Friday, September 6, 2013

Military College Jhelum



Military College Jhelum (MCJ) is the oldest military institution of its kind in Pakistan. Named as King George Royal Indian Military School, it was founded at Sarai Alamgir on the 3rd of March 1922, and started functioning three years later in 1925. It was organized as a residential school for the sons of Muslim soldiers with the object of producing educated rank and file for the British Indian Army units. In rare cases, some talented students could be endorsed for the grant of commission through Kitchner College Nowgong. During the World War II, the school underwent structural reforms. It was organized as a College for training potential officers for the army.
With the creation of Pakistan, this institution took further strides both in scope and service. It was restructured as a quality public school and the largest single feeder for the Pakistan Military Academy. Renamed as Military College Jhelum in 1956, it was commissioned to pursue the course of academic excellence and personality grooming. The College has served the Nation with spirit of commitment. Its alumni have contributed to the national cause with unwavering devotion. The College Roll of Honour radiates full with the names of martyrs, heroes and senior officers in all echelons of civilian and military establishments. Till 1st April 2013, the College has had, to its credit 1 Nishan-e-Haider, Major Mohammad Akram Shaheed, 48 Sitara-i-Jurrat, 3 Tamgha-i-Jurrat, 1 Tamgh-i-Shujaat, 4 Military Cross and 15 Imtiazi Asnad. 34 Alamgirians have embraced Shahadat. List of the distinguished Alamgirians includes The Ex-Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Committee General (R) Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Air Chief Marshal (R) Zulfiqar Ali Khan, Ex-Chief of Naval Staff Admiral (R) Abdul Aziz Mirza, NI(M), General (R) Muhammad Yusaf Khan, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, HI, HI(M), 66 General Officers, over 100 Brigadiers, over 2000 Colonels / Lieutenant Colonels and large number of highly placed officers in the civil. The performance of the Alamgirians at Pakistan Military Academy is also laudable. In each course the Alamgirians performed exceedingly well. So far (Till 126 PMA Long Course) 35 Alamgirians have won the distinguished Sword of Honour. Military College Jhelum is an English medium institution, running classes from VIII to XII for 560 cadets. It is located on the Grand Trunk (GT) Road, beside the town of Sarai Alamgir. The campus is spread over about 170 acres of area and affords sufficient open space for lawns and play grounds, cadet houses and officers residences.


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MCJ History


Capt W. L. Clarke Sep 1925 – Aug 1930
Capt W. L. Clarke
Sep 1925 – Aug 1930
Capt H. H. Clarke
Aug 1930 – Apr 1933
Maj W. P. Selbie, MC
Apr 1933 – May 1937
   

Lt Col T. H. L.
Stebbing, MC
May 1937 – Aug 1947
Maj Aurangzeb Khan
Aug 1947 – Feb 1948
Lt Col S.F.H Zaidi
Feb 1948 – Jul 1952
   

Lt Col M. Rafiq
Jul 1952 – Apr 1953
Lt Col Sultan Sikandar
Apr 1953 – Jul 1954
Lt Col H.L Edwards
Jul 1954 – Oct 1955
   

Lt Col M.Rafiq
Oct 1955 – May 1959
Lt Col M.Sardar Khan
May 1959 – May 1967
Lt Col Murtaza Hussain
May 1967 – Jun 1969
   
 
Lt Col Pervez Sikandar
Jun 1969 – Dec 1969
Lt Col S. A. Qureshi
Dec 1969 – Jun 1970
Maj M. Zahurul Haq
Jun 1970 – Oct 1970
   

Col N. D. Ahmed
Oct 1970 – Oct 1973
Lt Col M. Ikram Ameen
Oct 1973 – Apr 1974
Col M. Zahurul Haq
Apr 1974 – Jun 1977
   

Col M. Ikramn Ameen
Jun 1977 – Aug 1978
Col M. Said Khokhar
Aug 1978 – Jun 1980
Brig Abdul Sattar, SI (M)
Jun 1980 - Jan 1983
   

Brig I. R. Siddiqui
Jan 1983 - Aug 1984
Brig Usman Shah,  SI(M)
Aug 1984 - Aug 1987
Brig Dr. Noor ul Haq
Aug 1987 - Oct 1991
   

Brig Maqsud-ul-Hassan,  SI (M), TI (M), AFWA,
PSC,  PSA
Oct 1991 - Aug 1998
Brig Muhammad Afzal Malik, SI(M), AWC,
PSC,  G
Aug 1998 - Apr 2013
Brig Akhtar Pervez

Apr 2013 - Todaymmad Afzal Malik, SI(M), AW

Induction System Of College


A.    Main entry to the college is in 8th class. The bulk of seats are offered to the sons of the army personnel only, against their specified quota. However, a limited number of seats are available for the sons of remaining categories of defence services personnel and civilians to compete on open merit. 

