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"I'M SADDENED BY THE THOUGHT THAT IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO REALIZE THAT I AM A PROP THAT GETS RE-USED IN THE SAME SPOT BY THE SAME ACTOR IN EVERY FILM. ALL I HAVE DONE IS PLAY THE SAME ROLE IN 500 FILMS."**

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Taxila—Beyond Marglla Hills Islamabad
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**Taxila (Sanskrit: Takṣaśilā, , Pali:Takkasilā) is an important archaeological site of Ancient India, now within Pakistan. It contains the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila (also Takkasila or Taxila) an important Vedic/Hindu and Buddhist centre of learning from the 6th century BCE[3] to the 5th century CE. In 1980, Taxila was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site with multiple locations. **

Historically, Taxila lay at the crossroads of three major trade routes: the royal highway from Pāṭaliputra; the north-western route through Bactria, Kāpiśa, and Puṣkalāvatī (Peshawar); and the route from Kashmir and Central Asia, via Śrinigar, Mansehra, and the Haripur valley across the Khunjerab pass to the Silk Road.

Taxila is situated 35 km to the west of Islamabad Capital Territory—and to the northwest of Rawalpindi in Punjab—just off the Grand Trunk Road.

History
Legend has it that Taksha, an ancient Indian king who ruled in a kingdom called Taksha Khanda (Tashkent) founded the city of Takshashila. The word Takshashila, in Sanskrit means "belonging to the King Taksha". Taksha was the son of Bharata and Mandavi, from Indian epic Ramayana.
In the epic Mahābhārata, the Kuru heir Parikṣit was enthroned at Taxila.
According to tradition The Mahabharata was first recited at Takshashila by Vaishampayana, a disciple of Veda Vyasa at the behest of the seer Vyasa himself, at Janamejaya's (Parik****'s son) 12 year-long Sarpa-Satra Yajna (Snake Sacrifice).

According to Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, "Taxila" is related to "Takṣaka," which means "carpenter" and is an alternative name for the Nāga.
c. 518 BCE[10] – Darius the Great annexes modern day Pakistan, including Taxila, to the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
• 326 BCE[12] – Alexander the Great receives submission of Āmbhi, king of Taxila, and afterwards surrender to Porus at the Jhelum River.
• c. 317 BCE – In quick succession, Alexander's general Eudemus and then the satrap Peithon withdraw from the Indus.
• 321 BCE-317 BCE Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan empire in eastern India, makes himself master of the northern and northwestern India, including Punjab. Chandragupta Maurya's advisor Kautilya (also known as Chanakya) was a teacher at Taxila.
• During the reign of Chandragupta's grandson Aśoka, Taxila became a great Buddhist centre of learning. Nonetheless, Taxila was briefly the center of a minor local rebellion, subdued only a few years after its onset.
• 185 BCE – The last Maurya emperor, Bṛhadratha, is assassinated by his general, Puṣyamitra Śunga, during a parade of his troops.
• 183 BCE – Demetrios conquers Gandhāra, the Punjab and the Indus valley. He builds his new capital, Sirkap, on the opposite bank of the river from Taxila. During this new period of Bactrian Greek rule, several dynasties (like Antialcidas) likely ruled from the city as their capital. During lulls in Greek rule, the city managed profitably on its own, managed independently and controlled by several local trade guilds, who also minted most of the city's autonomous coinage.
• c. 90 BCE – The Indo-Scythian chief Maues overthrows the last Greek king of Taxila.
• c. 25 CE – Gondophares, founder of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, conquers Taxila and makes it his capital..
• 76 – The date of and inscription found at Taxila of 'Great King, King of Kings, Son of God, the Kushana' (maharaja rajatiraja devaputra Kushana).
• c. 460–470 – The Ephthalites sweep over Gandhāra and the Punjab; wholesale destruction of Buddhist monasteries and stupas at Taxila, which never again recovers.
Before the fall of these invader-kings, Taxila had been variously a capital for many dynasties, and a centre of Vedic and Buddhist learning, with a population of Buddhists, Classical Hindus, and possibly Greeks that may have endured for centuries.

