Crucial aspects about economic development

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Nov 302008
 

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 lack the depth of local knowledge. Conceited, as they are and with degrees from elsewhere they romp around as if they are the cat’s whiskers, hopping around the world with another country’s agenda that is not in consonance with one’s own. Continue reading »

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Good and bad leaders-By Anwar Syed

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Nov 302008
 

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.
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Monkey see, monkey like-By Masood Hasan

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Nov 302008
 

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. Continue reading »

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Gasping good when it comes to cardiac arrest

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Nov 302008
 

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. Continue reading »

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What is cholesterol test?

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Nov 302008
 

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). Continue reading »

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No lecture, no talks but Musharraf parties on

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Nov 302008
 

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 that a day would dawn when their governors would feel proud in sharing the tales of their nocturnal shenanigans with Pakistan’s lesser beings. After all they rule in their name.
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Dealing with the drones —Shaukat Qadir

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Nov 302008
 

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
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EU announces two scholarship programmes for Pakistani students

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Nov 302008
 

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

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Nov 302008
 

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.
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Moonraker and muckrakers —Mahmud Sipra

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Nov 302008
 

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 into the realm of public domain of their own volition
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LAHORE: Special Cell for overseas Pakistanis

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Nov 302008
 

PUNJAB Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said a special cell had been established for the solution of the problems of overseas Pakistanis.

He was talking to Qari Shakeel Ahmed, President Pakistan Muslim League (N), Saudi Arabia, at Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Wednesday.
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How important is the IMF assistance for Pakistan?

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Nov 302008
 

IMF has committed $7.6 bn assistance to be disbursed over 23 months. The country immediately needs more than this amount to replete its forex reserves to ensure stability in the rupee exchange rate
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ISLAMABAD: Plan to put HEC under Education Ministry

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Nov 222008
 

Online

A summary to place the Higher Education Commission (HEC) under the control of the Ministry of Education has been prepared and it would be forwarded to the prime minister during the current month. Continue reading »

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What would Benazir do? —Rafia Zakaria

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Nov 222008
 

Three hundred and thirty one days have passed since the death of Benazir Bhutto at the hands of a suicide bomber, and if anyone wondered how long it would take her heirs to forget her legacy, the answer is before us
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A dysfunctional state —Rasul Bakhsh Rais

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Nov 182008
 

Rule of law; accountability of those holding public office; and an independent judiciary will provide a framework within which the state will be functional and efficient, with the capacity to deliver and transform our society for the better
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