Benefits of Baking

Whipping up treats in the kitchen can do more than just create yummy comfort food, according to a growing range of sources in both the culinary and mental health worlds. In fact, baking has been found to have therapeutic value which helps to ease depression and anxiety. And seeing that one in four people will experience a mental health problem at some point in their lives, this wholesome therapy is good for the whole family. But watch the sugar – how about making healthy versions of your favorite treats?

1. COOKING IS MEDITATIVE
Any activity which takes your whole attention – especially if it's simple and repetitive – can have a calming, meditative quality. The process of weighing out butter and sugar, whisking eggs, beating and folding creates space in the mind, and eases negative thinking processes.
2. BAKING STIMULATES THE SENSES
The feel of the flour, the sound of the blender, and of course the smell of the delectable final product – all these experiences stimulate the senses, which in turn increases feel-good endorphins.
3. NOURISHING ACTIVITIES FEEL GOOD
Baking – and any sort of cooking or food preparation – is ultimately about nourishing ourselves and others. To internalize this benefit, make an effort to bring your whole awareness to the healthy ingredients and love that go into your baked goodies.
4. BAKING IS CREATIVE
Psychologists have found a strong connection between creative expression and overall wellbeing – so experiment with that recipe if you dare, and make that frosting the prettiest it can be.
5. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE HAPPY
One of the best things about baking is that you can give away your creations and make other people feel happy – which in turn puts a smile on your dial. It's a win-win.

5 beauties of Pakistan

Northern areas of Pakistan is tourists’ main destination in Pakistan. Pakistan is multi culture and multi season Country. Land of rivers, snow peaks, lush green meadows and cultural places of great value. That is Pakistan which has been victim of terrorism of past few years due to so many factors but this one factor has caused great issues for habitants of our holy land.  Pakistan offers diverse landscape to its visitors. The language changes each after 15 miles and cultural changes are also evident if you move from one area to another. Our rich cultural values are deeply rooted into our system
Hunza is wonderland of northern areas of Pakistan. Hunza has always been famous in Northern areas of Pakistan as it has been frequently listed in international Magazines, during late 90s Hunza grabbed international attention when it featured in book cover of National Geographic Magazine as “Hunza Road to Heaven”.  Since then it has lived up to its reputation of being mysterious in all weather, colorful like majestic painting carefully crafted by God. Hunza is just 102 kilometre away from City of Gilgit. The Gilgit is getting one flight daily from Islamabad Airport via Pakistan International Airline. Though the flight is weather dependant as weather in northern areas of Pakistan is really unpredictable
Skardu is 763 Kilometer away from Capital city of Islamabad. Skardu is another remarkable place offering abundance of sightseeing places. Skardu has various lakes which invites each visitor to see there beauty and fell in love with them. Most famous lake is Shangrila lakes in khachura region which is artificial lake but has got fame due to world famous Shangrila resort. Just few minutes walks from shangrila resort can take you towards green lake of Upper khachura which is natural lake and its warm waters welcome swimmers to enjoy here. The Sadpara Lake is one other lake in heart of Skardu city. This blue color lake is biggest lake in skardu region with big stock of clean water. Skardu journey never completes if we don’t visit Deosai National park.  Deosai National park is just 50kilometre from skardu city. The Deosai national park is second highest plateau in the world. Deosai national park is famous for its natural life, Himalayan brown bears, Mighty Sheoshar Lake near a store region.
Narran is famous domestic location for tourists. It is part of district Mansehra and has so much to offer. Naran has been fetching more then 2 millions visitors each year and this growth ration is improving by each passing year. There are various nice locations in Naran the most interesting is Lake Saiful malook. This lake is most visited in Pakistan. Saiful malook offers sublime beauty in Northern areas of Pakistan. It is half an hour Jeep ride from Naran Baazar. The road is bumpy and only accessible by 4×4 Jeeps. During summer season Naran is full of tourist. You won’t find more tourist any other part of Pakistan then Naran. Naran top point is Babusar Top on elevation of 13600 Feet from there you can see glimpse of Rakaposhi Peak 280km away from there. Some other famous places of Naran region is Shogran, Sharan, Siri PAYE Meadows, Lalazar Meadows and Nori Top. Lulusar Lake is one other nice lake in Naran Region.
Kalam is land of rivers, towering mountains, waterfalls and lovely people. Kalam is one of top visited place in northern areas of Pakistan. Kalam has all ingredients to be termed as top tourist destination in Pakistan. Kalam has great forests for camping, nice mountains for treeking and climbing, lakes for boating and various nice resorts to stay. Mohdand Lake is one of most refreshing lake of norhtern Pakistan. Mohdand Lake is 2 hours jeep drive from Kalam Bazar. On them way you can visit USHU Jungle, and Mataltan areas which has one of biggest waterfalls. The climate always remain chilled there and you need to have warmer outfit to stay easy. The road structure is being imrpoved as road from Madyan towards kalam is not fine but it is being carpeted.
Chitral is part of Kyber pakhtunkwa province and it was princly state till 1969. The chitral is in foots of Tirch Mir Peak which is highest peak of Hindukush range. It was first scalled in 1950 by Norwegian team. Tich mir can be seen from central bazar of Chitral. Chitral has famous Badhshai mosque. Chitral also posses airport which offer one daily flight from Islamabad and Peshawar. Most famous area of Chitral Region is Kalash (Kafiristan) which has population of 2000 Kalashi People. These people are non-Muslims and has their own religion. These people are totally different from other poeple of Pakistan with there unique culture and differnt religion like no other. There language, food and way of life is different. Chillam jotish is there main festival when visitors from different parts of world and domestic tourist come Pakistan.