The British archaeologist Sir John Marshall conducted excavations over a period of twenty years in Taxila.

Ancient centre of learning
Takshashila was an early center of learning dating back to at least the 5th century BCE. There is some disagreement about whether Takshashila can be considered a university. While some consider Taxila to be an early university or centre of higher education, others do not consider it a university in the modern sense, in contrast to the later Nalanda University. Takshashila is described in some detail in later Jātaka tales, written in Sri Lanka around the 5th century CE. ***
Takshashila is considered a place of religious and historical sanctity by Hindus and Buddhists. The former do so not only because, in its time, Takshashila was the seat of Vedic learning, but also because the strategist, Chanakya, who later helped consolidate the empire of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya, was a senior teacher there. The institution is very significant in Buddhist tradition since it is believed that the Mahāyāna sect of Buddhism took shape there.

Some scholars date Takshashila's existence back to the 6th century BCE or 7th century BCE. It became a noted centre of learning at least several centuries before Christ, and continued to attract students from around the old world until the destruction of the city in the 5th century CE. Takshashila is perhaps best known because of its association with Chanakya. The famous treatise Arthashastra (Sanskrit for The knowledge of Economics) by Chanakya, is said to have been composed in Takshashila itself. Chanakya (or Kautilya), the Maurya Emperor Chandragupta and the Ayurvedic healer Charaka studied at Taxila.
Generally, a student entered Takshashila at the age of sixteen. The Vedas and the Eighteen Arts, which included skills such as archery, hunting, and elephant lore, were taught, in addition to its law school, medical school, and school of military science. ***

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E-mail is ruining my life!
By Ben Limberg
BBC Money Programme

***Two million e-mails are sent every minute in the UK. That is almost three billion each day. But what is the real cost of this information overload? ***

***E-mail on the move adds to workers’ stress levels

***We can spend up to half our working day going through our inbox, leaving us tired, frustrated and unproductive. ***

***A recent study found one-third of office workers suffer from e-mail stress.

******And it is expensive, too. One FTSE firm estimated that dealing with pointless e-mails cost it £39m a year. ***
***Now firms are being forced to help staff deal with the daily avalanche in their inboxes. Some hire e-mail consultants, while others are experimenting with e-mail free days. ***

***Ray Tomlinson is not a household name, but perhaps he should be. Ray was responsible for the e-mail revolution.
In 1971, he developed the code that enabled him to send an e-mail between two computers for the first time.

******He says: “I do feel proud of this accomplishment. In some sense it was such a simple thing to do at the time, but it has had ramifications through many people’s lives. What I didn’t anticipate is how fast it would grow once it started growing.” ***

***Paperless pioneer

******Ray’s aim was to make it possible to communicate between computers.
“At the time, it was possible to send messages to other users on the same computer, and because these computers were expensive they had many, many users, typically in the hundreds,” he says.
“And so you could send it to a user on the same computer but not on a computer elsewhere.” ***
***His creation was a short, 200-line programme, to which he added the @ symbol. ***

Spam is a problem… There just seems to be an endless stream of it ***
***Ray Tomlinson

"The @ sign was an obvious choice to me anyway, because what I was looking for was a character that I could put between the name, or the login name of a person, and the name of the computer that he was on.

***“The @ sign, at least in English, means ‘at’. It’s a preposition, it designates where this person is in some sense, and so it was kind of an obvious choice.” ***

***Electronic mail was born. Businesses realised the potential of this paperless, near-instant form of communication.
And changing the way we communicate changed the way we worked.
This technology also has its downside. It’s too easy to write an e-mail and hit the send button. ***

***Is e-mail the appropriate tool for collaborative working? ***

***Open University: E-mail ‘a square peg in a round hole’

And when an e-mail goes wrong, it can be around the world in 80 seconds and headline news the next day.

