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Teachers at ICB/IMS
Sitting Sir Manzoor Ahmed Khan (English), Sir Nafees Siddiqui (English), Principal MKA Beg, Madam Shuja Zaidi (Headmistress), Sir Jan e Alam (Urdu), Sir Ghalib Raza (Urdu) This appears to be editorial board of Sumbul, school magazine
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How to Identify Synthesis in the tables of your PhD Literature Survey
Instructions to my PhD students:Please note that The taxonomy master and taxonomy detail are only a “structured” way of organizing the information and identifying “codes” and discovering “themes and categories”. It is a tool to help you identify the literature support that leads to your PS. You need to transform this structured information into distilled…
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The Art of Gentle and Soft Persuasion- Dr Zahir Ali Syed
Dr Zahir Ali Syed, Director of UIT (Usman Institute of Technology), was plucked from us yesterday June 11, 2021, in a murderous event reminding Karachites of how Hakim Saeed was taken away from us in a terrorist murder some 25 years ago. Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihi rajioon! He was a mentor to me…
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Fauqul Chacha and Family Help
I knew them both and their father Fauqul Hasan Zaidi. Fauqul chacha will regularly drop at our place for morning tea with my father and mother during his break journey on his way from his home in F-6/1 to his office in the old state bank building which was being used as parliament building temporarily…
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Rise and Fall of Dictators and Kings: Delusions of Grandeur by Neocolonialism Forces
Last Shah of Iran How the kings are installed and propped by the great powers; Just finished seeing this BBC documentary about the shah of Iran whose pompousness we grew up with. I remember waiting for hours on the Chaklala road to airport in 1967 to catch a glimpse of the motorcade. But, I was…
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Leadership Style of Imran Khan as Cricket Captain and as Prime Minister
Imran Khan leadership style: Is IK trying to run the country exactly as he ran the captaincy of Pakistan cricket team? Favoritism in picking up players, holding of personal grudges against fellow players, and being vindictive against those who dared to disagree with him. Habit of making arbitrary and adhoc decisions, which worked in cricket…
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Visit to Baba KhorwaRi Shrine Ziarat
I had experience of meeting someone who predicted the rain fall time precisely. It was 1983 in ziarat, our NED batch mates of 1980-85 were on the study trip of Pakistan. We were around 200 students in three compartments that was attached to different trains and detached at various stations in the city for a…
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Economic Hit of Pakistan: CAD Focus vs GDP Neglect
CAD focus vs GDP neglect (IKnomics Hit) : “کرنٹ اکاؤنٹ خسارہ” CAD: ایک صاحب کی دکان خسارہ میں چل رہی تھی- ایک دن انہوں نے فاتحانہ اعلان کیا کہ پچھلے مہینہ انہوں نے CAD خسارہ پر قابو پا لیا! پوچھا وہ کیسے؟ فرمایا “بڑا آسان تھا، بس دکان بند کر دی، تمام ملازمیں کو فارغ…
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EVM Voting Machines- Is Technology a Panacea: Technology is as good as the people using it
کیا صرف ٹیکنالوجی لگا دینے سے ٹرانسپیرنسی و شفافیت حاصل ہو جاتی ہے؟ My dear PM, technology in itself is not a panacea. Technology is as good as the people using it! 1- کیا اربوں خرچ کر کے RTS ٹیکنالوجی لگانے سے 2018 میں انتخابات شفاف ہو گئے تھے؟ 2- کیا اربوں روپے کے کراچی…
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Why Leaders Fail to Recognize their Own Incompetence: Bureaucracy and IK
Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence. Incompetence of the “competent authorities” of pakistani government bureaucrats. And belief of PTIans in competence of IK. Dunning Kruger-Effect: Why Unintelligent People Don’t Learn? Many people claim to be experts at something they are simply not good at. Despite this, they can claim to be exceptionally good…
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Economic Hit of Pakistan and Illusion of Monetary Policy’s Independence from Fiscal Policy
Central Banks are required by law everywhere to manage and control monetary policy or value of money. There is nothing “natural” about value of money or forex rates. Monetary policy (always artificially crafted) works in tandem with fiscal policy and international policy to establish value of money. Tools used by fiscal/monetary policy include (1) interest…
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Imran Khan’s Tabdeeli- Change Management and BPR
IK got elected on the slogan of “tabdeeli” (change). He doesn’t know ABC of change management or how BPR (Businesses Process Reengineering) achieves substantial and visible “tabdeeli”. BPR is about reducing the complexity of Inter departmental processes by eliminating 60-80% steps and increasing efficiency by up to 80%, and resulting in substantial reduction of corruption…
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Growing up with Magazines
In 1969-70 I was 7 when I started reading Taleem o Tarbiat and other magazines. We had almirahs shelves full of magazine issues going back to early 1960s and to even mid 1950s. Old issues of subscriptions of Taleem o Tarbiat, Bachon ki Duniya, Naunehal, Khilona which were children magazines. And magazines for my elder…
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History of PKR Pakistani Rupee
چمڑی جاۓ پر دمڑی نہ جاۓ دمڑی نہ جائے چاہے چمڑی جائے۔ دمڑی کی بڑھیا ٹکہ سرمنڈائی۔ دمڑی کی بلبل ٹکا ہشکا ئی۔[1] دمڑی کے تین تین۔ دمڑی کی آمدنی نہیں گھڑی بھر کی فرصت نہیں۔ دمڑی کی ہانڈی گئی کتوں کی ذات پہچانی گئی۔ اونٹ دمڑی کا اور دمڑی بھی پاس نہیں۔ دمڑی کی…
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ICB/IMSB Teachers Autographs 1975-80
Tribute to my school teachers who laid the foundation for my learning at ICB (Islamabad Model School for Boys) G-6/3 near Covered Bazar/Melody. Autographs from 1975 and 1980: Sir Ghalib Raza (Urdu) Sir Hanif Tahir (Maths) Sir Subhan Ullah (Geography) Sir Rafique Malik (English) Sir Jan e Alam (Urdu) Sir Sabir Raza (Urdu) I regret…
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How many taxpayers are in pakistan
فائلر ہوں، چور نہیں ہوں: ہر پاکستانی GST,WHT دیتا ہے، صرف FBR فائلرز 1% ہیں مگر 13 کروڑ فون، بجلی پر ٹیکس دینے والے بھی فائلرز ہیں! It is a blatant lie that there are only 1% tax filers who are supporting the taxes of the whole country. Government has files of taxpayers who are…