B.    Special entry is taken in 1st year if some seats are available
There are 106 seats in each entry.
Affiliation:

The College is affiliated with the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Rawalpindi. It offers Courses:
Matriculation

Intermediate (Pre-Engineering)

Intermediate (Computer Sciences)

English

English

English

Urdu

Urdu

Urdu

PakistanStudies

PakistanStudies

PakistanStudies

Islamiat

Islamiat

Islamiat

Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics

Physics

Physics

Physics

Chemistry

Chemistry

Computer Science

Computer Studies

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Eligibility:


Following students are eligible to apply for admission:
The students studying in class VII or VIII. However the candidate must have passed class VII at the time of admission to the College.
Should be between 12 and 14 years of age on 1st April of the year of admission. (Waiver up to 90 days is admissible)
The candidates must be medically FIT.
Submission Of Applications:
For getting admission in 8th class, the College Prospectus will be available from 15th   July of each year. Following procedure is adopted for submission of applications:
a.   Application for admission must be submitted on the prescribed admission form appended to the prospectus.
b.    Each application for admission must be accompanied by a crossed postal order / bank draft drawn on Habib Bank Limited Sarai Alamgir for the amount mentioned in the Admission Form as registration fee in favour of the Commandant Military College Jhelum. THE FEE IS NON REFUNDABLE.
c.   Entries in the Application Form must be based on correct information. All entries will be subjected to scrutiny and verification. False information by a candidate noticed at any stage of his stay at the college, will render him liable to disciplinary action / withdrawal with payment of training charges.
d.  The Application Form, dully filled in, should be sent direct to the Commandant by designation, NOT BY NAME.
e.  The Application Form must be accompanied by three self addressed envelops, duly stamped.
f.   Last date for submission of application is advertised through the press in July / Aug each year and also given in the admission form appended to the prospectus. Late Fee will be charged on the applications received after the due date. Rates of late fee are given in the admission form.
Selection Procedure:       
The selection is based on candidate's performance / grading in the following:
Written test according to syllabus given at Appendix-1 to the prospectus.
Intelligence Test.
Interview.
Medical Examination at a Military Hospital Examination center      
 Written test is conducted at the following stations.
Abbottabad

Gujranwala

Hyderabad

Jhelum

Karachi

Kharian

Lahore

Multan

Bahawalpur

Okara

Peshawar

Quetta

Rawalpindi

Sargodha

Panu Aqil

Muzaffarabad

Gilgit

Written Test:


The written test is given in the following subjects:
English
Mathematics and General Science
Urdu and Islamiat (Pakistan Studies for non-Muslims)
The results will be communicated only to those candidates who will make the requisite merit for the next phase that means the interview. Failures are also intimated after the final selection is over.
Intelligence& Interview: 
Candidates who qualify the written test are called for the intelligence test / interview at the following stations:
Jhelum

Lahore

Rawalpindi

Peshawar

Multan

Hyderabad

Karachi

Quetta

Subject to the availability of suitable number of candidates at a particular Centrex. Only those candidates are interviewed who qualify the intelligence test.

Medical Examination:


The candidates are medically examined at CMH / MH nearest to their home station.

Final Selection:


The Final Selection is made on the overall merit achieved by the candidate in the written test, interview and intelligence test. Mere passing the test does not entitle a candidate to admission. (Results are confidential. Answer scripts, marks obtained, merit or position will not be shown / conveyed to the parents / guardians. Any correspondence or communication in this regard, will be undesirable)

The Rules And Regulation

Cadets are not allowed to keep the following items with them. 

Musical instruments, radio, walkman-set, cassette player, video games, electric appliances, heater and cell phones etc.  
Money (more than the authorised pocket money) 
Unauthorised medicines / drugs 
Valuables 
Weapons of any kind  
Cigarettes 
Undesirable printed material 
Explosive / combustible material
  

Fine

  
On various discipline cases like overstaying leave, bunking and other serious offences, the cadets may be fined upto to Rs. 5000/-  
  

Withdrawal / Discharge:

  
For withdrawal on academic and disciplinary grounds, following policy is in vogue: 
  

a. Academic:

Failing in the annual examination . 
Failing in two successive terminal examinations. 
Not showing satisfactory progress in studies. 
  
