A. GENERAL INFORMATION

  1. Editorial
  2. NAPA News
  3. Articles & Reports
  4. LTTE: Letters to the Editor
  5. CC2CJP: Letters to the Chief Justice of Pakistan
  6. Reply to the Question : Is Kalabagh Dam essential for Pakistan's progress?

NOTE: PERMANENT CONTENTS 2,3,4 & 5 WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE NAPA:NEWSLETTER.

B. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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  1. National Personalities of the Month
    • Political: Syed Munawar Hasan
    • Business: Siraj Kassam Teli
    • Social: Abdul Sattar Edhi
  2. International Personalities of the Month
    • Political: Mohamed Mursi
    • Business: Warren Buffett
    • Social: Ruth Pfau
  3. Top Current News of the Day:Pakistan Papers
  4. Pakistan and International Relations: INDIA
  5. Political Guidelines: Awareness, Education & Training "All-African People's Revolutionary Party: Ideological Training Guidelines"
  6. Elections in the World in 2012
  7. Visit a Country: Sweden
  8. World History
  9. UN International Days 2012
  10. World National Days 2012
  11. A Name who lives in history: Queen Victoria
  12. Political Mirror:
    • Picture view
    • Cartoon
    • Joke
    • Quote
    • Poem: 'In the wave-strike over unquiet stones'- Pablo Neruda
  13. The Political Scandals: Watergate Scandal
  14. Useful links of June 2012
    • The TOP 100 Best NGOs-Full List
    • List of current heads of state and government
    • List of revolutions and rebellions
  15. Acknowledgement

GENERAL INFORMATION

01. EDITORIAL

As, the name, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AWARENESS, itself gives out the clear meaning, idea and picture of the Academy which is going to be the first of its kind in the history of our country, PAKISTAN.

Literacy rate in PAKISTAN, unfortunately, is very low even when we compare it with other underdeveloped countries like PAKISTAN.It is not the case and the fact that parents do not want their children to get education and it is also not the case and the fact that children not interested or willing to get education. The real fact is that they do not have the opportunities and means for that. All the governments besides not fulfilling the responsibilities of providing the basic and fundamental rights of the citizen, have also made the education unreachable for the children of the COMMON MAN of PAKISTAN. And, nowadays the basic necessities of life are also becoming beyond the reach and means of a COMMON MAN of PAKISTAN.

NAPA is established with the view to educate and train and bring awareness in people about their basic human rights, their political and constitutional rights and also to safeguard and protect the economic, social and political rights, interests, privileges and values of people of PAKISTAN irrespective of their casts, religions, languages, and political back grounds and attachments.

Our Academy is purely and totally non-political,non-linguistic and non-commercial.Our main aim and objective is to bring and enforce democracy in its true form where the masses who cast their votes to elect their representatives who should be answerable and accountable to their voters. People should not become indifferent to their representatives and should not have blind faith on their hollow promises. So, our aim and objective is to help install a true democratic, answerable and accountable and responsible government in the country, PAKISTAN.Voters would be made aware of the importance and value of their votes and once this great task is achieved, people will definitely elect the right, reasonable and reliable representatives.

We would also like to clear the fact that NAPA is not going to create a fuss or foe among the voters and their representatives. Rather our aim and objective is very clearly defined and it is always to create a harmony, love, understanding, dialogue, and better communication so that the democratic process should work more smoothly, efficiently and effectively. Voters would be fully aware of the importance and power of their votes and would be able to cast their votes more carefully and effectively in a fair and transparent election and would elect their real, true and responsible representatives. Bogus voting, cheating, interference by the agencies and threatening would be the chapters of the past.

NAPA will also function as a connecting and communication link among voters and their elected representatives.Academy shall work for an independent, transparent and impartial election process which is very important for the survival of a true democracy. Irregularities, rigging and violations of election process would be made impossible by awareness and confidence building in voters. Those who will come into power will be the true, real, answerable, responsible and accountable representatives and would serve the nation with full dedication, patriotism and willingness and it will lead to progress, prosperity, solidarity and integrity of the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN.

NAPA is at present working on the General Public Project, Voters' Awareness Project and the Education & Training Project at a very limited scale. However as soon as technical and financial resources are made available the work on the other projects, as mentioned in website of NAPA, will be started.

