I am convinced that water war between India & Pakistan will lead to hot war, which would drag China in it, not indirectly, but directly, with disastrous consequences for South Asia, especially India. Climate change is playing havoc around the globe & not sharing technical data with Pakistan is pettiness.
The two nations have fought wars, but never has the 1960 Indus Water Treaty been affected. Water, like nuclear facilities should remain untouched. Since 1991, when the exchange of bilateral nuclear facilities list was ratified, India & Pakistan have each year on Jan 1 been exchanging respective lists.
Water is part of our (India & Pakistan) civilisation. Don't equate it with terrorism.
I don't want to comment on this Sarkari Mussalman writer. He surely, won't understand that India's civilisation is many civilisations' rainbow. Pakistani people are not our enemies, they are 'US'!
The changing times have not only weakened blood relations but also impacted human connections. In our younger days, living in a street or locality used to form a strong bond. A bond of love and closeness. Neighbours were sometimes closer than family members. A simple dish was shared, and fruits were sent across. All happy moments and sorrows were shared jointly, as if they were personal. Sadly, nowadays, people don't even know who lives beside them. Meetings or the sharing of treats, moments of joy or sorrow, are almost unheard of. We are just robots, lacking any feelings or emotions. Tragic!
Germany has around 25,000 castles, and most of them are ruins. The one in this photo, Burg Eltz, is one of only three in its whole region that war never destroyed.
The same family has lived in it since the year 1157. That comes to more than 850 years and somewhere around 33 generations, and it passed to the next one in 2018. The line in the original post holds up too. Germany really does have more castles than America has McDonald's, roughly 25,000 against about 13,500.
Almost none of the other castles got that kind of ending. Most went up when Germany was split into hundreds of small territories and every lord wanted his own fortress. Over the years they were burned down or picked apart in sieges, and plenty were just left to fall in. When the army of Louis XIV swept through the Rhineland in the late 1680s, it flattened dozens of them. Eltz should have been on that list. It got spared because one of the family lords, Hans Anton zu Eltz, was a senior officer in that same French army, and he quietly had his own home crossed off the list of castles to tear down.
The one real attack came earlier. From 1331 to 1336 the Archbishop of Trier laid siege to it. He even built a smaller castle on the hill above just to fire down on it with some of the first cannons in the region. The family ran out of supplies and gave in. They had to pull down the outer walls, but the castle itself was never taken.
There is a reason it looks like a dozen stone houses crammed onto one rock. In 1268 three brothers split it between them, and each branch built its own wing and lived there at the same time. To keep relatives from killing each other inside their own walls, they signed a written treaty, a castle peace deed, that spelled out the punishment for any crime done inside. Murder someone in the castle and you lost every right to it, for good.
For decades the castle sat on the German 500 mark note, until the euro replaced it. Today about 70 of its rooms are open as a museum, full of 850 years of one family's armor, art, and furniture that never once had to be rebuilt from the ashes.
Sadio Mane : "When I left Bambali, my hometown, I promised three things. Not to disappoint my parents, become a professional football player and return to my village to build a school." So far, he has:
- Built a $693,000 hospital,
- Built a $350,000 school,
- Gives each family €70 monthly,
- Provides 4G internet,
- Gives laptops to students.
The world needs more people like Sadio Mane!
इनका नाम रियाजउद्दीन है लेकिन मेरा मन करता है कि इनका नाम फरिश्ता रख दूं।
क्योंकि इन्होंने जो काम किया है न वो सबके बस की बात भी नहीं है, बात छोड़िए ऐसी परिस्थिति में लोग अपनी दुकान बंद करके भाग लेते।
दिल्ली के जिस होटल में आग लगी थी वहीं सामने रियाजउद्दीन के गद्दे की दुकान है, जब आग लगी और लोग होटल से कूदने लगे तो
रियाजउद्दीन ने वहां अपनी दुकान के सारे गद्दे बिछा दिए जिससे 8-10 लोगों की जान बच गई, इसमें उनका लगभग 2 लाख का नुकसान भी हुआ, लेकिन
रियाजउद्दीन कहते हैं कि वो बहुत संतुष्ट हैं कि लोगों की जान बच गई।
The sacrificial animals are making heart wrenching noises. Maybe they’re missing their homes, their selfish owners. I wish people could’ve understood their language what they’re saying.
#Eid
جسے پاکستان ہاکی کا عروج کہا جاتا ہے۔ وہ دراصل گوجرہ کے آمنے سامنے دو ہائی سکولز کے پی ٹی انسٹرکٹرز کی باھمی مقابلہ بندی تھی۔ جس نے تین عشروں تک پاکستان کا پرچم سربلند رکھا ۔
اس میں پاکستان ۔ ہاکی فیڈریشن یا ریاست کا کوئی کردار نہیں تھا
سکواش جو پوری دنیا میں پاکستان کا کھیل منوانے کی جدوجہد جہانگیر خان اور جان شیر خان کے دو گھروں اور انکے بزرگوں کی باھمی مقابلہ بازی کی داستان تھی ۔
کرکٹ وہ واحد کھیل ہے جسے ریاستی سرپرستی حاصل رہی ۔ مگر سرپرستی میں یہ ڈوبتا چلا گیا
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@NonPlyingChar Mullaly was @wasimakramlive's 300th test wicket. As a kid who was a huge Wasim fan, I can still remember Wasim bending his knees on the pitch in celebration.