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A visit to Daegu, nicknamed the ‘Apple City’

A visit to Daegu, nicknamed the ‘Apple City’

The historical city of Daegu is the economic motor of South Korea and home to Oriental Medical Culture. Thousands of health professionals are produced every year at Daegu Health College, where currently 7000 students are enrolled in various programs.    By Nasir Aijaz AsiaN Representative DAEGU:  After traveling for over an hour, covering some seventy […]

Let me open the window of life

Let me open the window of life

With Mr. Brijesh Bhatia (India), Eddy Suprarto (Indonesia) and Pramod Mathur (India) – 2008 visit By Nasir Aijaz As William Zinsser, a renowned American writer and journalist (1922-2015), had once said ‘Memoir isn’t the summary of a life, it’s the window into a life’, let me too open the window and share some glimpses of […]

A visit to Pohang – The City of Steel and Light

A visit to Pohang – The City of Steel and Light

POSCO, the South Korea’s first and one of the world’s largest steel-making company is based in coastal city Pohang, also known for its Lighthouses. In 1968, Pohang Iron and Steel Company was founded and its construction commenced in 1970. The devotion of workers was behind the successful completion of country’s first steel mill, as they […]

Full moon night, millions of twinkling lights and Busan City as Republic of Korea aspires to host World Expo 2030

Full moon night, millions of twinkling lights and Busan City as Republic of Korea aspires to host World Expo 2030

The three objectives of the Busan World Expo are ‘Sustainable Living with Nature’, ‘Technology for Humanity’ and ‘Platform for Caring and Sharing’. By Nasir Aijaz AsiaN Representative BUSAN:  It was a full moon night in Busan city on November 7, 2022. The moon was alone in the sky shedding its light beams over the earth but […]

Pakistan: Politics of Bullets and Blames

Pakistan: Politics of Bullets and Blames

By Nasir Aijaz, The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: The politics in Pakistan has taken a new turn of ‘Bullets and Blames’ after the country’s ousted premier and the chairman of PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) Imran Khan alleged that Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, his Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and a senior military officer were behind the firing incident that […]

Pakistan Deluge: Disaster, but more than natural  

Pakistan Deluge: Disaster, but more than natural  

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: No doubt the unprecedented torrential rains that lashed the country continuously for over two months were a natural disaster but the way the millions of Pakistanis were devastated was in fact an unnatural disaster caused by the human acts of omission and commission. Both kinds of disasters – […]

Mehran of Sindh and Iran  

Mehran of Sindh and Iran  

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative in Pakistan Karachi: My friend Col. (R) Hassan Imam and I are nostalgic beings, as whenever we had a conversation on the phone, we used to talk of past stories related to history, heritage, culture, language and the people of Sindh. Laughingly, he often says “We are Retrophiliac, as we […]

Torrential rains devastate Pakistan as hundreds reported killed

Torrential rains devastate Pakistan as hundreds reported killed

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative  ISLAMABAD: As the power-hungry politicians of ruling and opposition parties of Pakistan remained ‘busy’ in political intrigues neglecting the miseries of the masses, the five spells of torrential rains that started in first week of July, have caused flash floods in urban as well as rural areas devastating almost entire […]

Pakistan: Uncertain Past, Uncertain Future

Pakistan: Uncertain Past, Uncertain Future

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: “Pakistan is passing through critical times’ and we have to take tough decisions to steer the country out of crisis” – this is what almost all the successive civil and military rulers used to say after coming into power, for over seven decades since creation of new Muslim […]

3 Chinese, their driver killed in bomb attack in Pakistan’s coastal city Karachi

3 Chinese, their driver killed in bomb attack in Pakistan’s coastal city Karachi

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: Four people, including three Chinese nationals, were killed while several others sustained injuries in a van explosion in the premises of the University of Karachi in the Southern Sindh province. The explosion occurred at 1:52p.m in a van near the Confucius Institute — a Chinese language teaching centre […]

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