***On average, we spend 52 hours a year just dealing with our junk mail.
That’s not something that Ray Tomlinson anticipated. “Spam is a problem,” he admits. ***

***“Some people unfortunately have been hit with a form of spam in which there just seems to be an endless stream of it coming in - and that is unfortunate.” ***

***Cutting down Professor Cary Cooper advises the government on stress in the workplace. Britons take 14 million sick days due to stress every year. He believes e-mail is a major source of employee anxiety.

“E-mail inboxes are causing employees concern, because of the number of e-mails and the poorly written e-mails. They really want to find some sort of solutions for these problems,” he says. ***
***"We are 24/7, we are interfaced by the mobile phone, by Blackberrys, by e-mails, by a whole range of technologies, so that we are almost on call all the time. ***

***It can be hard to keep your e-mails under control

“For me, e-mail is one of the most pernicious stressors of our time.”
City accountancy firm Deloitte found its employees had a problem with e-mail overload. So it came up with a radical solution.

***“A lot of people complain they get too much e-mail, that they’re swamped with it, a lot of the messages they receive are unwanted, unnecessary targeted to the wrong people,” says Mary Hensher, who heads Deloitte’s IT department. ***

***"We all tried to see if we could avoid sending internal e-mail on a Wednesday. Now the first thing that happened was it got everybody talking. ***

***“Everybody started to think about what they were sending, who they were sending it to and whether they could use another method instead of sending the e-mail. So it had a very good immediate response, where people were actually thinking more about what they were doing.” ***

***E-mail is so ingrained in our working lives that Deloitte’s experiment was abandoned after only a month. But the company still thinks it was worth it.

******“Although the e-mail free day is not an e-mail free day any more, the actual amount of internal email circulating has dropped, because people are more conscious of what they’re sending,” Ms Hensher says. ***

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**If I’m out for the day I will receive around 1800 e-mails.
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-Raju Jamil, Karachi, Pakistan
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*****Top tips
One man that might have the answer to all the problems surrounding e-mail is Loughborough University’s Dr Tom Jackson. ***
***He has spent the last nine years researching and developing better e-mail practice and has five tips he believes can help you take control of your inbox: ***

***Invest in a spam filter. You shouldn’t open a spam e-mail, because as soon as you open the e-mail up, it notifies the organisation that has sent that, saying this is a valid e-mail address. They know how long you’ve looked at it, when you looked at it and did you go back to it. ***
***Target your e-mail. One of most annoying things about e-mail is the sheer number of messages we receive that aren’t addressed primarily to us. Does everyone in the cc box really need to be copied in on your words of wisdom? Basically, a cc is there for information purposes only, and you should only use it for that purpose. ***

***Write more carefully. The reason to write carefully is crystal clear. It just vastly increases the chance that whatever it is you want to get done will get done. If you don’t write carefully, there’s room for misunderstanding. ***
***Reduce interruptions. I think it does start to stress people out. Simply by changing the way they have their e-mail application set up, they can start to reduce some of that stress. ***

***Get training. E-mail seems like common sense. Anyone can write an e-mail. But the issues we’re having are that many people are struggling with e-mail communication - and training can really help with that. ***

The Money Programme: E-mail is ruining my life! BBC2 at 1900 on Friday, 7 March.

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*Word of the Day
*Saltation
**Definition:
(noun) A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.
Synonyms: leaping, bounce, bound, spring
Usage: The kangaroo's effortless saltation was balletic and graceful.

Article of the Day
**Hussite Wars
**Arguably the first European wars in which hand-held gunpowder weapons played a decisive role, the Hussite Wars were a series of 15th-century conflicts that followed the execution of Czech religious reformer Jan Hus by the Roman Catholic Church. Protests from his followers, called Hussites, who opposed the ascension of Emperor Sigismund to the Bohemian throne, led to three anti-Hussite crusades and a number of armed conflicts. What famous warrior threatened to lead an army against the Hussites?

