Distorting history
From the Blog mehmalAt Pakistan’s first international education and cultural festival, School of Tomorrow (SOT) — held in Karachi last week — I moderated a session titled, ‘Teaching History and Social Studies in Intercultural Societies’. The three panellists included a physicist who is also a professor, an architect and a journalist. The discussion was made interesting because all the panellists were quite open in highlighting the fact how we teach children distorted history from day one. While we were discussing history and social studies being taught in Pakistani classrooms, I was reminded of a quote by Roger Schank. Mr Schank — a radical educator, Artificial Intelligence theorist and cognitive psychologist based in the US — pointed out something very interesting in an interview recently. He says:pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Hunza by-poll to be held on Jan 28
From the Blog pamirtimesGilgit: Election Commission of Gilgit-Baltistan on Tuesday announced the schedule for by-polls in GBLA-6, Hunza-Nagar 3. The seat had fallen vacant following the appointment of Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan as the new governor of Gilgit-Baltistan. According to the notification issued, the poll will be held on Jan 28, 2016. The public notice for the by-polls will […]pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
TransferWise gets its 1st Money Transmitter License
From the Blog faisalkhan Update: Turns out Transferwise also has its Texas License… [image: Texas License] TransferWise, the online money transfer company started by ex-Skype cofounders: Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann and has the venture capital backing of Sir Richard Branson got its first money transmitter license, issued by the State of Maine. TransferWise was previously piggy-backing on PreCash’s license, until PreCash decided to exit the Authorized Delegate business because of trouble they had with the Texas regulator. In the interim period TransferWise has an FBO account arrangement with a bank. After PreCash incident, TransferWise decided to pursue its own money transmitter licenses. Copy of TransferWise license as can be seen from the NMLS Database. [image: NMLS TransferWise Money Transmpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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