Wednesday, November 23, 2011
PPP MNA Syed Nasir Ali Shah ends NA boycott on PM’s assurance
ISLAMABAD, Nov 23 (APP):The Pakistan Peoples Party’s member of the National Assembly from Quetta Nasir Shah here on Wednesday ended boycott of the NA session after the Prime Minister’s assurance to meet his demands.Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani went to Nasir Shah who was camping outside the National Assembly building.The Prime Minister requested Nasir Shah to end the boycott and join the NA proceedings.
Talking to newsmen on this occasion, the Prime Minister said he would take a briefing from the provincial and federal law enforcement agencies on the law and order situation in Balochistan.
He said target killings in Balochistan were not acceptable as all the victims are Pakistanis whether they belong to any school of thought.
He assured the MNA that he would resolve any issue related to the development projects of Quetta and the province.
“When you agree to disagree it is democracy,” he remarked as he went inside the National Assembly building with the MNA.
Nasir Shah thanked the Prime Minister for understanding his viewpoint and concerns.He said he was committed to the manifesto of Pakistan Peoples Party and philosophy of Shaheed Bhutto.
Nasir Shah said he would continue to raise his voice for the people of his province.
Associated Press of Pakistan
Talking to newsmen on this occasion, the Prime Minister said he would take a briefing from the provincial and federal law enforcement agencies on the law and order situation in Balochistan.
He said target killings in Balochistan were not acceptable as all the victims are Pakistanis whether they belong to any school of thought.
He assured the MNA that he would resolve any issue related to the development projects of Quetta and the province.
“When you agree to disagree it is democracy,” he remarked as he went inside the National Assembly building with the MNA.
Nasir Shah thanked the Prime Minister for understanding his viewpoint and concerns.He said he was committed to the manifesto of Pakistan Peoples Party and philosophy of Shaheed Bhutto.
Nasir Shah said he would continue to raise his voice for the people of his province.
Associated Press of Pakistan
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
TED; Ancient Wonders captured in 3D
Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations -- but they're under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, who invented a groundbreaking 3D scanning system, is using his invention to scan and preserve the world's heritage in archival detail. (Watch to the end for a little demo.)
Ben Kacyra uses state-of-the-art technology to preserve cultural heritage sites and let us in on their secrets in a way never before possible.
As a child, Ben Kacyra was taken to visit the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh near his home town of Mosul in Iraq, giving him an abiding appreciation for the value of history. So when the Taliban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan in 2001, the Iraqi-born civil engineer was dismayed. In 2002, he founded California-based nonprofit CyArk in order to apply a highly accurate, portable laser-scanning technology he’d originally developed for monitoring nuclear power plants and other structures – to preserving the world’s cultural heritage sites, what Kacyra calls “our collective human memory”.
CyArk’s methods are fast and accurate: pulsed lasers generate 3D points of clouds, which render surfaces at accuracy to within millimeters. Combined with high-definition photography and traditional surveying techniques these data make it possible to create highly detailed media – photo textured animations, 3D fly-throughs – that digitally preserve our knowledge of heritage sites against natural disaster, war, and neglect, and make them accessible to the world. Among the sites already scanned are ancient sites in Mexico, the leaning tower of Pisa, and Mount Rushmore.
Crossing borders, this Afghanistan girl has fans in Pakistan too
Posted: Wed Nov 23 2011
Spectators watching the first round bout of the 1st South Asian senior Karate championships between K Wathsala of Sri Lanka and Meena Asadi of Afghanistan would have been surprised by the cheers for the Afghan girl. The majority of the cheers — Mashallah Meena — were coming from the Pakistani contingent. Although she was wearing the badge of Afghanistan on her karate outfit - gi - till only a few months ago she was winning medals for Pakistan.
Hazaras (a tribe) from Kabul, Meena’s family had fled to Quetta during the civil war in Afghanistan in the early 1990’s. While money was tight, Meena says that wasn’t as big a problem as the society’s refusal to come to terms with a girl playing games. This was a contact sport.
“I was very headstrong so when I turned 13, I went up to the coach at a club and said that I wanted to learn. He had no problem as long as I could pay. He would make me train in the corner, but I was thrilled just to learn,” says the slightly built 19 year old who competes in the sub 48 kg category. It turned out that she was pretty good at it. Just three months after she joined she won a local competition, which was also the first time her parents came to know of their daughters passion.
Indian Express
Spectators watching the first round bout of the 1st South Asian senior Karate championships between K Wathsala of Sri Lanka and Meena Asadi of Afghanistan would have been surprised by the cheers for the Afghan girl. The majority of the cheers — Mashallah Meena — were coming from the Pakistani contingent. Although she was wearing the badge of Afghanistan on her karate outfit - gi - till only a few months ago she was winning medals for Pakistan.
Hazaras (a tribe) from Kabul, Meena’s family had fled to Quetta during the civil war in Afghanistan in the early 1990’s. While money was tight, Meena says that wasn’t as big a problem as the society’s refusal to come to terms with a girl playing games. This was a contact sport.
“I was very headstrong so when I turned 13, I went up to the coach at a club and said that I wanted to learn. He had no problem as long as I could pay. He would make me train in the corner, but I was thrilled just to learn,” says the slightly built 19 year old who competes in the sub 48 kg category. It turned out that she was pretty good at it. Just three months after she joined she won a local competition, which was also the first time her parents came to know of their daughters passion.
Indian Express
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