s Development Prospects Group.

Daily Dawn reports:

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Saturday turned down a request filed by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for the formation of a larger bench to hear the treason case against him and instead constituted a three member bench to hear the petitions.

LAL Masjid operation commission report

Another charge on Musharraf

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News):-According to the report, ex-president Pervez Musharraf, former prime minister Shoukat Aziz and members of his cabinet were indirectly responsible for Lal Masjid tragic incident.