Punjab region

Stretching all the way from the Bosporus Strait in the west to the Diomede Islands in the east, Asia is not only the planet's largest continent but also it's most populous with 4.4 billion people calling it home. Following Marco Polo’s epic tale of an overland journey to China in the late 1,200’s and the marvels he encountered upon the Silk Road before arriving at the great market in Peking , the Venetian travellers exploits spurred a new wave of explorers to find a safer, quicker way to the…

Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language talked by more than 100 million local speakers around the world, making it the tenth most generally talked language [2015] in the world. It is the local language of the Punjabi individuals who occupy the recorded Punjab area of Pakistan and India. Among the Indo-European languages it is strange in being a tonal language. Punjabi is the most broadly talked language in Pakistan, the 11th most generally talked in India and the 3rd most talked local language in the…

There has been a recent debate on whether or not the green revolution should be revived. In Bourne’s article, “The End of Plenty” he discusses the green revolution refers to the research and development of technology that allowed for more than double of the average yields of corn, rice, and wheat to be produced between the 1950’s and 1990’s. Although at this time many of the hungry were fed, the green revolution still created problems environmentally. The green revolution is dangerous and should…

In the west lies the Indus River, which crosses Kashmir and then moves south to Punjab from which it receives its major tributaries. Since many of these rivers originate from the Himalayas there is a rising concern about the melting of the glaciers and the effects of global warming. In a way the melting of the glaciers will generate…

Why did Hitler decide to punish all Gypsies? What did they do? The Nazis decided to kill people for reasons like race, religion, and beliefs including the gypsies. Hitler was very powerful, his followers believed in everything he did, so if Hitler despised the Gypsies so would everyone else. Gypsies have a reputation to travel a lot, since the “gypsy” name was established people have thought that about them. Hitler hated them so much that he categorized them into the same group as homosexuals…

Security briefing paper on Pakistan Introduction: Having lost the last vestiges of its secular inspiration in the bloody marshes of Bangladesh in 1971, the country the world knows as Pakistan is at present under siege from a motley armada of militant groups, trying to establish an Islamist utopia . The situation is made worse by the schizophrenic state of the country’s counter-terrorism approach, with differential treatments meted out to Afghan Taliban and Laskhkar-e- Taiba ( groups…

80% of the people like to eat non-veg in these regions that leads to produce kidney stones in humans. Other disease and symptoms -Most of the kidney stone patients has complications mostly with spinalcord (27%), followed by kidney pain (23%), heart pain (10%) and diabetes (15 %) and gout 20 %. And stomach…

Oil exploration began in the Subcontinent in 1866 with the drilling of the first well, Kundal-1 (Khisor Range, near oil seepage); in the region that now constitutes Pakistan. The first oil discovery was made in 1915 in Potwar, located in the Punjab Province, from Miocene / Eocene rocks; that field is still on production through artificial lift. Since 1915, Potwar remained the traditional ‘oil patch’ of the country till the oil was struck in 1981 at Khaskheli-1, drilled in Badin area of Sindh…

‘kara’ meaning hand and ‘suti’ is the cotton thread, which in totality explains the handwork with cotton thread. Kasuti has resemblance with tattooing and floor decorations that reflect the folk culture of that region. The designs for floor decorations and motifs used in embroidery were almost similar i.e. the geometrical patterns with dots, lines, squares, circles, swastika, lotus, fish, conch shell, creepers, leaves, flowers, animals, birds, and, anthromorphic…

Paganism is a term that first arose among the Christian community of southern Europe during late antiquity as a descriptor of religions other than their own, or the related Abrahamic religions; i.e., judaism and Islam. There has been much scholarly debate as to the origin of the term paganism, especially since no one before the 20th century self-identified as a pagan. Once the Abrahamic religions started to become more widely adopted (in processes known as Christianization and Islamization),…