The skin cracks like a pod.
There never is enough water.
Imagine the drip of it,
the small splash, echo
in a tin mug,
the voice of a kindly god.
Sometimes, the sudden rush
of fortune. The municipal pipe bursts,
silver crashes to the ground
and the flow has found
a roar of tongues. From the huts,
a congregation : every man woman
child for streets around
butts in, with pots,
brass, copper, aluminium,
plastic buckets,
frantic hands,
and naked children
screaming in the liquid sun,
their highlights polished to perfection,
flashing light,
as the blessing sings
over their small bones.
ASOTA SHARIF
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker
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Amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan
ReplyDelete1. Redefined the boundaries of Pakistan and removed references to E.Pakistan
2. Declared the status of Ahmadies as minority and as 'non-Muslim'.
3. Extended the period of preventive detention.
4. Decreed additional seats for minorities, it also deprived courts of the power to grant bail to any person detained under any preventive detention
5. Widened the scope of restriction on the H.courts
6. Provided that Chief Justice of Supreme Court will be retired at the age of 65 and H.courts judges at age 62.
7. Enables the PM to obtain vote of confidence
8. theChanged Pakistan's government from a P.system to Semi Presidential System by giving the President a number of additional powers.
9. Bill to impose Shariah law as the supreme law of land. The bill was passed by Senate but could never be passed by National Assembly owing to the latter's dissolution.
10. Fixed the interval period between sessions of the National Assembly to not exceed 130 days.
11. Revision of the reserved seats for women in the National and the provincial assemblies. The bill was withdrawn in 1992.
12. Created Speedy Trial Court for 3 years.
13. Stripped the President of Pakistan of his reserve power to dissolve the NA , and thereby triggering new elections and dismissing the Prime Minister.
14. Allowed members of parliament to be dismissed if they defect.
15. Bill to impose Shariah law as supreme law of land. Was never passed.
16. Increased the term appointed for quota system as per 1973 Constitution from 20 to 40 years.
17. Made changes dealing with the office of the President and the reversal of the effects of the 13th amendment
18. Removed the power of President of Pakistan to dissolve the Parliament unilaterally.
19. Powers to appointed the chief electoral officers at ECP and judges appointment at S.Court
20. For Free and Fair Elections.
There is no denying the fact that education is the backbone in the development of any nation. It develops the people mentally, physically, socially and spiritually. The countries that have an effective system of education also happen to be the leaders of the world, both socially and economically. Any nation prepares their generation according to their ideological, cultural and religious norms but our education system did not preserve our norms. If we prepare our generation properly, according to our needs and make them faithful and patriotic then they can play their role as useful and secured weapon otherwise we are preparing enemies of our own country. In short it is education, which can turn the population of any country from a burden to human resource. Moreover, prior to devolution, the policy and planning have been undertaken by the central and provincial governments without taking into account the ground realities and without the participation of community. The main objective of the devolution plan is to empower the community at the grassroots level in planning, management, resource mobilization and utilization, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Education system to improve the standard. The main problematic issues of education systems in Pakistan are: lack of professional teachers, high dropout rates particularly at primary level, outdated curriculum, lack of accountability, multiple system, political interference, insufficient funds, corruption, poor examination system, lack of research and lack of proper implementation of policies etc. Pakistan’s dire state of education sector and policy implementation demands immediate attention from the government. Without doubling its current financial commitment to education, Pakistan cannot meet it. We are on the verge of destruction and only factor which can build up our society is Education, so it’s our responsibility to work for betterment of our education reforms so that we lie up our self along western countries.
ReplyDelete1.High expectations for every student. 2.Parent and community support. 3.A rigorous curriculum and fair assessments. 4.Sufficient resources to help all students achieve. 5.Safe, healthy, and supportive learning
ReplyDeleteenvironments. 6.Schools and classrooms equipped for teaching
and learning. 7.Qualified teachers in every classroom. 8.Strong school leadership.
