Really it is smart idea, to use Smartphones

Munaza Kazmi

Smartphones are one of the most innovative and communicative tools in the present world and it has become a very important and wonderful communicative tools among young generation.The first Smartphone was invented by IBM in 1992 known as a Simon Smartphone. This was a big breakthrough in the field of technology and for the requirements of people.

The impact of smartphones is visible in almost all sectors like Education, Business and entertainment sector. Likewise, it has created miseries.

In the contemporary world, it has been observed that, people complain about having busy schedule, ironically, they can use smartphones at least 5 hours a day. Usage of useless Apps increases significantly, with the result of degradation in Physical Social interaction, Distraction, Addiction, health problems etc.

Smartphone use has become a serious addiction phenomenon in our youth, it has been found that college students use phones on an average of ten hours a day. Three out of five smart phone users can’t go more than 60 minutes without checking their phones. 

A new phobia has been developed known as NOMOPHOBIA (fear of being without a phone) another health-related issues like Nerve problem, Back problem, Anxiety and Depression are seriously concerned. Likewise, smartphone addiction among the university students found that 35.9 % of students feel tired during daytime and 38.1% have decreased sleep quality as they remain addicted with smartphones till late nights.

There was time when people were seen in libraries, now only it’s the dust that seems to settle on those precious books, whenreading on smartphones is worse for learning and comprehension. Moreover, these devices create ADHD –like symptoms in users, thus diminish the happiness between social settings due to the constant flow of information to their phones and also disconnect the relation between parent and children. Once can observe it quite often: visit some restaurant or even a park, you would experience that instead of talking to one another, people would be busy in using mobile phones, uploading the stories, while ignoring the beauty of present and the surroundings. Moreover, children would be seen handling smartphones regularly for long hours playing games. Here I felt an urge to remind their busy looking parents that, you people are destroying the generation, and the future.

Similarly, from the medical perspective, excessive use of smartphone can exacerbate thumb arthritis by excessive texting on mobile phones. At the same time shorter wavelength blue lights emitted by smartphones causes Health hazards like Nerve pain, back pain shoulder pain. Cell phones give off Radiations and affect our brain cells and thus mutating existing cells, causes Cancerous cells like brain cancer. Likewise, its overusemay lead to psychological and physiological complication.Besides, an increase in the number of accidents have been reported due to attention paid to the cell phones during driving. Hence, continued use and exposure can lead harmful effects viz: -Tumor (radiation effects), Disturbed brain activity, Inappropriate Media and Academic Malpractice.

Also, it may lead to the exposure of financial and security risk.

Therefore, it can be concluded that smartphone addiction has developed an unavoidable place in one’s life. People are so much dependent upon it that they feel life cannot run smoothly without a smartphone. With the result, numerous negative ill effects have been identified so far and much more are to be known in the coming days.

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Munaza Kazmi has recently done Master of Philosophy from Bahria University Islamabad. Her debut novel is Unrequited Love. 

She’s an author, columnist writing in different newspapers and a researcher having seven publications till yet, she’s been writing since 2016.

You can connect to Kazmi at twitter @munaza_kazmi or on research gate as munaza kazmi.

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Allocation of cases

IN recent years, jurists and other commentators have raised concerns about the chief justice’s powers of constituting benches and allocating cases to judges in several jurisdictions, including Pakistan.

In Pakistan, all Supreme Court judges are equal when carrying out their judicial functions. However, with respect to their administrative role, the chief justice is the ‘first among equals’ and the ‘master of the roster’. He decides when a case is listed for hearing and the judges who will adjudicate it.

His authority in this respect is provided for in Order XI of the Supreme Court Rules, 1980. The court has clarified in judgements that the chief justice has the “sole prerogative to constitute any Bench with any number of Judges to hear any particular case”. Chief justices of high courts have a similar role.

The prerogative of the chief justice to constitute benches and allocate cases can be traced back to colonial times. Article 214(3) of the Government of India Act, 1935, provided that “the Chief Justice of India shall determine what judges are to constitute any division of the court and what judges are to sit for any purpose”.

Assigning cases shouldn’t weaken judicial independence.

Chief justices in India enjoy similar powers, which in recent years have attracted controversy. For example, in 2018, four of the senior-most judges of the supreme court held a press conference and expressed concern about the manner in which the chief justice of India was allocating cases to certain benches.

The discretionary power to constitute benches and allocate cases without necessarily applying any objective and predetermined criteria is inconsistent with international standards on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary as well as general principles of the rule of law.

While international standards do not prescribe a universal system for allocation of cases to individual judges, they clarify that any system of assignment of cases should not undermine the independence of courts and judges who adjudicate those cases.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers has argued for a mechanism of objective allocation of cases that “protects judges from interference from within the judiciary”. Otherwise, allocation “at the discretion of the court chairperson may lead to a system where more sensitive cases are allocated to specific judges to the exclusion of others”.

The Venice Commission has also recommended “the allocation of cases to individual judges should be based to the maximum extent possible on objective and transparent criteria established in advance by the law or by special regulations on the basis of the law”.

