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Jamshoro, well known as educational hub of Sindh, having five major universities has turned pleasant and a treat to travel after heavy monsoon rain fall during the month of August.  Locals have started camping and visiting many places of Jamshoro especially green hilly sites in the surrounding. Jamshoro is virtually the gate-way to the Indus Valley, now world-famous for its civilization and rich cultural heritage.  The Ranikot Fort is located 40 km. to the north of the campus, in the northward continuation of the same hilly track which become Laki Ranges, merging with the Khirthars northwards.  Amri, an important archaeological site, lies about 15 km. further north. Sehwan, a well known township lies 25 km. to the north of Amri.  Mancher Lake the largest fresh water lake in the region, is situated to the west north west of Sehwan. Travelling about 150 km. north through the Indus plains brings one to the site of Moen-jo-Daro, the...

Sindhi Adabi Sangat (SAS), Larkana, Kotri and Sindh University chapters have announced their solidarity with renowned Sindhi folklorist and poet Aajiz Rehmatullah Lashari, who few days back drown all his books and valuable manuscripts in Indus River as a protest against negligence of Sindh's culture department for Sindhi folk literature and has now announced to destroy all the awards and medals in same manner. In this regards the poets, writers and intellectuals of Sindh including Dr. Mubaruk Lashari, Aziz Qasmani, Ali Akash, Kaleem Butt, Zahid Dharejo, Mehboob Sindhi, Umar Tewnoo, Mohammad Ayub Junejo, Hosh Khoso, Zafar Ali Lashari and others have showed their solidarity with the folk poet Aajiz Rehmatullah and urged him not to destroy any valuable manuscripts or folk poetry, while they have also decided to meet the protesting folk poet and to urge him upon Shah-jo-Risalo, the magnum opus of the Sindhi literature. Few days back Mr. Lashari had announced to destroy...

In the field of communication humankind has witnessed three greatest revolutions: (i) When man learnt to write language: This was the greatest achievement made by man as he started communicating his messages and information by writing, whether he used signs, symbols, pictures or letters (modern day alphabets). (ii) Invention of Printing Press: The second greatest revolution in communication was witnessed when German inventor Gutenberg invited the printing press in 1439, now the information was not limited to the elite class and the clergymen but it was in the grasp of common man and common man started to think and share ideas more frequently. (iii) The Digital Space: The third wonder of communication came after 2000s, when digital media was introduced, with the evolution of social media no voice could be suppressed, oppressed or censored and it has changed life of millions of people, ordinary people have become heroes. However, there still remains a question how to go viral o...

#SindhBoycottsGeo has become a trend on social networking site twitter and within few hours it was second most talked about trend in the micro blogging site, following the top trend #KashmirAtDiscussionPoint. Politician Ayaz Latif Palejo, Activist Max Memon, Mushtaque Mirani, Ulfat Pitafi, and others joined the trend, while some of the tweets urged DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor to take action against the biased Geo TV (News) anchor. While politician Ayaz Latif Palejo tweeted:  "All Sindhi and Urdu-speaking citizens of Sindh are sons & daughters of this soil, they should join hands for corruption-free, peaceful & prosperous Sindh & Pakistan. We are body & soul & can't be parted. Sindhi and Muhajir civil society should play its role to defeat hatemongers."  The people of Sindh took on to social media after their sentiments were hurt by the Geo TV (News) anchor Shahzad Iqbal, when he in his program called Karachi, the capital of...

The people of Sindh have shown their grieve feelings as their sentiments were hurt by a private news channel's anchor when he mentioned Karachi that happens to be the capital of Sindh, as a separate province, which has caused a serious concern for the unity of Sindh. In his talk show the Geo TV (News) anchor named Shahzad Iqbal while having a heated discussion with senior PPP leader Nisar Khuro went on to say "Karachi, a separate" province, this biased statement hurt the sentiments of entire Sindhi nation and people of Sindh have started a social media campaign against Geo TV (News) and its biased anchor and have announced to boycott the transmission of Geo TV (News) till that biased anchor Shahzad Iqbal asks for an apology from entire Sindhi nation for hurting sentiments. In this regards social media activist Mukhtiar Abbasi called for boycott of Geo TV (News), while he called Shahzad Iqbal agent of RAW. Another Sindhi social media activist Ulfat Hussain Pita...

Pakistan has been ranked as the fourth fastest-growing freelance market with 47 per cent growth in freelance earning during the second quarter as compared to the same period of last year. According to the global payment platform Payoneer’s Global Gig Economy Index, published in Forbes, Pakistan was among the top freelance markets leaving behind regional countries including India, Bangladesh and Russia. The report was based on a sample of the more than 300,000 freelancers in Payoneer's network. According to the report, the US stood at the top with 78 per cent growth followed by the UK at 59 per cent, Brazil 48 per cent, Pakistan 47 per cent, Ukraine 36 per cent, India 29 per cent, Bangladesh 27 per cent, Russia 20 per cent, and Serbia 19 per cent growth. The report observed that many freelancers in developing economies were young adults looking to get a foothold in a career. Pakistan, where many freelancers are under age 30, is a good example, it added. “In Pakistan...

Death with Interruptions or Death with Intervals is a 2005 novel by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago. Saramago was awarded Nobel prize for literature in 1998, Saramago is well-known for his unique style of writing fiction, as he didn't use the conventional method of novel writing as the novel is written in a style almost akin to stream of consciousness.  He avoided using quotations to signify speech, instead relying on inline text, and the usage of capitalization to signify the start of a new speaker's words. He avoided the capitalization of proper names of people or places, and especially of his protagonist "death" who emphatically insists that her name be written lowercase. The story moved around death as both a phenomenon, and as an anthropomorphized character. The main focus of the novel is how society relates to death in both of these forms, and likewise, how death relates to the people she is meant to kill. Here are some outstanding quotation...

