February 19-25, 1999 books Friday Times 20 The myth of ‘transfer of technology’ TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION IN PAKISTAN by Ghulam Kibria City Press Kanschi: Pp446: Price Rs 300 echnalogy is not a subject many peo-pie in Pakistan will he keen to read. Thiselitre the county’s greatess tech-rulogy espert Ghulam Kibria is lirile known excspt in a […]
January 8-14, 199 books Friday Times 12 Akhtar Hameed Khan on history of rural development TEN DECADES OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM INDIA by Akhtar Hameed Khan City Press/Fazleesons Karachi: Pp 70: Price Rs 60 T he book contains ten lectures of Akhtar Hameed Khan, out of which he pre-pared a course on rural development […]
New Art Gallery in Lahore Or In response to Awaz-i-Dost by Mukhtar Masood, Nasim Ansari has penned Jawab-i-Dost. While the former is a stylist of repute and his book in projecting the cultural identity of Muslims in the subcontinent provides a rationale for the Pakistan movement, Nasim Ansari projects another view. A surgeon by profes-sion, […]
The News International, Thursday, December 3, 1908 Looking through the memory window By Mohsin S. Jaffri R eflecting on the past could only be hy opening a window in the mind and looking through. The view hecomes a projector playing on a vast screen, frame by frame, moments, events and faces, some clear and some […]
Understanding the process of change Salim Aleemuddin writes about the working of a CBO in Manzoor Colony of Karachi When AFJB is small, big bothers are NGO’s For AFJB to grow, its organisa tion structure must change. First, AFJB has helped them to get rid of their sewage problems and negotiate the sewage project supported […]
BOOKREVIEWBOOKREVIEW Pakistan’s desire for an industrial revolution BY S.H. ZAIDI “TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION IN PAKISTAN Story of a Failed Privileged Class and a Successful Working Class” by Ghulam Kibria; Published by City Press, A-16, Safari Heights, Block 15, Gulistan e-Jauhar, Karachi-75290; available at City Book Shop, 316, Madina City Mall, Abdullah Haroon Road, Saddar, Karachi 74400; […]
jmal Kamal is the soft-spoken man behind A City Press, a publishing house that is now all set to launch the city’s newest book shop not just a book Brave New by well known foreign Literature articular shop, but a place he hopes. to turn into a meeting point for writers and readers. What sets […]
BOOKREVIEWBOOKREVIEW Toffs and toughs BY KENNETH MORGAN CLASSES AND CULTURES: England 1918-1951 by Ross McKibbin 562pp., Oxford, 25 pounds. Ο ver 30 years ago, Alan Taylor wrote a memo-rable work on English history, 1914-45. He wrote of July 1945: “Few even sang England Arise. England had risen all the same.” Ross McKibbin’s fascinating new survey […]
If you buy one Book this week, make it TECHNOLOGY ACQUISI-TION IN PAKISTAN: Story of a failed privileged class and a successful working class has been written by Ghulam Kibria. Only he, thanks to his long Technology Acquisition in Pakistan airyFailed Prostleged Class association with the local reservoirs of skill and indige-nous innovation, could have […]
9 to Dr Mohamed Abdullah Pasha, a physician by pro-fession, migrated England in 1956 where he served on the health author-ity in Essex. Currently he is honorary secretary of the Rotary Club in Southend, England. He is also honorary consultant physicians for the care of the elderly in his community. He has writ-ten two other […]