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Something for the people who have suffered......"I never knew what came to me, i just went on, I never knew when people threw stones at me.....I collected and just went on, I never knew when my own disowned me, I felt belonged and just went on.......I never knew when some cursed me, i felt blessed and just went on, I never knew slimy eyes on me, I just went on, I never knew which land was ahead, i trailed and went on...i never knew which sea waited to engulf me, i went on......went on


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Touqeer Ahmed

Pakistan Talent

Pakistan is the land of astonishing and fabulous talent that has always put the whole world in wonders! Sitara Akber, 11 years old girl from Pakistan has achieved a world record being the youngest student in the world to have passed the British Ordinary Level (O’Level) examination. Sitara also holds the title of being the youngest Pakistani candidate of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and successfully attained seven bands out of nine, scoring 7.5 in the testing system.

Pakistan is replete with such multitude of extraordinary Talent. We need to acknowledge such extraordinary young people with distinguishing skills, mind and spirit! Our Youth has potential to prove to be the World class leaders by being the initiators and innovators in every field of life. We appreciate such splendid efforts and genius of our Land… We know there are thousands of such students like Sitara Akber, who are trendsetters and role models for the whole world! They indeed make our whole nation proud! These young people are the beacon of bright future of our land! We own them and are proud of them…!

"The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -- Maria Montessori

"There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything." --Maria Montessori

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction." -- Malcom Gladwell

"You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner and without any air of constraint with the further object of discerning more readily the natural bent of their respective characters." -- Plato

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." -- Mary Hemingway

"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." -- Christopher Reeve

"Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny." -- Frank Outlaw

"If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly." - Buddhist proverb

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others."-- Tyron Edwards

"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers."--Josef Albers

John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.

Source: White House Press Office, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation." -- John F. Kennedy

"Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners." --Ken Blanchard

"If you want to live more, you must master the art of appreciating the little everyday blessings of life. This is not altogether a golden world but there are countless gleams of gold to be discovered in it." --Henry Alfred Porter

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve." -- Mary Kay Ash

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." -- Marie Curie

انسانی خواشوں کی آندھی

انسانی خواشوں کی آندھی

ھمارے ھاں انسانی رویے کچھ اس طرح کے ھو چکے ھیں جیسے کوی انسان اپنے خوابوب کی دنیا مین مگن باغبان سے لا پرواہ ھو کر اپنے رنگ روپ کے ناز و نخرے سے چھپا رھتا ھے یعنی اپنے اصل کو چھپا کر رکھتا ھے۔لیکن آسمان سے بھی کوی پوشیدہ ھو سکا ھے بھلا۔ ۔ ۔ ۔ ۔ ۔ اور اپنی امیدوں کی بیل کا بیج بو لیتا ھے اور پھر اسکو پروان چڑھاتا رھتا ھے یا وہ بیل پروان چڑھتی رھتی ھے اسکو اسکی خبر ھی نھیں ھ...وتی کہ یہ بیل کسی کانٹے دات درخت پر چڑھا رھا ھے یاکہ کسی سایہ دار درخت کی زینت بنا رھا ھے۔ ۔ ۔ ۔ ۔
جب ایک مخصوس وقت اپنی ڈگر پر آگے کی طرف نکلتا ھے اور اس بیل پر سوھنے سوھنے پھول اپنے نیلے پیلے رنگوں کا امتزاج لیکر ابھرتے ھیں تو پھولوں کو یہ علم ھی نھیں ھوتا کہ وہ کسی خار دار ٹہنی پر لپٹے جارھے ھیں کیونکہ پھول تو پھول ھوتے ھین انکی زبان سے نکلنے والے الفاظ تو رنگوں اور خشبوں کی زبان بولتے ھیں انسانی سوچ کی غلیظ ساخت تو ان میں نھیں ھوتی ھے کوی آواز نھیں ھوتی ان پھولوں کی سواے معصوم رنگوں کے۔ ۔ ۔ ۔ ۔

انسان اپنی خواشوں کا بوجھ جب اٹھا اٹھا کر تھک جاتا ھے تو بیٹھ کر سواے اپنے من کے جلے کٹے شکوں کا اظہار ھی کرتا نظر آتا ھے اور ایک تبماکو نوش کی طرح سواے دھواں منہ سے نکالنے کے سوا اور کچھ بھی نھیں کر پاتا۔ یہ دھواں افسوس کا ھوتا ھے کیونکہ اسکے ضمیر میں جو دھواں نکل رھا ھوتا ھے وھی اسکے سینے کی جلن بن جاتا ھے۔
آنسوں اور دھویں کے اس بادل مین گرا ھوا یہ خود غرض لالچی انسان بیج بونے سے قبل زمین کی ساخت کو نھیں پہچانت

جوابی کارروائی بغیراجازت کی جائے،جنرل کیانی

راولپنڈی: پاکستان کے چیف آف آرمی اسٹاف جنرل اشفاق پرویز کیانی نے پاک فوج کے جوانوں کو کسی بھی بیرونی حملہ کی صورت میں فوری کارروائی کا حکم دے دیا ہے۔

پاک فوج کے مرکزی دفتر جی ایچ کیو سے جاری ہونے والی ہدایت میں انہوں نے پاک افغان سرحد پر واقع تمام چیک پوسٹوں پر موجود فوجی افسران اور جوانوں پر واضح کیا ہے کہ حملہ آور کوئی بھی ہو جوابی کارروائی کا فیصلہ فوری کیا جائے۔

پاک فوج کے چیف کی جانب سے انتہائی مختصر اور دوٹوک بیان میں یہ بھی کہا گیا ہے کہ بیرونی جارحیت کی صورت میں جوابی کارروائی کے لیے کسی اجازت کا انتظار نہ کیا جائے۔

دی نیوز ٹرائب کے نمائندے کے مطابق آرمی چیف کا حکم نامہ پاک افغان سرحد سے پر واقع تمام چیک پوسٹوں پر پہنچا دی گئی ہے اور اسے فوری طور پر نافذ العمل قرار دیا گیا ہے

What I learn From Steve Jobs

Many people have explained what one can learn from Steve Jobs. But few, if any, of these people have been inside the tent and experienced first hand what it was like to work with him. I don’t want any lessons to be lost or forgotten, so here is my list of the top twelve lessons that I learned from Steve Jobs.

