Thalassemia
A blood disorder passed down through families
Results in excessive destruction of red blood cells
Leads to anemia
An inherited disease
Thalassemia tests are must
Chances
Symptoms
Death of the unborn baby during birth or the late stages of pregnancy
Develop severe anemia during the first year of life
Symptoms
Bone deformities in the face
Fatigue
Growth failure
Shortness of breath
Yellow skin (jaundice)
Majors suffer from anemia
Constantly need blood to live
Rest of life… They are tied for life
Normal human is having 6 liter blood
Donation bottle contains 0.5 liter blood.
A normal healthy person can donate blood after every 3 months.
Donate Blood for saving someone’s life
Blood donations are the only hope for them.... :(
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Join hands to save HEC...
There is an impending disaster looming in front of us (something also mentioned in a recent editorial in this newspaper on the matter of devolving the functions of the Higher Education Commission [HEC] to the provinces). What has been decided by the cabinet (on the recommendation of a parliamentary committee on devolution headed by Raza Rabbani) is to tear higher education to shreds and hand over the pieces to the provinces.
What has not been realised by our policymakers is that the process of socio-economic development takes place through central strategic planning, which is intimately connected to a country’s higher education and science and technology programmes. The minimum quality requirements and the numbers of engineers, scientists, doctors, economists and social scientists needed for nation-building have to be determined through careful central planning regarding human resource requirements in various sectors. A multiplicity of standards and regulations would be disastrous. That is why the world over, including in India, higher education planning and funding is done centrally, even though universities are located in the provinces.
All the vice-chancellors of public sector universities, on November 27, 2010, therefore, unanimously resolved that the status quo of the HEC should be maintained since it has performed exceptionally well and is completely protected under the 18th Amendment. Pakistan’s highest level science body, the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (whose members have included such luminaries as the late professors Abdus Salam and Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, and whose present members include Dr A Q Khan, Dr Ishfaq Ahmed and Dr Samar Mubarak Mand, and of which I am now the president) held a press conference in Islamabad recently, protesting in the strongest possible terms, the fragmentation of HEC. A strongly worded article protesting the dismantling of the HEC, by Dr AQ Khan, was published in The News of March 29, 2009. All this fell on deaf ears. The motivation behind the shredding is “to teach the HEC a lesson”. This, he wrote, was for upholding the principles of merit, not bowing to political pressures and, particularly, for refusing to verify forged degrees of a large number of parliamentarians as being legal.
Pakistan made remarkable progress during 2001-2008 in higher education. There was a 600 per cent increase in scientific publications in international journals and a 1,000 per cent increase in citations in this period. Today, several of our universities are ranked among the top 500. The University of Karachi was ranked at 223 in the world, NUST at 260 in the world and Quaid-i-Azam University at 270 in the world, in the field of natural sciences. This is no ordinary achievement after decades of stagnation. The World Bank, USAID and the British Council published comprehensive reports on the higher education sector, applauding it and calling it “a silent revolution”.
Pakistan won several prestigious international awards for the revolutionary changes in the higher education sector brought about by the Higher Education Commission. These include the TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Italy) Award for Institutional Development in October 2009 and the Austrian high civil award “Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande” (2007), conferred on me as chairman of the Higher Education Commission.
An eminent educational expert, Professor Wolfgang Voelter of Tubingen University, paid glowing tributes to the Higher Education Commission in an article in a Pakistani newspaper on November 28, 2008 under the heading “The Golden Period”. I quote: “A miracle happened. The scenario of education, science and technology in Pakistan changed dramatically as never before in the history of Pakistan. The chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Education recently announced it as ‘Pakistan’s golden period in higher education’.” Professor Michael Rode, former chairman of the United Nations Commission on Science, Technology and Development wrote, and I quote: “The progress made was breathtaking and has put Pakistan ahead of comparable countries in numerous aspects.” The world’s leading and oldest scientific society, Royal Society (London) recently published a booklet entitled “A New Golden Age”, considering Pakistan to be the best practice model to be followed by other developing countries.
