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Emotional Intelligence

Developing emotional intelligence is another approach to study people and understand them in depth.

As per Wikipedia “Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups”

Learn this technique to improve your mental powers.

آج اکھاں وارث شاە نوں توں قبرا و یچوں بول

Wake up health department Punjab wake up..!

Gujrat: Father sells twin daughters to pay off hospital dues

Last Updated On 14 June,2014 About 2 hours ago

Hospital dues worth Rs 32,500 were pending against the family.

GUJRAT (Web Desk) – A poor father sold his twin daughters to pay hospital dues worth Rs 32,500, Dunya News reported on Saturday.

As per details, Nadra Bibi, wife of Bilal Khan was admitted to Ali Clinic and Maternity Home for delivery. The private hospital is situated in Jalalpur Jattan area.

After birth of twin girls, dues worth Rs 32,500 were pending against the family.

Later, a hospital employee identified as Sultana Bibi suggested them to sell their babies to clear the hospital bill.

The hospital administration allegedly finalised their deal with unknown persons in return of thousands of rupees and got thumb impressions of girls’ father Bilal Khan on a plain paper as a guarantee.

Doctor Rizwan said the girls were sold by their parents. He was informed about the reality later and only medical bill was charged from the parents.

On the other hand, the parents claim that they are unaware of the total amount given in return of their daughters.

آج اکھاں وارث شاە نوں توں قبرا و یچوں بول

Wake up health department Punjab wake up..!

Gujrat: Father sells twin daughters to pay off hospital dues

Last Updated On 14 June,2014 About 2 hours ago

Hospital dues worth Rs 32,500 were pending against the family.

GUJRAT (Web Desk) – A poor father sold his twin daughters to pay hospital dues worth Rs 32,500, Dunya News reported on Saturday.

As per details, Nadra Bibi, wife of Bilal Khan was admitted to Ali Clinic and Maternity Home for delivery. The private hospital is situated in Jalalpur Jattan area.

After birth of twin girls, dues worth Rs 32,500 were pending against the family.

Later, a hospital employee identified as Sultana Bibi suggested them to sell their babies to clear the hospital bill.

The hospital administration allegedly finalised their deal with unknown persons in return of thousands of rupees and got thumb impressions of girls’ father Bilal Khan on a plain paper as a guarantee.

Doctor Rizwan said the girls were sold by their parents. He was informed about the reality later and only medical bill was charged from the parents.

On the other hand, the parents claim that they are unaware of the total amount given in return of their daughters.

When they met…!

NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV & MARILYN MONROE

In September 1959, during Khrushchev’s American tour, he visited 20th Century Fox Studios. At a lunch banquet with hundreds of stars (including Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, and Gary Cooper), he was introduced to Marilyn Monroe. Wearing a low-cut, tight black dress, she delivered a line that Natalie Wood, a fluent Russian speaker, had taught her: “We the workers of 20th Century Fox rejoice that you have come to visit our studio and country.”

Khrushchev was mesmerized. “He looked at me the way a man looks on a woman,” Monroe said.

“You’re a very lovely young lady,” he said, squeezing her hand.

“This is about the biggest day in the history of the movie business,” Monroe told the cameras. But later, she reportedly told her maid, “He was fat and ugly and had warts on his face and he growled. He squeezed my hand so long and so hard that I thought he would break it. I guess it was better than having to kiss him.”

Look what America is saying about Pakistan..!

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that recent developments in South Asia had placed Pakistan in a “very, very key” position and had further increased the need for staying engaged with that country.

“Obviously, Pakistan is very, very key now, has been for 70 years,” the secretary said. “Now with the transition in Afghanistan, with the new government in India, with certain challenges that we’re both facing in terms of counter-terrorism,” it had become even more crucial to stay engaged with Pakistan, he added.

According to a transcript released by the US State Department in Washington, Secretary Kerry made these remarks before his meeting with Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz in London.

The top US diplomat noted that the two countries also had “major economic issues” to talk about, particularly the “huge challenge” that Pakistan was facing in meeting its energy demands.

“We have a lot to discuss, and particularly at this moment … I think it’s good that we have a chance to be able to meet,” he said.

Mr Aziz said he had come to London to attend a conference on ending sexual violence in conflict regions but wanted to avail the opportunity for also discussing bilateral issues with Mr Kerry.

