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Comics are back

In order to increase our language skills, my mother used to order me and my sister to read English newspaper on Sundays. She probably never forced us to read it rest of the week days because our lunches were packed in the same newspaper rest of the week. There was high probability that we will read; even a single line; while unwrapping them or eating them. Mum will always be Mum, Cutely Clever! Mostly the packing of our lunches were done with the paper having short stories, crosswords, chess move and COMICS.  Cutely Clever Na! Mum will always be Mum ! Google Images Recently I visited to a Pizza Restaurant and found the crossword and fill color kind of Pamphlet. My friend started and solving it while waiting for the order to be served. It reminds me of my childhood. When I used to do the same, like solving cross, thinking chess move (which I never able to solve in my entire school life) while eating my school lunch.  A pathetic joke cracked by a friend of mine chan...

2 Cs of Pakistan: Cricket and Crime

It is being said 2 Cs are always out and loud in Pakistan Cricket and Crime. But we have seen a disastrous fusion of these 2Cs in the spot-fixing scandal.  Every cricketing country will have thrown up crimes of greater financial magnitude than this in the last 12 months, and Pakistan is particularly culpable. If a politician had done this, it wouldn't even have made it to the news but Sports make people win and lose, they laugh and they cry, but they strive at all times.  That is why what Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif have done evokes sadness and disillusionment in far greater measure than the financial implications of their act. But sportsmen come from the same society as everyone else. Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals. As an actor is good at delivering lines, a painter at creating art out of an empty canvas, so too are sportsmen at playing sport. We must ex...

Creative Resume: Google never lies..

Test Driving Career

From MNC’s to NGO’s, writing to film making, banks to hospitals, it is common enough fact, especially in third world countries; that a student who has had industry exposure is more likely to be successful in job market then one who has not. This very fact propels students towards internship opportunities and career counseling seminars or job fairs arranged by prospective employers. As we don’t posses skill development institutes that the standard of those gigantic industry. From the companies viewpoint, offering these services and opportunities to students ensure that prospective employees are somewhat aware of the corporate environment and have basic technical expertise. Due to the gap between academic qualification and professional work field in country like Pakistan internships act like a bridge to provide fresh talent to industry. Hence it’s always a good idea for students to work in real industry to have a test drive before participating in race. I offer the following ...