Dr Irfan Zafar

Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. One wonders why the name ‘Facebook’ was chosen by these brilliant minds despite the fact that this online community has nothing whatsoever to do with the dying […]

Release and Other Stories   Author: Rakshanda Jalil   Publisher: Harper Collins (2009)   Pages 144     Rakhshanda Jalil writes on culture, society, literature, and she has published over 15 books. She edited a selection of short stories by Pakistani women titled Neither Night nor Day, which attracted a lot of readership. She runs […]

In the corporate world, succession planning is a process for identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key leadership positions. Succession planning increases the availability of experienced and capable human resource, which is eventually prepared to assume these roles as they become available. This requires engaging the leadership in supporting the development […]

The cellular industry of Pakistan has been at the forefront in contributing towards the national economy since its inception. It is the second largest tax contributor to the national exchequer, largest provider of Foreign Direct Investment (US $ 908 million for the year 2009-10) to the government of Pakistan and contributes an overall five percent […]

The Folded Earth Author: Anuradha Roy Publisher: Maclehose Pages: 368   Anuradha Roy, an editor at Permanent Black, is a graduate from Cambridge University. She wrote her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, which was published in 16 countries and translated into 13 languages across the world. It has been named by World Literature […]

Most people seem to suffer from a preconceived, inherent repulsion to the idea of secularism, equating it with atheism, anarchy, anti-religious or, more importantly, anti-Islamic concept. What do we really mean by a ‘secular’ Pakistan? We mean a nation that neither supports nor opposes any religion, where all citizens, regardless of their faith, are respected […]

My Brother is the biography of Muhammad Ali Jinnah written by his younger sister Fatima Jinnah and edited by Sharif Al Mujahid. The publication of the author, novelist and biographer Hector Bolitho’s book Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan in 1954 prompted Miss Jinnah to write the book about her brother as it was felt that Bolitho’s […]

The role of a telecom regulator in any country is that of an enabler, which ensures quality of service while serving users’ interests by ensuring a competitive environment for the operators to grow their operations through fair regulations. These in turn act as a catalyst to boost and positively synergise the industry. A slight imbalance […]

Ernest James Gaines, an American author, published this novel in 1993 and went on to win the National Book Critics Circle Award for this work of fiction. It is set around 1948 in the rural fictional town of Bayonne, seat of St Raphael Parish, in rural Louisiana, at a time when slavery had been declared […]

After China, Japan manufactures the most number of vehicles in the world with 7,934,516 automobiles produced per annum, and Toyota overtaking General Motors as the largest carmaker in the world in terms of sales volume. Iron ore is the most important ingredient required for the production of automobiles. Ever wondered how much iron ore is […]