*This week in history
*Pope Boniface VIII Issues Unam Sanctam (1302)
**Historians consider the Papal bull Unam sanctam—which proclaimed that there is no salvation outside of the Church—to be one of the most extreme statements of Papal spiritual supremacy ever made. It arose from the Pope's feud with Philip the Fair of France, in which each attempted to prevent the other from receiving money from taxes, and it highlights the conflict between temporal and spiritual authority in the Middle Ages. How did Philip respond to the bull?

Quote of the Week!
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Article of the Week
Absolute Zero
The lowest temperature theoretically achievable by a system, absolute zero is the point at which substances possess no thermal energy. In 1848, British physicist Lord Kelvin devised a temperature scale that set absolute zero, or 0°K, at -273.15°C. Although absolute zero is impossible to achieve, scientists have brought some substances within a billionth of a degree of 0°K, inducing in these materials odd quantum effects such as superconductivity. Where is the coldest known place in the universe?

This week in history
**Abraham Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address (1863)
**The Gettysburg Address, one of the most quoted speeches in US history, was delivered by President Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and half months after the famous battle fought there. In approximately three minutes, Lincoln's address redefined the American Civil War as not merely a struggle for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" for the US and its people. Lincoln's address has drawn comparisons to what ancient speech?

*This week's birthday
*Indira Gandhi (1917)
**India's first and only female prime minister, Indira Gandhi held the position from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984. As leader, she instituted a number of economic reforms and fought a successful war against Pakistan. However, she was later embroiled in political controversy and a fierce ethnic conflict, which led to her assassination in 1984. Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, succeeded her as prime minister, but was himself assassinated by Tamil militants. Pundit Jawarlal Nehru was Indira Gandhi's father?

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INTERESTING (received from Dubai);

We all love Sardar jokes. But do you know that Sikhs are one of the most
hard working prosperous and diversified communities in the world. My
friend told me about the following incident which I wish to share with
you. It has had a deep impact on my thinking.

During last visit to Delhi, I rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver was an old Sardar and boys being boys my hosts; these pals began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to tease the old man. But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed.

**At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid the cab hire-charges. The
Sardar returned the change, but he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said, ''Son, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes. **

I listened to them all and let me tell you, some of them were in bad
taste. Still, I don't mind coz I know that you are young blood and are
yet to see the world. But I have one request. I am giving you one rupee
each. Give it to the first Sardar beggar that you come across in this or
any other city.'

My friend continued, ' That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn't
find a single Sardar begging anywhere.'*

*MORAL: The secret behind their universal success, is their willingness
to do any job with utmost dedication and pride. A Sardar will drive a
truck or set up a roadside garage or a dhaba, put a fruit juice stall,
take up small time carpentry,.. ......... . but he will never beg on the
streets. Isn't this very thought provoking ??? *

Always
............ ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... SINGH IS KING

KuRiyan Lahore Diyan
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Worlds Top 10 Airlines

The World Airline Awards are based on the annual World Airline Survey by Skytrax - carried out between August 2007 and June 2008.

  1. Singapore Airlines has been ranked as the world’s best airline for the 3rd time in a decade. The awards are given every year by the Skytrax, which conducts a world airline survey. Singapore Airlines also bagged the award for offering the ‘Best Business Class’. Singapore Airlines took off with three flights per week in the beginning. Today, their network spans across 103 destinations in 41 countries. Singapore Airlines was ranked 17th in ‘Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies’ rankings in 2007. The airline is known the world over for its innovation, safety and service excellence and profitability. The airline boasts of excellent inflight telecommunication, entertainment services and luxurious amenities that make flying a memorable experience. The airline started its services on 1 May 1947. Singapore Airlines is also the first airline to fly the world’s largest aircraft, the A380. The average age of the passenger fleet is about 6 years. Chew Choon Sen is the company’s CEO.