Note: Depending on the causal account of educational weakness, the failures may be allowed an additional chance through relegation or provisional promotion subject to decision by the College Council. 
  

b. Discipline:


Cheating in Exams.  
Cheating in any other form is also cognizable and may warrant discharge of cadet from MCJ depending on nature, gravity and circumstances of the case.  
Insulting any officer / staff  
Committing theft  
Grave immoral conduct i.e. willful attempt or actual conduct of unnatural kind  
Physical violence or attempt thereof resulting in grievous injury or having the potential to cause such an injury  
Repetitive / prolonged absence (without leave from the College)  
Any immoral / undesirable / unbecoming conduct while on leave  
Watching blue / nude movies inside / outside the College (on walking out, etc).  
Willful / serious damage to govt property.  
Instigating other cadets or acting as a kind of ring leader to violate / undermine the College policies / rules / orders wherein good order and discipline of institution is threatened / compromised.  
Any collective / group activity which is illegal / unauthorized and tends to undermine / compromise the good atmosphere of the College / state of discipline.  
Possession / use of drugs / intoxicants / smoking.  
Any other act which is dishonourable and below the dignity / moral / social standards of conduct expected from a cadet of MCJ.  
Failure to come upto desired standard of education.  
Failing in 3 or more subjects in a final exam.  
Getting B or lower grade in Matric exam.  
Repetitive bunking and smoking.  
     

Note: The College will take all possible steps / measures for the safety and security of the cadets. However, the College will not be held responsible for any illness, injury, accident, disability or death of any cadet during his stay at the college  

     
For discharge from the College, following rules are applicable:
     
Own Request 


Alamgirian Association


This is an association of old boys of MCJ. The aim of this association is to maintain contact and develop better relations with old friends and also maintain a linkage with their alma matter. It has an executive committee and regional offices in almost all major cities of the country. These associations hold meetings annually or biennially. Executive Committee usually meets once a year. The senior most serving Alamgirian is Chairman Alamgirian Association and next Senior or suitable officer is requested to act as Vice Chairman of Alamgirian Association. The Present Chairman of Alamgirian Association is Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, NI (M), HI, COAS and Vice Chairman is Lt Gen Sajjad Ghani, HI(M) while the General Secretary is Col (R) Ijaz Ahmed Raffi.

Contact Us


Parents / Guardians may ring up their sons/wards through the College Exchange during the following hours. 
  
Days Timings :

Monday to Friday  1400 - 1600 hours  
Saturday  1400 - 1700 hours  
Sundays and Holidays 0900 - 1700 hours 

Phone Numbers :
0544-69833511-17
0544-650582

Fax : 
0544-652071
804133518

Education Branch : 
804133520 (Ext 2255)
Key Personnel Telephone Numbers (For Emergency Only) 

Designation Office Residence
Commandant 0544-698-33500 0544-698-33501
Dy Comdt/CI 0544-698-33502 0544-698-33503
Adjutant 0544-698-33506 (Ext 2213) 0544-698-33511-3(Ext 2214)




































































































































     

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Cadet College Hassan Abdal












Foreword by the Principal




Cadet College Hasan Abdal, being the first institution of its kind in Pakistan, has been a trend-setter in the field of quality boarding schools meant for boys. In its history of over sixty years, its graduates have not only contributed tremendously in the national mainstream, many have moved across frontiers, and are now playing their roles at the global level. Above all, being a trailblazer, the institution has helped set the blueprints of milliard of institutions, which have followed in its wake.

A well-rounded personality, built around the core values of character, integrity, intellectual superiority and commitment have always been at the centre-stage of our grooming at Hasan Abdal. That’s why our graduates have always managed to survive in some of the most hostile conditions of fiercest competition and of formidable adversity. They have always managed to fight their way to the top and have led from the front, because that’s how they have been prepared and conditioned during their highly impressionable years of adolescent youth here. Their natural propensities for effective teamwork and strong communication skills actually draw from the years of intimate comradeship developed in the dorms of their Wings here, and from the moments of mind-blowing sporting glory experienced at the Winlaw’s sports ground. Their eloquence and intellectual robustness are nothing but the reflection of their insightful and heated discourses in the class theatres of Ayub block, or during the after-dinner strolls around the Scholar’s Walk.
The BOGs have recently christened The CCH roads/facilities, and the College sports grounds have been named after the Second British Principal, Mr A.W.E Winlaw.
The road around the Oval, has been named as The Scholar’s Walk.