India became deeply concerned at these developments. In an article entitled “Pak Threat to Indian Science” published in the leading daily newspaper Hindustan Times, India, on July 23, 2006, Neha Mehta reported that Professor C N R Rao, (Chairman of the Indian prime minister’s scientific advisory council) made a presentation to his boss and expressed serious concerns at the remarkable progress made by Pakistan in the higher education and science sectors. The article wrote that “Pakistan may soon join China in giving India serious competition in science”. The Indian leadership need not be concerned since we are ourselves hell-bent on destroying our nation by undermining the development and progress of higher education, science and technology and then being doomed to perpetual slavery.
The HEC was created as an autonomous federal regulatory institution with the prime minister of Pakistan as its controlling authority. The composition of the commission reflects a balanced federal structure with representation from each province, as well as the secretary education and secretary science and technology, together with eminent academic and research experts. All powers and functions of the HEC defined under its legislation are covered and protected in the provisions of the 18th Amendment. But, alas, who cares about what is legal and what is not.
Lower level education has been a complete mess, because of half-witted plans and lack of a national commitment towards education. Some of our leaders have now come up with this strategy to destroy the higher education sector as well. My plea to the government is: Please stop this suicidal madness. Something good happened in Pakistan after some 55 years of neglect. Let us not destroy this wonderful initiative.
I hope that the president, prime minister and the army chief will intervene to stop this madness before it is too late. If ever there was a case for the chief justice of the Supreme Court to take suo motu action on, this is it.(Courtesy: Express Tribune)
What has not been realised by our policymakers is that the process of socio-economic development takes place through central strategic planning, which is intimately connected to a country’s higher education and science and technology programmes. The minimum quality requirements and the numbers of engineers, scientists, doctors, economists and social scientists needed for nation-building have to be determined through careful central planning regarding human resource requirements in various sectors. A multiplicity of standards and regulations would be disastrous. That is why the world over, including in India, higher education planning and funding is done centrally, even though universities are located in the provinces.
All the vice-chancellors of public sector universities, on November 27, 2010, therefore, unanimously resolved that the status quo of the HEC should be maintained since it has performed exceptionally well and is completely protected under the 18th Amendment. Pakistan’s highest level science body, the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (whose members have included such luminaries as the late professors Abdus Salam and Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, and whose present members include Dr A Q Khan, Dr Ishfaq Ahmed and Dr Samar Mubarak Mand, and of which I am now the president) held a press conference in Islamabad recently, protesting in the strongest possible terms, the fragmentation of HEC. A strongly worded article protesting the dismantling of the HEC, by Dr AQ Khan, was published in The News of March 29, 2009. All this fell on deaf ears. The motivation behind the shredding is “to teach the HEC a lesson”. This, he wrote, was for upholding the principles of merit, not bowing to political pressures and, particularly, for refusing to verify forged degrees of a large number of parliamentarians as being legal.
Pakistan made remarkable progress during 2001-2008 in higher education. There was a 600 per cent increase in scientific publications in international journals and a 1,000 per cent increase in citations in this period. Today, several of our universities are ranked among the top 500. The University of Karachi was ranked at 223 in the world, NUST at 260 in the world and Quaid-i-Azam University at 270 in the world, in the field of natural sciences. This is no ordinary achievement after decades of stagnation. The World Bank, USAID and the British Council published comprehensive reports on the higher education sector, applauding it and calling it “a silent revolution”.
Pakistan won several prestigious international awards for the revolutionary changes in the higher education sector brought about by the Higher Education Commission. These include the TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Italy) Award for Institutional Development in October 2009 and the Austrian high civil award “Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande” (2007), conferred on me as chairman of the Higher Education Commission.
An eminent educational expert, Professor Wolfgang Voelter of Tubingen University, paid glowing tributes to the Higher Education Commission in an article in a Pakistani newspaper on November 28, 2008 under the heading “The Golden Period”. I quote: “A miracle happened. The scenario of education, science and technology in Pakistan changed dramatically as never before in the history of Pakistan. The chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Education recently announced it as ‘Pakistan’s golden period in higher education’.” Professor Michael Rode, former chairman of the United Nations Commission on Science, Technology and Development wrote, and I quote: “The progress made was breathtaking and has put Pakistan ahead of comparable countries in numerous aspects.” The world’s leading and oldest scientific society, Royal Society (London) recently published a booklet entitled “A New Golden Age”, considering Pakistan to be the best practice model to be followed by other developing countries.