                                         (Leaves from History of Sindh)                     By: Late Prof. Dr. Allah Rakhio Butt Hindvasi is one of the oldest newspapers of Sindhi language, during British Raj it faced many trails and tribulations, it was even charged of sedition. This is the historical record of that sedition case.                                Jethmal Arrested: On 26 April 1919 Jethmal's house and the Hindvasi office were searched and he was arrested for an offence under section 147 ICP, but was released on bail the same evening. The message was quite clear. But the fearless fighter was relentless to fight back and did not bow or bend. On 15 May he was again arrested for two offences under section 124 A (Sedition) and 153 A (Ra...

Rights activist and feminist Sindhu Nawaz Ghanghro from platform of Youth Action Committee (YAC) has demanded for the revival of student unions in all educational institutions and to abolish 144 Act. She was addressing a presser in Hyderabad on Monday. Ms. Sindhu said that the labor and student unions in all multinational and national organizations were accepted in cultured world, from these unions national leaders were born and one great example of that was Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, she become president of student union during her studies, but it was unfortunate that she became prime minister of this country and was unable to revive student unions. "In the absence of these unions poor students face endless problems, such as huge fee structure in institutes, on the other hand the present government has not only ended all the scholarships for poor and needy students but has also banned construction of new infrastructure in universities, many such issues take place that are not...

Karachi is Historical City of Sindh which was built in 1729 by a famous business man Bhojomal who was from famous city of Sindh Sehwan, he constructed Kharadar in 1729 & introduced and included a new Port with historical ports of Sindh, Debal Bunder, Ketibunder, Kharochan & Shahbunder. These Sindhi leaders are Makers Of Modern Karachi. 1. G.M. Syed. (President District Local Board Karachi 1928 - 1933.) he was also founder of Pakistan who passed resolution of Pakistan from Sindh Assembly in 1945  2. Jamshed Mehta. (First Mayor of Karachi 1920 - 1933.) He was also founder member of Sindh Haari Tehreek. 3. Hirchand Rai Bharvani. (President Karachi Municipal Committee 1911 - 1921). In history Karachi was village of Mai Kolachi/Marearo Mirbehr and it was also Kachhi Abadi of Bhanbhore city of Sindh & Indus Delta of Sindhu River.

Prose literature has always remained center of criticism from very beginning, while novel is considered as the most important genre in prose fiction, a lot has been written about novel and its technique, while the scholars and critics have divided into different kinds. Even various styles of narration are discussed and classified, characterization in a novel and the importance of plots and sub-plots has again and again come under the limelight of critics. Yet it seems that a lot of things regarding novel have not been discussed and they require further deep study, in this regards British novelist and critic David Lodge started a series of columns in The Independent and others publications in 1991-92, in which he discussed many aspects of a novel. Later on Penguin Group published those essays in book form named "The Art of Fiction". This book contains 260 pages approximately and while I was reading it, the book opened new horizons of fiction for me. In this book, Davi...

 The law enforcing agencies have arrested four activists of MQM (London) from Hyderabad, here on Friday. In a search operation at Faqeer Jo Pirh and Hali Road, the law enforcers arrested Union Council (UC) chairman and vice chairman associated with MQM (London).  Sources have confirmed to WiseSindh that among the arrested were Tariq Kazmi, chairman UC-9, Rafique Arain, vice chairman UC-9, while other two included Ismail Mughal and Nawab Ali, both local activists of the banned MQM outfit. Sources claimed that they were arrested for raising slogans in favor of MQM founder 'The Bhai' and were dancing on party songs.                              The Bhai Banned In Pakistan: In 2015, a ban was imposed to broadcast MQM-L founder's speech, images or even name after he was declared culprit of hate speech and instigating violence in the country, as his violent party workers attacked a media house ...

Society For Integrated Development (SIDE) organized a get to gather and celebrated 104th Birth Anniversary of renowned Sindhi intellectual, scholar, linguistic and political thinker Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo on 15th August 2019 at Jamshoro, which was attended by writers and thinkers of Sindh including Prof. Abdul Majeed Chandio, Prof. Imdad Chandio,  Aziz Gopang, Ali Akash, Dr. Santosh Kumar Kamrani, Mohsin Joyo, Akhter Hafeez, Aftab Hussain,  Kaleem Butt and Umar Tewnoo. On that occasion rich tributes were paid to M. Ibrahim Joyo for his incalculable services in fields of Sindhi literature, language, education, and politics. On that occasion the writers and thinkers shared their experiences about Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo.  Prof. Abdul Majeed Chandio said: "Today we are remembering the Great Joyo Saheb, who guided us in every walk of life including literature and politics. He was voice of progressiveness, secularism, socialism, nationalism and democracy in Si...

Areas plagued by fast food restaurants have higher rates of heart attacks, scientists have claimed. Researchers in Australia found the more takeaway chains there were in an area, the more of the killer cardiac events occurred. Scientists used data from 3,070 patients admitted to hospitals in New South Wales with a heart attack between 2011 and 2013. Each patient's home address was noted, so experts could see how many fast food chains existed in each of their neighborhoods. For every additional takeaway store in the area, there were roughly four more heart attacks per 1,000 people every year, the experts found. The findings were the same in both rural and urban areas, even after adjusting for other risk factors of a heart attack, including high blood pressure. Experts at the University of Newcastle presented the study at the annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Study author Tarunpreet Saluja said: 'The results emphas...