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The Most Towering Writer of Latin America On 17 April 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, Latin America’s most popular novelist, passed away. He was not prolific’ he wrote just six full-length novels’ but in terms of world renown and sales Mr García Márquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ (1967) has eclipsed almost any other text translated from Spanish in the past …

An Iconic Wit, Writer, Raconteur and Urdu Buff It is difficult to evaluate the legacy of Khushwant Singh an icon of our times. The Subcontinent suffered a great loss on 20th March, 2014 when Khushwant Singh, the iconic writer passed away, drawing curtains on a journey which was a symbol of courage and boldness. A fistful of his ashes were …

JWT provides detailed discourse on all issues, and enables one to write what an examiner may expect to see. Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): Kindly tell us about your educational background and achievements in detail? I am a graduate in Business Administration (BBA (H)), with majors in Marketing, from College of Business Management, Karachi. I have been a brilliant student throughout …

‘And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth, they said: Wilt thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee? He said: Surely I know that which ye know not.’ (Al-Baqarah:30) Human beings have a great …

A new reform drive in the educational sector of Pakistan has been embarked on recently. Media reports suggest that international donors have pledged one billion dollars for development in the educational sector of our country. But there is a serious problem. The problem is not that there was no need for reforms, but these donor countries who are showing concerns …

From the recent key events like Arab Spring, the Spanish Indignados Movement, and London Riots, political and social mobilization came to the fore a handiwork of new communication technologies. The question is: ‘Did new communication technologies play a decisive, causal role or just acted as an instrument in facilitating the process. In the following lines, the role of social media …

News From National & International Press National Feb 16: A militant outfit, Mohmand Agency Taliban, claimed to have killed 23 FC soldiers they had kidnapped from Shongari checkpost in the tribal region in 2010. Feb 16: Clean Water Trust, for providing clean and hygienic drinking water to people across the Punjab, was formed with Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar as …

(Solved by Prof. Muzaffar Bokhari) Q No. 2: PRECIS Education and Morality The only protection for today’s man is to find the use of his intelligence in the service of love. Intelligence can become a means of morality and survival if its training includes human sympathy. Educators can add morality to intelligence. The task of teaching morality was entrusted to …

‘Observe your duty to Allah in respect to the women, and treat them well.’ (al-Hadith) Islam has bestowed on women the numerous social and economic securities. Since its emergence, Islam always had advocated and protected the rights of women. Islamic teachings, obliterating the false customs regarding women, have granted them unprecedented prestige and honour. The inhumane practices like female infanticide …

For a generation, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, American news organizations reported on the world largely through the prism of the Cold War. Particularly on TV networks the East-West Conflict was a useful framing device especially on news shows.  But, after the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989, media enterprises turned their attention towards domestic matters. Thus, media …