Such mechanisms could take a number of forms such as the drawing of lots; automatic distribution according to alphabetic order; or predetermined court management plans that incorporate objective criteria governing how cases are to be allocated.

Take, for example, Article 101(1)(2) of the German constitution that says “no one shall be deprived of his/her lawful Judge”. The right to a lawful judge was historically seen as a means of preventing any external influence on the judiciary, especially from the executive. In recent times, however, it is also seen as a safeguard against deprivation of the lawful judge through measures within the court administration.

Pursuant to the right to a lawful judge, a ‘management group’ comprising the president of the court as chairperson and a certain number of judges, decides how cases are allocated. The management group has the task of developing a ‘management plan’ for the court for the financial year ahead. This plan states the criteria according to which cases are allocated to judges. The Fed­e­ral Consti­tu­tional Court of Ger­many has held that the man­­agement group’s plans have to be detailed enough to eliminate the possibility of man­­ipulating the allocation of cases, and that they should ex­­clude the possibility that judges are chosen according to arbitrary or subjective factors.

The persuasive power of judicial decisions rests not only upon the quality of their reasoning, it also depends on public confidence in the judiciary. The higher the degree of confidence in the impartiality of judges, the greater the public willingness to accept the courts’ authority.

It is then essential that safeguards are provided against arbitrary allocations of cases in order to prevent even the slightest suspicion of illegitimate influences on the judiciary’s functioning.

The current system of allocation of cases in Pakistan has grave implications for the right to a fair trial, judicial independence and the rule of law. It is imperative that courts adopt a clear, transparent, credible system of case allocation in line with international standards to uphold the independence of judges deciding individual cases as well as the judiciary as a whole.

The writer is a legal adviser for the International Commission of Jurists.

reema.omer@icj.org

Twitter: @reema_omer

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EXCLUSIVE: Why children after the age of 15 do not listen to their parents?

EXCLUSIVE BY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

FARUKH SHEHZAD

This is the major problem that every parent have been facing in their life and looking for its long term salutation without putting any effort, which cannot be happen as we all know without putting effort nothing can be achieved.

Most of the parents do not know about this problem how to be fixed and the majority of them have good knowledge that how we can get over the line and fix this problem.

Parents always take character building of their children very light so they do not give proper time to their children before their age of 15.

Few important reasons are mentioned below

Parents get too much busy in their job, earning money, attending parties and functions and other life activities.

Parents do not put high attention on children during their first 15 year's from birth.

Because the first 15 years are highly crucial for a good character building of a child.

What we normally see during the first 15 year's:

We see parent’s handover mobile phone to their children and they spend most of their time in playing video games.

Children spend all their time on television watching drama's and cartoon's repeatedly, therefore children don't get much time for building of good character and good human being.

Parents and Children of Modern Days Vs Golden Days

Because 80% of the learning of a child is through from ears [By listening] and the remaining 20% of the learning is from eyes [By Watching].

So, when a child listens or watches anything repeatedly day after day... month after month... He actually is in a deep learning process... By doing this everything goes deep into his/her mind and blood effortlessly' So he never forgets it for the rest of his life.

The hard and painful stage of life that No parents want to face

Yes, it is the utmost painful phase of life when the parents order or request to their children to finish any job and they refused to follow.

Why Children refused on most of the occasions:

Because Parents did not give proper time to their children when they were in growing age.

Parents did not give proper love to children.

Parents did not explain about purpose of life.

Parents were busy making money and children were busy in mobile phones and watching television.

Children of Golden Day's

60, 70 year's ago there were children and they were in Golden Day's.

Even though, they did not have mobile phones and television and other facilities but they were well educated and those days children did not get a fake education like us.

Those days children were well aware of the aim of life.

So, we can call them Children of the Golden Day's.

The solution to this problem here below:

Solution is very simple… Parents need to follow few steps to make their children a good human being.

Step No. 1: Parents must restrict their life activities to grab a good amount of time to spend with their children.

Step No. 2: Parents must avoid giving mobile phone to children at the age of 1 years from 15 years or at least 10 years is a must.

Step No. 3: Parents must take steps to keep their children away from watching television at the age of 1 years from 15 years or at least 10 years is a must.

Step No. 4: Parents must give proper love to their children by spending time with them (Taking children out for picnic does not mean that you are giving proper time to children.

Steps No 5: Parents need to tell their children about the aim of life thru little stories before they reach 10 years of age.

 

So, these were the solution and important steps which every parent must follow to make their children a good human being in the society.

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The writer is the Editor-In-Chief of DIPLOMATICNEWSPK.BLOG

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FASCINATING DISCUSSION: Spouse of Egypt ambassador spent her time with CGSS Team

 

By Farukh Shehzad

Editor-In-Chief / diplomaticnewspk.blog

ISLAMABAD, FEB 2021: Madam Alia Dahroug, Wife of  Egypt Ambassador to Pakistan met CGSS Team members on Monday, Feb 15.

During the meeting projects of mutual interests in the fields of entrepreneurship and education were discussed.

