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Archive for April, 2014

Qadam Baraho Shahbaz Sharif Qaum Tumharay Sath Hay..!

Mian Shahbaz Sharif there is severe scarcity of ATTA in Lahore due to the strike of the flour mill owners to press for their unjustified demands.

It suggested that don’t be black mailed by the coercive tactics of the flour mill owners in Lahore.

Kindly order take over of these mills by the Punjab Government, in the larger public interest.

Qadam Baraho Shahbaz Sharif Qaum Tumharay Sath Hay..!

Qadam Baraho Shahbaz Sharif Qaum Tumharay Sath Hay..!

Mian Shahbaz Sharif there is severe scarcity of ATTA in Lahore due to their strike.

It suggested that don’t be black mailed by the coercive tactics of the flour mill owners in Lahore.

Kindly order take over of these mills by the Punjab Government, in the larger public interest.

Qadam Baraho Shahbaz Sharif Qaum Tumharay Sath Hay..!

Don’t Take a Break, Take a Walk

We’re taught to believe that “serious” work happens at our desks — but getting out of the office can spur productivity. Research shows that walking isn’t just a way to exercise or relax; it boosts creativity, lifts your mood, and helps spark new ideas. If you’re constantly getting distracted at your desk, by email or coworkers, a walk can help you focus. When walking alone, rehearse a presentation, mentally prep for a difficult conversation, or mull over a tough problem. Walking is also great for professional heart-to-heart talks, since moving together makes conversation less stiff and more authentic. You may also find the change of scenery to be far more effective than a whiteboard for collaboration. So when you really need to get something done, try stepping out for a stroll.

Adapted by HBR from “Take a Walk, Sure, but Don’t Call It a Break” by Dan Pallotta.

Sack the MD SNGPL

1199 of SNGPL informs that gas shut down for entire Lahore from 12 Noon today till 12 Noon tomorrow.

Why the SNGPL customers were not informed beforehand to mange the contingency?

MD SNGPL must be sacked for this serious dereliction of duty.

Also no news on TV channels about this worst in the history closure of gas for Lahore.

1199 of SNGPL informs that gas shut down for entire Lahore from 12 Noon today till 12 Noon tomorrow.

Why the SNGPL customers were not informed beforehand to mange the contingency?

MD SNGPL must be sacked for this serious dereliction of duty.

Also no news about this worst in the history closure of has for Lahore.

You Can’t Score a Goal Sitting on the Sidelines

from Expect to Win
by John Mason

After his first audition, a casting director told actor Sidney Poitier, “Why don’t you stop wasting people’s time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?” It was at that moment, recalls Poitier, that he decided to devote his life to acting. He wasn’t going to let someone else decide his life path.

“There’s nothing in the middle of the road, but yellow stripes and dead armadillo,” says Jim Hightower. Decide to do something now to make your life better. The choice is yours.

“My decision is maybe—and that’s final.” Is this you? Being decisive is essential for a successful life. If you deny yourself commitment, what will you do with your life? Every accomplishment, great or small, starts with a decision.

David Ambrose remarked, “If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.”

The moment you definitely commit yourself, change begins. All sorts of things happen to help you that never would have otherwise occurred. Kenneth Blanchard observed, “There is a difference between interests and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you only do it when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” Lack of decisiveness has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

Indecision often gives an advantage to the other person because they did their thinking beforehand. Helen Keller said, “Science may have found a cure for most evil; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings.” Don’t leave a decision for tomorrow that needs to be made today.

Remember, don’t be a “middle-of-the-roader” because the middle of the road is the worst place to try to go forward. You can do everything you ought to do once you make a decision. Today, decide on your dream.

There has been a sudden cut off of Sui gas supplies for the residents of Block F/2, Johar Town, Lahore.

Is there anyone in SNGPL to attend this gas disruption immediately?

“Stay committed in your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

— Tony Robbins

Once bitten twice shy..!

We may have many differences of opinion, about the way late Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto ruled Pakistan. But, there are no two opinions about his financial integrity and loyalty with the country. It is a known fact that the USA’s government at that time, used every bait and pressure tactics, to force ZAB to cancel Pakistan’s agreement of Nuclear Reprocessing Plant with France. A time came, when ZAB was forced to utter the following historical words, to the then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger:

“If you spit and ask me to clean it, I will clean it. However, if you spit and ask me to LICK it? I will not”

The moral of the story is that the cricket lovers of Pakistan, can not imagine in their wildest dreams that the honourable members of the top PCB management, also headed by an honourable person Mr. Najam Sethi, will commit the same mistake again, of putting their hands in the same hole, from where they have been already bitten once.

There are reports that Mr. Moin Khan, is being again taken back into the folds of the PCB, for either the role of the chief selector or as a cricket manager.

We are at a loss to understand, why PCB wants to bring back the same person, who miserably failed, during the last many months in not just one capacity, but also in various positions as a chief selector, manager and the head coach, as well.

During these stints of Moin Khan, Pakistan lost an ODI and a Test match against the lowest ranked team Zimbabwe. Then, we lost a Test match in UAE against the South Africans, which was very winnable. Finally, our team’s dismal performance in Asia cup and the T20 World Cup tournaments, is so fresh in the minds that it needs no repetition. However, the lowest score world record (13/4 in 6 power play overs of a T20 match), our team created under the management leadership of Moin Khan, playing against the West Indian cricket team in Dhaka, will always haunt the Pakistanis and can not easily be erased from our shell shocked minds, for a long time.

As a manager, Moin Khan is also singularly responsible, for the irreparable loss to the Pakistani team, due to the side-lining of pacer Muhammad Irfan, because of his injuries, which were caused from the overplaying of this precious bowling asset.

If, the PCB is hell bent to take back Moin Khan after all these shameful and abysmal performances of our team, where he was part and parcel of all the botched selection of some of the known nincompoop players, as well as, the non selection of Anwer Ali; and also including Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal, in the playing eleven, then why not call back Zaheer Abbas and Muhammad Shaoib, as well?

Here, the air must be cleared about the flimsy argument that Moin could not produce results, as the time was too short for him to prove his skills. No Sir, his incompetence has a very long story of our team’s failures, dating back since Mr. Najam Sethi took over. And also, if he was unable to give the desired results in this stint, then at least, the performance graph of our team, should not have fallen to a third class club level team. Who else except Moin Khan is responsible for this down slide?

Under the circumstances, if the PCB top notches don’t like the faces of some of the men of professional excellence, repute and integrity like M/S Javed Miandad, Wasim Bari, Muhammad Yousaf, Abdul Qadir and Amir Suhail; then at least they should consider Mohsin Hassan Khan, for the position of chief selector, coach or the cricket manager, who is equally renowned, famous, honest and proven successful person.

Mohsin Hassan Khan, is the man who delivered AMAZING results as a chief selector and even more AMAZING results as a coach, in much much lesser time than Moin Khan. Moreover, he is also the man, with most clean reputation. He has never ever being named in any match fixing scandal of Pakistan, the ICL (Indian Cricket League) or the IPL.

I don’t know why, but on this occasion the following couplet of the famous poet Mirza Ghalib, comes to my mind:

KA’BA KIS MONH SAY JAO GAY GHALIB ( How will you Ghalib Ka’ba face, )

SHARAM TUM KO MAGAR NAHI AATI (Ashamed of self you do not seem.)

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.”

— Zig Ziglar