March 2011

Current Pakistan National Affairs Remittances reach $5.2 b in 6 months: Six months of the current fiscal ended on a good note as the overseas Pakistanis sent 17 per cent higher remittances compared to the same period of last fiscal year. The State Bank on January 11 reported that the overseas Pakistanis sent $5.291 billion during July-December, 2010 showing an …

When did you start COTHM? I came back from the UK and started this college in 2002. In the beginning, the strength of the students was very low but now we have the strength of more than 500 students. At that time we had just one programme and now we have 20 programme. In the future we are planning a …

Outline Introduction What is global warming? Green house effect Evidences of global warming/climate change a)    Temperature, b)    Precipitation, c)    Rise in sea level. Causes of global warming-emissions Sources of emissions Who are responsible for green house emissions?  Possible  impacts of global warming: a)    Most affected would be marginalised communities, b)    Coastal areas, c)    Frequent and strong storms and floods, d)   …

We should learn the words not as dead specimens in a dictionary, but as living units of thoughts and feeling in a book. This is undoubtedly the best method. The question of vocabulary has tremendous importance for the students. If their stock of English words is not rich, they will be faced with insuperable difficulties at every step when they …

Kindly tell us about your educational background. I did MA in English Literature and Political Science. I worked as a lecturer for 14 months at Murray College, Sialkot, before joining the Civil Services Academy. What are the pre-requisites for the CSS examination? A second division at graduation level and determination are the foremost pre-requisites for the CSS. First of all, …

Please tell us about your educational background. I belong to district Hyderabad (Sindh) and have done MSc in ‘Criminology’ as well as MBA in Human Resource Management (HRM) from University of Sindh, Jamshoro. It was after doing MBA when I decided to appear in the CSS examination. What type of ability, talent and knowledge should a candidate for CSS examination …

As engineer he received President of Pakistan’s Gold Medal in Engineering in 1977 and has written 50 technical articles printed in national and international journals. Dr. Amjad Parvez wears three caps at a time. He is engineer by profession, a musician and writer by passion. He inherited all these qualities from his family. His father Sheikh Abdul Karim, was head …

Ghamidi’s discourse is primarily with the traditionalists on the one end and Jamaat-e-Islami and its seceding groups on the other. Ghamidi worked closely with Abul Ala Maududi for about nine years before voicing his first differences of opinion, which led to his subsequent expulsion from Maududi’s political party Javed Ahmad Ghamidi was born in 1951 in a village of Sahiwal, …

Islam is a comprehensive, rational and practical religion providing guidance to its followers in all spheres of human life. Islam is the second biggest religion of the world having followers in every nook and corner of the globe. It is a comprehensive, rational and practical religion providing guidance to its followers in all spheres of human life. Basically, the word …

Every senior manager makes a critical decision every day of his or her working life. Mostly, the decision is unconscious, but is no less vital for The issue is simply stated with three questions: What work do I reserve for myself? What work do I delegate to other people? How do I control their performance? Two friends provide a most …