Academic excellence has always been the central point of our priorities here, because we know that it plays a pivotal role in the proper placements of our graduates. Hassan Abdal has produced so many high-achievers in its academic history that CCH has become synonymous with Board toppers. Our programs have had the strength to have our students accepted not only in the very best of the national universities, but even in some of the Ivy League institutions.

CCH has come a long way from where it started its journey 61 years ago, and is ready to take-on new challenges. With Pakistan at the centre-stage of many controversies in the global perceptions, we need to equip our scholars with the skills to not only excel and distinguish in multi-cultural global settings, but to also prove effective ambassadors of a progressive Pakistan. It’s time for us to break out of our national shell now, and to prepare our graduates for the greater challenges of a cosmopolitan global village. Which institution in Pakistan can be better placed to embark upon this new challenge than CCH?!!

Principal’s Special Message to Abdalians


My dear Abdalians, Asslam o Alaikum

As the old students of this great institution which has played a significant role in grooming you to your successes in life, I have no doubt that the interest of your alma mater measures very high in your priorities. So, as the erstwhile custodian of CCH, responsible for its present-day well-being and maintenance, I feel that I have to see no further than the vast multitude of the sons of this College who would come scrambling to serve the interests of their mother institution when called upon.

The needs of the institution are fundamentally two-fold i.e material and intellectual, and I would like to briefly dwell on each. Firstly, the College infrastructure is sixty years old, and to be quite honest, everything is virtually bursting apart now. Being an institution serving the bright lads from mostly poor/middle class over the years (and shunning all temptations to make quick bucks by resorting to self-finance schemes like most other good institutions did in crunch times!), our limited budgets have never allowed us to move away from our most immediate needs. Years of neglect as well as financial constraint have led us to the current state of deplorable maintenance, which is not at all compatible with our great name and tradition. (I am sharing some pictures as attachment/in the enclosed CD, which are so deplorable that I can only share them with my Very Own only.). On the intellectual front too we have not fared very well. Although we have retained our edge in academics, the ideals of all-around personality grooming (once believed to be the principal hall-mark of our institution) has been somewhat diluted too over the years due to under-paid faculty and to our failure to keep up  our global linkages due to shrinking financial capacity. With scores of similar institutions which have mushroomed all over the country in the last decade, coupled with vacillating government priorities, the official budgetary support has actually eroded in the real terms, and still worse, it is not likely to improve in the coming years. So, we might have to be waking up to a very rude shock, but lo and behold beyond any doubt that the only guaranteed lifeline we can really bank upon is really ourselves.

I am very surprised that the realization of this collective responsibility (to look after our alma mater) took so long to dawn upon us, and even failed to prompt us to something as obvious as the establishment of an endowment fund. All great institutions have had hefty endowments all along, which are accumulated over the years, and for CCH this should been done long ago. However, this belated initiative has finally been taken now under the expert guidance of a financial-wizard son of the college, who has helped us device our endowment policies in line with the best practices of the field. These include, virtually ‘untouchable’ capital amounts, multi-signatory trustee account holders, third party audits by renowned chartered accounting firms, periodic updating of audited accounts sheets  on the website, and above all, sharing complete details of the expenditures out of donations made for specific purposes. So this should take care of some commonly-held perceptions about the funds being swindled away for unintended misuse.

You will be glad to know that besides Endowment, which is obviously an extremely sacred trust, we have incorporated a lot more transparency even in our normal day-to-day financial accounting. For instance, the Principal is no longer the sole signatory of the College accounts, there can be no cash transaction of more than Rs 20000 anymore, all significant payments have to be strictly through crossed cheque, and that we have to strictly follow the PPRA procurement rules in our purchases. Above all, unlike in the years gone-by, there are very frequent Board Meetings to ensure a very intrusive compliance to the rules ( i.e. during the last seven months, two meetings each of the BOGs and Executive Committee have taken place. This would contrast significantly with the BOGs meeting just preceding the last two, which had taken place four and a half years earlier).

So, gentlemen you can clearly see that we are doing everything in our power to regain your trust. Because I feel that from now on, your trust is actually the lifeline of this institution, and may I say it candidly (even at the cost of a bit of overstatement!), that without this trust our dear alma mater may ultimately be  dying a slow but sure death. So let us all donate generously to our endowment fund, and play our role in the rehabilitation of our alma mater.

