Pakistan role in the region important: Ambassador Olsen

New US ambassador to Pakistan, Richard Olsen

says Pakistan is playing important role in the region.

Ambassador Olsen s message to the people of Pakistan was posted by the US Embassy in Islamabad on the social media Wednesday. "I am honoured to be the new US ambassador to Pakistan. I am honoured to serve in Pakistan because I understand and respect the important role in the region and the world," he stated in the message.

Kerry, McCain differ on approach towards Pakistan

The Chairman of the US Senate s Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry was responding to Republication presidential candidate, Mitt Romney s remarks on Pakistan and other foreign policy issues in the third and last direct debate in Florida with President Obama (Democrat party s candidate for re-election).

Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said that Romney mentioned things about Pakistan without really having a solution. "You can t come into a presidential debate and just stand there and recite facts about a country. “Well, there are Taliban in Pakistan. Oh, they have nuclear weapons . That s not a policy. Everybody knows that," he opined.

Eid holidays from 26 to 29 October announced

 

Govt has decided to announce Eid-ul Azha holidays from 26 to 29 October, sources said on Thursday.

The ministry would send a summary to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf , who would take final decision in this regard.

Eid-ul Azha would be celebrated on October 27 Saturday as crescent was sighted on Wednesday.

Moreover, the government has decided to run two special trains from Karachi to Peshawar and Rawalpindi to Karachi to facilitate the people wanting to celebrate Eid with relatives in different pats of the country.

Afghan girl beheaded by in-laws for refusing prostitution

 

NajeebUllah in Afghan Police Custody

In a shocking incident, a 20-year old Afghan girl was beheaded when she refused to become a prostitute, a news agency reported.

According to a report by a news agency, four people who allegedly tried to force her into prostitution in western Afghanistan were arrested by the Afghan police. The heinous crime was committed by the girl s in-laws.

Attack on Malala is attack on all girls and civilisation itself

President Asif Ali Zardari said Tuesday that the shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yusufzai by the Taliban was an attack on all girls in the country and on civilisation itself.

"The Taliban attack on the 14-year-old girl, who from the age of 11 was involved in the struggle for education for girls, is an attack on all girls in Pakistan, an attack on education, and on all civilised people," Zardari said at an economic summit in the Azerbaijani capital Baku.

Malala was attacked on her school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of the Swat valley a week ago as a punishment for campaigning for the right to an education and free expression.

The 12th summit of Economic Co-operation Organisation

 The 12th summit of Economic Co-operation Organisation (ECO) is opening on Tuesday At Baku with leaders from ten member states participating, including Central Asian Republics, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey.

President Zardari is representing Pakistan at the ECO summit and will also address the gathering on Tuesday.

During the visit President Zardari would hold meetings with Azerbaijan''s leadership and representatives of other ECO member countries on the sidelines of the summit. Moreover, representatives from the ECO Secretariat, ECO subsidiary organs and a number of international organisations are also attending the meetings.

  What is Perception ?

Perception -- seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, feeling the positions of joints and the tension of muscles, balance, temperature, pain... -- begins with the stimulation of sensory neurons. Each sense involves highly evolved cells which are sensitive to a particular stimulus: Pain receptors respond to certain chemicals produced when tissues are damaged. Touch receptors involve cells with hairs which, when bent, cause signals to travel down the cell's axon. Balance, movement, and even hearing involve similar hair cells. Temperature sensitive neurons response to heat and cold. Taste and smell receptors respond to environmental molecules in the same way that other neurons respond to neurotransmitters. And the neurons of the retina respond to the presence of light or the specific frequency ranges of light we perceive as color.

But perception is more than just passive reception of information. Perception is an active process: Touch, for example, requires movement - something that nowadays we call "scanning." Touch includes information about you (e.g. your muscles, joints) as well as about what you are touching. We can say the same about hearing. We should really call it listening! The sound itself is intrinsically moving, of course - it is constantly changing. If it didn’t, we would stop hearing it!

And the same is true about vision. Vision involves constant movement - of our eyes, head, and body, or of the things we see or all of the above. The outer parts of our retina are particularly sensitive to motion, so when something comes into our field of vision, our attention is drawn to it. Even the fact that we have two eyes (binocular vision) is a kind of movement: The two views are slightly different, as if we had moved a few inches to the left or right. If we kept our eyes and the scene we are looking at perfectly still, everything would all become white!

We should also keep in mind that perception is not something done with the eyes or the ears or any specific sense organ. It is a multi-sensory, full bodied thing: "A one-year-old child standing on the floor of a room will fall down if the walls are silently and suddenly moved forward a few inches, although nothing touches him."

5 days Training Workshop on Basics of Green Journalism & Environmental Issues in Pakistan

The Pakistan National Council of Environmental Journalists (NCEJ), together with an international NGO, invites applications from potential environmental journalists to attend a 5 days training workshop on “Basics of Green Journalism & Environmental Issues in Pakistan” in Karachi from November 5 to 9.

