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SINCE an education emergency was declared in Pakistan — for the second time — education has entered the public discourse with a bang. Seminars are...
THE teenage years are not a trouble-free phase in a young person’s life. The transition to adulthood poses many challenges, mainly due to...
“If the pain has often been unbearable and the revelations shocking to all of us, it is because they indeed bring us the beginnings of a common...
AUG 31 was Dr Maria Montessori’s birthday. The Pakistan Montessori Association had planned to honour its icons that day, starting with its legendary...
THE present is so gripping for us that we prefer to put our past on the back burner. But what happened in East Pakistan in 1970-71 remains fresh in...
OURS is a society where parents start planning their daughter’s marriage soon after she is born. Here the social compulsion for couples to prove...
PAKISTAN: A Hard Country, by Anatole Lieven, was published in 2011. Thirteen years later, Pakistan is a ‘harder’ country still. But not everyone...
HOW safe a place is Pakistan for young women? According to the human rights ministry, in the last three years, 63,000 cases of violence against women...
HERE comes yet another attempt at kick-starting a public discourse on the most neglected issue in Pakistan: public sector education. This time the...
IT seems that the guardians of our morality believe a major threat to Pakistan’s existence comes from its transgender citizens. A considerable...
IN a country without institutionalised social security, how do people of limited means survive in an emergency? A wage earner might lose his job...
MUNA Khan’s interesting column titled ‘Forego the FOGO’ (fear of getting old) published recently on these pages was food for thought. She is...
PAKISTAN is not famous for its reading culture. Few people read books and the publishing industry has never flourished here as in other countries...
SINCE its inception, Pakistan has lurched from crisis to crisis. The poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz was once asked what the future held in store for the...
IN his memoirs, Foundations and Form, Mukhtar Husain writes about his first school experience: “In 1955, I started attending Mrs Corks’ Private...
WHEN Gen Charles Napier conquered Sindh in 1843, he sent a single-word message to his bosses in London. It read, “Peccavi”, a Latin word that...
PAKISTAN enjoys the dubious distinction of being the fifth most populous state in the world. But unlike the four countries that precede it in...
TODAY is March 8 — International Women’s Day, an occasion to revisit the women’s movement in Pakistan. Where do they stand 76 years after...
IN his well-researched and comprehensively documented book Pakistan’s Wars: An Alternative History, Dr Tariq Rahman pleads the case for peace. The...
AS was expected, Karachi was at the centre of all speeches at the event organised by the Theosophical Society to celebrate the 134th birth anniversary...
WHY the hurry to leave? Why no farewells? Regrettably, we will never know. Farida Akbar, the best exponent of Dr Maria Montessori’s philosophy in...
THE women’s movement in Pakistan has come a long way since its inception. It has assumed different forms and strategies during the course of its...
RECENTLY, at a history conference on academic freedom held at SZABIST, a session was devoted to analysing the culture of silence that has come to...
TOMORROW is Dec 16. Not many in present-day Pakistan, where the majority was born after the country had lost its eastern wing, are aware of the...