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A few minute farmer

Near my home a farmer was working in his field, collecting wheat bundles and dumping at a place. One day I just observed him, while some children were helping him by collecting wheat bundles one at a time. The next day I saw the same farmer along with another villager doing the same work together. The task being an easy one, I decided to help them in collecting the wheat bundles and therefore approached them. They were much greeted but tried to stop me from working, saying my clothes will get dirty, or dust will stick to my body etc. But I said no, let me help you, there is no need to worry about me or my clothes. So I started helping them with their work. After collecting a few bundles and hardly after 5 minutes I realized, “that it’s not as easy as I thought”, and Mr. Helper is in trouble. Realizing my breathing condition and the sweat on my face, the farmer again said, it’s too much for me and offered me some water to drink. But looking the ages and condition of both the farmers...
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Why one is 1, two is 2?

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While surfing I found an interesting article with the title Why one is 1 two is 2. The article was about the logic of numbers we use in our daily routine businesses, i.e., 1, 2,3….0. These numbers are known as " Arabic " numbers Ever wondered why 1 mean one, 2 means two. It is the logic of angles that exists in Arabic Algorithm. The Arabs popularized these numbers but they were originally used by the early Ponecian traders to count and keep track of their trading accounts.   From the figures above we can easily understand that number 1 is having one angle, 2 is having 2 and so on… Coming finally to zero we find that 0 has no angle and therefore zero is 0!!! Interesting isn’t it?
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Beyond Trillions/ کھربوں کے بعد

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  While working with numbers, a thought just came into my mind that what would we call, when we count above trillion or 10 Kharab in Urdu. For example, In Urdu when we start counting, we come across a scale that is; Ekai, Dahai, Sainkra, Hazar, Dus Hazar, Lakh, Dus Lakh, Crore, dus Crore, Arab, Dus Arab, Kharab and Dus Kharab or 1 trillion. Beyond Dus Kharab, 1 trillion, our counting turns into 100 Kharab, 1000 Kharab or 10 trillion, 100 trillion etc. the reason, because we usually don’t know, what 100 Kharab is called. Luckily, I was able to find  terms used for figure above 10 Kharab (1 trillion) , which sorted as per the scale are as follow; Urdu (Roman)  اردو Figure (Power Notation) English Ekai اکاءی 1                     ...
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Pukhtoonwali – پختون ولی

Pukhtoonwali is a code of honor of the Pukhtoon social structure. Pukhoonwali broadly consists of three principles, Melmastia (Hospitality), Badal (Revenge) and Nanawatey (Repentance Over Past Hostility and Grant of Asylum). Every individual of Pukhtoon society is expected to abide these principles. The non-observance of principles of Pukhtoonwali is considered disgraceful, and disgrace is considered as the biggest punishment in the Pukhtoon society. 1. Melmastia (Hospitality) میلمستیہ Pukhtoons are considered as one of the most hospitable people in the world. Melmastia or hospitality is one of the finest virtue of Pukhtoon culture. Pukhtoon be rich or poor consider its an honor to welcome guests regardless of any relation or status. Pukhtoons welcome the guest with open heart and try to prepare the best meal for the guest according to their affordability and satisfaction. The tradition place for guests in Pukhtoon society is Hujra, that is common meeting place in villages. In traditi...
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A Name for NWFP-Identity for Pukhtoon داپختون شناخت - پختون ولی یا پختونخواہ

I was never in the favour or against the changing of the name of NWFP to Pukhtoonkhwa, Pukhtoonistan, Afghania or any other such kind of name. To me there were many more important issues than changing the name of province such as Peace & stability, avaiablily of basic necessaties of life to the people of NWFP. People who were in favour of changing the name, had the logic that everyone in Pakistan have their identities in the form of provincial name that represents them such as Punjab for Punjabis, Sindh for Sindhis and Balochistan for Balochis. Similary they wanted to have Pukhtoonkhwa for Pukhtoons. It was quite a justified logic which I don't oppose but in my opinion Punjab is not know Punjab because of Punjabis but Punjabis are known because of Punjab (the land of five rivers). Similarly Sindh is not known because of Sindhi people but the Sindh (indus) river and the people living in that area are called Sindhis because of living in Sindh. In case of Pukhtoons, they are not k...
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Who are Hungry?

Going to my school, college and then office in the morning, I always wondered to see people eating heavy food during the breakfast time. I had my selfmade opinion about those rice, choley, nihari, paye etc. eating people, considering them as people of hungry nature (Bhookey Mazaj Waley), whose priorities are just to eat. I among friends, always discussed those people with fun, however, the facts made me to change my opinion. During my professional life, for sometime I had to travel from one city to another, and so many time I had to travel at night. I used to start my journey from one city at night and reach the destination before the fajar/morning prayer, while sometime I used to reach even before the Azan/call of the fajar/morning prayer. This night travel exposed me to another face of working life. I came across people, who were not bound by the usaual 9 to 5 working hour. They were the people whose professional responsibilties starts from mid night and lasts till early morning. The...
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Becoming Superman...A wish

I remember when I was a child of about 5-6 year, one day I started insisting to my mother that I want to become superman and she will have to do this by all means. As stubborn child I continued my insisting that she will have to make me Superman. Being a loving and caring mother, she always tried her best to fulfill all my possible wishes. But this wish was certainly not possible to be fulfilled. My mother tried to explain me, how I could become Superman. She told me, that I can only become Superman when I reach to the age of 10 because till that time my bones will be strong enough to stop a train with my power and at the same time I will easily fly. I was satisfied with the answer and agreed to wait for a few more years. By the age of 10, I was sensible enough to understand what the reality of Superman is, just a comic hero and nothing else, and surly becoming Superman was no more my wish. Today when I remember all this, I realize that…”How stupid my wish was” and “How wise was my mot...
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