Nowadays, stressful situations are everywhere, so it is important to to get through the storm by being as kind to ourselves as possible. Having battled severe depression and anxiety for my entire adult life, there are a few ways that were taught to me, that truly do help even those of us with more severe […]
END of the World, Climate and Visionaries
Ever wondered why so many weather related disturbances are occuring round the world? Here in South Asia, we are faced with severe storms leading to floods and it was just last week that we had a sweltering heat wave!!! Today its sunny again…. In US there are bush fires and tornadoes and in Australia its […]
Pro-Taliban Mosque vigilantes kidnap 7 Chinese, 6 are women
Saeed Minhas ISLAMABAD: Pakistani officials have finally registered a criminal case against the administration of the Lal Mosque in Islamabad for kidnapping seven Chinese, six of whom are women and two male Pakistanis from a Chinese-owned massage centre in the heart of federal Capital on Friday night. Federal interior ministry is also planning to order […]
Gen. Musharraf mulls holding election by Sep 15
Saeed Minhas From various scandals to conspiracies, from missing persons to missing voters and now references, everything continues to haunt the present regime, as it is nearing its ultimate end and preparations are afoot to install a caretaker set up to hold the elections around 15th September as per aspirations of the satellite-king-makers of […]
39 Gems to Boost Business Creativity
1. Eliminate the following sentences from your vocabulary: *But I’ve never been creative! *I’m a left-brain person… *Creativity doesn’t run in my family! *I work in a job that doesn’t require creativity… Sure, they may be true. But they’re blocking your creativity! One of the first steps to enhancing creativity is changing your attitude. Eliminating […]
Democracy, Turkey’s Double Edged Sword.
By Nicole Dweck While the Bush administration touts its agenda of "democracy building" as the way forward for nations of the world, we’ve seen time and time again, fledgling democratic systems high-jacked by political groups whose agendas seem less than "democratic." Today, many secularists fear that Turkey’s Islamic-rooted AKP party , though publicly endorsing secularism, […]