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Some Upcoming Scholarships

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Feb 7th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Here is the latest newsletter from PkStudents containing the updated news about funding and scholarship opportunities, which we hope are useful for you and your friends.
Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) prize studentships 2010, Scotland
SICSA offers up to 20 prize studentships per year to the very best students from anywhere in the world. Our [...]



Guide to Save Pakistan from Suicide Bombing

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

We will start winning this war the moment we will start chasing them in streets and markets like our army is doing in caves and mountains.
No terrorist group can carry out the attacks for years without the continuous supply of 3F’s; fighters, fighting material and finances. And neither does any country could fight back only [...]



Best minds blasted by stern faiths (fight within)

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I have seen best mind and dutiful strong bodies of my nation being blasted at the hand of stern misguided faiths, left the streets bleeding by the blood of mind, body and faith at the funeral of soul. Gone are the days when these qualities come in the single soul (the tone of whose harmony [...]



Pakistan is not alone

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Aug 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Dr. Moyo, in pleading the case of Africa, discussed evil impacts of aid on African governments in last 50 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enDmHgJC4eY&feature=PlayList&p=18B608484B45150C&index=4
If you happen to view this 8 minute video can you please tell me that if Pakistan is not facing the same problems with respect to foreign aid and loan as Africa does. if not whats [...]



Minar e Pakistan to Eifel Tower

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jul 31st, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Bonjour! Minar e Pakistan came in my mind when I was standing on the top of that romantic Eifel tower and looking down at the colorful crowd on the Champ de Mars beside the mystic River Seine in Paris. The mind blowing view of Paris was all around and I was thinking that whether this [...]



Fix the Direction

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jul 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Starting from point A (Mukhtaran Mai), walk toward 5 km north (Kalabagh) followed by 5 km east (Akber Bugti), then 5 km south (Sharia) and 5 km west (Cricket) at the end. Where will we stand? Yes at point A indeed. If we take these direction as our efforts for several issues which we [...]



Happy Wedding of 64 Millions Eastern Sheep…Applause!!!!

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jul 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Let’s talk about 80 of 170 Millions sheep who were the registered voters to elect their representatives in Election-08, out of which approx. 36 Millions (46%) bothered to voice their choice through vote. And taking the hint from literacy rate (50%) the half of these 18 Million were illiterate, leaving the 18 Million literate to [...]



Are we 170 Million sheep?

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jul 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

“All they want is food and shelter. They have stopped relying on their instinct to find them food and shelter. They look towards me all the time, where to go, when to eat and where to stay. These sheep trust me so much, so that if some hunter come from their back and hunt [...]



Anonymous heroes and heroines of our time

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jul 2nd, 2009 • Category: Misc

Mughal emperor Jahangir is known by all of us but only few know his wife Noor Jahan (light of the world). And very few know that how important she was in administrating the state affairs. GHR Tillotson wrote that Noor Jahan was able to control state affairs from behind the purdah screen. Well, history kept [...]



Killer Buzzwords

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jun 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Buzzwords stinks. Time to come to basics now. Hassan Nisar rightly pointed out in his interview with Dr. Shahid Masood that all they knew are 400 to 500 sentences and if we snatch these sentences out of their mouth these so called politicians couldn’t speak anymore. Why not to guess the governments through Buzzwords? Like to begin with