Overseas Pakistani Friends

Dr Zafar Altaf
Economists might feel a bit slighted if I say that economic development is not about economics alone and economists must learn to understand the elements that are there in economic development. That understanding will take a long time. In the developing world the economists are generally brained in the western theories and they [...]

MANY years ago a judge of the Lahore High Court remarked that a nation got the leaders it deserved. More recently Barbara Kellerman, author of a book on bad leaders, has noted that there is no bad leadership without bad ‘followership’. I do not accept these interpretations.

The story goes that a cap seller in Bengal while passing through a forest took an afternoon siesta. When he woke up he found that the monkeys had removed all the caps he was carrying and were up in the trees wearing them and shrieking their heads off with delight.

Call it what you will — gasping, gurgling, moaning — but noisy breathing increases the chances for survival when someone is suffering sudden cardiac arrest, a new study shows.
The recipe for action calls for swiftness; Call emergency medical help and start compressing the chest, 100 times a minute.

The cholesterol test is a quantitative analysis of the cholesterol levels in a sample of the patient’s blood. Total serum cholesterol (TC) is the measurement routinely taken. Doctors sometimes order a complete lipoprotein profile to better evaluate the risk for atherosclerosis (coronary artery disease, or CAD).

By Aamir Ghauri
LONDON: Telling the truth has never been the forte of Pakistani leaders, ruling or retired, political or marshal. And those who are ruled remain fully aware of the maladies their rulers suffer from. Hardly the ruled hold malice towards their rulers for being so fickle but hope flickers nonetheless in their broken hearts [...]

If our political leadership shows some courage, it is possible for us to negotiate with the incoming US a combined strategy to deal with this scourge of terrorism on equal terms

ISLAMABAD: European Union (EU) on Thursday announced two scholarship programmes for Pakistani students for MA in European universities.

The United Kingdom (UK) government has started implementing various important changes to the UK immigration system on Thursday, which would directly affect applications from Pakistan.

There is talk of all kinds of regulatory set of rules for the Press, the bureaucracy, the legal community et al. Let there be one for politicians as well. One such rule for them should be that children, regardless of their parentage, ought never to be targeted until they have come of age and stepped [...]