Contributions can be made by:

Crossed checks/bank drafts/pay orders payable to CCH Endowment Fund

On line remittances can be made using the following routing instructions:

A/c Title: CCH Endowment Fund

A/c No: 02747900338601 with Habib Bank Limited,  Branch Code: 0274

Branch Address: Ground floor Chauhadry Tariq Plaza Main G.T Road Hasanabdal, Pakistan

 IBAN: PK17 HABB 0002 7479 0033 8601(For international transactions)

Swift Code: HABBPKKA (For international transactions)

Contact numbers to confirm receipts of contributions at Habib Bank Hasanabdal are as follows: +92-57-2523393 or +92-333-5309468

May God bless you!

With kindest regards

Yours sincerely,

Maj Gen (R) Najeeb Tariq SI(M)

Principal

Cadet College Hasan Abdal

Prospectus


College Prospectus contains the Application Forms and detailed information about this institution. It can be obtained from the College Admission Office by hand on cash payment of Rs.500/- or by post within the country Rs.600/- or by post outside the country at Rs.1000/- through a crossed bank draft drawn on Habib Bank Hasan Abdal, in favour of Principal, Cadet College, Hasan Abdal. cheques will not be acceptable.

Admission Forms can also be downloaded from the College website. The downloaded forms will have to be submitted along with a fee of Rs. 1600/- (Pak Rs. 2000/- for those living abroad) in form of bank draft in favour of Principal, Cadet College Hasan Abdal.

The name of candidate/applicant along with his father’s name and address are required to obtain a copy of the prospectus.

The candidates are required to remit a Non-Refundable Registration Fee of Rs.1000/- with the filled-up application forms before 26th October for Class VIII.  No applications are accepted after this in any case.

An Additional Fee of Saudi Riyal 600/- or UAE Dirham 600/- is charged from the candidates applying from Saudi Arabia and Sharjah respectively, before examination at these centres.

No quota allocation earmarked. Selection nation-wide on merit only. For further information, contact:

Admission Office: 0572520210 (Ext 302) or 0572520200

Email: info@ccha.edu.pk


Location



Cadet Colllege Hasan Abdal, the premier and prestigious institution of its kind, is the first ever Cadet College of Pakistan. It is located on National Highway N-5 near the junction of Grand Trunk and Hazara Road. It is surrounded by the scenic beauty of the picturesque town of Hasan Abdal.

Picture Gallery

Sabre Aircraft


 Navy Gun


 Monument in the memory of Martyred Cadets


 Chief guest reweing the parade on parents day

 Cafeteria


 Tank Presented by Pakistan Army


Fee Structures


Fee includes tuition fee, electricity charges, medical fund, hostel and mess services fund, messing, hair cutting, washing, shoe & clothes repairing, event management, etc. The details are as follows

8th/9th/10th Classes

Rs. 1,53,406/- per annum

1st Year

Rs. 1,41,229/- per annum

2nd Year

Rs. 1,75,384/- per annum

GCE ‘O’ Level Classes

Rs. 1,71,444/- per annum

Admission Fee


A sum of Rs. 2000/- is charged on account of Admission Fee from new entrants of 8th and 1st year classes.
Fees once paid are not refundable and the manner of their spending is not accounted for to the parents.

The following funds will be charged only once at the time of admission.
Building Fund : Rs. 10,000/-
Education Fund: Rs. 500/-

Note: The fees given above is subject to revision whenever considered necessary.

Late Payment of Fees


If dues are not received within due date, the cadets will be fined @ Rs.10/- per day for the first ten days and Rs.100/- per day for the next 10 days. Thereafter they are liable to be withdrawn from the college.

Re-admission if approved will be made on payment of Rs. 2000/- in addition to the fine.

Additionally following extra-items are charged to the cadets and accountable to parents according to the purchases and the payments made:Security Deposit of Rs.4000/- on admission (Refundable on leaving the College).

Clothing and Footwear (All items of clothing and footwear required by a cadet are supplied by the College).

Books and Stationery (Requirements are issued by the College).

Riding Club, Gymnasium charges, Squash Club and Tennis Club (optional to join).

Miscellaneous (Traveling Expenses, Board Registration and Board Examination Fees, Photographs, Magazine, Movie club etc).

Academics


The Cadets are prepared for the Secondary School Certificate (Matriculation) and Intermediate examinations conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rawalpindi and General Certificate of Education ‘O’ Levels from University of Cambridge.