No doubt there is an acute scarcity of political leadership in PAKISTAN nowadays. Political leaders have lost their credibility, and the institutions have lost their sanctity. However, it may be called natural phenomena. The darkness predicts a new and bright morning after it, which may bring progress and prosperity along with it

02. NAPA NEWS

03. ARTICLES & REPORTS:

04. LTTE: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

05. CC2CJP: LETTERS TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF PAKISTAN

06. A QUESTION OF THE MONTH: 

Reply to the Question :

Is Kalabagh Dam essential for Pakistan's progress?

NOTE: PERMANENT CONTENTS 2,3,4 & 5 WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE NAPA:NEWSLETTER.

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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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01. NATIONAL PERSONALITIES OF THE MONTH
POLITICAL BUSINESS SOCIAL
Syed Munawar Hassan

Syed Munawar Hassan joined the National Students Federation (NSF) - a student body with a communist ideology- and was elected its President in 1959. The real change appeared in his life when he got a chance to come closer to the activists of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi. As a result, he joined IJT in 1960, became its member and soon he was elected as President of its University of Karachi Unit, Karachi City Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. Later, he reached its top slot and became all-Pakistan President in 1964 and served in that capacity for three consecutive terms. During his tenure of the President, the Jamiat organized several campaigns mobilizing public opinion regarding education problems, system of education, women education etc.

http://tinyurl.com/cz3rbes

 SIRAJ KASSAM TELI

Siraj Kassam Teli is a distinguished industrialist possessing eminent qualities of leadership. He belongs to a renowned family that has been active in business since the inception of Pakistan. It enjoys a high reputation and has made rich contributions to national economic progress. Teli's valuable family background has been a great source of strength in enabling him to conduct his life ethically and successfully.

http://tinyurl.com/bvcvzkm

 Abdul Sattar Edhi

Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI , or Maulana Edhi, is a Pakistani philanthropist known for international humanitarian work. He is the founder and head of Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare program in Pakistan. Together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also the recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize. In 2006, Institute of Business Administration Pakistan conferred an honoris causa degree of Doctor of Social Service Management for his services. In September 2010, Edhi was also awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire. 

http://tinyurl.com/bvudrgh
 

02. INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITIES OF THE MONTH
  POLITICAL   BUSINESS SOCIAL
Mohamed Morsi

Mohamed Morsi Isa al-Ayyat born August 20, 1951 is the fifth and current President of Egypt, having assumed office 30 June 2012. Morsi was a Member of Parliament in the People's Assembly of Egypt from 2000 to 2005 and a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood. He became Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), a political party, when it was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. He stood as the FJP's candidate for the May–June 2012 presidential election.

On 24 June 2012, the election commission announced that Morsi won Egypt's presidential runoff against Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak. According to official results, Morsi took 51.7 percent of the vote while Shafiq received 48.3. Morsi resigned from his position as the head of the FJP after his victory was announced.

http://tinyurl.com/d6umxtd

 Warren Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett ,born August 30, 1930 is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the most successful investor of the 20th century. He is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008[6] and is the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2011. In 2012, American magazine Time named Buffett one of the most influential people in the world.

Buffett is called the "Wizard of Omaha", "Oracle of Omaha", or the "Sage of Omaha" and is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. Buffett is also a notable philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Gates Foundation. On April 11, 2012, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

http://tinyurl.com/bo88px5

 Dr. Ruth Katharina Martha Pfau</strong>

Dr. Ruth Katharina Martha Pfau was born on September 9, 1929 in Leipzig, Germany.

She grew up seeing the horrors of the Second World War (1939-1945) during which her city was bombed and her home destroyed. When the war ended, millions of people had been killed or went missing. Her country, in a state of ruins was finally divided into East Germany and West Germany.

In 1948 she had to cross the demarcation line illegally from East Germany (then under Russian occupation) to West Germany to pursue her education as a medical student.

In the 1950s she studied medicine at the universities of Mainz and Marburg in West Germany.

After her graduation she joined the catholic order of the 'Daughters of the Heart of Mary'.

http://tinyurl.com/bm7gqjc
 

03. TOP CURRENT NEWS OF THE DAY:

PAKISTAN PAPERS
http://tinyurl.com/84fj77e

04. PAKISTAN AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: INDIA

Relations between India and Pakistan have been strained by a number of historical and political issues, and are defined by the violent partition of British India in 1947, the Kashmir dispute and the numerous military conflicts fought between the two nations. Consequently, even though the two South Asian nations share historic, cultural, geographic, and economic links, their relationship has been plagued by hostility and suspicion.