Night packages and our youth

Ban on Mobile night packages by PTA has a long history. Every now and then they announce that night packages are getting banned because they have negative impacts on our youth and society as a whole. Nevertheless they haven’t banned the packages or at least no permanent step has yet been taken. The latest ban news brings up the discussion once again on the floor.
What does Pakistani youth think about mobile phone night packages?
Firstly who needs to talk for long hours in the late night hours? The answer is simple. There is a rising concept of love and to put this emotion of love to affection, young boys and girls talk whole night on the phone.
If the situation is carefully analyzed, it is quite obvious that night packages are there only to promote a new culture of “boyfriend and girlfriend” which does not belong to our culture or our religion. It is not necessary to provide the packages during the late night hours. If purpose of these packages is to provide cheaper calls to the customers, then why only late night? Why not provide packages during the day time so that a larger mass can be benefited. But it is intentionally made available by the mobile companies to take advantage of the youth.
A person does not need to talk for an hour to communicate his message to the other end. You need probably a few minutes to say and communicate whatever you want. Only quite a few occasions come where you need to talk for long hours and you can manage that once in a while without much problem. The point of emphasize in this is that mobile night packages are useless but yet mobile companies are providing these packages on a large scale targeting the youth and bringing bad habits in the youth. Young generation waits for the late night time and talks for hours, then sleep late and their whole schedule and routine is quite disturbed. Majority of the Universities offer classes in the morning shift. If a student stays awake till 4-5 AM, and sleeps only for 3-4 hours before he could join the class, how is he supposed to study with full concentration?
So mobile phone night call packages must be banned and save our youth and society as a whole from the evil.

Siblings, Blessing of God

Most sisters have their ups and dow1ns in their relationship, especially while growing up. Having a sister can sometimes be a tough nightmare that is driving you mad. But when it all boils down, sisters stick together. Your sister can be your best friend and a wonderful person that inspires you. She might even be your other half who makes you whole—the person who will always be there for you whenever you have a problem. Siblings do not only share beautiful childhood memories, but they also do know each other inside out. Research has also shown that your siblings truly shaped you as a person, even stronger than your parents and friends. We look up to our older sisters as our role models, protectors, and counselors. Maybe you even have a younger sister who was looking up to you and what you can guide with your life’s experience. Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

