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Words of wisdomWhen you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his

energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the

Progressive Movement, and his “cowboy” image and robust masculinity.

As you grow up, you are in almost constant contact with your siblings, yet as an adult, sometimes those relationships can be swept aside in our busy lives. Sibling rivalries can persist into adulthood and add that to all the other problems you encounter as an adult and you may struggle to stay connected with your siblings. Your relationship with your siblings is likely to be one of the longest and most enduring re-lationships of your lifetime, so you really should take time to strength-en the bonds and stay connected. Here are some tips on how to stay connected with your siblings.Play:While talking about old experienc-es helps strengthen your sibling relationships, building new memo-ries together allow your relation-ships with your siblings to evolve. You’ve changed and so have your siblings. You can stay connected through finding things that inter-est you both and doing them to-

gether. Go play together as often as you can. This also allows you to forget about the bad times in the past. Sibling rivalry can be over-come through creating new con-nections together. Spend a day and make some memories. You’ll be surprised at how good of friends your siblings can be to you.Cut the Crap:Your efforts to stay connected with your siblings will fall short if you allow a spirit of contention during your time together. Cut the crap and act like freinds. You may have fought a lot or a little as children, but as adults you should at least stay civil with each other. Fighting only serves to tear down a relationship, especially with sib-lings. Stay connected with your siblings by fostering a relation-ship of goodwill. Keep fighting to a minimum if it happens at all.Forgiving If our friend gets mad and goes off on us, we forgive them when they apologize because we un-derstand that bad days happen. However, if a sibling did the same thing, we would not be nearly as forgiving. Why? Because for some

reason, with friends we see the po-tential for humanness, or in other words, we recognize that they make mistakes, succumb to emo-tions, etc. but with family we have a higher standard, and expect perfec-tion. When you expect perfection, and do not account for the human-ness of one another, you can have nothing but frustration. So, see your siblings as imperfect humans, and your relationships will improve ten fold.Communicate:Occasional phone calls, an email, commenting on blogs, or other forms of communication are es-sential to staying connected with a sibling. Make a conscious effort to be a part of your siblings’ lives, even if you don’t live close. Be open to their efforts to be a part of your life too. Communication is the key to any relationship, so make sure your communication lines are unlocked. Even if you talk irregularly, it is im-portant to be there. Be ready to ex-tend trust and have intimate con-versation with your siblings. Stay connected with your siblings by keeping your communication lines open and keeping yourself open to communication.

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My name is Blackjack. I’m a sort of big, furry black dog, and I live a very interesting life.You see, my humans are Mina and Mehdi, a pair of twins with a huge streak of adven-ture in them. Their Mom is a writer and their Dad works for WWF. They both have to go on trips pretty often, and a lot of the time Mina and Mehdi get to go along. And because they think I’m their dog (actually, they’re my humans!) I get to go too.Let me tell you about my first adventure.One day, Dad came home in a tearing hurry, gobbled down his food and said he had to leave again, and would Mom come with him please, be-cause there was an Indus dol-phin stranded in a canal some-where who had to be rescued, and Mom was a cetacean bi-ologist. What’s a cetacean? Well, I didn’t know either, but it turns out it means wa-ter mammal. As in, a mammal who lives in water, but has to come to the surface now and then to breathe.

So they packed the car, in a rush. Mina and Me-hdi jumped in. We were on our way!As the air rushed by the car and made my long ears fly in the breeze, the humans talked about the poor dol-phin. Apparently, these dolphins live in the In-dus River, and there are very few of them left. Sometimes they wan-der into the irrigation canals and when these canals are closed for cleaning in the winter, they get stranded in small pools. So they have to be rescued and put back in the river, or they die. My eyes were wide with ex-citement by the time we got to the canal where the dol-phin was. I jumped out with the twins, and looked at the water. There she was, in a tiny pool of dirty water, looking really uncomfortable. There were people from WWF – Pakistan and the Sindh Wild-life Department all around. There was also a strange van

there, which Mom told Mina was the dolphin ambulance, in which they were going to take the dolphin back to the river.Somebody got out a stretcher. A man went into the water to get the dolphin, and then came the problem.The dolphin, it appeared, didn’t want to be rescued.The man swam after the dol-phin, and she rushed away in front. When he turned, she twisted, and when he twisted, she turned. It was like watch-

By Zabreen Hasan


ing a game of catch-me-catch-my-tail that I used to play with our neighbouring dogs, when they were puppies.Mom got into the water too, and tried to catch the dolphin. She couldn’t.By now I was getting a bit tired, and I muttered, “Come on, woman, we’re only trying to help you!”“Oh, this is help, is it, chasing me like this? Most undigni-fied!”I gasped. That was the first time I realized I could under-stand, and speak to, animals apart from dogs.“I mean, I’m a lady, I am, and not” – puff – “used to being treated like this!”“They’re just trying to catch you to take you back to the river! They’re not going to hurt you!” I barked out.“They’re not? You mean, they’re good people?”“Yes!”

