Crow's Nest...

Of late i have spent some time on the out look of this weblog.  I have made a few changes some of which are likely short lived.  I have managed to transfer my blog roll from blog rolling to blogger.  This was done in the hope that it will help the page load faster.  Although I am not completely clear if this has been the case.  Then i have been able to separate and un-clutter my blog roll from my links.  Now you can see a separate section for miscellaneous links.  At the same time I have changed the blog header and the colors of the template to go with the header.  I think this has not been a very successful change.  I plan to go back to my original theme in a few days.  I plan to make a few more changes soon.

Its late in the night and with every passing minute my eyes are getting heavier with sleep.  I am on call tomorrow and it is a tiring month that has drained all my energies out of me.  I used to think that if there is one thing that doesn’t tire me that is work.  But I think I was wrong.  It is not totally morale boosting when your patients start dying around you and you can’t seem to figure out the cause.  I do try hard and obviously do not want any one to be leaving this world earlier than they should.  But sometimes things happen that are not under my control and they happen fast.  The last week has been a demoralizing one for me. Anyways the reason I started to write today was to compliment a good article by one of my friends.  I think we the Pakistanis have to get some morale boosting going very soon.  We have to start thinking of ourselves as not the losers but as the ones who are important enough to matter in this world.  It is ...

As i was rounding yesterday i browsed through the news briefly.  It appears that Tamil Tigers have been finally defeated and destroyed in the north of Sri Lanka.  After quarter century of war and terrorism this front has cooled down.  One hopes that it stays cold for years and years to come.  I have little understanding of the internal political dynamics of the country but I think this is a landmark victory for the people of Sri Lanka.  It is not very often that civil wars come to a happy conclusion.  This is a rare instance in the history.  The Sri Lankan people must be congratulated whole heartedly for their perseverance in the face of all odds and against all evil that cluttered their beautiful island.  The Pakistani people, I am sure, are with their Sri Lankan fellows in the celebrations for their victory. I think of all the more important things that lead to this victory education was one of the more important and decisive ones.  In al...

Sri Lanka is on the verge of declaring victory over the separatist movement of the Tamil Tigers.  After years of struggle and constant state of war Sri Lanka has done what Pakistan would be able to achieve some day.  In our struggle against the elements that declare terror upon us we must learn our lessons from Sri Lanka.  Tamil Tigers were the first people in the modern history to utilize living humans as payload delivery systems.  So they are very much similar to the fanatic elements that we are coming across in our north west frontier province.  They fight a guerilla war and hide and attack.  And in all possibility they have been trained by the same agency that trained the Tami Tigers.  Therefore it would be a great idea to get some ideas from the Sri Lankan friends in helping us fight the resistance movement. If Sri Lanka can do it so can we. But as I was thinking about these lines i read about SSG being paratrooped behind enemy lines.  No...

This news item is very interesting and apparently something that has been floating on the internet circles for a long time without coming into my notice.  I must admit that I am amazed every day with the amount of unique knowledge that comes my way when I open the doors of world wide web.  Sometimes I do wonder that it would be a life worth living as ‘John Henry’, from TSCC but then again human brain is a miracle in itself with 20 billion calculations going on simultaneously in an average brain and a potentially limitless memory.  I would not want to trade off mine for a cord connected ‘John Henry’. Pakistani private sector is shining in the field of arms making and development of low cost alternative solutions to modern warfare.  This should not be something new as Pakistani north is famous for its uniqueness in manufacturing weaponry of every kind from a mere pistol to a rocket launcher.  But things have progressed from the times of the old Afghan war. ...

I have been thinking about some stuff to write on the long march that seems to have started in Pakistan.  Nothing solid or concrete comes to mind.  But I was watching this old program by Hamid Mir and saw a mullah vehemently defend Asif Ali Zardari.  This reminded me of one of my old high school teachers.  He was one of many who introduced our young minds to logical thinking and political role playing.  Of many characteristics that he possessed the hatred for the religious elite was one of the strongest emotions within him.  He would narrate a story almost every week of the evils that these mullahs spur in our society and then make sure that he spent considerable time loathing the corrupt ones amongst them.  I remember one very solid thing that he made us remember.  He would tell us that these bearded fanatics had only three things in mind. One, they liked to nourish their fat and hair so that the ton that they devoured every day in form of meat a...