He noted that the United States and Pakistan held their strategic dialogue in March, and “it’s always useful to follow up to see what progress has been made, what more needs to be done”.

He said that since a lot of things were happening in the South Asia region, “this is a very good chance” for exchanging views on those developments.

Published in Dawn, June 14th, 2014

An excerpt from article of Dr. Minhaj Qidwai titled “Pakistan in a quagmire”.

“Pakistan is in a quagmire. The rival group of Mian Sb. are lining up to initiate a movement. Mian Sb., knows the reality of his election. To save Pakistan from this situation, the judiciary has to come forward and play its role. If Mian Sb., does not form the group of technocrats to evaluate the situation and come forward with a plan for implementation, the judiciary can take suo moto action and bring a technocrat body to bring reforms in Pakistan.

The current lot of politicians have failed to deliver for Pakistan. The time is running out for Pakistan. It is better for Judiciary to move now and take any action, rather wait for tomorrow, which may never come.”

Football World Cup…

Brazil must repeat must remember that they may win a few matches by getting referee to favour them, however, referees like the Japanese person who helped them win the 1st match won’t make them the true world champions in the eyes of the billions of football fans.

Is the CHANGE on cards..?

Pakistan in quest of political change

Dr Mahboob A Khwaja

By the daily “Pakistan Observer”.

Saturday, June 14, 2014 – Karachi is on flame again. The raging smoke from the Karachi Jinnah International Airport tells a lot about the people, political governance and its future under the constant guns of a renegade group. Within a short span of 48 hrs, there were twice large scales running gun battles at the nation’s most vital and busiest airport. The news media reports 29 deaths in the first encounter and close to 100 or so wounded. The dark clouds of smoke and fires could well be interpreted as if there is no responsible political governance to ensure the safety, security and integrity of the innocent people – the net fatalities of the Taherk-e-Taliban Pakistan- TTP brutal attack on the biggest civilian airport.

Why this senseless killing spree on the people of Pakistan? Pakistani nation is fast becoming degenerational in a culture of continuing violence, killing of the innocents and lost sense of national security. These were not unexpected and unknown attacks where deaths and destruction are a common place in minds and sensitivities of the masses. The only people who did not care or lacked advanced knowledge of the insane attacks are the politicians and the nation’s security and intelligence apparatus.

Analyzing critically, you may assume varied scenarios for these brutal attacks on human rights and dignity and safety of the masses. (1) The masses and their security is left open to political conjecture and in-house rivalries between the politicians and the intelligence establishments. (2) The civilian administration responsible for protection of the vital national infrastructures are incapacitated by continuous challenges and the use of limited resources lacking advanced know-how and sophisticated systematic mechanism to ensure effective security framework. (3) Obsessed indifference and incompetence raging across the local-regional and national security establishments to plan and organize coherent and unified resolve and practices to deal with situations of unusual events and emergencies calling for swift actions. (4) A prevalent culture of corruption and tyranny appears to persist across all the major walks of social, administrative, political and economic life that needs to be changed and remodeled to serve the best interests of the nation.

Against this background, the continuing attacks by the TTP and other splinter groups should not go unchallenged for short-long terms consequences of their triviality and viciousness. But such challenging discourse could only come from people of political vision, leadership and integrity who are not part of the political gangsterism. But for too long, Pakistani politics failed to produce any leaders of moral, spiritual and political force demonstrating intellectual vigor and political prowess. The filthy politics breeds and brings forth thugs, known criminals and most incompetent people proven shameful to the honor of the nation.

Pakistan’s problem rests with power politics. Those who grab the power through intrigues, political conspiracies, military coups, sectarian killings and large social-economic disruptions do not foresee any exit to their hegemonic control. These are household names of hatred and disgrace to thinking Pakistanis. The Nation that allows criminally indicted and most corrupt people to hold offices of national governance and responsibility cannot be viewed as a nation of moral values and honor. This is how East Pakistan was lost. The political curse and disintegration of the social, moral and intellectual culture goes on for ages without an end in view. The TTP groups seem to be exploiting these inherent weaknesses across the Pakistani political culture. Disillusioned and disconnected with its roots, Pakistan continues to move forward – not towards change, normalcy and progress – but towards tragic events fomenting planned deaths of the citizenry, destruction of the social, economic and political infrastructures, incapacitated and broken lifelines and ultimately to become a battle ground for mindless ethnic and regional divides and national collapse.

