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Value of Social Activism with Horizontal..
Horizontal integrations means people understand complementarities in a flat world and NGOs are open to team up with other like minded NGOs and all other enterprises by sharing and extending a helping hand to redesign or reinvent themselves and manage a joint effort to accelerate growth through practical developments. There is a value creation in the horizontal collaboration when you begin to mutually reinforce each other.Thinking and managing horizontally applies to everything from business to e...
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Imagining Pakistan in decade of 2010
I am presenting a picture of how Pakistan can and should become as a productive neighbor in a community of global village. I suggest that the army as well as ruling elites need to rethink strategic plans to accommodate the reality that without a powerful economy they are fighting or pursuing in long run a lose-lose strategy.What is at their disposal to create an atmosphere for wealth generation? Answer is youth in abundance that is looking for opportunities to escape from generational cycle of p...
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US, India, Pak: Squandered Decade
It was a decade in which nothing good happened, concluded US columnist Paul Krugman, and none of the optimistic things we were supposed to believe turned out to be true. From an economic point of view the decade was the Big Zero; comparing the data for 1999 - 2009: ...
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Loyalty of Home-grown American Terrorist
Commenting on Americas immediate problem WSJ said and I agree that Hasan, Not KSM, Is Our Real Problem (Daniel Henninger, WSJ, Nov 19). We need to take a fresh look at reasons why home-grown terrorism is surfacing in America? Some American terrorists have a global reach as is evident from the recent arrests in Chicago.Many experts are analyzing Muslim behaviors to explain why a US army officer on Nov. 5 allegedly committed a crime at Fort Hood, TX killing 13 fellow soldiers. The alleged gunman, ...
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Hinduism: Sankhya System & Guna - Part V
Part V concludes the Introduction to Hinduism by describing scientific roots of Hinduism. The Hindu concepts of human behavior were adopted from the scientific Sankhya Systems and the Guna theory of evolution of human behavior.In a nutshell, Hindu philosophers who developed Gita were contemporaries of Kapila, the author of the Sankhya System. The theist of the day, true to their Vedic faith and upbringing, dressed up the Sankhya system in religious clothes by incorporating the concept of paramat...
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America - Problems for Pakistan
The root of global peace lies in Pakistans mindset of imperialism for a regional power status. In 21st century dominant nations are not only militarily but also economically powerful. Pakistan is economically broke.Pakistani press is good at creating noise and its commentators with rare exceptions are mostly hyperactive; their initial responses to President Obamas speech (see references and notes) were same old twisted arguments against President Obamas reevaluation of and may be abandoning the ...
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Dharma and Cosmic Man - Part IV
Dharma is virtue. Hinduism advocates that every one should live dharmic life, which is the highest level of Hindu living. It is basically moral and ethical foundation for Hindus. Dharmic persons are considered to be close to God or Bhagwan. Characteristics of the immortal dharma are identified below.The relationship between cosmic forms described in Gita and that of the understanding of modern sciences is presented in notes to Part IV....
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Three Yogas Popular with Hindus - Part II
The introduction to Gita defined Yoga as: Yuj means to join. Yoga3* (*references in Part II) is a conscious attempt by anyone to acquire or lift his/her present available personality and attune it to a higher, perfect self set ideal. Yoga also means to acquire for purposes of processing and Kshema means all efforts of preserving the acquired. Yoga means control of the mind. When thoughts are stilled, the claim is, eternal soul has a chance to experience its own nature (jiva-purusha duality, Part...
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Response to a Wake up Call - Part II
The previous article highlighted a myth and reality, (Obamas) new policy initiatives, present realities, goals of opportunity and offshore strategy of wars, the Obama administrations deliberations and the (Pakistan) armys limited war strategy and strengths of jihadi forces. It concluded with my observations, references and notes.The present article presents Pakistans political realities and how America is responding to challenges in winning the Afpakia War. ...
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Introduction to Gita - Part II
The Holy Geeta, one of many Hindu religious scriptures1,3, in 18 chapters offers a synthesis of all relevant Upanishad teachings, an estimated 3,500 years old ancient literature. Indias oldest scriptures are Vedas, which are more than 5,000 years old. Geeta is also spelled Gita. The Gita describes all yogas or paths of selfless action to seek God. Seekers are free to choose or select one or more of these paths. All paths are equal; there is no one path superior to other; they all have equal weig...
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Basic Hindu Beliefs and Scriptures - Part I
The document was prepared for student with 10th grade and higher education. For some topics familiarity with introduction to higher education in science may be advantageous.Youth and young adults may and should use my articles as introductory information. I want to stimulate their interest and thinking with outlines I have provided to motivate them to increase their knowledge of Hindu heritage for them to pursue if they have time and curiosity to learn more about Hinduism....
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America - Two Responses - Part I
American Administration and Pakistan representatives were negotiating and a Pakistani requested Dont think of us as terrorists or warlords for the proxy wars in South and Central Asia.American: So, what are you?General: We are the executors of the Offshore War strategy.Both America and Pakistan are in a hellhole created by the al Qaeda operatives. They indulged in discussions and a few war strategies for a decade and offered excuses for how they got there and who was responsible but so far that ...
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Influences of Poor in Democracy
Globalization has led to a focused attention of developments in South Asia; Pakistan as an American front line ally against war on terrorism and India as a newly emerging economic power. The two countries of South Asia became independent at the same time, August 14-15, 1947. Only India managed to develop as a constitutional democratic republic with a government of, by and for the people for last 62 years. Unlike Pakistan, India is now at the threshold and statistically unlikely to deviate from e...
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True Education and Poverty alleviation
Seek Knowledge even unto China, Commanded Prophet MohammedAll the money in the world cannot help a village, if they will not help themselves, Swami VivekanandaIndia is a rich county. Most people are poor to very poor, this I believeSummary: The article focuses on my beliefs. ...
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Afpakia War: America"s necessity
Americas offshore strategy of war (Part I) has yielded many unintended consequences. Both America and Pakistan are paying heavy price in material, military and civilian losses, not to mention sufferings of millions in tribal Afpakia areas. Dr. Farrukh Saleems article, Great American Failure (http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=202682) offers partial details of costs so far incurred by America....
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