The promotion from the School to the College classes is not automatic. Admission to the 1st year class depends upon the boy’s result in the Matriculation/GCE’O’ Level Examination and his conduct. The decision whether a boy is fit for admission to the 1st year class or take up the Pre-engineering or Pre-medical course in the 1st Year class rests entirely with the College.

For the internal assessment of the cadet, terminal tests in May/June and in December, a Home Task Test after the summer vacation and the Annual Promotion Examination in March are held during the academic year. In the first three tests, the cadets are generally examined from the course covered during the term while in the annual promotion examination, they are tested from the whole course covered over the academic year. Cadets failing in any two subjects in two terminal examinations or promotion examination are detained in the same class. Those cadets who fail for the second time are withdrawn from the College.

In the event of the failure of the scholarship holder to show satisfactory progress i.e. 60% marks in the terminal test, home task test and promotion examination, the scholarship is reduced or in more serious cases, withdrawn.

Alumini


General Khalid Shameem Wynne HI (M)
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee

Lt. Gen. Muhammad Masood Aslam (Retd.), HI, HI (M), SJ
Ambassador Mexico

Lt. Gen. Salahuddin Satti (Retd.),
Ex-Ambassador, Brunie

Lt. Gen. Mohsin Kamal (Retd.), HI (M)

Lt. Gen. Ayaz Saleem Rana HI (M)
Chairman, Heavy Industries, Taxila Cantt.

Maj. Gen. Naweed Zaman
Millitary Secretary, General Headquarters, Rawalpindi.

Mr. Zafar Mahmood
Secretary, Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Government of Pakistan

Mr. Mussadaq Mohammad Khan
Ex-Cahiarman Agriculture Policy Institute

Mr. Sikandar Sultan Raja
Secretary, Government of the Punjab, S & GAD Department

Mr. Kamal-ud-din Tipu
Deputy Inspector General of Police

Maj. Gen. Syed Ithar Hussain Shah (Retd.), HI (M)

Dr. Aamir Aziz
Surgimed Hospital, Zafar Ali Khan Road, Lahore.

Mr. Muhammad Saeed Mehdi
Advisor, Govt. of the Punjab

Lt Gen. Azhar Rashid HI (M)
Surgeon General , Pakistan Army Medical Corps, Rawalpindi

Mr. Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema
DIG Welfare & Finance

Maj. Gen. Muhammad Ovais Mustafa HI (M)
Director General, Military Vehicles Research & Development Establishment

Maj. Gen. Javed Iqbal HI (M)
Director General, Defence Complex Islamabad, QMG Branch,
General Headquarters, Rawalpindi Cantt.

Maj. Gen. Najib Ullah Khan
G.O.C. Kharrian

Mr. Rashid Khan
Chief Executive Officer, Mobilink

Major General Mohammad Shahid
Rector NUST

Dr. Wajid Ali Khan
Chief Consultant, Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital

Mr. Tariq Masud Khosa
Ex- Secretary, Ministry of Narcotics Control, Government of Pakistan

Mr. Nasir Khan Durrani
Additional Inspector General of Police, Special Branch Punjab

Mr. Khaliq Dad Lak
R.P.O. Sahiwal

Khawaja Mohammad Asif
MNA

Dr. Kamran Cheema
MD, Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Doctor’s Hospital Lahore

Engr. Khurram Dastgir
MNA

Maj. (Retd) Raja Nadir Pervez  S.J.
Ex-MNA

Syed Aqil Shah, MPA
Minister for Sports and Culture, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Maj. Gen. Akhtar Waheed
Commandant, Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicines, Rwp

Maj. Gen. Hamid Shafiq
Prof. of Medicines, MH, Rawalpindi

Dr. Syed Muhammad Kamran Majeed Akhtar Waheed
DG Medical Services, Khan Research laborataries, Islamabad

Vice Admiral Tayyab Ali Dogar HI(M), S. Bt.
Former Chief of Naval Staff

Vice Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah HI(M)
Commander Pakistan Fleet, PNS Haider

Rear Admiral Shahid Saeed
Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (M)
Naval HQ, Islamabad.

Air Marshal (Retd) Abbas Khatak
Ex-Chief of Air Staff

Mr. Mazhar Hayat
Ex_Secy Punjab Govt., SEVP

Maj. Gen. (Retd) Qasim Qureshi

Lt. Gen. (Retd) Tariq Parvaiz

Lt. Gen. (Retd) Muhammad Afzal Janjua HI(M), SJ, S.Bt.