“Oh.”She stopped swimming, and the man gave a sort of jump and caught her.“No – not that way – GENTLY!” shrieked Mom.At last they got her into the ambulance. She called out “Thank them for me, will

you?”How, I thought, when I can’t speak their language?The ambulance drove off, we got into the car and started for home. We were all very tired by then, and Mehdi fell asleep with his head on my back. I sighed. I was very tired too, but I was so glad I’d met the dolphin. And it was wonder-ful to know that I could talk to animals… I’ll tell you about my other adventures from next week.

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Indus dolphin facts

•Indus dolphins can only be found in the Indus River.•They are “functional-ly” blind, which means they can only tell the difference between light and darkness: they became this way because the Indus Riv-er is very muddy and visibility is about six inches.•They find their way around through sound, or sonar.•There are only about 1,600 – 1,750 of them left.

If you want to learn more, check out http://www.wwfpak.

com or become a fan of WWF - Pakistan on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/WWFPak’.

WWF-Canon / François Xavier PELLETIER


She was more like a parent. This I was to discover later. At the start of the class she stood before her students and the class buzzed with “Absent Miss!” and “Present Miss!” as she marked the attendance register. School was a humdrum affair. I must admit that I would get out of bed with great dif-ficulty. My mom woke me up at the stroke of seven. I longed for an extra half on my warm cosy bed. But she wouldn’t allow it. She came up to my room twice and sometimes thrice to make sure that I had gotten out of bed.“I do not want to go to school today, “I would tell her.“Nothing doing” , she would say. The teacher with the spectacles perched on her nose seemed strict in the beginning. I discov-ered later that she was just the opposite. Science was taught to class V students and that‘s why I too had to study it no matter how much I hated the subject. I just couldn‘t make heads or tails of what the teacher was saying.

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By Zeenat Iqbal Hakimjee

S t o r y t i m e

I was not a clever student but was rated as being aver-age. Sometimes my results left much to be desired. Each time my report card was sent home to be signed, I was scolded and put to shame. Having a clever old-er brother didn‘t do much to improve my position at home. I played truant from school many times. I was somehow not very keen to go. And so I would spend the day in a park close to my home.“Today I was scolded by my parents for not bring-ing better results”. I told a friend.The parents had arranged for a tutor. They were to re-alize later that this was not to make much of ’ a differ-ence. The other day a child psychologist in a televi-sion programme said many things about parent-child relationships. I wondered why my parents didn’t do what she said. Maybe they weren‘t as smart. She said that parents should praise their child if they do a good deed. They should not scold the children in front of their friends.One day, I told my teacher about my brother. I told


her that he was smarter than me. And my parents did net let both of us for-get this. The next day, I was surprised to see my teacher stay back after school. Her husband came to pick her up but she refused to leave. Instead she called me to her side and from that day on-wards she made it a point to coach me personally.One day I went with her to the park for cm stroll and it was there that she ex-plained to me the impor-tance of parents. She made me realize that parents were seldom wrong, mak-ing me see the logic be-hind their arguments. She gave me the confidence that I lacked. It was she who made me a stronger person. The two words, school and teacher, that had been of no importance to me a short time ago. Slowly become the centre of my life. And I became comple te l y e n g r o s s e d in my stud-ies. We were nearing

the end of the term and our exams started soon.At least this time I was not frightened. I clung to the result card in my hand. My heart fluttered as I made my way home. My mother could not help being sur-prised upon seeing my grades. She quickly rang up my father to share the news with him. He came back home beaming and hold-ing a parcel under his arm. It was a cake to celebrate my success. But I knew it was more like my teacher‘s success. It was she who had shown me what it meant to have a purpose in life. She had given up her hours of

rest to teach me.


Everything around us that

affects how we live and

develop is called environ-

ment. Adaptation makes it

possible for a living thing

to survive in an environ-

ment. There are some ex-

amples of this wonderful

phenomenon.

1) Snails: Snails live inside shells.

Shells protect them from

enemies. As they live in

damp places shells also

protect them from cold and

dry.

2) Honeybees:When a honey bee finds a

flower with nectar. The bee

does a special dance to let

the others know where the

flower is.

3) Spiders:Spiders eat only living

things. They spin webs

and wait for insects to get

caught in them. When an

insect is caught in the web,

the spider hurries to it. The

insect tries to get away

but the spider rolls it up in

sticky threads. Then it kills

the insect with poison and

has it for dinner.

4) Ants: Ants are always looking

for food. Any ant that finds

some food goes back to the

nest. As it goes it leaves

a trail that other ants can

smell. That way ant in the

nest finds their way to

where the food is.

5) Ladybirds: Ladybirds flip over on their

backs and play dead when

other insects and small

birds try to catch them.

Their enemies are surprised

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and give up. When it is safe

for the ladybirds they get up

and run away.

6) Butterflies: Part of a butterfly’s mouth is

like a long tube. They use it

like a straw to suck the nec-

tar. Butterflies usually have

bright coloured wings.

7) Pine trees:Pine trees have needle

shaped leaves that are natu-

rally coated by wax. This

reduces loss of water and

helps them to survive in cold

and dry weather.