1. Experts are clueless.
   Experts—journalists, analysts, consultants, bankers, and gurus can’t “do” so they “advise.” They can tell you what is wrong with your product, but they cannot make a great one. They can tell you how to sell something, but they cannot sell it themselves. They can tell you how to create great teams, but they only manage a secretary. For example, the experts told us that the two biggest shortcomings of Macintosh in the mid 1980s was the lack of a daisy-wheel printer driver and Lotus 1-2-3; another advice gem from the experts was to buy Compaq. Hear what experts say, but don’t always listen to them.
2. Customers cannot tell you what they need.
   “Apple market research” is an oxymoron. The Apple focus group was the right hemisphere of Steve’s brain talking to the left one. If you ask customers what they want, they will tell you, “Better, faster, and cheaper”—that is, better sameness, not revolutionary change. They can only describe their desires in terms of what they are already using—around the time of the introduction of Macintosh, all people said they wanted was better, faster, and cheaper MS-DOS machines. The richest vein for tech startups is creating the product that you want to use—that’s what Steve and Woz did.
3. Jump to the next curve.
   Big wins happen when you go beyond better sameness. The best daisy-wheel printer companies were introducing new fonts in more sizes. Apple introduced the next curve: laser printing. Think of ice harvesters, ice factories, and refrigerator companies. Ice 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. Are you still harvesting ice during the winter from a frozen pond?
4. The biggest challenges beget best work.
   I lived in fear that Steve would tell me that I, or my work, was crap. In public. This fear was a big challenge. Competing with IBM and then Microsoft was a big challenge. Changing the world was a big challenge. I, and Apple employees before me and after me, did their best work because we had to do our best work to meet the big challenges.
5. Design counts.
   Steve drove people nuts with his design demands—some shades of black weren’t black enough. Mere mortals think that black is black, and that a trash can is a trash can. Steve was such a perfectionist—a perfectionist Beyond: Thunderdome—and lo and behold he was right: some people care about design and many people at least sense it. Maybe not everyone, but the important ones.
6. You can’t go wrong with big graphics and big fonts.
   Take a look at Steve’s slides. The font is sixty points. There’s usually one big screenshot or graphic. Look at other tech speaker’s slides—even the ones who have seen Steve in action. The font is eight points, and there are no graphics. So many people say that Steve was the world’s greatest product introduction guy..don’t you wonder why more people don’t copy his style?
7. Changing your mind is a sign of intelligence.
   When Apple first shipped the iPhone there was no such thing as apps. Apps, Steve decreed, were a bad thing because you never know what they could be doing to your phone. Safari web apps were the way to go until six months later when Steve decided, or someone convinced Steve, that apps were the way to go—but of course. Duh! Apple came a long way in a short time from Safari web apps to “there’s an app for that.”
8. “Value” is different from “price.”
   Woe unto you if you decide everything based on price. Even more woe unto you if you compete solely on price. Price is not all that matters—what is important, at least to some people, is value. And value takes into account training, support, and the intrinsic joy of using the best tool that’s made. It’s pretty safe to say that no one buys Apple products because of their low price.
9. A players hire A+ players.
   Actually, Steve believed that A players hire A players—that is people who are as good as they are. I refined this slightly—my theory is that A players hire people even better than themselves. It’s clear, though, that B players hire C players so they can feel superior to them, and C players hire D players. If you start hiring B players, expect what Steve called “the bozo explosion” to happen in your organization.
10. Real CEOs demo.
    Steve Jobs could demo a pod, pad, phone, and Mac two to three times a year with millions of people watching, why is it that many CEOs call upon their vice-president of engineering to do a product demo? Maybe it’s to show that there’s a team effort in play. Maybe. It’s more likely that the CEO doesn’t understand what his/her company is making well enough to explain it. How pathetic is that?
11. Real CEOs ship.
    For all his perfectionism, Steve could ship. Maybe the product wasn’t perfect every time, but it was almost always great enough to go. The lesson is that Steve wasn’t tinkering for the sake of tinkering—he had a goal: shipping and achieving worldwide domination of existing markets or creation of new markets. Apple is an engineering-centric company, not a research-centric one. Which would you rather be: Apple or Xerox PARC?
12. Marketing boils down to providing unique value. Think of a 2 x 2 matrix. The vertical axis measures how your product differs from the competition. The horizontal axis measures the value of your product. Bottom right: valuable but not unique—you’ll have to compete on price. Top left: unique but not valuable—you’ll own a market that doesn’t exist. Bottom left: not unique and not value—you’re a bozo. Top right: unique and valuable—this is where you make margin, money, and history. For example, the iPod was unique and valuable because it was the only way to legally, inexpensively, and easily download music from the six biggest record labels.

Bonus: Some things need to be believed to be seen. When you are jumping curves, defying/ignoring the experts, facing off against big challenges, obsessing about design, and focusing on unique value, you will need to convince people to believe in what you are doing in order to see your efforts come to fruition. People needed to believe in Macintosh to see it become real. Ditto for iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Not everyone will believe—that’s okay. But the starting point of changing the world is changing a few minds. This is the greatest lesson of all that I learned from Steve.

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