Anita Khalid
Joined on: Nov 30, -0001
Published stories: 53
Articles By Anita Khalid
It is a very normal practice in many or let’s say almost all the workplaces that work ethics are crushed when and where possible. There has to be a difference between a person who is selling fruit on the road and someone who is sitting in an air conditioned corporate suite with at least a […]
At least twenty-three people were killed and more than 20 sustained injuries as a result of collision between a passenger van and bus on National Highway near Thatta, on Sunday. The speeding passenger van, which was travelling towards Karachi from Badin, collided with a bus heading for Shah Aqiq from Karachi. The dreadful accident left […]
Nov 14 2011 | Posted in
National |
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Even though Sidney Sheldon was an active member of many TV shows like the Patty Duke Show, I Dream Of Jeannie and Hart to Hart but real success and fame came his way after spending a good fifty years of his life. It was when he began writing, not only writing rather writing bestselling novels […]
Being the Pakistani nation one thing that each one of us has in common is to compromise, accept and adjust be it the rent of the house, hiking prices of commodities, expensive fuel, expensive education and the list is endless. However, for many of us something on which compromise almost always is impossible is when […]
It was on 26th October that the elderly Railway pensioner, Mahmood Khan was so miserable and in dire need of his pension of Rs. 4000 that he stood in queue throughout the night in order to be the first one to receive his pension early in the morning. He waited throughout the night outside National […]
Nov 2 2011 | Posted in
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Society |
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The venom of brain drain has existed in our country longer than the tenure of any government till yet. There are certain justifications to it but anyone at all with a little sense would know that the long term impact is adverse and we have even fallen victim of it now. For the majority of […]
Is it the ‘change in action’ or charging the blame game in lieu of rallies? Rallies throughout the history are considered to have served noble causes and to bring around ground breaking revolution. These rallies were taken very seriously and lasted until their purpose did not get served, quite a few times did not matter […]
A few decades back the predominant education was the standard Matriculation and the degree HSSC with not even a handful aware of the British Cambridge and Oxford patterned education. However, lately there has been such a rapid trend of adopting the latter approach that almost all the private and public schools now have focused their […]
Oct 29 2011 | Posted in
Editorial,
Opinion |
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It would not take very long to see the higher education getting out of the realm of the middle class soon too. It is now that poor cannot manage it and it will be only the rich who will be enjoying it in near future with them then dominating the left over job chance thus, […]
Oct 28 2011 | Posted in
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Opinion |
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A ‘husband’ chops off the nose and lips and a father chains the daughter to the roof top Time and again we get to hear news about men manipulating women. Blaming only husbands for such mishaps is no longer justified as now even blood relations like father and uncles are up to it. It was […]
Oct 27 2011 | Posted in
Editorial,
Opinion |
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We try adopting all that we can from our neighbor, India, from fashion to food to songs to almost everything else that we can copy. We get inspired by their politicians and actors but have we ever tried following something that is substantial and constructive for our own country and people. We all very religiously […]
Oct 25 2011 | Posted in
Opinion,
Pakistan |
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There were days when after darkness in Islamabad, the city life use to fade away. There use to be hardly any markets open or any roads buzzing with traffic. A person could easily hear the humming of an engine inside the house if the vehicle went by on the adjacent road and then all would […]
Oct 23 2011 | Posted in
Opinion,
Society |
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