A leader has got multidimensional traits in him which makes him
ReplyDeleteappealing and effective in behavior. The following are the requisites to
be present in a good leader: 1. Physical appearance- A leader must have a pleasing appearance. Physique and health are very important for a good leader. 2. Vision and foresight- A leader cannot maintain influence unless he exhibits that he is forward looking. He has to visualize situations and
thereby has to frame logical programmes. 3. Intelligence- A leader should be intelligent enough to examine problems and difficult situations. He should be analytical who weighs
pros and cons and then summarizes the situation. Therefore, a
positive bent of mind and mature outlook is very important. 4. Communicative skills- A leader must be able to communicate the policies and procedures clearly, precisely and effectively. This can be
helpful in persuasion and stimulation. 5. Objective- A leader has to be having a fair outlook which is free from bias and which does not reflects his willingness towards a particular
individual. He should develop his own opinion and should base his
judgement on facts and logic. 6. Knowledge of work- A leader should be very precisely knowing the nature of work of his subordinates because it is then he can win the
trust and confidence of his subordinates. 7. Sense of responsibility- Responsibility and accountability towards an individual’s work is very important to bring a sense of influence. A
leader must have a sense of responsibility towards organizational
goals because only then he can get maximum of capabilities
exploited in a real sense. For this, he has to motivate himself and
arouse and urge to give best of his abilities. Only then he can
motivate the subordinates to the best. 8. Self-confidence and will-power- Confidence in himself is important to earn the confidence of the subordinates. He should be trustworthy
and should handle the situations with full will power. (You can read
more about Self-Confidence at : Self Confidence - Tips to be Confident and Eliminate Your Apprehensions). 9. Humanist-This trait to be present in a leader is essential because he deals with human beings and is in personal contact with them. He
has to handle the personal problems of his subordinates with great
care and attention. Therefore, treating the human beings on
humanitarian grounds is essential for building a congenial
environment. 10. Empathy- It is an old adage “Stepping into the shoes of others”. This is very important because fair judgement and objectivity comes only
then. A leader should understand the problems and complaints of
employees and should also have a complete view of the needs and
aspirations of the employees. This helps in improving human
relations and personal contacts with the employees. From the above qualities present in a leader, one can understand the
scope of leadership and it’s importance for scope of business. A leader
cannot have all traits at one time. But a few of them helps in achieving
effective results.
Our society these days are divided in to two
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Some believe that modern methods are
better than the traditional method of
teaching but yet these two methods are both
a successful way. In my opinion, every method in teaching is the same for they deliver the
same message to the students. Therefore
there are pros and cons to it as well in these
ways of teaching.
The pros for traditional methods are that
teaches shouldered too much of responsibilities for teaching in the classroom
to make sure everything they thought were
understood by the student. Thus it was a good
method, where there was efficient
communication between teacher and
students. There was also the typical way and a controllable class where the teacher would
teach on the blackboard, explained, asks
students to copy and made sure students paid
attention and listen. Besides that, the
traditional way in disciplining students in
school and teaching them was an effective way in building a good characteristic student
where students were afraid of their teacher
and respect them.
Talking about the pros there are cons to
traditional method way where students were
to afraid to ask their teacher questions. Thus students get board of the same way of
teaching method done by the teacher which is
on the blackboard and listening to the teacher
talk while they sit down in class and heat up
their chairs. Besides that, disciplining the
students with canning and scolding is not a sufficient way for students get traumatizes in
school.
On the other hand, the pros of modern
method in teaching help a lot where there is a
centered classroom which is created by the
teacher and accepted by the students. In modern method students are aware of their
learning process through the computers. Thus
with the help of computers teachers prepare
their work in their thumb drive and present it
to the class through slides show which is an
easier way. And students can do their studying and their work all in the computer
without depending 100% on their teacher in
schools. Besides that, there is also classroom
contract which consists on agreement
between teachers and student regarding on
how each will contribute to and behave in the classroom to start building a student’s
expectation towards independence.
Therefore students even have a bonding
relationship with their teacher to be their
friend so that they can share their problems
to the teacher without being afraid. As for the cons of the modern method of
teaching students become too independent
where they think they don’t need guidance
from anybody because they think they can
accomplish anything by themselves. Thus with
the use of computers in school children gets distracted with online games and websites to
browse on besides their studies which will
cause them distraction. . Besides that saving
all data’s in the thumb drive can be a problem
when there is a virus which can also cause the
students and teacher to get to comfortable and depend too much on technology and
forget other better tools in teaching. Thus
students also begin to be too comfortable
with their teacher as their friend in schools
and forget their responsibilities and respect
over the teacher. Lastly, I feel that the teaching methods should
be balance because it both brings good
intentions in educating a person for the
better future of everyone. Thus it sends out
the same message even in different way but
yet it is useful.
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