facebook

Now a days we cannot survive without modern technologies. We use some technologies education purpose, some technologies for entertaining purpose, like internet. Internet is the global system of interconnection. Internet is a source of entertainment, education, information and many more. Every person of society wants to be social through the social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter, line, WeChat, snap chat, WhatsApp, tumbler, Instagram, skype, imo and many others. With the help of these sites people can interact with each other easily.
Facebook widely known as FB is one of the most popular social networking site. People of all ages are addicted to these days it has millions of subscribers. Facebook has many advantages but we cannot neglect the disadvantages. Facebook helps to create a brand for many individuals and business. Moreover it’s a major source of entertainment for people around the globe social networking sites available in various parts of the world where location is not a barrier.
Facebook is arguably the most powerful social media and social networking site you can use Facebook to connect with your family, friends, colleagues and you can meet new people on Facebook. It is a best communication site to connect people easily as compare to others sites. Anyone can take advantage of Facebook to maintain a good relationship with others who identify with certain tastes or products. This is very important because as a business you can sell or promote a product to a highly targeted audience. Thus increasing the possibilities of making money on internet. The real advantage of Facebook is that it’s a real time social networking site. This make it one of the best source to stay updated with the latest news and information. Major news usually goes viral on Facebook, and most brands use it to announce important things regarding their products. Facebook’s timeline gives a completely news took regarding your personal profile. The viewer can judge your personality just to see your timeline.
One of the major concerns and disadvantages of Facebook has to do with Facebook’s privacy. In the past there were a lots of cases appeared due to misuse of Facebook. Usually people keep their Facebook friend list visible to the public and this helps Facebook stalkers find more information about you. Facebook is full of fake accounts. There is no limit to these profiles. It makes difficulty to recognize real/official or fake accounts. All of between Facebook’s disadvantages, I believe this is one of the major reason why people deactivate or delete their Facebook profile. Being one of the best way to stay update about what your friends are doing, people spend too much time on this vast social networking site. If you want to use Facebook to your advantage, set yourself in time limit spending too much time on Facebook might make you a Facebook addict. I thought it is totally depend on user to use it in advantage or disadvantage.

20 YEARS OF BOOM BOOM

It was Octuber2, 1996 a new name was mounted in the ODI team of Pakistan during the four nations “Sameer Cup 1996-97.” In the first match against Kenya he went wicktless and also didn’t get chance to bat. The second appearance was against Srilanka, the player who came to bat at number 3 as a pinch hitter smatched fastest 100 of ODI history from 37 deliveries! His innings comprise of 0610400600661166264400661411041606024100, the name SHAHID AFRIDI (born name SHAHIBZADA MOHAMMAD SHAHID KHAN AFRIDI) now emerged as youngest player to score an ODI century, 16 years and 217 days. After a spam of playing 66 ODIs Shahid Afridi made his test debut in 1998 he didn’t played a big inning from bat but was able to get 5 wickets against Australia. The second test was against India, and the rounded performance here was remarkable. Here Afridi scored his maiden test century scoring 141 runs from 191 balls and manage to get 3 wickets for 54 runs. The journey continued, scorning more runs from bat and collecting more wickets, Shahid Afridi was named as most consistence player of 2005. With regard to focus on 2007 World Cup Shahid Afridi announce temporary retirement from test cricket on April12 2006 but he came back on coach Woolmer calls and played his last test in 2010 vs. Australia. His test career include 27 matches in which he played 48 innings and scored 1716 runs with 220 4s,52 6s and 156 as highest score. He further reached to pick 48 wickets with best bowling average 5-43.

