Adil Najam
Looking at this picture just makes my blood boil (click on picture for a larger view). I do not know the details of the situation, nor who did what or said what or who is at fault or what fault. But the body language and attitude depicted here just has me reeling.
What is being said and how did this end? I would love to find out, but I suspect I know already. Does anyone want to reconstruct how this conversation and confrontation might have gone?
Regular readers know of my fascination with cops, but it seems I am not the only one. Asma who blogs at Metroblog Islamabad as ‘A for Apple’ posted this photograph as part of a bunch of police related photographs from her collection. The picture was reprinted at Online News, is by Ehsan Khan and the original caption is suggestive (although one wonders about the authenticity of the details provided):
A boy speaks [sic] makes a point with a model policeman of Islamabad Traffic Police after violating the traffic rules near Parliament House. The boy eventually made his point with the policeman and was not issued any ticket.
Steve Jobs’ biography available on Kindle, iBooks
Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India) October 24, 2011 India, Oct. 24 — The biography of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has finally become available on Kindle and iBooks since today morning. The biography has been written by another Apple co-founder Walter Isaacson and costs a cool $16.99.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years-as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues-Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. in our site ibooks for mac
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. in our site ibooks for mac
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
By the way, in case you wish to wait for the hard cover version of the book, you can also check out the 60-minute video with the author, Walter Isaacson, on Steve Jobs and his biography.
Published by HT Syndication with permission from Hindustan Times.
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Looking at this picture just makes my blood boil (click on picture for a larger view). I do not know the details of the situation, nor who did what or said what or who is at fault or what fault. But the body language and attitude depicted here just has me reeling.
Wow!
But manged to stay quite for CJP being slapped around like a common criminal? His wife manhandled?
The problem with Pakistan is that the “gitter-mitter” crowd has selective contempt for things.
People only speak up with it is against their guy or recently, the gal.
And then there are good people who “compromise” their objectivity on the altar of closeness to power and the pomp.
Speak up is hard work. Speaking up for those whom you do not like is even harder.
When Pakistanis will learn how to speak up for a wrong, even if not for one of your own, then all will be well.
Pakistanis are good people.