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ٻار جي پيروي ڪريو

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ترجمو: انيتا ڪمل

تازو ئي مون کي هڪ نهايت اطمينان بخش تجربو ٿيو،جنهن مون کي ٻارن جي حوالي سان اميد ڏيکاري. مون استادن جي هڪ ڪورس دوران پنجن ليڪچرس ۾ هڪ مبصر جي حيثيت سان شرڪت ڪئي، جيڪو پاڪستان مونٽيسوري ايسوسيئيشن ڪراچي جي تعاون سان رٿيو ويو هو.

انهن ليڪچرس منهنجي اندرکي متحرڪ ڪري سوچڻ تي مجبور ڪري ڇڏيو. مون کي سمجهه ۾ اچي ويو ته اسان پنهنجي ٻارن ۽ ملڪ کي ناڪام ڪيئن ڪري رهيا آهيون. اهووليم ورڊس ورٿ هو، جنهن هڪ نظم ۾لکيو هو: “ٻار، ماڻهوءَ جو پيءُ آهي.” پر اسان جي رياست ۽ معاشرو اسان جي آئيندي جي شهرين جي روح کي تباهه ڪري رهيا آهن.

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Culture of corruption

By Zubeida Mustafa

THE ongoing school and college examinations across the country mark the advent of the cheating season. As expected, the national discourse is now focused on the malpractices of both candidates and examiners. Also under discussion are the incompetency and corruption of the examination boards which not only tolerate this ugly feature of our education system but actually facilitate it.

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بدعنوانی کا کلچر

 زبیدہ مصطفیٰ

ملک بھر میں اسکول اور کالج کے جاری امتحانات نقل کے موسم کا آغاز ہیں۔ توقع کے مطابق اب قومی سطح پر ہونے والی بحث امیدواروں اور ممتحنوں کی بدعنوانیوں پر مرکوز ہے۔ امتحانی بورڈز اور ممتحنوں کی نااہلی اور کرپشن بھی زیر ِبحث ہے جو ہمارے تعلیمی نظام کے اس بدنما پہلو کو نہ صرف برداشت کرتے ہیں بلکہ درحقیقت اس میں مدد دیتے ہیں۔

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How we learn

By Zubeida Mustafa

A HEFTY sum of over a trillion rupees has been earmarked for education collectively in the federal and provincial budgets for 2021-2022 that were announced in June. This amount has been growing over the years. But this massive financial investment in human resources has not produced the impact that could have rationally been expected on the learning outcomes of children in Pakistan. This has been confirmed year after year by Aser (Annual Status of Education Report).

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Security

By Rifaat Hamid Ghani

          IS PAKISTAN secure? Yes we have a nuclear deterrent; but we would have to be pushed to the very edge to employ it. This means outsiders seeking to push and control Pakistan’s direction for diverse purposes, can, to a sufficiently large extent, afford to ignore it: Except that Pakistan’s nuclear actualities make it a factor in the global power calculus. So how vulnerable is Pakistan to sundry pushes in any ‘preferred’ political direction?

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