2. Cathay Pacific is ranked 2nd best airline in the world. It also bagged the award for the world’s ‘Best First Class’, for their new onboard 1st Class product and service concept. Hong Kong?s largest airline, Cathay offers passenger and cargo services to 120 destinations worldwide. Cathay Pacific is one of only six airlines worldwide to carry a five-star rating from Skytrax. Cathay Pacific Airways was founded in Hong Kong on 24 September 1946 by former air force pilots Roy Farrell and Australian Sydney de Kantzow. The Cathay Pacific Group, including Dragonair and Air Hong Kong, now operates more than 150 aircraft to 130 destinations across the world. Eighteen years after the company was founded, it celebrated carrying one million passengers. Nine years later, in 1973, the airline had a record of one million people every year. Today, the airline flies about one million passengers each month. Tony Tyler is the CEO of the company.


3. Qantas is the third best airline in the world. It also bagged an award for the ‘Best First Class Lounge’. Qantas was founded in the Queensland outback in 1920. It was registered as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS). The airline has a reputation for excellence in safety, operational reliability, engineering and maintenance, and customer service. Qantas is known as the world’s leading long distance airline and one of the strongest brands in Australia. Its global route network covers more than 675 destinations in more than 130 countries. Geoff Dixon is the CEO.


4. Thai Airways ranks fourth in the list of top 10 airlines. It also bagged the 4th place for the best cabin staff. Thai Airways International was founded in 1960 as a joint venture between Thailand’s domestic carrier, Thai Airways Company (TAC) and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). On April 1, 1977, after a 17-year partnership with SAS, the Thai government bought out SAS’ remaining 15% holding and Thai became fully owned by the Thai govt. Thai flies to 74 destinations in 34 countries on four continents. It has a fleet size of 88 aircraft. Chaisawasd Kittipornpaiboon is the Chairman of Thai Airways.


5. Asiana Airlines from South Korea is the 5th best airline in the world. It also won an award for world’s ‘Best Cabin Staff’ and award for ‘Best Economy Class’. Asiana Airlines is known to offer one of the best services onboard. Formerly known as Seoul Airlines, Asiana flies to 12 domestic destinations and 73 international destinations in 17 countries worldwide. Asiana’s headquarters and overseas hub is located at Incheon International Airport (near Seoul) and its domestic hub is at Gimpo International Airport. It has a fleet of 65 aircraft. Asiana was established on 17 February 1988 and started operations in December 1988 with flights to Busan. Asiana was awarded a 5-star rating by Skytrax. Kang Chu-Ahn is the CEO of the company.


6. Malaysia Airlines is ranked the 6th best airline in the world. The flag carrier of Malaysia, it operates flights from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, and its secondary hub in Kota Kinabalu. Malaysia Airlines maintains a strong presence in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Middle East and on the Kangaroo route between Europe and Australasia. Malaysia Airlines has started its operations in 1987 after the airline changed its name from Malaysian Airline System. It was founded on 1947 by Malayan Airways. It started flying operations in 1947. In 1963, the airline was renamed Malaysian Airways Limited. Idris Jala is the managing director CEO of the airline. It is one of the six airlines to be given a 5-star status airline by Skytrax.


7. Qatar Airways, a 5-star airline is ranked No.7 in the world. It also bagged the award for ?Best Airline? and ‘Best Cabin Staff’ for the Middle East region and ‘Best Business Class Catering’ category. Qatar has seen an average growth of 35 per cent year-on-year for the past 10 years. The airline is known for high quality services. Akbar Al Baker is the CEO. It has a fleet size of 65 aircraft flying to over 80 international destinations.