Print & electronic media professionals (journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers & cartoonists) are eligible to apply for the training workshop. Interested candidates may send their CVs along with 3 samples of their published or broadcasted stories and features on environmental topics latest by 20th of October 2012 to info@ncejpak.org

Online links, scanned copies of publications and tapes are acceptable. Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply

website developed in TOT

My Wesite developed in TOT  for future exercise and work. It can be visit at
http://internews.org.pk/digitaltot/zeeshan

Try Brown this Winter

 

 

The one  questions we are frequently asked everyday usually centre around one object of clothing: brown shoes in University. This is because men’s certainty about the alternative (black shoes) creates a spectrum of worries as to how, when and where they should be worn.

It’s really not that difficult.

 

 

 

MEDIA CIRCUS & PAKISTAN

BY AUTHOR

"Television is not the Truth. Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business." Paddy Chayevsky probably would have said this to interpret the attitude of second-generation's Americans depiction and sentiment and humor through Television in America at his times, but it wouldn't be wrong, if we today generalize the functioning of our 24x7 TV channels on such ironical statement, particularly, When an average Pakistani starts his day by listening morning news and wraps it up by watching the late night's prime time opinions, all just to keep himself informed of truth and reality.

Imran Khan's March Brings Global Attention to CIA Drone Strikes - Topix

Imran Khan's March Brings Global Attention to CIA Drone Strikes - Topix

Honesty wins over Power

                   LOIN OF GOMAL PRAISED FOR HIS VIRTUOUS STAND AGAINST   FAKE DEGREES  

 A unique in nature- employees celebrating reinstating of Gomal University’s Vice Chancellor after Islamabad High Courts Orders

BRIEF HISTORY

Dera Ismail Khan was founded toward the end of the fifteenth century by Sardar Ismail Khan Baloch, a son of Sardar Malik Sohrab Khan Dodai Baloch, who named the town after himself. The original town was swept away by a flood in 1823, and the existing buildings are all of relatively modern construction. The present town stands four miles (6 km) back from the permanent channel of the river.

However, later research does not support this theory. Firstly, Malik Sohrab was not an Arab adventurer but a Hooth Baloch who was appointed Soobadar of this area by the Langha rulers of Multan. Similarly the city could not have been founded towards the end of fifteenth century; because when Babar came here in 1506 he passed through this plain which is now called Dama'an and referred to it as Dasht and went up to Tank but did not mention any city around here in his Tuzk (Memoirs, originally published in Turkish). Later we are told that when in 1540 Sher Shah came to Khushab, Ismail Khan of Dera Ismail Khan went to Khushab to meet him there. So the city must have been founded in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. After the flood destruction of 1823, the present city was founded by Sardar Ellahi Bakhsh Siyyal in 1825 but he prefer not to change the name.

During British rule the town contained two bazaars, the Hindu and Muslim population living in separate quarters. The town stands on a level plain, with a slight fall to the river, but is badly drained. It is surrounded by a thin mud wall, with nine gates, enclosing an area of about 500 acres (2.0 km²).

The cantonment, which lies southeast of the town, has an area of 44 square miles (110 km²), excluding the portion known as Fort Akalgarh on the northwest side. The civil lines are to the south. The Derajat Brigade had its winter headquarters at Dera Ismail Khan, and the garrison consisted of a mountain battery, a regiment of Native cavalry, and three regiments of Native infantry. Detachments from these regiments helped to garrison the outposts of Drazinda, Jandola, and Jatta. The municipality was constituted in 1867. The income during the ten years ending 1902–3 averaged Rs. 55,000, and the expenditure Rs. 53,000. The income and expenditure in 1903-4 were Rs. 55,500 and Rs. 55,800 respectively. The chief source of income was octroi (Rs. 48,000); the chief items of expenditure were conservancy (Rs. 8,785), education (Rs. 7,246), hospitals and dispensaries (Rs. 6,302), public safety (Rs. 7,733), public works (Rs. 2,143), and administration (Rs. 5,546). The receipts and expenditure of cantonment funds during the ten years ending 1902–3 averaged RS. 2,700 and Rs. 2,800 respectively.

The local trade of Dera Ismail Khan was of second-rate importance, but some foreign traffic with Khorasan passed through it. Powinda caravans of Afghan merchants traversed the town twice a year on their road to and from India; and, with the increasing security of the Gomal route, these caravans were yearly swelling in numbers. The chief imports were English and native piece-goods, hides, salt, and fancy wares; and the exports, grain, wood, and ghee. The local manufactures are lungis and lacquered woodwork. The town possesses a civil hospital; its chief educational institutions are two aided Anglo-vernacular high schools, one maintained by the Church Missionary Society and the other by the Bharatri Sabha, and an Anglo-vernacular middle school maintained by the municipality.

Saraiki is the main language spoken in D.I.Khan followed by Pashto. D.I Khan has a mixed population of Pashto and Saraiki speakers. The vast majority of people are conversant in Urdu. English is understood by the educated.

What the word Dera means?

The word "Dera" is derived from the Saraiki word ḍerā which means "encapment".This word is commonly used for residential towns in the Indus valley such as Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Bugti, Dera Murad Jamali, Dera Allah Yar, Dera Ismail Khan, etc. Dera Ismail Khan thus means the residential town of Sardar Ismail Khan Baloch. People of Dera Ismail Khan as well as Dera Ghazi Khan are also known as