Lt. Gen. (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi

Lt. Gen. (Retd) Salahuddin Tirmzi

Maj. Gen. (Retd) Arshad Gijial

Lt. Gen. (Retd) Tariq Qureshi

Vice Admiral (Retd) Taj Mohammad Khattak

Maj. Gen. (Retd) Iftikhar Ali

Lt. Gen. (Retd) Naseer Akhtar

Lt. Gen. (Retd) Zubair, Ex E-in-C

Maj. Gen. (Retd) Iftikhar Cheema

Maj. Gen. Syed Muhammad Imran Majeed
Head of Cardiology Department, AFIC, NIHD, Rawalpindi

Dr. Syed Muhammad Kamran Majeed
Director General, Medical Services, Khan Research Laboratories, Islamabad.

Dr. Tayyab Ali, Services Hospital, Lahore

Prof. Dr. Yaqoob Qazi

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Arif

Lt. Gen. (Retd) Chaudhry Iftikhar Ali Khan

Mr. Imdad Ullah Bosal
Commisioner Rawalpindi

Mr. Nasir Khan Durrani
Additional I.G. Special Branch, Lahore

Capt. (Retd) Muhammad Zubair
R.P.O. Rawalpindi

Mr. Abdul Majeed Khan Marwat
Commandant F.C. Peshawar

Lt. Gen. (Retd) Hamid Javaid HI, HI(M)
Ex- C.O.S. to the President

Capt. (Retd) Zahid Saeed
Secretary Excise and Taxation, Lahore

Mr. Shahid Hussain Qureshi
Ex. I.G. Police (Railway, AK)

Dr. Faisal Sultan
CEO, Shaukat Khanam Memorial Hospital, Lahore

Contact Us


PRINCIPAL                         Phone: 0092-57-2520200
Email : Principal@ccha.edu.pk

VICE PRINCIPAL                  Phone: 0092-57-2520201
Email : vp@ccha.edu.pk
         
 DVP (ACADEMICS)                  Phone: 0092-57-2522258
Email : dvpa@ccha.edu.pk
         
 DVP (COORDINATION)          Phone: 0092-57-2520210 (Ext-14)
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Mental Fitness



Our brain has done a pretty good job of protecting us, an example being our ancestors managing to avoid getting eaten by sabre-toothed tigers, but the human brain remains relatively easy to fool. Optical illusions, dreams, hallucinations, altered states of consciousness, and the placebo effect are just a handful of familiar cases where our brains perception of what is happening, doesn't correspond to whatever is actually occurring.



You can try and lesser these effects through mental exercises, for example video games can have a considerable effect on brain activity. Another example is a type of mental arithmetic practiced in Japan, counting devices relying on rows of beads are common in the country, but a valued skill is "anzan", which is very fast and accurate mental abacus in essence. Using these imagination-based calculating tools, the most skilled participants can sum fifteen three-digit decimals in less than two seconds. Contestants begin using the mental abacus so immediately that afterwards they cannot remember any of the individual three-digit numbers.

Skills that can rely on mental practice are also familiar to those who need to practice physical motions regularly, such as musicians and athletes. For instrumentalists, having an actual instrument to play is pretty handy, but it turns out that having a mental copy of one can be almost as good. The musical community in general has been aware of this for decades or more. These days, neuroscience is beginning to catch up to musicians who practice mentally. Although the details are still somewhat elusive, the key to the success of mental imagery as a rehearsal technique is that most of the same neurological regions are invoked by mental practice as by real practice.


As with rehearsing a piece on the piano, practicing a complex physical task in the mind alone is nearly as effective a learning strategy as actually physically doing it. But it doesn't stop there. In a 2004 study, a group of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation decided to find out whether mental practice of a minor exercise routine could actually result in physical changes to the target areas of the body. One group of subjects performed a regular exercise involving moving a finger sideways; a second group regularly imagined doing the same exercise but did not go through the physical motions; and a third (control) group did nothing unusual with their fingers at all. After 12 weeks of training, the physical finger-workout group showed an increase of 53% in finger strength; the control group did not show any changes in finger strength; and the mental-finger-stretching group showed an increase of 35%. In other words, the mental-exercise group physically increased the strength of one of their fingers by imagining, repeatedly, over the course of about three months, that they were exercising it. They didn't have to lift a finger in order to convince their brains that they were, in fact, lifting a finger.



Neuroscientists are still working on the enigma of why this might be. Clearly the brain has been tricked. Nonetheless, it is clear that the human imagination alone is capable of doing things that are certainly more than imaginary in their results.