8. Air New Zealand is the 8th best airline in the world. It offers passenger and cargo transport services within New Zealand, Australia, the South West Pacific, Asia, North America and the United Kingdom. Its main hub is Auckland Airport in New Zealand. Air New Zealand began as TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Limited) in 1940. Today, it has a fleet of 60 aircraft. The airline has gained reputation for innovative and outstanding passenger services at a fair price. Rob Fyfe is the CEO of the company.


9. Air Emirates is ranked as the 9th best airline in the world. It is the eighth-largest airline in the world in terms of international passengers carried. It ranks amongst the top 10 carriers worldwide in terms of revenue, and has become the largest airline in the Middle East in terms of revenue, fleet size, and passengers carried and the eighth largest airline in Asia, in terms of passengers carried. The airline operates over 3,710 passenger flights per week, to 91 destinations in 55 countries. During 2007-08, Emirates carried 21.2 million passengers. The airline was established on 25 May 1985 by the Dubai government and was supported by the founder of the German airline Germania, Hinrich Bischoff, in its initial years.


10. Etihad Airways jumps into the top ten league for the first time. Etihad Airways was set up as the National Airline of the United Arab Emirates in July 2003 by a Royal decree issued by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, then the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Dr Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif Al Nahyan was appointed Chairman of the airline. The Abu Dhabi based Etihad Airways is expanding services at a fast pace. On November 12, 2003, the airline started commercial operations with the launch of a service to Beirut. Soon the company started adding one new route a month. By June 2006, it started flying to over 30 destinations. By 2010, the company plans to fly to 70 destinations. Etihad was the first to launch a direct flight from the UAE to Geneva (June 2004), Brussels and Toronto (October 2005) and first-ever non-stop flight from Abu Dhabi to Johannesburg.

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INTERESTING FACT !

CANTONMENT PUBLIC SCHOOL-KARACHI
1958-2008

The Cantt.Public School, Karachi celebrated its GOLDEN JUBILEE
at the very ground of the school where hundreds of students
from 1958 till this day, have held assembly, dua and walk to their classes
including me when I got admitted to the school in 1961 in class IV
and matriculated in 1967.

Some of the students who became popular in Indo-Pakistan
and globally as well are;

JAVED JABBAR, former Senator/Fed. Minister,
Admiral Shahid Karimullah, former Chief of Naval Staff
and currently our Ambassador to Saudi Arabia,
Shahid Malik, currently our High Commissioner to India,
Wasim Bari Jan, former Captain of pakistan Cricket Team,
Makhdoom Khaleequz Zaman, former Senator, (my batch mate)
Makhdoom Rafiquz Zaman, former Nizam of Hyderabad,
Salman Alvi, famous ghazal singer, M. Ali Shehki, Afshan ahmed
and many more…

Here are some pics of the function held on 5 Dec-08
and copy-pasted below is also an article I wrote some years back which
was published in MAG, DAILY NEWS & THE NEWS of JANG GROUP;

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**CANTT. PUBLIC SCHOOL KARACHI
AN ORNAMENT ( OF PAST ) IN PROSPERITY…OF EDUCATION
**Raju Jamil

***Aristotle said that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Poor Aristotle! Perhaps he is in pain up there watching how the CANTONMENT PUBLIC SCHOOL, KARACHI has met it’s end after almost 40 years…recently.

CPS was established under Cantonment Board in 1957-58. It was commissioned as a high class & low budget school on “no profit..no loss” basis in 1960. It’s anchor person was Colonel (Retd) M. Ehsan Hyder ( of Bhopal ) an senior scholar from Cantab. The initial management of the school comprised of Hyder Saheb, Khalilullah Khan, Miss Catherine Val Dreamo and Z. A. Khan. The school area was spread on hundreds of acres near the Cantt. Railway Station, Karachi.