India became deeply concerned at these developments. In an article entitled “Pak Threat to Indian Science” published in the leading daily newspaper Hindustan Times, India, on July 23, 2006, Neha Mehta reported that Professor C N R Rao, (Chairman of the Indian prime minister’s scientific advisory council) made a presentation to his boss and expressed serious concerns at the remarkable progress made by Pakistan in the higher education and science sectors. The article wrote that “Pakistan may soon join China in giving India serious competition in science”. The Indian leadership need not be concerned since we are ourselves hell-bent on destroying our nation by undermining the development and progress of higher education, science and technology and then being doomed to perpetual slavery.
The HEC was created as an autonomous federal regulatory institution with the prime minister of Pakistan as its controlling authority. The composition of the commission reflects a balanced federal structure with representation from each province, as well as the secretary education and secretary science and technology, together with eminent academic and research experts. All powers and functions of the HEC defined under its legislation are covered and protected in the provisions of the 18th Amendment. But, alas, who cares about what is legal and what is not.
Lower level education has been a complete mess, because of half-witted plans and lack of a national commitment towards education. Some of our leaders have now come up with this strategy to destroy the higher education sector as well. My plea to the government is: Please stop this suicidal madness. Something good happened in Pakistan after some 55 years of neglect. Let us not destroy this wonderful initiative.
I hope that the president, prime minister and the army chief will intervene to stop this madness before it is too late. If ever there was a case for the chief justice of the Supreme Court to take suo motu action on, this is it.(Courtesy: Express Tribune)
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Corruption is in their Blood…
Nobody cares about the poor people of Pakistan. Yes, it’s the reality of today. Our politicians are the real culprits. They are the elite class of Pakistan. They produce sugar in their mills, create artificial scarcity in the market and then earn the great profits of scarcity. They are making us fool. Joke of today is that Pakistan is an agricultural country, but our food minister says that “Sugar is a luxury. Pakistani nation cannot afford this luxury.” Wow! We are the citizen of an agricultural country and our federal minister is giving the statement like this. Actually, we are the real culprits for this condition. We tolerate this corrupt government and the American puppets as well. Everybody is trying to get more and more to fulfill the hell of secret Swiss accounts. Who cares about the poor nation? They are enjoying in their palaces with our money but we can’t do anything. We can’t change all this drama going on. They are not our well wishers. Corruption is in their blood.
Angelina Jolie came to Pakistan to visit the flood effective areas and to meet the victims as well. After Pakistan’s visit, she was having the views like this;
“Pakistan’s Elite was not interested in rescuing the flood victim. Everybody was just trying to have snaps with me. Even Prime Minister called his family from Lahore on Government Expenses for photo session. I was surprised to see dining table full of expensive items.”
So tell me now, who is the real culprit for this situation? Of course we are responsible for all this nonsense going on because we don’t protest, we don’t strive for a change, we don’t try for a change, even we don’t support any change. We are that most pitiful nation about which Khalil Jibran often says. Yes we are the most pitiful nation of the world.
Angelina Jolie came to Pakistan to visit the flood effective areas and to meet the victims as well. After Pakistan’s visit, she was having the views like this;
“Pakistan’s Elite was not interested in rescuing the flood victim. Everybody was just trying to have snaps with me. Even Prime Minister called his family from Lahore on Government Expenses for photo session. I was surprised to see dining table full of expensive items.”
So tell me now, who is the real culprit for this situation? Of course we are responsible for all this nonsense going on because we don’t protest, we don’t strive for a change, we don’t try for a change, even we don’t support any change. We are that most pitiful nation about which Khalil Jibran often says. Yes we are the most pitiful nation of the world.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Beware Youngsters..! Zionists Are On Their Secret Mission...
Now a days, it became fashion to wear the shirts, trousers & lockets with different signs. Just like the star mentioned above. This star is known as "David Star" or "Star Of David". This is the sign of Jews & you have saw that on the Israeli flag too. But many of youngsters use this sign even having information about that. In literal meanings, The Star of David is known in Hebrew as the Shield of David. But their is another another secret idiology behind it, according to which one corner of David star indicates the Arrival of their "Messiah". According to their beliefs, he will come to rule the Earth and reside in Jerusalem, which he will take as his capital. The person they are waiting for is the Dajjal, whom the Christians call the Antichrist. This is why the majority of the Dajjal's followers will be from the Jews.
