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In Beijing, East is now West

An early voyeur was Lord Montgomery of Alamein who toured China in 1960. He recalled being taken into the canteen of a people’s commune where the staple diet was balls of rice with a little vegetable filling. Men received two, women one and a half, and children one ball each. “Don’t you want anything more?” Montgomery asked one of the workers.

“Of course,” he replied. “But we eat like this so that our future generations can eat better.”


Full article on: Dawn

World's tallest man saves dolphin

The world's tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards.

Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishun was called in after the dolphins swallowed plastic used around their pool at an aquarium in Fushun, north-east China.

Attempts to use instruments failed as the dolphins contracted their stomachs.

Guinness World Records list Mr Bao, 54, as the world's tallest living man at 2.36m (7ft 8.95in).

Source: BBC

Quite intelligent of Mr. Bush!

With bad news everywhere, you (G.W. Bush) actually said the following about the commission's findings:

"Some reports are issued and just gather dust. And truth of the matter is, a lot of reports in Washington are never read by anybody. To show you how important this one is, I read it."

Wow. Maybe that didn't come out exactly the way you meant it to.

Read full article

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Rolls royce, now in Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif jailed for five years in UK

Well actually, not the former prime minister of Pakistan! ;)

An immigrant taxi driver built a seven bedroom mansion in Pakistan after making millions of pounds in benefit fraud, credit card scams and fake passports.

Nawaz Sharif - unemployed for the past 11 years - amassed a £2 million fortune through property, selling luxury cars and various criminal activities.

Source: thisislondon.co.uk

V for Vendetta

I dont know why I feel this movie was meant for Pakistan, rather than UK. :)

Culture vs Islam

Ummah Films

One of the people Pakistan should learn from!

Q: What are your thoughts on the Pakistani Education System?

A: There is more emphasis on memory in our system of education, say, for instance, it is considered to be really valuable to memorize the whole of the Quran. This rote memorization habit has trickled into our regular education system as well stifling all thought. I mean, it is all right to memorize Quran and Hadith, it is good, but now we have things like the printing presses [that weren’t there in the ancient times.] Understanding is now more important. So, we should try to emphasize understanding instead of rote memorizing. We need to change the methodology of education. Not necessarily create a rift between reason and religion but encourage critical thought.

Q: You suggest a change in education methodology that would lead to critical thinking but historically this happened only in the West and that too after questioning religious authority. What approach should Pakistani Education take in encouraging critical thinking?

A: I wouldn’t use the word “questioning”, but you know, this change of mindset, it usually starts from the top. This means that we need a critical mass of scholars who should address the most pressing issues of our nation. They should try to change the mindset of those in power. Ideas flow from top-to-bottom and the so-called ‘Social Engineering’ starts from bottom-to-top. Bottom-to-top is revolution. I encourage evolution, slow change, from top-to-bottom. We need not be afraid, we need to create ideas and positive paradigms through which our society could understand the West and adapt. Secondly, we should enter into a dialogue between Western Civilization and our civilization, not between religions. Dialogue is only possible when you admit the possibility of error in your own decisions. When one thinks oneself infallible, dialogue cannot happen. You have to start with an open mind. Understanding of other cultures and civilizations is very important if we want to change our mindset and educational traditions.

http://uitec.pbwiki.com/Interview

About Dr. Manzoor Ahmed

After the completion of this tomb in Tehran, they came to know that there was no practical way of removing the crane from the middle.

Sacha Baron Cohen

I was wondering who exactly is the guy behind remarkable characters of Ali G and Borat. 'Sacha Baron Cohen' a guy with exceptional capabilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen

Hair banned from officiating in internationals

Darrell Hair, the Australian umpire who accused Pakistan of ball tampering during the Oval Test in August against England this summer, has been banned from umpiring in internationals. The announcement was made by Percy Sonn, the ICC president, at a press conference in Mumbai at the end of a two-day ICC meeting.

Source: Cricinfo



Told you! Hair's days are so over. ;)

دانشور یا تجزیہ کار خواہ کچھ بھی کہیں لگتا ہے کہ پاکستانی عوام وہ تمام باتیں جانتے ہیں جو جنرل شوکت سلطان جیسے محب وطن پاکستانی نہیں چاہتے کہ وہ جانیں۔

مثلاً باجوڑ کی کارروائی کی پاکستانیت یا امریکیت پر جو بحث چھڑی ہے میں نے اس پر ایک ٹیکسی ڈرائیور کی رائے پوچھی تو بولا سیدھی سی بات ہے کہ جب آپ نے کسی کو باپ مان لیا تو یہ بھی ماننا پڑے گا کہ آپ کی ماں پر پہلا حق بھی اسی کا ہے۔ مجھے بات آگے بڑھانے کی جرات نہ ہوئی۔

Source: BBCUrdu

Google buys Youtube, Finally!

Google is buying video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares after a weekend of speculation that a deal was in the offing.

The two companies will continue to operate independently, Google said as it announced the news on Monday.

YouTube, launched in February 2005, has grown quickly into one of the most popular websites on the internet.

It has 100 million videos viewed every day and an estimated 72 million individual visitors each month.

Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6034577.stm

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Youtube gave a really tuff time to Google video, thus Google ended up buying it. Way to go youtube!