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Strategic Issues for Universities in Pakistan
During a strategic management meeting on last Sunday (29th September, 2019), a leading industrial group chairman gave the following advice to the higher management of the universities: The future outlook is bleak. Don’t expect any investment or industrialization during the next 3 years. We are in the process of investing about Rs 4 billion in…
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Javier Poncela-Professor from Malaga Spain who Taught us Selfless International Collaboration
Very sad. It was very sad to learn that Dr. Javier Poncela, a Professor at the University of Malaga, Spain had passed away. Dr Poncela was a well known personality in the electrical engineering departments of the universities of Sindh. He became a popular academician in Pakistani community and was routinely invited for the conferences…
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Ghotki Rampage and Crowds Clamoring for the Head of 5000
Ghotki rampage occurs when government supporters encourage harassment and lawlessness. What do u expect from PTI juveniles who promote street killing of thousands on suspicion without trial, due process of law! During the run up to elections and till a few months ago. The pumped up juvenile brigade of the لونڈے، لپاڑے were vociferously promoting…
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Examples of How Children Fail
In “How Children Fail”, the acclaimed author John Holt describes how children stop using their mind, and fail. It is quite evident from the example pic below that the child was using his mind. Unfortunately, the teacher was grading “mindlessly” from the key that he had. This example is not an isolated case. There are…
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Case Study of Economic Hitmen of 2018 Pakistan
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] DoN (Doctrine of Necessity) Godfather Saqib Nisar along with NAB and IMF led IK government as Economic Hitmen: Their witch hunt of greatly respected Dr Saeed Akhtar PKLIC, Dr Ismail Shah PTA, Dr Umar Saif PITB,…
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Myth of Bigger Infrastructure Means Better Education: Quality vs Infrastructure
Myth: Bigger Infrastructure Means Better Education: We were told that only high-quality universities should be allowed to come up. Primary criteria for high quality were the size of the campus, covered area and other brick and mortar facilities. HEC, SHEC, PHEC, CIEC and their institutional proformas are replete with questions about the size of the…
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Rauf Mamoo, My war hero of 1965 War: Major (R) Shah M Ismail at Chawinda Tank Battle.
My hero of 1965 War: Major (R) Shah M Ismail at Chawinda Tank Battle. Rauf Mamoo (as known in the family) related to us of his experience at Chawinda battlefield in the 1965 India-Pakistan war. Major Shah M Ismail He was assigned the duty of an OP (Observation Post) and was deputed in the no-man’s…
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Chairman Salim Mehmud and my Brush with SUPARCO during the 1980s
I spent 6 months in SUPARCO in 1987 before resigning and leaving for US for PhD. They were trying to design for several years a signal-filter chip that was available for a few hundred rupees in Saddar. We had nothing to do in the Computer Department where I was working. The commute time from City…
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DoN Quixote PCO CJP Saqib Nisar who godfathered Sancho Panza Imran Khan
DoN Quixote and his Sancho Panzas tilting at the windmills. 1: DoN Quixote tilting at the windmills, through the Sancho Panza 2018-2023. Fighting the enemy of states: poor street vendors, irregular shops, all sectors of economy, auto sector, energy sector, real state sector, and the tax chor 99% of Pakistan population, lower class, middle class,…
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What Should New Students of a University Must Consider: Essentials of a University Education
Why Education and Why Higher Education What is the Purpose of Education What does it mean to be well educated and what is our mission What is Higher Education What is Impact can you create What Impact on Society What Impact on Industry and Economy What should be your personal Impact Here is the detailed…
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5 Challenges for Designing your Professional Lives
Faculty, Parents and my dear students: As I look at your beaming faces full of hope and aspirations and great expectations of your future after four years of university life, I first invite you to try to soak in this environment of this marvelous infrastructure at IoBM. You are sitting in the building which is…
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Far From the Madding Crowd, Hardy and Me