This is the sign you often noticed on the helmets & T-shirts of England Cricket team. This Sign is know as "Royal Coat Of Arms". You can see a horse one one side & a lion on the other. But if you notice, lion is not a complete lion. The head is a lion's head, body is of leopard, & feet are of a bear. Same is with the horse. This indicates the Hebrew reign.
This sign is so much in now a days as a fashion. But this the sign of a Jewish black Magic society, named as "Skull & Bone Society". Most of the American leaders & the high Ranked Officers are the members of this society.
Have you ever noticed this "One Eye Logos" concept? Why One eye? why not two eyes..? There are so many Multinational companies using these kind of Logos. Just think for a minute. Who came in mind? One eyed.... Dajjal.. They are running his mission very carefully. They are preparing for his arrivals & also preparing the world for his arrival.
They are Running his mission very secretly. But we have to identify their motive, their cause. Beware of these signs & the Zionist propaganda.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Fake Degree Issue Is Not A Big Issue...???
Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif Saturday said the fake degrees of assembly members deserve condemnation but it is not an issue bigger than subverting the country or starting Kargil war. Addressing the concluding ceremony of Youth Commission Conference here, the CM said: “Politicians are not angels and that the inventor of fake degrees was a dictator who changed the law only for an hour to carry out horse trading”.
That means we are wasting our time in colleges & universities? Don't panic, just become a politicians. Take a fake degree from any Institution by using your power & money (Actually Money is Power). PML (N) was the only Party, who had its reputation. But after reading this statement we can easily understand that All the politicians are making fool of us. They all are linked with their mutual benefit. Corruption is their motive. Non of them is sincere with Pakistan. Every body is interested in his share.
Our "Khadim-e-Aala" says that What happened if Ministers or Assembly members having fake degrees. It is not a big issue. So, Our National Hero should not be Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan.. But his highness, "Sir" Jamshaid Dastti.. (Shame on him). There are also members of PML (N) named as Fake degree holders. Recent example is MPA Malik Yasir Raza. What we can say if our President him self is a fake degree holder.
Are we a dead nation? Khalil Jibran once said: "The Most Pitiful among nations is, who raises his voice at the funerals only".
Youth of Pakistan have to change this trend. Only youth have ability to do so. Condemn this trend of Fake Degree Ministers & Assembly Members. Say No To Fake degree Holders. Say No To This Democratic Drama. Protest in your own way. Let the people of Pakistan know the reality. Talk to the people as much as you can. Bring a change at individual level.
Pakistan Zindabad..
Friday, June 11, 2010
Beauty Of Pakistan.. Hazara
The world’s most precious pieces of land are always paid attention to. Hazara however has always been neglected. For over 60 years ‘Hazarians’ have been compromising on their identity and no consideration for their rights have been compensated by the Pakistani government. They now demand their own province. If you are a promoter of peace join hands and make Hazara independent.
Hazara is the heart of NWFP with the maximum economic and cultural contribution of 85. Hazara produce tea 70% of total Pakistan’s production and we produce the entire Tobacco (100%) for Pakistan. There is a 39% of electricity production from our dams (Tarbela).
The most exotic lake and the second most beautiful place on Earth “Lake Saif-ul-Maluk” could have been the central point of tourism and hospitality industry, but still neglected.
Hazara has a very rich culture and history. Alexander, Ashoka, Turks, Durrani, Sikh and British have ruled us, but today Hazarians are free and ready to show the world that we are progressive and prosperous. “Hindko” is our mother language with “Pashto” and “Kohistani” spoken as second language.
The population of Hazara is more than 5 million with a total area of 18013 km2. The Hazarains are not extremist and conservation. They have the most realistic literacy rate of 94%. Hazara is playing an important role in Pakistan's economy. The Karakorum High Way in Hazara links Pakistan to China.
Hazara is the one of the most beautiful parts of Pakistan. Hazarians are patriotic Pakistani. They love Pakistan. Always desperate & sincere to work for Pakistan. Hazara always played its role for the Prosperity & Sovereignty of Pakistan. In future too, Hazara will play its role in that respect.
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