By Zubeida Mustafa
WILL Ali Akbar Hashmi’s hard-hitting speech in the National Assembly on Independence Day cause our parliamentarians to rethink education in Pakistan? Hashmi is a student who shed light on the plight of out-of-school children living in poverty.
Continue reading Why de-school?کالم: زبیدہ مصطفیٰ
جس ملک میں 70 سے زیادہ زبانیں بولی جاتی ہوں اور 75 برس میں اس کے حکمران یہ فیصلہ نہ کر پائیں کہ بچوں کو کس زبان میں پڑھایا جائے تو اس ملک کے نظام تعلیم میں بہت سی خامیاں پیدا ہو جاتی ہیں اور پاکستان کا بھی یہی حال ہے۔
Continue reading پاکستان کے نظام تعلیم میں زبان کی افسوس ناک کہانیBy Farnood Alam
MORE than two hundred suicide cases have been reported from Gilgit Baltistan in the last five years. There are approximately 120 men and 105 women who have committed suicide. Keeping the River Gilgit on your right if you exit the city, you enter the district of Ghizer. In this district alone there have been approximately 115 deaths. Less than 40 percent are men, and more than 60 percent are women. In the last forty days there have been more than 17 suicides. As I write these lines, news of another suicide from Yasin, an area in Ghizer reaches me, making the total 18.
Continue reading A calamityBy Zubeida Mustafa
CAN the political melodrama being enacted in Pakistan today be called democracy?
Those involved — all political leaders, the media, the anchors and others — believe this is democracy. The events that are portrayed 24/7 on TV, WhatsApp and Facebook are seen as giving the people a voice. How the ‘voice-giving process’ is being conducted is nobody’s business. All we old-timers know is that we cannot call a spade a spade.
Continue reading Is this democracy?By Rifaat Hamid Ghani
IMRAN Khan, our PM until the recent vote of no confidence unseated him, is demanding fresh elections without delay. Yet he is likely to obstruct – should he mislike – the electoral process whensoever it may commence or reject its results:
Continue reading Change or exchange?