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77 Years of Independence – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #989 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #989 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: M. Khawar Nazir Credit: M. Khawar Nazir Congratulations, Compliments, and Felicitations to All Pakistanis on Independence Day Wherever We Are Surely, it is time to celebrate. Independence is among the greatest blessings people can have. The people of United India got their independence from the British on 14th August 1947. Indians celebrate independence on 15th August, just to keep themselves distinguished. If people of United India had come together, they could eliminate British rule much earlier, but as it happens, they saw their own destruction and did not take action. The fate favors the mighty and it did. A handful of British ruled millions of Indian people...

25 December For Us and Through Times – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #891 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #891 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Asim Mushtaq 25 December, being the birthdate of our great leader Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah holds special significance for us. We remember him with fondness, reverence, and respect. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Sahib, popularly known as the "Quaid e Azam" (Great Leader), was a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the founding father of Pakistan. His life, principles, and unwavering commitment to securing a separate homeland for Muslims reshaped the course of history in the Indian subcontinent. Early Life and Legal Career Born on December 2...

In(creasing)Dependence Day 2023 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #835 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #835 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Khawar Nazir This is not a political post; it is rather a cry over what has happened and is happening to our beloved country. I was borne a few years after the partition, grew up during Ayub Khan’s regime, and suffered through successive, repressive regimes. The independence we received on 14 August 1947 was increasingly usurped by each new government; the last one acing them all. Without taking names, and names are not even required, because all of them have been the same, our country has been looted, robbed, plundered, exploited, tortured, distorted, and loo...

POST-INDEPENDENCE DAY THOUGHTS – Blog Post #369 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #369. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Independence Day came and went. We had a set of usual activities to celebrate Independence Day with ‘zeal and zest’. Some usual TV programs which were fitted into long commercials. The anchors and participants get younger and though they certainly express excitement, but they have relative lack of knowledge of Pakistan concept, the value of freedom and our responsibilities as the citizens of Pakistan. At the street level, the usual things went on. There were displays of lights, there were flags on the houses and cars and some buntings here and there. The street urchins cam...

  INDEPENDENCE DAY – Blog Post #368 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #368. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   FELICITATIONS TO ALL PAKISTANIS ON  INDEPENDENCE DAY Counting 14 August 1947 as the First Independence Day, Today is 74 th Independence Day. It will correspond to 73 rd Anniversary of Independence. All good things can only be appreciated if these are seen in comparison with their opposites. Similarly, Independence shall only be understood and recognized when seen in relation to living under an alien regime, most likely as a minority. Muslims in India are a case in point. Their number was 182 million in 2017 and may be close to 200 million now; almost same as the Mus...

Dear Colleagues!   Today is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #113. Pharma Veterans shares your wealth of knowledge and wisdom with others for the benefit of entire Pharma Community. It aims to recognize and celebrate the Pharma Industry Professionals.  Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  Please share your stories, ideas and thoughts. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . 71 Years of Independence of Pakistan It was mid - 1990s. Immigration to Canada was in vogue. Many of my friends were applying for immigration and urged me to apply as well. Immigration took around six months to a year only. Finally, I and my wife met an immigration consultant and got our case evaluated. I was working as mid-senior level manager and my wife was teaching at the university. The consultant advised that we both qualified as Principal Immigrant. We could both apply and get i...