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SC Bench Fixing results about role of Party Head decisions that use Doctrine of Necessity
Implications of Supreme Court Judgement Constitutional Petition Nos 12, 13, 18, 20-22, 31, 35, 38, 40, 42, 43, 44 of 2010 Judges in the Bench (Full Court – 17 Judges): – Justice Nasir ul Mulk (CJ) – Justice Jawwad S Khawja – Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali – Justice Mian Saqib Nisar (Future CJP SC) –…
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How to Design LMS Based Online Examinations in Asynchronous Mode
In medical universities and engineering universities during the 1980s-90s when cheating and copying culture was rampant, faculty members primarily used to rely on viva examinations for awarding final grades. Vivas and presentations even today during on-site classes are preferred for MS thesis, PhD Thesis, capstone projects, final year projects, clinical, lab practicals, and senior design…
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Why children can not appreciate the value of how they are better off than their parents
When I see my fridge filled with ice cream for a couple of days and children not touching it saying that they don’t like the flavor, I recall my childhood when I used to yearn for ice cream for months and sometimes even years before getting to taste even a small serving. We did not…
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Policy Rate and Inflation Control Fee Theory for Pakistan
Atiq Rehman: Despite the fact that State Bank has fixed policy rate at 13.25, the trading in long term debt market is happening even at less than 10.5%. This means, if there was no indication by SBP, the equilibrium interest rate should be much lower. Now, the market equilibrium is lower and all economists are…
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Playing with Fire: Confidence Building
Lighting up the fire for making tea during tracking and picnicking in the wilderness. Food cooking in scouting. We used to burn the bushes around our house in the wilderness when they have dried up in the autumn. They would grow during the summer monsoon to several feet high. Then they would dry up in…
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Booby Traps Installed by IMF Reps in Pakistan Economy
ڈاکٹر رضا باقر، SBP گورنر کے IMF کے mandated بوبی ٹریپس جن کو پلاننگ کے زریعے مختلف اوقات میں نسب کیا گیا اور جس وقت وہ اچانک پھٹنے شروع ہوئے تو اکنامک ہٹ مینز خاموش رہ کر نظارہ کرتے رہے, کوئی خطرے کی گھنٹیاں نہیں بجائیں- ان بوبی ٹریپس کی وجہ سے ملک دیوالیہ ہونے…
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10 Billion Tree Tsunami and its Reality: Unravelling the complexity of Mega Projects
10 Billion Tree Tsunami ki Haqeeqat kya hai? Reality of 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Mega Project? | Dr Irfan Hyder How leaders can fool educated people about the billions and millions. How complexity increases when you go from millions to billions. We need mega management, not mega projects as Parveen Rahman used to say. خدارا…
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Imran Khan and Essential Leadership Requirements of a Leader
اقبال کے مطابق کسی لیڈر یعنی “میر کارواں” کے رخت سفر کے لئے صرف تین ضروری خصوصیات ہیں: نگاہ بلند سخن دلنواز و جاں پرسوز، جن کے زریعے ایک راہنما اپنے پیچھے چلنے والوں کو جوڑ کر رکھتا ہے، ان کو منتشر نہیں ہونے دیتا: نگاہ بلند سخن، سخن دلنواز، جاں پرسوز یہی ہے رخت…
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Prof A. G. Saeed of IBA, a role model of God fearing forth rightness
Prof. A.G. Saeed left for the hereafter on the 9th of May, 2022. May Allah give him the best of abodes in the hereafter. Aameen. He left IBA much before I joined as MBA student in 1985. However, heard a lot about him and other stalwarts in the group photo below. In my association with…
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Why you want to be a Religious Scholar or Aalim? Purpose of Education by Mufti Taqi Usmani, Ashraf Ali Thanvi
شیخ الاسلام حضرت مولانا مفتی تقی عثمانی صاحب نے بیت السلام تلہ گنگ میں بیان کے دوران ایک طالب علم سے سوال فرمایا وہ سوال و جواب پیش خدمت ہے۔ سوال: بتاؤ بھائی !آپ علم کس لیے حاصل کرنا چاہتے ہیں کیا مقصد ہے علم حاصل کرنے کا؟ جواب: طالب علم نے جواب دیا کہ…
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Dr Irfan Hyder Youtube Channel Videos Topics and Links
I have come to the conclusion that social media especially youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and now even Google does not want people to remember chronologically and category-wise information that they have seen or even generated themselves. I am no longer able to see a list of all the videos that I have uploaded. It is only…
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Out of the Box Solutions for Pakistan Economic Problems
Major Issues: 80-20 Rule: Our 80% problems are because of 20% components of the budgets. Which are those? What are the major inflexible components of our expenditure? ZU Dialogs: Out of the Box Solutions for Economic Problems of Pakistan https://www.facebook.com/zuedu/videos/1167116573847788/ Downsizing of Indian Military Local Interest Payments Why GDP Increase leads to CAD increase?…
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Java Tutorial Learn Java Programming
