Restfulness
Restfulness does not lie in worldly objects, nor does it exist in aim-achievement leading to self-conceived successfulness. Moreover, the more you chase money, sensuality, show-off, status, pseudo-standards, other faulty cognition, etc. the farther you are from it. Sooner or later all of these end up with emptiness, restlessness and boredom in life.
By far greater pleasure lies somewhere inside, in association with right people by achieving or at least seeking win-win situation, and especially, in loving SOMETHING to an extent that one is ready to die for it, be it anything worth naught. That kind of emotions and endeavours bring a sense of restfulness and accomplishment that everyone has to discover for himself and master over in his own particular way.
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Pakistan’s Aid-dependent Sovereignty
The unilateral Bin Laden Operation in Abbottabad and continual drone attacks that kill far more innocents than militants are said to have violated Pakistan’s sovereignty. The concern is certainly reasonable but seems to be untimely at large. The terrorists roaming in Pakistan have been violating the sovereignty for many many years on daily basis unquestioned, unpunished with little condemnation. They have received far less attention than the threat they pose. Any major terrorist attack in any part of the world is traced back to its roots in Pakistan. Comparing both violations, terrorists’ has done far greater damage to Pakistan’s stability, credibility and capability of defending its sovereignty.
Many people believe in conspiracy theories. To them 9/11, London attacks, Mumbai attacks, war against terrorism and recently OBL fiasco all are but parts of a single play so wisely planned that the US want to get control over the Muslim world and rising China. Such suspicions became strong in aftermath of Saddam Hussein whose regime was toppled after alleging him of possessing the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) which would never be found out later. Unfortunately, in the era of mass media one cannot know for sure who is doing what.
True, Pakistan should not blindly trust the US rhetoric about the agenda in the region rather it should act in accordance to its own national interest. Certainly we have suffered at the hands of extremists more than any other nation. These terrorists have killed our 35,000 civilians, 5000 Pakistan Army troops and damaged Pakistan’s economy worth $ 47 billion. It is time we began cleaning our own backyard be it by working with the US but the cleaning should be according to our own definition not as dictated by the US. Such a cleaning must ensure that our homeland is not used for terrorist attack anywhere in the world.
Unfortunately we as a nation have never striven to be self-reliant. Our anemic state is aid dependent and corruption addict. Trade is scanty. The most well-known export of Pakistan that the world knows is terrorism. Survival without the aid is not impossible but so painful for the ruling elite that the addiction simply does not permit our leeches to live without it. Either way a common Pakistani has to suffer no matter Pakistan gets aid or not. The conditionalities attached to such foreign aid have made our sovereignty so porous that it has become non-existent. In such a situation ‘sovereignty issue’ becomes little ridiculous for many.
Again the question of being self-reliant comes up. There is no way perhaps because there is no real coherent will. More importantly what about our defence hardware requirements? Will China replace the US? China seems not to be so interested in throwing cash on the table nor would it be ready to replace Pakistan’s American brand defence system completely. At the moment Chinese want money not hegemony in the region. Pakistan’s military needs make Pakistan and the US relations mandatory for Pakistan although China which is known as the all-weather-friend of Pakistan might be the last lifeline if a US led cyclone hits Pakistan. But why do we not try to make our own military hardware? Sadly we are not much interested in Science and Technology. Few are working but they are helpless. So the apparent solution lies in dependence, a bitter pill that we have to swallow.
It is not time for tantrums in the conduct of our international relations. We need to make a planning for coming decades and act accordingly. There is no quick fix. So long we are an aid dependent nation we are not sovereign. So long we permit militants to operate from our territories we are at risk of foreign invasions. We shall truly become a sovereign and respectable nation the day when we are not dependent on foreign aid, not when we beg it.
Facebook Dialogue about Eunuchs
Aijaz Soomro SC (Supreme Court of Pakistan) directs authorities to issue CNIC (Computerized National Identity Card) to eunuchs; provide free medical cover, education, vote rights; employ them for anti-polio campaign and like jobs etc.
