Reasons for Low Literacy Rate in Pakistan

Literacy rate is low in almost all the developing countries like Pakistan. However, Pakistan, unfortunately, has the slavish and feudal spell of colonialism in which education was only the privilege of the well-to-do, and the poor were not considered worth educating, as their only fate was the manual labor and blue-collar jobs. It is a pity that 97% of the population of our country is Muslims whose religion has declared literacy compulsory for every man or woman irrespective of his/her social, physical, financial, or cultural status. This shows that we are at such a terribly pathetic stage of our history where we are

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Disadvantages of Cell Phones

Cell phones have become an integral part of our lives. A man without a cell phone is considered, or sometimes considers himself, incomplete. As it is the case with not only any invention or contrivance but also with any object consideration to be capable of misuse or abuse, the cell phones are also subject to the human approach.

“There is nothing bad in anything in its original sense; it is the thinking that makes it so” Shakespeare
“The mind in its own place makes a heaven of a hell or a hell of a heaven” Milton.

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Muslims are not Terrorists

It is a well-established fact that the so-called world “intelligentsia” has been unable to put forward any rational definition of the word “Terrorism”. Everywhere we come across different aspects of this bogey. Some westernized minds say, “All Muslims are not terrorists, but all the terrorists are Muslims”. However, we can remember that there have been terrorist acts by the Tamil Tigers, the Russian intelligence Agency “K.G.B”, the Indian Intelligence Agency, “RAW”, the US Intelligence Agency “C.I.A”, the Korean and the most atrocious “The Israel troops and forces”. The true and bitterly true side of this scenario is that the activities of a handful of Muslims are like those of Robin Hood, Zorro,

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The Fate of Atomic Energy

It had been sufficient for eye opening of the world to see what had happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities of Japan. What a great destruction was made of human life and property is a historical event to be remembered by all the peace loving nations of the world. During the post war period after 1945 to 1990 the American block and Iron curtain Russian block both remained busy in inventing and dumping the atomic weapons. Meanwhile Chine, France and Great Britain have become atomic powers, and now in the last years of 20th century. India,

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World Trade Organization (WTO)- An American Perspective

Good-paying American jobs, higher living standards, and the continued growth of the U.S economy depend on the ability to sell its goods and services to consumers everywhere. The World Trade Organization (WTO) helps the U.S achieve this goal. As a leading force in establishing the WTO as an international institution, the U.S negotiates trade agreements to reduce barriers to trade with 144 other members today, allowing American businesses, farmers and working people to find new opportunities, create new jobs, and raise family living

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