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We were mindlessly and blindly made to follow the chimera of science and technology. Unfortuately Pakistan was steered away from the essen...

How HEC and PEC kill creativity! They kill creativity by targeting the roots from where creativity and innovation originate. Creativity, in...

University Rankings in Pakistan Dr. Syed Irfan Hyder, January 5, 2004 https://www.dawn.com/news/1065476   This is with reference ...

[Written in December 11, 2003] This was written on the basis of HEC Survey that was circulated by HEC in 2003. Many of these areas are st...

This was written in June 2003 when HEC with a fanfare started the program and spent billions of rupees. Why HEC’s Foreign Faculty Hiring ...

Paper Writing and Research Strategies  [Copied from the net in 2012. Source unknown] Introduction Here is a brief reminder of how t...

Do you know that Allama Iqbal's PhD thesis would never have passed HEC's quality criteria of minimum duration of three years for a ...

Faulty assumptions of BISP research led to faulty conclusions: We must need to question the faulty research assumptions of BISP Benazir Supp...

 [To understand the context of this post, please read  At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions ]

[To understand the context of this post, please read  At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions ]

A Jog down the memory lane Yesterday I took a stroll down the fields on the farm in Tumair. Moving from the small cozy cottage on the eas...

I learned book binding جلد بندی from my relative Ehtisham Haider Chacha (منّو چچا) . I went with him to Raja Bazar, Rawalpindi  in 1975-76...

45 places you can download tens of thousands books, plays and other literary texts completely legally for free BY  PROFESSORWU Jan...

[To understand the context of this post, please read  At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions ] Doctrine of...

This must be around 1965-66. I am around 4-5 playing in my next door neighbor's house with my friend Umair, and somehow I had managed t...

Stephen Covey's first habit advice to anti-corruption proponents: First habit of highly successful people states that focusing on circ...

Had corruption been the cause of our problems, then IK's "clean" govt's anti-corruption drive should have been showing b...

Did you order pizza (or an expensive meal) and asked your doorman (ملازم،چوکیدار) to pay the bill which ran into thousands (typically Rs 3...

During a strategic management meeting on last Sunday (29th September, 2019), a leading industrial group chairman gave the following advice ...

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 wa...