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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Shajra Taxonomy of Sufi Tassauf Terminology

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  شجرہ معرفت الہی و حقیقت روح و صراحت عالمہائے ظاہری و باطنی و طریقہائے تصوف متعلق نور ایمان
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Ausaf Husain and His Sincere Frankness

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Syed Ausaf Hussain Marhoom: On 18th January, 2012, Ausaf Bhai left for his heavenly abode. A wrangler in the true sense and a man of high pr...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Depressive Thoughts and Poetry- How Poetry Mellows and Enriches Social Interactions

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What is the relationship between depressive thoughts and poetic expression? How poetry enables us to face hardships in our lives.  What a mo...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Elegy on the Killing of PM Liaquat Ali Khan by Shah Abdul Shakoor Faridi

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مرثیہ ترجیح بند در شہادت لیاقت علیخان بر بند سعدی علیہ الرحمہ از شاہ عبد الشکور فریدی، مانک پور یہ مرثیہ ایک ١٩٥١ کےخط میں ملا جو کہ شاہ عبد...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Inter-Disciplinary and Multi-Disciplinary PhD Research

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As I look back I am trying to connect the dots that I have been trying to follow the footsteps of Prof Dr JC Browne at UT Austin, TX, in mul...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

Irfan Husain, Mazdak, Begum & Akhtar Husain Raipuri and Zafar Umar

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I have been reading Mazdak/ Irfan Husain's articles in Dawn for last 20+ years. Although I often disagreed with his opinions but yet use...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

My Wing Sung Pen

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Wing Sung Pen. Fountain pen.  Tons of hard work and cherished memories with this friend.  I got one in 1975, when I was in 8th class, this s...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Social History Archival Project of Family Documents and Letters: Heritage Detectives

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During the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, when work from home was imposed and most outdoor activities and social commitments were heavily curtai...
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Sunday, September 27, 2020

Library Search for Articles at UT Austin in 1989: How searching of articles has changed

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Think about researchers who reviewed hundreds of papers that they had to access manually! UT Austin,  Texas in 1987 had around 6 millions it...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Of Excellence in Ironing and Remembering the Learnings from Mukhtar A Siddiqui, My Khaloo

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Of Excellence in Ironing and Remembering Mukhtar Siddiqui Mukhtar Khaloo once came to Islamabad and was traveling to Mardan. This was the m...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Which is the "competent authority" for investigating a crime such as abduction in Pakistan

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“Which is the "competent authority" for investigating a crime such as abduction in Pakistan?  “Competent Authorities” for Investi...
Monday, July 27, 2020

70 years of Failure of Dominant Narratives

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اگر آپ ملک کی ترقی چاہتے ہیں تو اس 70 سالہ ناکام بیانیہ کی اندھا دھند تقلید چھوڑ دیں، جس کے چند بڑے نکات یہ ہیں: 1. پاکستان کی زبوں حالی کی...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Competent Authorities of Pakistan and the Source of their Incompetence

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What is "Competent Authority" and how their incompetence breeds mafias: "Competent Authority" is the code word used by b...

Complex web of Investigative Agencies investigating the other Investigative Agencies

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بادشاہ کا گھوڑا اور انوسٹیگیشن کی نگرانی کے نگران: بادشاہ سلامت نے شاہی اصطبل کے لیے مہنگا ترین گھوڑا خریدا۔ کچھ دن بعد بادشاہ نے وزیر کے ہم...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Oil Price Hike Mafias in Pakistan

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Incompetence of the competent authority: Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority, OGRA The relationship between OGRA and Ministry of Energy, Petrol...

Hoarding and Price Manipulation Mafias

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Incompetence of the "competent authorities" responsible for lack of price control under several ministries. Beware of media brigad...

Constitutional Corruption vs Financial Corruption

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Corruption is breaking of law to gain some financial benefits. Law is under the constitution, so constitution is at a higher pedestal than l...

Why there are Crime Mafias in Pakistan- Multiple Investigation Agencies with Overlapping Functions

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کرپشن اور کرائم انوسٹیگیشن: بڑھتا گیا درد جوں جوں دوا کی How many investigation agencies are there in Pakistan? Which other investigation ag...

How Mafias Come into Existence in Pakistan: There is no single authority to be held accountable

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Mafias are created when different government agencies start playing ping-pong with their responsibility. They are all the time fighting turf...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Aviation Fiasco: Incompetence of CAA, PIA and Aviation Ministry

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CAA has recently certified that all the licenses issued by CAA are genuine and are not fake. Please note the count of fake licenses was 262 ...