Owais Mughal

Do you remember an old adage:

‘ye cheez to Takkay ki nahiN hai’ (This thing is not worth a Takka).

Well, today the tables have turned. What was once true of BD Takka is now true for a Pakistani Rupee. As of today 1 Bangladeshi Takka equals 1.14 Pakistani Rupees . The phenomenal slide of Pakistani Rupee, which started around January 2008 continues unabated. Pakistani rupee is now trading at very close to 80 Rupees to a US dollar. Yahoo Finance was quoting Pakistani rupee at Rs 78.375 to a US dollar on October 6, 2008.

Umar Shah

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Nine hundred and forty eight years after Hijra,
A great fort was built by a ruler,
The emperor, the lion from whom the world flees,
Whose good fortune is reflected in his grandeur

These words, now faded, are inscribed in Persian on the fort’s Shishi gate– one of the twelve gates of this magnificent piece of Muslim Military architecture. Construction of this fort was started by Sher Shah Suri, the “Lion King”in 1541.

Rohtas was completed by Sher Shah’s son Islam Shah Suri. By some accounts it was completed in a period of twelve years. It is said, Rohtas was built at a kingly sum of over 80.5 million dams ( a dam was either made of gold or silver and weighed about 169 grains or 11 grams approx) and may have been equivalent to a rupiyah of those times.

Adil Najam

This news item in The News intrigued me:

A galaxy of former cricket stars on Sunday stepped forward and offered a helping hand in a bid to lift Pakistan cricket out of the prevailing crisis. Ex-Pakistan captains Rameez Raja, Wasim Akram, Inzamam ul Haq, Saeed Anwar and Mushtaq Ahmad met Law Minister Farooq H Naek in Lahore and offered to put in a team effort aimed at improving Pakistan cricket. Naek welcomed their suggestions and later floated the idea of setting up of a high-powered committee formed by ex-Test stars that will help in ensuring a smooth functioning of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

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