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Taimur Shaique Hussain

Taimur Shaique Hussain

The writer was former editor of Aitchisonian - Centenary Anthology, and ex-senior editor of Wharton Journal.

Remembrances of Aitchison College

By: Taimur Shaique Hussain | July 29, 2012

The General Assembly Parade, leading to the General Assembly, was a treat. Senior Aitchisonians waited at Barry Block as smaller boys paraded in from the Junior School and the Prep School. It was, ...

Twinkling, meandering, traveller’s eyes!

By: Taimur Shaique Hussain | May 26, 2012

There remains a buzz every time and again on the topic of furthering leisure time tourism within Pakistan, both by foreigners’ temporary immigrations, as well as curtailment of large-scale ...

Distance education in Saudi Arabia

By: Taimur Shaique Hussain | May 11, 2012

In the new Millennium, learning is not subject to a classroom environment. On the other hand, because of the developments in Information Technology (IT), there are many new methods and modes of ...

The pledge to make on Pakistan Day!

By: Taimur Shaique Hussain | March 23, 2012

1940 was the landmark year in the demand for partition because in that year the All India Muslim League (AIML) in its annual session - held in March at Lahore under the guidance and leadership of the ...

Whither the Pakistani dream?

By: Taimur Shaique Hussain | February 19, 2012

In mid-1993, my fiancé and I burnt our boats on pursuing the American dream of “kids in college, a yacht, a dog, and a house in the burbs”, and decided to return to our motherland ...

Victims of intolerance - or all hunky dory

By: Taimur Shaique Hussain | February 07, 2012

Are we Pakistanis victims of fundamentalism, extremism, and intolerance at the hands of right-wing individuals, peoples, and religiously bent political parties? While the Governor of the most ...

Why must professionals be in politics?

By: Taimur Shaique Hussain | January 28, 2012

The question at hand is whether professionals should devote their time, energy, accumulated learning, and hard-earned income in order to participate in politics, or allow career politicians to ...

Of gas loadshedding….!

By: Taimur Shaique Hussain | January 02, 2012

As has been the case all along the past four years or so; media, printed press, civil society, proprietors of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), larger industrials, opposition political parties, as ...

Benazir Bhutto

By: Taimur Shaique Hussain | December 24, 2011

Benazir Bhutto was named after her paternal aunt, whom her father was very fond of, but had lost when she contracted influenza and had died at boarding school in Pune. Benazir was born on June 21, ...

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