The deadly roads of Chenab Valley
Inter-district routes have consumed several lives while authorities remain unmoved
By: SHAFQAT SHAHEEN SHEIKH Since several decades now, series of road accidents have claimed hundreds of innocent lives in Chenab valley and its adjoining areas, the recent accident at Gandoh Bhalessa road in which half a dozen passengers were killed and several others injured, is one in the series of accidents that took place in […]
Words of beauty from India’s beauty icon Shahnaz Husain…
Ancient Beauty Secrets That Still Work Today
People around the globe spend billions of dollar for countless beautifying products every year. The media is full of commercials and advertisements each day promoting costly beauty products which by-the-way, contain parabens, sulphates, dyes, preservatives, fragrances, stabilizers etc that are easily absorbed in the skin pores and make their way into the bloodstream. These chemical […]
The Islamic concept of ‘Human Nature’
Islam guides and seeks everyone to be good for everyone is born with great righteousness.
By: Tousif Raza Islam and Christianity are the two religious with massive following across the globe and project two different conceptions regarding human nature. The attitude of Christianity towards the creation of man is essentially negative, while the Islamic view considers it to be positive. Christianity believes that man is the product of sin: genetically […]
On the Dilemmas and Ethics of Writing
BY: Peer Faizan Bashir Everybody wants to be a writer these days and it’s like ‘chasing one’s tail’. But how good it would be seeing writers everywhere! But amongst the writers or aspiring writers, a substantial number of people write out of egocentricity, while some write only for fame so as to show ‘greatness of […]
We need better standard of education here!
By: KUCHAY YOUSUF In this modern era when human race is on the peak of development and besides the Moon, Mars has been brought surveyed using the latest technology. New hopes and discoveries are emerging each day and the Robotic technology is on its way to replace human interventions in many fields. Artificial Intelligence is […]
In Kashmir- we need Educational Reforms and Change in mindsets
By: Tahir Mushtaq When the world is becoming more and more advanced and making new discoveries and inventions in every walk of life, we seem to have gotten stuck in an obsolete system of education. The countries in the west have developed a new paradigm in educational sector in which new methodological and evaluation approaches […]
The Lost Wonder of my life!!
By: Meer Abass “When I visit the grave where you lie in eternal peace, I know that death and heaven brought you release; I try to envision your joy on that shore across the sea, And, until I join you, that’ll have to be enough for me”. Three years ago, I wrote about my best […]
‘Water, Polity and Kashmir’
By: Sofi Sana Ullah ‘Water, Polity and Kashmir’ authored by Rao Farman Ali has described, in detail, the future risks of availability of water especially with reference to Indus Water Treaty (IWT) signed between India and Pakistan in 1960. The author argues that the treaty has added to the economic woes of upstream Jammu and […]
Gurez- The Forlorn Paradise on Earth
Journeys across the beautiful Hamlets amidst lofty mountains
By: Dr Zulfikar Siddiqui Gurez, a forlorn valley having astounding beauty, lies towards north of Bandi-Pora, the town which remained famous in ancient times for being the main stoppage for the Trading Carvans coming from the northern areas, Central Asia and China on their way to Kashmir Valley and Hindustan. Gurez is 85 kilometres away […]
The unabated plundering of natural resources!
By: Mohammad Ashraf We are bestowed with many resources for which we should be highly to the creator as without these resources the life on this planet would have been very pathetic. We do make use of these resources in gratis as we are not being charged for their utility. Since the existence of life […]