TTP is one of the factors in these imposed cruelties on the masses. If these trends resulting from the inhuman and barbaric policies and practices of the ruling elite remain in the pipeline, the nation could end-up losing its freedom and integrity. You might wonder, “Is the problem insolvable?” The Taliban appear to be a collection of rogue and lose groupings of many associations and liabilities. Some could well be doing the proxy wars on behalf of the foreign master chipping-in cash dollars and obsolete weapons left-over across the old Afghan graveyards. Mr. Sharif and the Pakistani intelligence networks are not competent enough and have no foresight how to manage the hidden conspiracies of the few against many impinging on the public nerve for a decade.

In situations of emergencies, competent leaders offer hope and build trust of the nation to articulate workable remedies. But Pakistani politicians are used to blame game, often pointing fingers at India and others for their failure. Pakistan is being destabilized and dehumanized by its own wicked so called leaders who lack understanding of the ideology of the Muslim nation. Pakistan’s future is not linked to Nawaz Sharif or peace talks with the TTP. The Government and the Taliban are buying time and opportunities to readjust to the changing geo-political climate of the region. America is set to withdraw its NATO led forces in few months. Pakistani officials and the TTP would hurry to fill-in the gap and to acquire upper hand in future strategic priorities. Pakistan security forces are relentlessly watching which way to turn the table and to counteract the tide of bloody insurgency dipping into the political psyche of Pakistani culture.

How can there be a change in the political cruelty and tyranny of the few into a new value-based political system of institutions, responsible leadership and governance? Was this attack planned by somebody to overshadow the continuing failure and irrational policies and practices of the Sharif regime? Western analysts claim Pakistan to be a ‘failing state’ as it is run by dubious political-military elite. Pakistani leaders exhibit deafening silence to respond to the US-European accusations. Often when sadistic politicians cannot solve one set of problems, they could come up with smart but naïve ideas to create more critical problems to distract the masses. What is the solution to the morally and intellectually sickening political culture of Pakistani politics?

In view of the obvious failure of the current regime under Nawaz Sharif, the National Assembly should initiate immediate action to set up a new Government of National Unity replacing Nawaz Sharif with a non-partisan, intelligent and honest leadership. This appears to be the urgent political shift to restore normalcy and sustainable political governance. If the Assembly fails to act and shows indifference to the national interests, it will reaffirm its irrelevance and incompetence being a stooge of the rulers and unable to provide workable democratic option under the circumstances – when facts of life warrant a change, the responsible institutions must respond to facilitate change to safeguard the national interests, freedom and integrity.

—The writer specialises in global security, peace and conflict resolution and is author of several publications.

An eye opening article for the bashers of Pakistan, its military and the ISI.

A testimony in favour of Pakistan by Ms HR Clinton.

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’
News & Views
Mohammad Jamil

Saturday, June 14, 2014 – In her new book titled ‘Hard Choices’, Hillary Clinton stated: “America decided not to inform Pakistan about the operation against Osama bin Ladin, because there are some elements in ISI, which could inform Osama about the expected operation”. But it is a wrong perception in American Administration about the ISI, which is one of the best intelligence agencies in the world, and its sacrifices for war against terror are unforgettable. It was the ISI which arrested the largest number of terrorists during this war against terrorism. In her memoir ‘Hard Choices’, which hit the book stores the other day, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that top US officials, including President Barack Obama and the then Defense Secretary Robert Gates, had detailed discussions on the issue. In the same book, she admitted that supporting the war in Iraq was her biggest mistake. It appears that since she has decided to contest the next presidential election, she is trying to capitalize on unpopular war former president Bush started.

She wrote: “I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decisions. I got it wrong, plain and simple when I voted as a U.S. senator to authorize the war in Iraq”. But it was a belated acknowledgement of her mistake, as hundreds of thousands of children had died in Iraq because of lack of medicines during the occupation. And many more were killed in bombings by the forces of Coalition of the Willing, suicide bombings and civil war. Even today, the situation in Iraq is dismal. Only two days ago, at least 60 people were killed after seven car bombs ripped through the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The deadliest blast late on Saturday took place in the Bayaa district, which killed 23 people, many of them young people playing billiards. Several bombs went off within the following hour, mostly targeting commercial streets in Shia Muslim neighborhood. More than 110 people were wounded. During the last month, more than 900 people were killed across Iraq.