Madam Alia Dahroug visited many beautiful places in Pakistan and met friendly people.

Wife of the Egypt Ambassador to Pakistan expressed her love for Pakistani food.

Madam Alia Dahroug also expressed her views with CGSS team members about several important historical places of Egypt during the meeting.

CGSS team members enjoyed spending time with Madam Alia Dahroug, Wife of  Egypt Ambassador to Pakistan.

Madam Alia Dahroug thanked CGSS Team for arranging such an interesting and meaningful discussion.

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The writer of this article is Editor-In-Chief of diplomaticnewspk.blog

He has good command over graphic designing as well.

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Swat Serena Hotel, A Heritage Property

 

Munaza Kazmi

Swat a valley as green as the emeralds that lie beneath the mountains. Cold and clear streams and rivers flowing from the snow-capped peaks of the Hindu Kush. A brilliant blue sky - it's hard to describe the Swat valley without getting carried away.It feels like one of the most beautiful and enchanted places on earth.

 

Many know Swat Valley for its tranquility and natural beauty. But the valley houses several archaeological and heritage sites, thatmarked it as a desired destination among the tourist.

Swat Serena Hotel, a magnificent heritage hotel, managed and operated by Tourism Promotion Services Pakistan (Owner and Operator of Serena Hotels), lies in the footstep of the Hindukush Mountains in an absolutely secure location in the capital city of Saidu Sharif, within walking distance of the colorfulbustling marketsselling brightly embroidered shawls, folk jewelry and locally produced honeyand ancient Buddhist sites of Mingora.Moreover, it’s easily accessible from Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and other major cities due to the recently constructed Motorway.

The beautiful historic building, surrounded by the lush green neatly tended gardens, with centuries old tress telling the tales of history, the calming voice of water from the ever-flowing fountains, the welcoming serene blue pool, the classySuvastu restaurant offering a variety of food, the immaculate modern rooms decorated with hint of Swati tradition, and on top the most hospitable staff reflects the true Pakistani culture.

The Hoteltoday is a heritage property, every stone of it tells fascinating tales of the rich past. The Hotel was in-fact a Prime Minister House, till today named as Wazir House, constructed in1935 by then king Badshah ShahibMiangul Abdul Wadud, the Wali of Swat and a descendant of the Akhund of Swat, for his Prime Minister. After Badshah Shahib death, his descendant MiangulJahanzebtook charge and in 1949 removed the Prime Minister from the Wazir House. Later in 1969, when the princely state of Swat merged with Pakistan, Jahazeb handed over the Wazir House to the government of Pakistan, that transformed it in to the guest house. From the year 1969-1984 onwards, it was with PIA as a guest house.

Reasoning the poor maintenance and care, the House was losing its splendor. Fortunately, in 1984 government of Pakistan leased it to Tourism Promotion Services Pakistan (Owner and Operator of Serena Hotels) for a better change. Serena Hotels that come under the umbrella of Tourism Promotion Services, renovated the hotel and Wazir House with much diligence and converted into a luxury setting, the project was completed with the assistance of Aga Khan Trust and Culture, which resulted in adding up of another luxury hotel of Pakistan and promoting the element of tourism.

Today the Wazir House regained its glory and known worldwide as Swat Serena Hotel-chain of Serena Hotels. Serena Hotels known fortheir luxury hotels, resorts, palaces, and fortswith its remarkable hospitality, enjoy history of promoting tourism, culture and empowering the communities. Many stories can be related mainly, in the times of unrest in Swat and recent pandemic of COVID-19, despite the empty rooms all of the uniformed staff have been kept on by the management of Serena Hotels.

However, recently the government of Pakistan had shown some ambiguity regarding the managing termsand leasing agreement of Swat property with Serena Hotels. During my stay at Swat Serena Hotel, which would become a memory of lifetime reasoning the luxury, comfort and unending hospitality, I have seen the hint of concern in the eyes of staff about their association of three decades of services with Serena, where they feel as family. Moreover, they felt the fear of losing the bread and butter of their family.

Contemporary government of all favorite Prime MinisterImran Khan, that seems keen to promote the tourism industry, must see this matter personally, since not only Pakistan would end up in losing one of its luxury hotels,but also the professional institution who maintained wellbeing of community, product and services. Moreover, it would be a question mark to the tourism industry, that is forecasted as to become blood circulation of the Pakistaneconomy.

On recent visit to Hassanabdal while speaking at the inauguration of renovated Railway Station on 6^th November 2020, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan quoted, we have to consider Tourism as a backbone of Pakistan economy and livelihood “If we improve tourism, there would be no need for taking debt from IMF or any other country. The opportunities are there we just need to take the first step to cash that”.

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Munaza Kazmi has recently done Master of Philosophy from Bahria University Islamabad. Her debut novel is Unrequited Love. 

She’s an author, columnist writing in different newspapers and a researcher having seven publications till yet, she’s been writing since 2016.

You can connect to Kazmi at twitter @munaza_kazmi or on research gate as munaza kazmi.

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