ANCIENT tales and beliefs about a “curse” put on a person or thing is well known in many cultures, but how much of all this is true?Let us examine a belief related to the pharaohs of Egypt...
There are more sick patients but it doesn’t matter to Oscar because it only bothers with people who are about to die...
A cat owner, Don, relates an interesting incident from 1972 about his family pet Calico...
Many of them have been written about by yours truly...
MANY a time, history is recorded in the most unlikely of places...
Inside remote caves, in unique fossils, stone carvings, ancient artefacts, etc
PORTSMOUTH: Britain’s last surviving warship from Gallipoli is being restored to mark the bloody campaign’s centenary, as a new exhibition tries to counter myths surrounding the disastrous World War I offensive...
Futility of Allied campaignThe National Museum of the Royal Navy, next to HMS M33, is attempting to dispel misunderstandings about the campaign in its exhibition, Gallipoli: Myth and Memory...
NATIONAL myths glorify nations, create a false sense of superiority and impunity among members towards others and cause abuse...
Myths harm myth creators too as they abandon reality...
THE Pakistan cricket team has just begun its tour of England, and I wonder if their fitness level has benefited from their recent training camp...
So when we talk about civilian-military relations — or civ-mil in current jargon — we should remember the role unprincipled politicians and inefficient leaders play in providing space to the military...
A supplementary question about what the child has told me in English — obviously memorised from her book — has led her to plead that she be allowed to speak in her own language because she has so much more to say...
I have hereby tried to discuss some myths briefly which are considered facts nowadays...
Bermuda triangle is a weird place where aircrafts and ships disappearIt is the most common myth about the area which is stretches from Florida to Puerto Rico and the mid-Atlantic islands of Bermuda...
DR Mubarak Ali’s article was very well written (Images on Sunday, Aug 30)...
Most of what he wrote is true
WASHINGTON: Transgender people live under dramatically varying circumstances around the world — often facing violent repression, but also conquering crucial new rights most notably in Europe and the United States...
There are few reliable statistics on the community, in part because many transgender people around the world are unable to come out
WHAT is the number one problem afflicting Pakistan? Is it a non-functional state or an elitist democracy or a country as isolated as North Korea, or poverty and the powerlessness of the masses? None of these, according to the standard discourse preached by a certain section of the elite, media and the military establishment — Pakistan’s number one problem is corruption...
But what is problematic are the myths which have arisen with...
In its latest working paper titled, “Unlocking Pakistan’s Revenue Potential” published in August, an International Monetary Fund expert has discussed Pakistan’s tax revenue generation capacity...
For example, the paper asserted that income tax rate in case of individuals is 20pc in the following words:“Although the statutory CIT and PIT rates declined from 45pc in 1990 to 31pc and 20pc, respectively, by 2016, Pakistan’s low level of...
Help was sought from professional historians to construct an ideology which could determine Pakistan’s raison d’etre...
Another group of writers elevated Muhammad Bin Qasim as the conqueror of Sindh and the founder of Pakistan...
But many of the myths surrounding the revolution have proved more difficult to extinguish...
The purported callous remark about the poor was just icing, so to speak, on the brioche...