Anyhow, Hillary Clinton has been prevaricating and changing goalposts. In May 2009, talking to reporters at the Foreign Press Centre and the White House, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was once candid when she said: “It is fair to say that our policy towards Pakistan over the last 30 years has been incoherent. I don’t know any other word”. Looking for the meanings in between the lines, it becomes obvious the US has wronged Pakistan for three decades. The secretary recalled that in the 1980s, the US partnered with Pakistan to help train the Mujahideen. “Their security service and the military were encouraged to go after the Soviets in Afghanistan, and when they withdrew in 1989, we said thank you very much”. She went to say: “While it was fair to apportion responsibility to Pakistan, but the US also had to share the responsibility for what happened during and after the Afghan war”. Earlier she had said that the United States had a share in creating terrorist groups such as the Taliban. That was perhaps the first time that a high-ranking US official admitted about America’s share of responsibility.

In a congressional hearing, she explained how the militancy in Pakistan was linked to the US-backed proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. “Let’s remember here. The people we are fighting today, we funded them twenty years ago. And we did it because we were locked in a struggle with the Soviet Union,” she said. It is too well known that the US along with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had joined hands in 1980’s to counter the Soviets’ influence in the volatile region at that time. There is no denying that in 1979 after Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the CIA and ISI launched the largest covert operation in the history of the CIA. The objective of the US was to harness the Afghan resistance to the Soviets and expand it into a holy war – an Islamic jihad – which would turn Muslim states within the then Soviet Union against the Communist regime and eventually destabilize it. Over the years, the CIA had funded and recruited almost 100,000 radical mujahedin from around 40 Muslim countries as soldiers for America’s proxy war.

After Soviet withdrawal, America left the region in state of turmoil; civil war in Afghanistan raged on and jihadis tried to export their version of Islamic revolution to other countries. It slapped nuclear-related sanctions on Pakistan In fact, a lot of confusion had been created by the statements from members of the Obama administration, and of course by President Obama himself giving rise to suspicions. American media especially print media had been carrying reports regarding plans to take control of Pakistan nukes, should the government fail or terrorists take over Islamabad. There was a perception that after having given some equipment for the security of the nukes Americans wanted from Pakistan to disclose its nuclear sites but Pakistani government had been reluctant to show American officials how or where the gear was actually used, because Pakistanis did not want to reveal locations of their weapons, or type of new bomb-grade fuel the country was producing.

Some American experts were of the view that they have less ability to look into the nuclear laboratories where highly enriched uranium is produced. However, Pakistan was suspicious of the goal of the United States under the guise of protecting Pakistani nukes was to gather intelligence about how and where these were located, and, if necessary, disable Pakistan’s arsenal. Analysts were of the view that the US was playing a very dangerous game to destabilize Pakistan, which could set the ball rolling for destabilization of the region. The strategy was dividing the nation, creating doubts about the ability of the armed forces and bringing the ISI into disrepute. But the nation stands united today; both political and military leadership have complete agreement on how to fight terror internally and how to deal with the external threat. Of course, Pakistan’s armed forces have the capacity and capability to meet challenges to its internal and external security.

—The writer is Lahore-based senior journalist.

My letter published today by the daily “Pakistan Observer”.

The heroic ASF sacrifices

Syed Nayyaruddin Ahmad

Saturday, June 14, 2014 – As reported by media, there was no government representative, present at the Namaz-e-Janaza (offered in Lahore) of Shaheed ASF Inspector, Mr. Muhammad Sarwar.

If this news is true, then government must investigate the reasons for this callousness of all the concerned.

Government must realise and recognise that such small gestures in our culture and society, are much appreciated by the officers and men of the services, even more than offering of monetary rewards, to the families of the Shaheeds.

Now, the entire nation has realised that the monumental supreme sacrifices offered by our 11 ASF men (during the terrorists attack at the Karachi airport) has saved the country from an unimaginable loss of men and material.

Moreover, their Martyrdom has also saved Pakistan from a huge loss of image and reputation, as well.

As such, these ASF men, deserve to be awarded highest bravery award, to acknowledge their immortal services to the nation.

No Pakistani should and must not forget that today, we and our children are alive and happy, because of the blood, shed by our Martyrs, for our better tomorrow.

—Lahore
Link:- http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=244395