Khirthar Canal, A touch of picturesque
From the Blog odysseuslahoriWork began on Sukkur Barrage in July 1923 and shortly after the first civil works were put in place in the turbid waters of the Indus, excavation of its seven canals was taken in hand. Along the left bank there were to flow the Eastern Nara, Rohri, Khairpur Feeder West and Khairpur Feeder East. Along the right bank, the Rice and Dadu canals, close to each other and only a short way west of the Indus, were designed to flow in a southerly direction. Canal regulators on the right bank of the Sukkur Barrage for Dadu, Rice and Khirtar canals, the last of which was once called North-Western Canal The third canal on this side was the North-Western that we today know as Khirthar Canal. It took off from the barrage and flowed, as its name implies, on a north-westerly bearing through Shikpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Curtailing sectarianism?
From the Blog mehmalI visited the Auschwitz concentration camp earlier this month with a group of Pakistanis. We have all read about the Nazis and the horrors of the Holocaust but none of us were prepared for the feelings that swept us when we set foot in Auschwitz. It had an eerie feeling to it and it felt as if the air was heavy with grief. When we visited the gas chambers and prison cells, one could literally feel the pain and terror on one’s skin. The visit was a sombre affair. When we left, I could not shake off the fear for a very long time. It also reminded me of the way members of the Shia community, especially the Hazara Shias in Balochistan, were being target-killed in Pakistan by the banned sectarian outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). On Wednesday morning, leader of LeJ Malik Ishaq was kipakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Open Mustard Seed: Identity Management on Steriods
From the Blog faisalkhan A few days ago, I wrote a blog post on Federated Identity Management: A consensus based approach towards solving the KYC problem. Then someone pointed me to the direction of Open Mustard Seed Project (Official Website) or OMS as it is called for short. I had never heard of OMS and decided to check it out, the intro video is just fascinating. *This* is what the world has been waiting for. Whilst it is not a 100% identity management solution (like I had talked about) it does deal with identity as one of its sub-sets and is more of a web framework for sharing *data.* As per their website… *A Framework for developing and deploying secure cloud applications to collect, compute on, and share personal data* *The Open Mustard Seed (OMS) project is an open-source framework for developakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
0 comments :
Post a Comment