The well known title BOOM BOOM was given to him by recognized Indian commentator Ravi Shastri, after he scored second fastest 100 of ODI history of 45 balls against India. The famous name of Shahid Afridi by his natives and fan is LALA (big brother). Asia cup 2010 was the first ICC event in which Shahid Afridi led the National side in ODI, during his first three matches as ODI captain he scored two centuries against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh he finished as the tournaments highest run scorer with 384 runs from 3 matches.Shahid Afridi is the only captain who take Team Pakistan in semis of ICC world cup after 1999. The name Shahid Afridi is rope in among 22 bowlers of the ODI’s who has taken 250+ wickets and he got the average 33.68 and on number two among 22 bowlers of the world. The aggressive boy hasn’t faced 100 balls in his entire carrier, his longest innings winds up on 94 balls. BOOM BOOM also deals with most number of man of the match awards from Pakistani side in ODIs. In Pakistan's opening match of theICC world cup 2011, Afridi took 5 wickets for 16 runs against Kenya, giving him the best bowling figures by a Pakistan bowler in a World Cup .He remained the captain of national team in ODIs from 2009-14, in this duaration team played 38 matches out of which 19 ends up with victory, 18 loss and 1 with no result. The most remembered event of his captaincy was ICC world cup 2011 when Pakistan was defeated by India in the semis knock out. Shahid Afridi said good bye to another form of cricket and played his last ODI on March 20, 2015 against Australia in the ground of Adelaide. In total, he played 398 games scored 8064 runs, 124 as highest score with 730 4s and 351 6s and took 127 catches. With ball he picked 395 wickets with best bowling figure 7-12 and conceived 13632 runs all together. His extraordinary achievement includes twice runs and wickets in comparison to legendary Imran Khan in ODIs.

 Shahid khan Afridi the man with record of taking most wickets by any all rounder and recently named as leading wicket taker of world t20 led the side in T20 format first time in 2009 after ICC WT20 and Younis Khan’s retirement. He remained captain from 2009-11 and later in 2014 he was again crowned as captain till current. Team Pakistan marked 15 victories and defeats out of 30 matches under his captaincy. With 210 matches yet played he is the man with most played T20 in history of cricket also Afridi is the only player in T20 cricket who made 2000+ runs and take 97 wickets. The name Shahid Afridi is not small in the history of cricket, not only in Pakistan but in the entire world the crowd chants for him whenever he steps on the pitch either with ball or bat. His rapid fire batting & his signature style after picking batsmen each is equally enjoyed by his followers. This magnificent cricket career has completed 20 years today!  Number of records keeps getting aside the name with passage of time.

One can’t forget that fastest 100 in very first inning, 100 of 45 balls against India, 2009 t20 World Cup and his duty on the pitch the most recent and breath taking last over of Ashwin (ASIA CUP 2014). It isn’t easy to neglect his services and it wouldn’t be fair even. People who even don’t know cricket knows Shahid Afridi, half of the kids of Pakistan quote his name as their favorite cricketer.

LALA is hot in news these days as struggling for a farewell match, the PCB is working over it. One who entertained us for 20 years is waiting from long just for a single match to end his career with honor. It’s about respecting our legends and with sorry we are really poor in this, we give rise and fall to players just after witnessing particular game and same trend is adopted in Afridi’s case, couple years of ghastly show and your entire career seem as dust.

Probably no one can put clear justification why he shouldn’t be granted with send off game.?

                               Protest
as we all know that Mass protests all over the nation stirs revolutionary movements and stop the activities of the government if it gets to a strike, which in turn gets the attention of the media and the law insurers are bound to take an action against an issue to which they would otherwise turn a deaf ear

advantages of protests
> Right to justice: When justice is delayed or sometimes simply denied, it is the right of the citizen to fight for it. 
> .Bringing to attention: Protest rallies draw attention of the public as well as the media, who in turn spread the news to the entire nation
> .United we stand: Most of the time, these protest rallies demonstrate the unity amongst people of different caste, creed and religion against a common enemy
> Call for a change: If the government thinks that these protests and strikes could actually impede the economic development of the nation , it would definitely act upon it to make better rules and law-insuring bodies to prevent such cases from happening.
Disadvantages of protest rallies:
> Waste of time and energy: Protesters waste days and sometime weeks and months, which most of the time fails to get any result. They are driven away by the police, or worse, arrested for violent demonstrations.
> Losses of common men: Those who work on an everyday basis to earn their daily bread suffer loss of income on the days of strike which usually follows such protests
> Unlawful assemblies: The state might term the protest to be an unlawful assembly and implying to the IPC, the protesters could be subject to the consequences of the act.

                                                                                                                              written by :
                                                                                                                  syeda kainat zehra naqvi