Today I got off from the board meeting early and my flight was in the evening. I had a few hours to kill with nothing to do. I chanced upon a YouTube video snippet of Bathsheba Everdene and Sergeant Troy’s sword scene of 2011 remake of Far From the Madding Crowd. I didn’t like it…
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Forthright and Courageous Gentleman-Col Raza Kamal at KIET
Col (r) Raza Kamal from 17 Baluch (2 Sind). A thorough gentleman and a great colleague. His commitment and dedication as Director College of Management Sciences at PAF KIET was exemplary. I had a long 10+ years association as Dean n Vice president of PAF KIET with Col Raza Kamal. It started during KIET’s initial…
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Dynamic Role of Abstract in Guiding the Flow of Writing of a PhD Dissertation
Abstract is the first thing in a dissertation that is read, and is often the last. A dissertation is at most read by 1.6 people from end to end, including the author [1]. PhD dissertation is written to enable a researcher to find all information necessary for replicating the results and understand the thesis. Hence,…
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Islamabad Think Tanks Running Out of Options: Tanks without Think
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] “Think-tanks” have yet again run out of options when IK exclaimed in the joint session of parliament: ہم کیا کریں؟ کیا انڈیا سے جنگ شروع کر دیں؟ This indicates No “think”, only “tanks”! It is pathetic…
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Government Spending, Keynesian Economics and Pakistan’s Economic Slide in 2018-19
This issue was the beginning of the start of destruction of economy. So many apparently sane people people lost it through his charisma. We need to take a hard look at how criticism for the sake of criticism destroyed the “development” cycle of Pakistan’s economy. Development expenditure on flyovers, metros, motorways etc increases the money…
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Imran Khan’s Criteria of Fascism and Treatment of Opposition
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Our Honorable Prime Minister Imran Khan in the recent joint session of Parliament on Kashmir’s annexation by India, reminded the MNAs and Senators about Hitler’s fascism and Nazi Party. He explained fascist governments are those that…
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Neocolonialism Objectives for Third World Countries like Pakistan
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Work in Process: خبردار جو ایمپریس مارکیٹ کی طرح ٹھیلے/پتھارے سے حلال روزی کمائ! انہیں تباہ کر کے تاجِ برطانیہ کا طمطراق واپس لائیں گے: کالے انگریز ٹیکس چور deserve کرتے ہیں! آٹوموبیل سیکٹر میں اربوں…
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Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2019
آج وطن پرستوں سے مکالمہ “یہ افغانی ہمارے ملک کا کھاتے ہیں اور سپورٹ افغانستان کو کرتے ہیں۔” “تماری طرح وہ بھی اللہ کا دیا کھاتے ہیں، اپنی تقدیر کا کھاتے ہیں، کوئی کسی کے حصے کا نہیں کھاتا۔ اللہ کی زمین پر رہتے ہیں، تمہاری ملکیت پر نہیں رہتے۔ جب کوئی پاکستانی برطانیہ، آسٹریلیا،…
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Booby Traps Inserted in 1973 Constitution by DoN Godfathers that Perpetually Keep Pakistan in an ICU Emergency
Doctrine of Necessity (DoN) godfathers have inserted booby traps in the 1973 constitution that strangulate and throttle the elected governments in their functioning and also keep on exploding every few years keeping the country perpetually in an ICU emergency. The moment an elected government reaches a stage where it can start asserting the will of…
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Can Corruption Problem be Solved by Hanging a Few Thousands?
کیا 5 ہزار کو لٹکانے سے کرپشن سے نجات ملے گی؟ انقلاب فرانس 40 ہزار مارے، انقلاب روس 20 ملین مارے: کوئی افاقہ، بہتری، حل نہ ہوا! 1. Nations that forget history are forgotten by history. History tells us that mass killings, mass purges, indiscriminate hanging of suspects has never solved any problem for any…
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Aligarh University, Sadaat e Nihtaur and Hyder Family
Here is the list of alumni of Aligarh Muslim University belonging to Sadaat e Nihtaur. My father Ehsaan Hyder (standing in the middle) with his degree from Aligarh University in 1935 (or was it after his matric?). (b. 1917- d. 2003).Sitting on right: My grandfather Abdul Ghani Hyder (d. 1966)Sitting on left: My grandfather’s father…
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An Eyewitness Account of Justice Munir’s Doctrine of Necessity Judgement by Mr Ashraf Janjua
Justice Munir’s Doctrine of Necessity Judgment is the most important single event in the history of Pakistan. The costs of Justice Munir’s Doctrine of Necessity have been 4 Martial Laws and 35 years of direct dictatorships. The remaining years of Pakistan’s existence have been spent fighting the booby traps inserted in the constitution by the dictators…