Want To win Lottery



 How to get into trouble. After a very public scuffle with a nobleman nearly ended in a duel, the young playwright was exiled from Paris, the city where his plays were only just coming into fashion. He lived in dreary England for two whole years before slinking back to France, where he lived in the house of a pharmacist.

Finally in 1729 the gates of Paris were opened to Arouet again, but he was still ill-at-ease. At a dinner party held by the chemist Charles du Fay, Arouet, better known by his pen-name Voltaire, found the cure he had been looking for. He met a brilliant mathematician called Charles Marie De La Condamine, who promised a panacea better than any Voltaire had found at his pharmacist.

Condamine had a plan that would make both him and Voltaire more money than he could ever scratch together by writing plays or poems. He would be free to live how he wanted and write what he wanted. The plan was simple. Condamine planned to outsmart luck herself. He was going to arrange to win the lottery.

A ticket for a 1,000 livre bond cost one livre, while a ticket for a 10,000 livre bond cost ten livres. But both tickets had equal chances of winning the 500,000 livre jackpot. Condamine realized that a group of people could buy up a lot of cut-price bonds, split them into tiny parcels of 1,000 livres, buy up cheap lottery tickets, and thus easily win the huge jackpot.


Voltaire and Condamine started a syndicate to do just that. But once they got the people, the money and the bonds together, they faced a final problem. Lottery tickets were issued only from a very small number of notaries, and the notary issuing stacks of lottery tickets to shifty young Voltaire would almost certainly guess what was going on, and give the syndicate away before any money could be won. Voltaire had to develop an ‘understanding’ with a notary before the plan could proceed. Once this was done, the young men were ready to get rich.

Every month Voltaire would go to the Châtelet to visit his notary, and walk away with reams of tickets. By tradition people inscribed the backs of their tickets with good-luck phrases. Voltaire’s were mocking. “Here’s to the good idea of M.L.C. [Marie De La Condamine]!” “Long live M. Pelletier-Desforts!” He signed them with a series of assumed names, getting increasingly more absurd as the scheme went on. Every month on the 8th when the tickets were drawn, the syndicate would be about a million livres richer, according to Voltaire’s later estimate.

The authorities noticed that the names on the backs of the winning tickets were suspiciously similar and this led Le Pelletier-Desforts to discover the syndicate. The Deputy Finance Minister brought the syndicate to court, but in the meantime every 8th of the month the lottery was drawn again, making the syndicate just a little bit richer. Eventually, the royal council ruled in the syndicate’s favor, letting them keep their absurd riches, though the lottery was shut down. France surrendered, and Le Pelletier-Desforts lost his job.

Voltaire himself probably won around half a million livres, a large fortune, which he then made even larger in a series of canny investments. Soon Voltaire was a very rich man, rich enough to become a moneylender to the powerful and famous, rich enough that he no longer had to stake his financial well-being on that most unreliable and detestable profession...writing.

Charles Marie De La Condamine used his winnings to good effect as well. Three years after the bonanza he traveled to Ecuador as part of an expedition to discover the true shape of the earth, proving that the earth is not a perfect sphere but is instead squished a little bit around the poles. He became the first scientist ever to travel down the Amazon river, advocated smallpox inoculation back in France, brought rubber to Europe, and helped define how long a meter is, as well as finding time to publish numerous popular books and to promote the use of quinine as a cure for malaria, thus easing the suffering of millions of malaria-infected people for hundreds of years and providing the tonic water for our gin and tonics.


Voltaire spent the rest of his life causing trouble. He befriended King Frederick the Great, wrote one of the first science-fiction story in history called Micromegas, had an argument with King Frederick the Great, was arrested, fled to Paris, was banned from Paris, and so settled in Geneva where he spent time entertaining the most interesting minds of the time, including Casanova, Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon. He wrote articles highly critical of Christian dogma when impiety could get a man killed, and championed human rights before there was even a word for human rights, and the whole time he did this he kept Europe entertained. On his deathbed, one story goes, a priest asked him if he would renounce Satan and all his works. “Now is not the time for making any new enemies,” Voltaire quipped.

Today Voltaire stands in the popular imagination as something like a one-man Enlightenment. His book Candide is one of the most-studied books in all French literature. But he only reached the heights of literature because he dared to challenge luck itself.

While you might not be able to win the lottery like this now, it show's that there is always a way and I found this to be quite an inspirational story that I hoped you enjoyed.