Adil Najam
Not for the longest of times has a piece of music mesmerized me the way this song has.
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Adil Najam
I have followed the sad news about the death of 32 year old Mohammad Saad Khan, during the recording of a branded reality show for Unilever, since it first broke. Beyond my personal anger and sadness at such waste of precious young life in so futile a cause and circumstances, I did not write about it immediately partly because TeethMaestro was already following it so well and in more detail than I possibly could but also because there were so many things that remained unclear about exactly what had happened and how.
I hoped that things would get clearer and we would find more about what had happened. They have not. And that fact itself seems worthy of comment.
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Yes literally. Today I read in news that Pakistan is leading the region in per person annual sugar consumption. On average, every Pakistani is now consuming 25 kilograms of sugar every year. Please take few seconds to think about it. Take your eyes off the monitor and for few seconds imagine what I just wrote….shabash – Teek hai – bilkul Teek – every Pakistani…25 kilograms of sugar….in one year. wow.
Trailing behind Pakistan are other countries of the region like India with 14 kg/person, China with 11 kg/person and Bangladesh with 10 kg/person.
It is expected that in 2009, Pakistan’s sugar demand is going to be 4,350,000 tonnes. Pakistan is expected to produce 3,600,000 tonnes of sugar locally while the rest will have to be imported.
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