Category: Articles / Essays
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The Terrible Attabad Disaster of 2010: Recollection and Reflection
By Fazal Amin Beg In contrast to the future happenings (based on imaginations or prospects), one of the positive aspects of the events of the past provide us enormous opportunities to look at them fairly and holistically from multiple angles such as voluntary, professional, social, cultural, communal, regional, political, economic, environmental, and the like. But…
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THE STORY OF FAZALAMIN.COM: ONE YEAR OF ITS COMPLETION
By Fazal Amin Beg Although, I was aware of the online jobs and businesses, I was not motivated for such type of enterprises or jobs despite the fact since 2000 I have been on the Internet after acquiring my basic computer literacy. It was then perhaps in the first half of 2000 when Ali Rahmat…
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Linguistic Perspectives on Wakhi of Late Dr. Ayd Muhammad of the Pamirs, Tajikistan
By Fazal Amin Beg 1. Background and Introduction It was July 12, 2013 I was in the Ismaili Center, Dushambe (capital of Tajikistan) and sitting with late Dr. Ayd Muhammad of the Pamir, who remained a great academic personality and contributed enormously to the Wakhi language. He had his PhD in Linguistics and specialization in…
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The GLOOMY FATE OF SPECIAL PERSONS IN PAKISTAN: EXPLORING THE SUFFERING and Coping strategies OF A TALENTED VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSON FROM HUNZA VALLEY, GILLGIT-BALTISTAN
By Fazal Amin Beg This individual case explores and deals with the challenges of a special person (i.e., person with disability), belonging to Hunza, (being visually impaired and a student of M.A. pursuing his study in Special Education from Karachi University. it describes the socioeconomic condition of the person along with his educational endeavors and…
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Cyrus the Great and Governance of the Achamenid PERSIAN EMPIRE: LESSONS OF PLURALISM TO THE MODERN NATION STATES
By Fazal Amin Beg[1] INTRODUCTION Although, the world of today is facing and experiencing hard and harsh realities pertaining to peace, pluralism and governance, it’s not something new or strange in the history of humanity but rather has been evidenced in different periods of time if seen retrospectively and historically. We need to understand that…
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The Fate and State of Persons With Disability in Pakistan
by Fazal Amin Beg This particular contribution explores and exposes the internal challenges of the ever marginalized and neglected segment of the societies, People With Disabilities (PWDs), in Pakistan, despite the fact Pakistan is a signatory of the conventions of the United Nations on the rights of PWDs. Even though, the constitution of Pakistan guarantees…
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Identities and Approaches in Tribal Structures: Grandpa Abdul Bai of Chaprot of s̃henbarin the Northern Pakistan
By Fazal Amin Beg Based on my fieldwork In Hunza and Nagar as well as Gilgit-baltistan Region regarding the ethnic composition and on the insistent suggestion of some of my friends, I’m going to share today little information regarding Grandpa Budul of Chaprot̃ within Kimitey tribe of S̃henbar (Lower Nagar), as behind Budul are thousands…
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Requirement and Consideration of Administrative structures and Constituencies for Hunza in the Northern Pakistan on Top Priority
By Fazal Amin Beg Keeping in view the invaluable strategic, historic, ethnolinguistic, demographic, administrative and practical realities and development of the valley within the context of Gilgit-Baltistan Region and Pakistan, the district of Hunza deserves three constituencies /electorates for lower, central and upper parts. Although, like the practice of promises and fake assurances of the…
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A thought for serious learning of Knowledge and Wisdom out of One’s Life in this World
By Fazal Amin Beg As the computer or other information technologies of the modern digital world is composed of the hardware and softare and without existence of both the functionality of a related technology is seriously impaired, in the same manner a life (of a human within the animal kingdom) is composed of the material…