By Rauf Klasra

ISLAMABAD: Retired Army generals, including some who trained and groomed Pervez Musharraf, have planned a long march and a sit-in before the Army House in Rawalpindi to get it vacated so that Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani could move in. The long march, the date of which will be announced soon, is being given final touches. The procession to force Musharraf to vacate the Army House would be led by former Army chief Mirza Aslam Beg and General (retd) Hamid Gul and about 200 retired Army officers will be there.

And the co-chairman has to watch out too: Sindh National Front (SNF) Chief Mumtaz Bhutto would start a campaign against PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari from May 22 for "not fulfilling the promises made with the masses, including judges' restoration," sources told 'The News' on Monday. Mumtaz who?

Top officials of the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) were caught off guard in the Senate body on Narcotics on Monday, when they were asked probing questions by the senators about owner of 'The Frontier Post' Rehmat Shah Afridi and who forced him to become an approver against Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari in his long nine years in jail. Rauf Klasra.
It is simple Watson: Nawaz Sharif first, who put him behind bars to pressurize Benazir, and then the Musharraf Administration.

Another reason for the death of our academia is that learning and scholastic pursuits are not valued by our society as compared to acquiring power, traditional authority, wealth and influence, which are placed higher in the ranking of social values. One thing that separates the modern world from pre-modern feudalistic culture is the respect for the learned and the teacher. The academician at a Pakistani university has always been at the receiving end of power and has got poor allocation of social and material values. I wonder how a struggling, demoralised and alienated academia could compete in the production of knowledge or match the scholarly output of universities in comparable developing or Muslim countries. analysis: Death of academia "”Rasul Bakhsh Rais

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