After the dissolution of the British Raj in 1947, two new sovereign nations were formed—the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. The subsequent partition of the former British India displaced up to 12.5 million people, with estimates of loss of life varying from several hundred thousand to a million. India emerged as a secular nation with a Hindu majority population and a large Muslim minority while Pakistan was established as an Islamic republic with an overwhelming Muslim majority population.

http://tinyurl.com/c5xhyew

05. POLITICAL GUIDELINES: AWARENESS,EDUCATION & TRAINING

All-African People's Revolutionary Party: Ideological Training Guidelines

http://tinyurl.com/cwo374v

06. ELECTIONS IN THE WORLD 2012

http://tinyurl.com/6xlos9v

07. VISIT A COUNTRY:

Sweden

http://tinyurl.com/bnx4j6b

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08. WORLD HISTORY

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/

09. UN INTERNATIONAL DAYS IN JULY-AUGUST 2012

JULY
7 July International Day of Cooperatives A/RES/47/90
11 July World Population Day UNDP decision 89/46
18 July Nelson Mandela International Day A/RES/64/13
28 July World Hepatitis Day [WHO] —
30 July International Day of Friendship A/RES/65/275
AUGUST
9 August International Day of the World's Indigenous People A/RES/49/214
12 August International Youth Day A/RES/54/120
19 August World Humanitarian Day A/RES/63/139
23 August International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition [UNESCO] Decision 8.2 of the 150th session of the UNESCO Executive Board
29 August International Day against Nuclear Tests A/RES/64/35
30 August International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances A/RES/65/209

http://tinyurl.com/785j8cy

10. WORLD NATIONAL DAYS

http://tinyurl.com/7qw8ws9/

11. A NAME WHO LIVES IN HISTORY: Queen Victoria

http://tinyurl.com/pg2uy

12. POLITICAL MIRROR: PICTURE VIEW,CARTOON,JOKE,QUOTE & POEM 

PICTURE VIEW

CARTOON


JOKE

Michelle Obama dies and goes to heaven, and she's in the waiting room to see Jesus. There are clocks everywhere, not a single square inch of wall or ceiling doesn't have a timepiece. Some of them don't seem to be moving. St. Peter comes out and calls her name. "I'm here" she says. "What's with all the clocks?". St. Peter says "Everyone who has ever lived has a clock here. Every time they tell a lie, their clock moves forward by one minute. This is George Washington's clock. As you can see, it's one past midnight, so he only told one lie." "Oh" Michelle said. "Where's my husband's clock?" "That's in Jesus' office" St. Peter replies. "He uses that as a fan".

QUOTE

"I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another."
Mahatma Gandhi

POEM:

'In the wave-strike over unquiet stones'

In the wave-strike over unquiet stones
the brightness bursts and bears the rose
and the ring of water contracts to a cluster
to one drop of azure brine that falls.
O magnolia radiance breaking in spume,
magnetic voyager whose death flowers
and returns, eternal, to being and nothingness:
shattered brine, dazzling leap of the ocean.
Merged, you and I, my love, seal the silence
while the sea destroys its continual forms,
collapses its turrets of wildness and whiteness,
because in the weft of those unseen garments
of headlong water, and perpetual sand,
we bear the sole, relentless tenderness. 

Pablo Neruda

13. THE SCANDALS:

Watergate Scandal

http://tinyurl.com/cl7tfhc/

14. USE THE LINKS

The TOP 100 Best NGOs-Full List
http://tinyurl.com/bot8pqm

List of current heads of state and government
http://tinyurl.com/c9qvesp

List of revolutions and rebellions
http://tinyurl.com/3ebk2m

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ACCORDING TO THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS:

Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

For general knowledge of the NAPA HONORARY MEMBERS AND WELL-WISHERS, the necessary useful links and its contents are being used in NAPA:NEWSLETTER. NAPA TEAM is thankful for all respected personalities and institutions in this regard to utilise their valued links and its contents, and it is hoped that the all readers of these useful links and its contents will increase their knowledge regarding political awareness, education and training as well. We will appreciate any other more cooperation in this regard.
NAPA Management