March’s birthstones are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones mean courage. Its birth flower is the Daffodil. According to the Georgian calendar, March is the third month of the year. According to the early Roman calendar, it was the first month and was called Martius. The ancient Romans later made January 1 the beginning of the year, and March became the …

Mela Chiraghan is Lahore-specific. It takes place at the shrine of Shah Hussain in Baghbanpura, on the outskirts of Lahore, adjacent to the Shalimar Gardens. The festival used to take place in the Shalimar Gardens also, until President Ayub Khan ordered against it in 1958. It is celebrated in Lahore in the last week of March. It is a three-day …

Introduction: Arab Muslim sociologist A historian’ wrote the history of Berber tribes. Author of Muqaddima Laid the foundation of new science Ilm-ul-Imran (Sociology) Ibn Khaldoon, full name Abu Zayd Abdur Rahman bin Muhammad bin Khaldoon, May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH – March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was an Arab Tunisian historiographer and historian who is often viewed as one of …

The article is supposed to deal with the causes that lead to failure, complexes/ prejudices, guidance/ misguidance, self-actualization/ lack of self actualization, constructive and destructive forces with reference to the CSS aspirants, and to put forth strategies and solutions to overcome them. During our struggle, we come across certain emotional, psychological, physical and financial barriers which try to mar our …

The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, during his recent visit to Pakistan, hosted a reception to the leading journalists of the Country in Islamabad. Here is an analytical account of that gathering on a breakfast held in the morning of the 17th February, 2012. The visit of President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, to Pakistan from 16 to 18 February, was …

Siachen, the world’s second largest glacier, has been the world’s highest battle ground since 13 April, 1984 when Indian Army proclaimed this region. Now the real problem, that is quiet alarming, is that the glacier has developed many cracks, which if not checked may lead to streams and glacial lakes causing the glacier to melt and disappear. A permanent solution …

Pakistan’s engagements with its neighbours, during the month of February, are not an end but reflect a good beginning towards a difficult, controversial (in case of India) and time-consuming task. Pakistan has to restore trust from within itself before it takes its neighbours into confidence on respecting mutual coexistence. Noted author and journalist Ahmed Rashid advocated in February 2011 ‘exactly …

Our parliament describes itself as representative of 160 million people and its decisions as expression of popular will. But in reality, the despotic powers of a single dictator or Pharaoh have been distributed among four hundred people. At times, I am surprised at the horrifying success of the global media. There are some people who spend the whole of their …

As long as the owners of ever increasing number of sugar and flour mills, and those who have kept their huge amounts of money in Swiss Banks, do not honestly pay all the tax due on them, there will be no improvement in the economy and mentality of this nation. Our common sense suggests that if there is an increase …

More human casualties are suffered in South Asia because of the prevailing structural violence in the region which constitutes the generally deplorable conditions in the region done to disease, malnutrition, illiteracy and unemployment, than the direct violence of war. The institutions of governance are directly responsible for this chaos. There is need for radical reforms. South Asia remains one of …