8) Cactus:Cactus and some other desert

plants can survive with lit-

tle water. These plants have

swollen leaves to store wa-

ter in them.

13) Camels:Camels have two rows of long eyelashes which protect the eye against blowing sand and the sun. They store fat in humps which helps it to survive long periods without food and water. It has thick leathery patches on knees which protect it from get-ting burn when it kneels on the hot desert sand. It has broad, flat, leath-ery pads at the bottom of

their hooves which spread out when

t h e camel plac-es its feet on the ground thus creating a ‘’snowshoe effect’’ and preventing the camel from sinking into

the sand. Nostrils can be closed to keep out blow-ing sand. It has thick fur and under wool which pro-vides warmth during cold desert nights and insula-tion against daytime heat. It has long strong legs which help carry heavy loads over long distances and keep its body further away from the h o t sand.


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Bahawalpur, land of palaces, is located in the province of Punjab, is the twelfth largest city of Pakistan. Bahawalpur is located south of the Sutlej River and lies in the Cholistan region near the Thar Desert. The city was once the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur. The city was home to various Nawabs (rul-ers) and counted as part of the Rajputana states (now Rajasthan, India). The city is known for its famous pal-aces such as the Noor Ma-hal, Sadiq Ghar Palace, and Darbar Mahal, as well as the ancient fort of Derawar in the Cholistan Desert bor-dering India. The city is lo-

cated near the historical and ancient cities of Uch and Harappa, which were once a stronghold of the Delhi Sul-tanate and Indus Valley Civi-lization. Souvenirs: * Flassi - 4 ft by 7 ft, made of camel hair and cotton yarn; it is used for wall hang-ing, as a decoration piece and a carpet. * Gindi or Rilli - Made of small pieces of many colors of cotton cloth and needle-work; they can be used as wall hangings, bed covers, carpets and blankets. * Changaries - Like big plaques, these are made of palm leaves in different

bright colours with beauti-ful patterns and geometric designs. These are used for keeping the ‘chapattis’ and also as a wall decoration. * Khalti - Like a purse em-broidered on top with multi-coloured threads. * Artwork - An attractive type of embroidery done on dupatta, kurta and chaddar, etc.Flora and faunaThe most commonly seen an-imals in the city include the hog deer, ravine deer, black buck and blue bull. Fox, jack-als, hares, wild boars, porcu-pines, mongoose, arks, owls and hawks are also found in large numbers.The Bahawalpur Zoo, one of the few zoos in Pakistan, is located in Bahawalpur. Spread over an area of sev-eral acres inside the city, it contains a variety of animal species, including Asiatic li-ons, Bengal tigers, hyenas, leopards, and peacocks. The zoo has a collection of 130

City Profi le

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Bahawalpur-zooDarbar mahalDerawar fort

Sadiq Garh Palace - ExteriorCenteral library sadiq public school


animals and 700 birds from tropical regions, particularly those found in the Cholistan region. The zoo occasionally breeds and supplies animals to other zoos in the coun-try. It also has an aquarium and zoological museum with stuffed rare birds and ani-mals.Culture The city of Bahawalpur has a rich heritage and is an im-portant hot spot for histori-ans as well as archaeologists. Bahawalpur is known for its cotton, silk, embroidery, carpets, and extraordinarily delicate pottery.Noor Mahal and Gulzar Mahal are the most elegant build-ings in Bahawalpur built in the Italian style. Both the buildings are now under the control of Army. However, the army purchased the Noor Mahal some years back by paying Rs. 120 million to the heirs. It is unique in its archi-

tecture and is splendid with beautiful lawns and drive-ways.The late Nawab established various educational insti-tutes in the State such as Is-lamia University Bahawalpur, Sadiq Public School Baha-walpur, Sadiq Egerton Col-lege Bahawalpur, Sadiq Dane High School Bahawalpur, Jamia Masjid al Sadiq Baha-walpur. The Central Library Bahawalpur is another land-mark of Bahawalpur archi-tecture which was built in 1924. This is the second larg-est library in Punjab having various manuscripts and rare books.The famous Fort Derawar was once the capital of Baha-walpur State. It was built in thirteenth century by the Ra-jputs of Jaiselmer. The Nawabs of Bahawalpur conquered it in eighteenth century. It was a birth place of many Nawabs. The rulers of Bahawalpur give

great importance to Derawar as their royal cemetery is near Derawar. Derawar is about 65 miles away from Bahawalpur in Cholistan desert. The his-toric Derawar Fort, enormous and impressive structure in the heart of Cholistan desert, is rapidly crumbling and if the immediate preventative meas-ures are not taken, the edifice will be destroyed and the historians, researchers and sightseers deprived of the view of the legacy of the by-gone era.The legacy of Bahawalpur state has been in ruins like many other historical places of the country. These build-ing have potential to attract a great deal of tourists. But what the heirs and the gov-ernment need is a good plan-ning and political will. Oth-erwise it will turn into sands like many other forts in Cholistan like Maujgarh, Din-garh, Islamgarh and Marot.

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