The only building which was constructed 3 years after school’s commissioning was the Headquarter of Red Cross ( now Hilal-e-Ahmar ). The Cricket ground of the school touched the boundaries with the area where the Hockey Club of Pakistan Ground is now located. The students use to enter the school from the main gate next to Hilal-e-Ahmar Building just before the Cantt. Railway Station. The road had a Tram Line as Diesel Powered Trams commuted from Saddar and ended their journey at the corner of the mini round-about of Cantt. Railway Station. It use to pass in front of school’s main entrance gate. ***

***Our transport use to stop inside a huge parking lot within the school vicinity from where it was almost one Km walk towards the senior wing of the school….passing through the junior wing and under school’s land mark…a huge DOME construction of which took place before us and we ( the students ) participated in clearing the cement, water and other garbage stuff from the site.

I got in CPS in 1961. Since CPS was co.ed. we had a number of girls in our class which made it all the more necessary for us to do our homework in time, remember spellings, demonstrate good manners in order to avoid embarrassment in front of the opposite sex.

Our most liked class teacher was Mrs. Waheed. She is related to Prof. A. B. A. Haleem. She was loved by all. She had this unique art of getting deep into a student’s mind and ensuring that he or she has understood whatever she was teaching. I remember a class-fellow KHALID MANNAN who was a real hard nut to crack! But Mrs. Waheed embarked upon a mission and made him one of the most liked & intelligent student of the class & school.

At CPS, the education was of high and required standard. The fee was low even if compared to the cost of living expenses and value of money those days. Only Karachi Grammar School could match the education standard of CPS if we talk of co-ed. Schools. If I were to sound like Col. Haathi of Jungle Book I would say “ Discipline…discipline was the thing then “ .

Z. A. Khan as Proctor of school was an intrepid person as far as maintaining the order in ranks and rules for students was concerned. Miss Val was the Lady Proctor and a class of an administrator. Khalilullah Khan was the supervisor and a very learned educationist himself but a man from old school of thought yet mixing with the promises of those years conveniently.

The school produced many talents who have held key assignments in the country or have held records to reckon with : Javed Jabbar ( Former Senator & Federal Minister ), Shahid Karimullah, former Chief of Naval Staff and currently our Ambassador in Saudi Arabia, Shahid Malik, currently our High Commissioner in India, Wasim Bari ( former Captain of Pakistan Cricket Team & record holder ), Zakir Mahmood ( currently President Habib Bank Limited ), Hakim Nasir ( famous poet ), Salman Alvi ( famous Ghazal Singer ), Mohd. Ali Shehki, (famous pop singer), Salim Zia ( former MPA & Minister ), Makhdoom Khaleequz Zaman ( former MNA & Senator ), Javed Hayat famous tennis player, the list goes on….( I did my matriculation from CPS in 1967. I reckon that there would be many more famous ones of CPS who got in the school after 1967 )

The annual sports day of CPS (1964) was a blast!! As we can see from the photographs… I distinctly remember, had Col. Khusro ul Mulk as the Chief Guest. There were atleast a thousand Cups, Shields, Plaks etc which were given to the students participating in various sport competitions divided into four houses by the names of “IQBAL”, “JINNAH ”, “SIR SYED” and “BABUR”. ***

I remember “Iqbal House” got the highest number of awards. Students like Zia Valika, Asghar Valika,Hasan Madani, Ameeruddin (Chicu) Jehangir, Raza Iqbal, Zafar Iqbal, Zakir Mahmood, Jamil Chaudhry, Jamil Zuberi, Rasheed Chaudhry, Mujahid Farooqi, Nazma Ilyas, Shehla Saljuqi, Rukhsana, Yasmin, Tariq Irshad, Rahat, Tehzeeb Hussain, Mobina Hussain, Mehr Khatib, Ghazala Hussmani, Babar, Hasan Madani, Ovais Yazdani & Pervez Muzaffar and Shahab Ayub…got a number of awards. Nazma…I remember, got the Best Debator award. I didn’t get any but I was the “BABAR HOUSE” team member of TUG-of-WAR competition which we won from all other houses.