These reference types also have methods for extracting the primitive type from them. The version of the class file created by the Java compiler of Java SE 7 is 51.0. Therefore, class files with version 51.0 cannot be executed in the Java SE 6 JVM. But the Java Bytecode is written in a language that…
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War on terror cost Pakistan $123 billion: DGMO
War on terror cost Pakistan $123 billion: DGMO goog_924736457 APR 4TH, 2018 https://fp.brecorder.com/2018/04/20180404357430/ In a first ever public appearance, Director General Military Operations (DGMO) Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza said on Tuesday that Pakistan turned the tide against terrorism at a monumental human and socio-economic cost of over $123 billion and over 76,000 casualties. Speaking at a…
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Why corrupt are not caught in pakistan
Corruption and corrupt. Who is responsible To a person claiming corruption of politicians: اگر اتنے ہی کرپٹ تھے تو مشرف نے اپنے 9 سالہ ڈکٹیٹر شپ میں اور عمران خان نے اپنی ایک پیج والی ڈکٹیٹرشپ میں ان کی اتنی ساری کرپشن کے بہت سارے ثبوت کیوں نہیں اکٹھے کر کے عدالت میں کیوں پیش…
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Disillusion of Youth In Search of Saviors in Pakistan: Hopes Pinned on Saviors, Not Principles
My dear ambitious, energetic youth: Please pin your hopes on principles not people. You are bound to be disappointed if you pin your hopes on saviors as I have been closely following the rise and fall of many of the saviors over the last 54 years of my life in the course of daily reading…
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Why are Stupids more Dangerous than Bandits and Thieves
Framework for understanding stupidity: Time for self-introspection ????. اپنا بھی فائدہ کرتا ہے اور دوسروں کا بھی فائدہ کرتا ہے vs اپنا بھی نقصان کرتا ہے اور دوسروں کا بھی! نادان دوست سے دانا دشمن بہتر ہے! (حضرت علی) 5 Laws of Stupidity by Carlo Cipolla, 1976 titled “The basic laws of stupidity.” At first…
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Incompetence is the Mother of Corruption
Incompetence is the Mother of Corruption l Dr. Irfan Hyder Typically, the conventional wisdom is that “corruption is the mother of incompetence”. The argument goes like the following: If there was no corruption, no incompetent judges would be hired, no incompetent civil servants would be hired or promoted, there would be no incompetent NAB, there…
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Experiments to Control Democracy in Pakistan
مرض بڑھتا گیا جوں جوں دوا کی Pakistan is so fond of changing the system of governance: We have changed the system every few years since 1947, we have experimented with political engineering of the system more times than any other country in the world. Here is a brief overview of our experiments of such…
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Technology is as good as the people using it: EVM Technology is just a tool. Its user determines the quality of output
Installing cameras for fighting crime and tax evasion, using computer technology for removing corruption, and implementing EVMs for ensuring transparency of election results are all uses of technology to solve problems. However, “technology is as good as the people using it”. Utility of a technology is dependent on the ability and competence of people using…
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EVMs will fail in Pakistan because it is more of a management problem than a technology problem
EVM is a much bigger logistics & management problem than a technology problem!Assuming EVMs are technologically feasible, now please work out the logistics and management issues of manufacturing, testing, transportation, storage, issuance, receipts, returns, installation, post installation testing, quality assurance, maintenance, malfunction detection, repair, supervision etc of uniquely numbered 7 lac devices. Mind you, that…
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A Drive on a Rickety Cycle and Sufistic Thought by Shah M Ismail Rauf
This is a story/article written by my dear mamoo Shah M Ismail written around 1953-55. Today September 8, 2021 is his 22nd death anniversary. He retired as Major in 1980s. He was great man who taught me how to love and play with children. Father of Faizan Shah, Faryal Osman Khan, Faraz Shah, Fariha Ahmreen,…
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Partition, Broken Families, Migration Ethos: Bharat ko Janey Waley by Fatima Khatoon
Farewell picture of my grandfather Abdul Ghani Hyder’s return in June 1951 with the extended family. Research for names of those in Pic and labeling them with numbers was done by Khurshid Alim Zaidi, a very painstaking task. My recitation of the poem Poem written by Phuppi Fatima Khatoon on the decision of Daday Abdul…
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Ism e Tareekh and Qata e Wafat: How Birth and Death Years were remembered in History
Ism-e- tareekh ( اسم تاریخ) was the name computed from the year of birth. There are numbers assigned to each letter of the alphabet. Sum of the numbers assigned to each letter of birth year name evaluate to the birth year. See the computations of names of my father, uncles and phuppo by Syed Ikram…