آج کل کراچی کے تعلیمی اداروں میں ایک موضوع جو زیرِ بحث ہے وہ دلچسپ بھی ہے اور ساتھ ہی ساتھ متنازعہ بھی۔ وہ یہ ہے کہ کیا طلبہ تنظیموں کو بحال کرنے کی ضرورت ہے یا پھر ان پر جو پابندی عائد کی گئی تھی وہ نہ ہٹائی جائے؟
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Haziq-ul-Khairi
By Zubeida Mustafa
MORE than 91 years ago a child was born to an enlightened and highly literary family. He himself grew up to make a worthy contribution to society as a public intellectual. Apart from his inherited love for Urdu literature, he also loved the profession he had chosen to enter, namely, law.
Be warned
By Zubeida Mustafa
RECENTLY, we had bad and good news in quick succession. It was first announced that Punjab’s interim government had issued a notification stating that it had signed an agreement with the army to hand over to the latter more than 45,000 acres of land in the province’s Bhakkar, Sahiwal and Khushab districts for corporate farming. A few weeks later, to my great relief, I learnt that Rafay Alam, the lawyer fighting cases to save Pakistan’s agriculture from the treachery of our rulers, petitioned the Lahore High Court to have the notification withdrawn. The court stopped the transfer.
Losing the Game
By Rifaat Hamid Ghani
To get past an impasse one has to be working towards that end: Have we reached a political impasse, and if so, just what comprises it?
Language matters
By Zubeida Mustafa
A STORY that went viral recently was of a little boy whose teacher marked his face with a black dot. The other children were then asked to shame him. Where did the child go wrong? He had spoken in Urdu in a supposedly English-medium school. It was shocking and I felt the pain the child must have felt when he was so humiliated. This was no less than a cardinal sin that was committed against the child, against our national language and against all those children who were made to participate in this hate game.