In 1965 I was selected as a Prefect of the school by Hyder Saheb & Z. A. Khan.
There were 10 prefects who use to support the Proctorial Force through checking on follow-up of school rules by students. Our duties included checking whether the student is in proper school defined attire. Even wrong colour socks called for an explanation and was subjected to a minor punishment like an assignment to write “I will wear white socks regularly when coming to school“ 100 or 200 times! The punishment criteria varied. I saw students being expelled from CPS also….” Discipline…discipline was the thing! “
Our first School Magazine “ CLARION “ was published in 1964. It carried a lot of articles and photos of various occasions CPS had celebrated. I can never forget a joke penned by ( possibly ) Hilal or Jameela. The joke so stated that some students of a school decided to play a joke on their class teacher by creating a “bug” out of plasticine and after painting it black, they took it to the teacher to ask as to what kind of a “bug” was it ? and the teacher after carefully examining it ask’ “does it hum”…to which the students say “ yes sir..it does “ and the teacher smiles and says..” it’s a humbug then! “.

Khalid Sattar, an Air Force Officer who, some school-fellow told me, died some years back, was the most famous student of Cantt. Public School. He had a motorbike “TRIUMPH” which was used extensively for visiting the publishing house in connection with CLARION. He was the Senior Prefect and an outstanding student also.

I never met Khalid Sattar after school days but I tried to keep a track of old publicians…of 1962-67 days whether my class fellows or not. Being a Senior Prefect for the term 1966-67 and having great deal of memories, a long time back…during one of our meeting at some get-together I requested JJ ( Javed Jabbar ) to establish an Old Publicians Association and he informed that there was one but pretty inactive for obvious reasons. JJ had also established a “Saturday Club” at the school for recreational & sports activities.

The most shocking blow we received in recent years, however, was the fact that Cantt. Public School , Karachi’s the entire building block(s) of senior & junior wing(s) including our landmark…the DOME stands completely demolished / raised to the ground.***

When I visited my school, I literally shed tears!

SOME PICS OF THE GOLDEN JUBILEE

With Javed Jabbar on stage calling out my batch-1967
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THE FUNCTION;
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ON STAGE WITH MY BATCH MATE/CLASS FELLOW
JUSTICE SARMAD OSMANY OF SINDH HIGH COURT;
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OUR TEACHER OF 60’s MRS.MANZOOR BEING ESCORTED ON
STAGE TO PRESENT HER A “THANK YOU” PLAK;
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JAVED JABBAR OF FIRST BATCH-1961
SPEAKS DURING THE DRIZZLE WHICH SUDDENLY STARTED
IN KARACHI LAST NIGHT!;
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JayJay and myself..compering;
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Some merry moments between;
Khawaja fariduddin and Shirley Hyder Valika
of first batch-1961 and myself-1967 batch.
SHIRLEY is the daughter of our great Principal M.E.HYDER Saheb (Allah Bakhshay)
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What a function it was–that ended at 2 am;
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This car is reportedly worth 5 million pounds…
They say it belongs to the son of the Ruler of Fujeirah..
**
Some say it belongs to Sheikh Mohammed, the Ruler of Dubai..
which not likely as the number plate comes from Fujeirah Emirate..!
and moreover…a Ruler’s car can never be parked like this…!!**

**Bugatti Veyron in Dubai this is an awesome machine V16 engine 1000bhp with 9 radiators top speed 405km/hr **
No one can beat this car in a drag race Probably the most expensive car in the world with the most expensive number plate in the UAE!!!
Here are some snaps of it parked at MALL OF THE EMIRATES - Dubai.

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U.S.PRESIDENTIAL LIMOS;

TRUMAN-1942

EISENHOWER-1950

and 1953

JOHN F. KENNEDY-1961
(he was killed in this car)

Richard Milhouse Nixon-1972

RONALD REAGAN

George W. Bush, sr-1989

Bill Clinton-1993

George BUSH-2001

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“RENAULT”
made in India, priced at Rs.130k!!