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Are non-smokers smarter than smokers?

NEW YORK: Cigarette smokers have lower IQs than non-smokers, and the more a person smokes, the lower their IQ, according to a study of over 20,000 Israeli military recruits.
Dr. Mark Weiser and colleagues from Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer found that young men who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day or more had [...]

Trade & peace: are they linked?

Few people know that from amongst the more than 100 countries with which Pakistan trades, India is Pakistan’s ninth largest trading partner.
This means that Pakistan traded far more with India than it did with France, Italy, Thailand, Iran, Canada, Malaysia and, surprisingly, even Japan in 2007-08, the latest year for which we have complete data.
Moreover, [...]

Social norms diminishing fast

Islamabad-The world is changing fast and becoming a global village, with towns and cities growing and changing the mindsets of the people living in them.
Everyone is complaining about the changing norms and values not only in our country but all over the world at this time.

Our fathers and then their fathers, while recalling their time [...]

Students urged to understand terrorism to save Pakistan

Islamabad-Students at a seminar on Understanding Terrorism condemned terrorist attacks on the International Islamic University (IIU) and emphasised on the need for actively engaging students in understanding the phenomenon of terrorism to enable them to play their role in steering Pakistan out of the current crisis.
The seminar was organised by students of the Quaid-i-Azam University [...]

Terror Threat Shuts Pakistani Schools

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s schools closed their doors indefinitely Wednesday, a day after bombings at an Islamabad university, amid warnings of more attacks on a wide range of targets around the country.
The recent spate of terrorist attacks in Pakistani cities has come as the army prepared for and begun a military offensive in a tribal region [...]

Still closed

Many schools in every province remain closed – not so much because of an extant threat but because of their inability to comply with the security requirements placed on them by police and government agencies. A circular sent out by DCOs to schools which have been categorized as ‘A-1’ security risks details the arrangements that [...]

A dismal literacy rate

YESTERDAY was International Literacy Day, and the good news is that out of a global population of 6.7bn people four billion are literate. However, while this fact may be cause for cheer, it also offers a chance to assess how heavily skewed the figures are in favour of the developed world. In many developing countries [...]

Class consciousness

PUBLIC welfare is far from the militants’ agenda and their brand of faith. From denying polio vaccination to young children to depriving girls of their right to education, they do soldier on but certainly not in the name of humanity. Reports say that school-going children have been jammed between the militants and security forces for [...]

Editorial by DAWN Academic year complexities

THE academic year of first-year students at Karachi’s government colleges has been shortened by no fault of the students. This is in contrast to not only the rest of Pakistan but the world where classes are held, on average, for over 200 days in an academic year. Even if the placement of students in the [...]

Speech Writing Tips

Speech is one of the most powerful tools of mass communication and very helpful in case one has to communicate with a large audience. A speech is prepared according to the audience and their language. Speeches used to be spontaneous but the modern day speeches are well planned and there are even speech writing tips, [...]