Know that the life of this world is only play and amusement pomp and mutual boasting among you, and rivalry in respect of wealth and children, as the likeness of vegetation after rain, thereof the growth is pleasing to the tiller; afterwards it dries up and you see it tutrning yellow: then it becomes straw. But in the Hereafter (there is) Forgiveness from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure (for the believers, good-doers), whereas the life of this worls is only a deceiving enjoyment Al-Hadeed 57:20 Army Burn Hall College for Boys The Hallmark 2011-12 Q U M O A N ND ON ASCE CONTENTS Message of the Chairman Board of Governors ....................................................................................... 7 Message of the Deputy Chairman Board of Governors ......................................................................... 9 Principal’s Message .................................................................................................................................... 10 From the Editor’s Pen ................................................................................................................................ 12 The College Faculty ................................................................................................................................... 14 VIEWS & REVIEWS ................................................................................................................................ 18 ANNUAL DAY AND PRIZE DISTRIBUTION Principal’s Report - Annual Parents Day and Prize Distribution Ceremony - 2010 ........................ 22 Chief Guest’s Address - Annual Parents Day and Prize Distribution Ceremony - 2010 ................. 24 The Award Winners .................................................................................................................................. 26 Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony - 2010 ........................................................................................ 29 Annual Round-up - 2010 ......................................................................................................................... 31 THE PROUD RECIPIENTS OF AWARDS & APPOINTMENTS Gold Medalists ........................................................................................................................................... 36 Prefectorial Board ...................................................................................................................................... 37 Syed Ahmed Shaheed House ................................................................................................................... 37 Shah Ismail Shaheed House ..................................................................................................................... 38 Sultan Tipu Shaheed House ..................................................................................................................... 38 Secretaries ................................................................................................................................................... 39 Appointment Holders - English Literary Society .................................................................................. 40 Bazm-e-Adab ............................................................................................................................................. 40 Out Going 2nd Year Class ........................................................................................................................ 41 LIFE AT THE CAMPUS Visit of the Chairman BOG, Lt Gen Tahir Mahmood, HI (M), S Bt & Bar ...................................... 48 Visit of the Deputy Chairman BOG, Maj Gen Raheel Sharif, HI (M) ............................................... 49 14th All Pakistan Bilingual Declamation Contest - 2010..................................................................... 50 THE WORLD AS I SEE IT Education in Islamic Perspective ............................................................................................................. 54 Mr Saleem Nawaz Hazrat Immam Hussain (RA) .................................................................................................................. 56 Hammad Hassan Islamic Renaissance - The Need of the Time ......................................................................................... 58 Mr Shahzad Khan Jadoon The Back Benchers at College .................................................................................................................. 60 Syed Qamar Ai Shah Limitations of Science ............................................................................................................................... 62 Quo Non Ascendam Army Burn Hall College for Boys The Hallmark 2011-12 Q U M O A N ND ON ASCE Mr Hanif Jadoon The Lost Gem (Ismail Gulgee) ................................................................................................................. 64 Ahmed Aftab Mirza I Miss You ................................................................................................................................................... 66 Hafiz Anwaarullah Khan Faith in the Unknown ............................................................................................................................... 67 Mansoor Alam Khan The Demise of Societies ............................................................................................................................ 68 Talha Majeed Technology is the Death of Morality ...................................................................................................... 69 Muhammad Tariq Khan In Todays World Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair ........................................................................................ 70 Miss Rabia Nazir Malik My Cries are the Songs of Independence ............................................................................................... 71 Umer Maalik “He” Survives ............................................................................................................................................. 73 Syed Wasiq Ali Shah From the Land of Pharoas and Mummys............................................................................................... 74 Nadeem Ahmed UK – Through My Eyes ............................................................................................................................ 78 Essa Khan Drone Aircraft ............................................................................................................................................ 81 Sarmad Aziz Blessing in Disguise ................................................................................................................................... 83 Syed Ali Zarghan Bukhari Drug Addiction – The Problem of 21st Century ................................................................................... 84 Ahmed Saadullah Khan Chemistry of A Woman ............................................................................................................................ 86 Syed Ali Hassan Shah ON THE WINGS OF POESY My Angel of Death .................................................................................................................................... 88 Rabia Malik Lucky Me .................................................................................................................................................... 89 Ali Umer “Oh Burn Hall! Its Hard to Leave” .......................................................................................................... 90 Fawad Saleem A Brandished Love, A Dismal Defeat ..................................................................................................... 91 Essa Khan Like the Rising Sun .................................................................................................................................... 92 Khawar Latif Khan Happiness ................................................................................................................................................... 93 Syed Ali Hassan Shah Quo Non Ascendam Army Burn Hall College for Boys The Hallmark 2011-12 Q U M O A N ND ON ASCE Lieutenant General Khalid Nawaz Khan, HI (M) Chairman Board of Governors, Army Burn Hall Institutions 4 Quo Non Ascendam Army Burn Hall College for Boys The Hallmark 2011-12 Q U M O A N ND ON ASCE Message of the Chairman Board of Governors Lt Gen Khalid Nawaz Khan, HI(M), Sitara-i-Esar Coming Quo Non Ascendam 5 Army Burn Hall College for Boys The Hallmark 2011-12 Q U M O A N ND ON ASCE Major General Sadiq Ali Deputy Chairman Board of Governors, Army Burn Hall Institutions 6 Quo Non Ascendam Army Burn Hall College for Boys The Hallmark 2011-12 Q U M O A N ND ON ASCE Message of the Deputy Chairman Board of Governors It is . Maj Gen Sadiq Ali coming Quo Non Ascendam 7 Army Burn Hall College for Boys The Hallmark 2011-12 Q U M O A N ND ON ASCE Principal pic 8 Quo Non Ascendam Army Burn Hall College for Boys The Hallmark 2011-12 Q U M O A N ND ON ASCE Principal’s Message It proffers me to communicate with young Hallians through the colourful pages of “The Hallmark”. The magazine is a good source of enlightening ourselves to know a lot about whatever goes on at the campus during the academic year. Army Burn Hall College for Boys is one such leading institution of the Country which is well aware of its obligation towards wholesome grooming of young Hallians, the students here are fortunate and privileged to have such an