Another chaotic slide a la Pakistan?Story.
A panel probing Afghan election fraud finds Hamid Karzai did not gain enough valid votes for an outright win, the BBC learns.
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Karzai ‘stripped of outright win’-BBC
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Are we becoming obsessed with soft news?-BBC
While Iran and Pakistan news is a tragedy that is likely to affect every one , Ballon boy seeks to satisfy gossipping nature of man.
News that is not promoted is not read.
Promoting a news is in the hands of the Publisher,Editor, in that order.
If these gentlemen decide what has to be promoted , it stays promoted and well read.
People per se are not specific news oriented excepting in general terms like Sports, politics etc.What the content is in this area is in the hands of the media.
I am reminded of a book by Geoffery Archer or is it Sydney Sheldon, where a media Tycoon creates news, by recruiting terrorists and getting ‘exclisives’
News is what media is. -
Authorities: ‘Balloon boy’ incident was a hoax-CNN
Looks more like stage managed by media as well.
Reality shows have gone to ridiculous lengths in making people crazy for publicity and money and rating by TV producers.
In India, a Programme was ( is is still?) on, where for a few pieces of silver ,individuals were being asked in front of their spouses who they have slept with with out the spouse’s knowledge and other highly sensitive personal details.
Another programme in Tamil, a regional language, women are made to do dangerous acts like walkiing on a very high platform where wind is howling,lying with snakesetc. with very crude safety precautions.
Though abhorrent , these types of shows make one wish for censorship.
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Pakistan ‘push into Taliban area’
Couple of points.
1.What exactly is the stand of the Army?
Barring some non descript spokesman,no senior Army officer, including Gen.Kayani does not seem to have uttered a word.
2.Where does ISI stand on this issue?
3.Why no statement from the highly visible PM or Zardari,Nawaz Sharief on this issue?
4.Where does Saudi Arabia stand on this issue.?
5.The civilian people,especially lawyers who made a hue and cry about the sacking of Chudhury are abnormally quiet.Why?
In my view answers to these questions shall decide who will run Pakistan.
Story.
‘The Pakistani army has said it has pushed deeper into South Waziristan as it battles to wrestle control of the region from the Taliban and al-Qaeda.’
BBC-19 Oct 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8313699.stmFrom-Syed Shoaib Hasan, BBC News, Dera Ismail Khan
At the moment, the situation is a stalemate as the army tries to use ground troops backed by heavy weapons and air power to push back the Taliban.
The militants have entrenched themselves in fortified positions in the areas where the military is marching in. But they are likely to resort to traditional guerrilla tactics once the army is firmly inside territory controlled by the Mehsud tribe.This is the heartland of the resistance, and it is here that the fate of the campaign will be decided.
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Doctor, Qualifications and Fame alone will not do.
I admitted my daughter for delivery in a Premier, first corporate Hospital in India, now at Bangalore(Branch Office?)
The ChieF Doctor for Gyn,is looked upon with awe by the other Doctors and support staff of the Hospital,not to speak of the patients.
This gentleman,who is around 50, exudes arrogance to the point of irritating patitents;never allows patients to express their complaints/symptoms;in fact he does not allow patients to sit even;he dismisses them in a few minutes, with routine instructions;if you interrupt for clarification, God save you;in every breath, he shall say’ let Natutre take care’, but prescribe ‘n’ scans;if you ask him whether it is safe to avoid lying on the back in advanced stages of pregnancy(as elders say it may be harmful for the mother, the answer is’shut up,you better listen to these old women’I wonder how his mother deliverd him,definitely not in a speciality Hotel, sorry, Hospital.Derisive to the core of Indian thoughts on Delivery, some of which are accepted by medical science, he dismisses other supporting Doctors/staff’s view, as in when an elderly, experienced Scan Department Head suggested not to scan the baby after birth often, he ridicules him.
He demanded the scan to be done immediately, for he wanted close the file!(We did not do the scan.)Support staff are afraid to air their views on any subject, including the weather, if you are his patient.
What A Doctor!
As comic relief, one should see the Plaque in the Hospital, which after listing major advancements in Gyn.in the History of Medicine, states,after Caesarian Section, the achievement in the world is”…..Hospital offers world class Prenatal and post natal care in India”
Can you beat it for sheer effrontery?
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