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Amjad Hakro really so excited to witness a drop of sanity among the ocean of blather around, well when did this happen?07 December at 23:54 · Like -
Aijaz Soomro well i am also glad witnessing this happening
http://www.dawn.com/2010/12/07/cnics-for-eunuchs-from-jan-1.html07 December at 23:59 · Like -
Amjad Hakro thanks Aijaz for sharing such an enlightening bit of update08 December at 00:01 · Like
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Aijaz Soomro My pleasure!! but i am not feeling it right to employ them in anti-polio campaigns because already we have so badly failed such ventures at the hands of primary masters n mistresses. what do you think about it? Do u think our crazy ignorant people would take it seriously?08 December at 00:09 · Like
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Amjad Hakro No I don’t think so. Why a certain gender be left behind only because of certain stereotype attached to them? Right amount of oversight, training & guidance can surely impart much needed vigilance in them. “Crazy ignorant people”… Well public opinion & support take some time to gain momentum.08 December at 00:14 · Like
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Aijaz Soomro ”Right amount of oversight, training & guidance can surely impart much needed vigilance”
I wish it happen so!!08 December at 00:21 · Like -
Amjad Hakro I’m not being an optimist, but would rather like to ask u whether eunuchs are unfit for getting employed in an ant-polio drive08 December at 00:24 · Like
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I am afraid not because of their being eunuchs but because of non-compliance on the part of our society and ill social status given by our crazy ignorant people to eunuchs.Well, success of anti-polio has nothing to do with the gender of anti-polio staff scientifically but socially that may be no longer true. here in our society problems are manifold. Likewise I don’t think our primary school staff is fit to the task either. I am afraid, with eunuchs it might exacerbate the predicament due to increase in non-compliance and until public opinion gains momentum we might end up endangering thousands of children at the risk of disability due to polio.Similarly I don’t think they should be burdened with all such kind of tasks which need home to home and street to street wandering and thus increase chances of them being mocked, discouraged or molested until collective perception of our society about eunuchs changes.In the context of eunuch rights, My heart goes out to them when I see them begging their very survival from so-called legitimate genders. I think they stand on equal footing as we are. The only difference they can’t reproduce, I think scientific advancement would cheapen such happiness knocking at their doors soon!
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08 December at 01:18 · 2 peopleMuhammad Yaseen and Amjad Hakro like this.
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Amjad Hakro appreciated, good argument08 December at 16:40 · Like
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Malaria drug may save 100,000 children a year
In 2006, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended that the four-century-old remedy of quinine for treating severe malaria in adults should be replaced by artesunate, derived from a Chinese plant called sweet wormwood. But, acting cautiously, it said it could not make a similar recommendation for children until a further trial on this age group had been carried out.
The outcome, published online by The Lancet, found that using artesunate reduced death from severe falciparum malaria among African children by 22.5 per cent compared to quinine.
The trial was conducted in nine African countries, in which 5,425 badly-infected children aged under 15 were given either artesunate or quinine. On the important question of side effects, artesunate was well tolerated, the study found.
The risk of coma or convulsion and, after treatment, a low-blood sugar condition known as hypoglycaemia were all lower in the artesunate group than the quinine group.
“Artesunate should now become the treatment of choice for severe malaria for children and adults worldwide,” according to the study, led by Nicholas White, a professor at Mahidol University in Bangkok. Malaria causes an estimated 800,000 deaths every year in African children.”
It added: “If four million African children with severe malaria every year were to receive prompt treatment with parenteral artesunate instead of quinine, and the benefits were similar to those recorded in this trial, then approximately 100,000 lives might be saved per year.”
Source: AFP
Arundhati Roy’s email to Indian newspapers and TV channels
Following is the text of the statement emailed by Ms Roy to Indian newspapers and TV channels.
“I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public meetings on Kashmir. I said what millions of people here say every day. I said what I, as well as other commentators have written and said for years. Anybody who cares to read the transcripts of my speeches will see that they were fundamentally a call for justice. I spoke about justice for the people of Kashmir who live under one of the most brutal military occupations in the world; for Kashmiri Pandits who live out the tragedy of having been driven out of their homeland; for Dalit soldiers killed in Kashmir whose graves I visited on garbage heaps in their villages in Cuddalore; for the Indian poor who pay the price of this occupation in material ways and who are now learning to live in the terror of what is becoming a police state. “Yesterday I travelled to Shopian, the apple-town in South Kashmir which had remained closed for 47 days last year in protest against the brutal rape and murder of Asiya and Nilofer, the young women whose bodies were found in a shallow stream near their homes and whose murderers have still not been brought to justice. I met Shakeel, who is Nilofer’s husband and Asiya’s brother. We sat in a circle of people crazed with grief and anger who had lost hope that they would ever get ‘insaf’— justice — from India, and now believed that Azadi — freedom — was their only hope. I met young stone pelters who had been shot through their eyes. I travelled with a young man who told me how three of his friends, teenagers in Anantnag district, had been taken into custody and had their finger-nails pulled out as punishment for throwing stones. “In the papers some have accused me of giving ‘hate-speeches’, of wanting India to break up. On the contrary, what I say comes from love and pride. It comes from not wanting people to be killed, raped, imprisoned or have their finger-nails pulled out in order to force them to say they are Indians. It comes from wanting to live in a society that is striving to be a just one. Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.
Arundhati Roy
October 26 2010”
Source: Dawn
Cigarettes might be infectious
The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds.
“Nearly every paper that you pick up discussing the health effects of cigarettes starts out with something to the effect that smokers and people exposed to secondhand smoke experience high rates of respiratory infections,” notes Amy Sapkota of the University of Maryland, College Park. The presumption has been that smoking renders people vulnerable to disease by impairing lung function or immunity. And it may well do both.
“But nobody talks about cigarettes as a source of those infections,” she says. Her new data now suggest that’s distinctly possible.
If these germs are alive, something she has not yet confirmed, just handling cigarettes or putting an unlit one to the mouth could be enough to cause an infection. Read more
http://www.sciencenews.org
Dr Aijaz Soomro
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