In Their Eyes

Alphonse Lamartine (21 October 1790 - 28 February 1869), a French writer, poet and politician said: "If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls. . . his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for...

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khyber pukhtoonkhwa flood

KP should get 95 percent of foreign aid: Mian Iftikhar * Provincial information minister complains KP being ignored http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\08\10\story_10-8-2010_pg7_10 Staff Report PESHAWAR: The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa called on the federal government on Monday to divert 95 percent of foreign aid to the flood-devastated province. Expressing anger at the response to floods in the province, provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the federal government is not taking the flood devastation in the province “seriously”. He said the Centre should divert 95 percent of aid it gets from the international community to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “It is important to note where flood devastation has been much and major chunk of international aid should...

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