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Zubeida Mustafa

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Language tyranny

SINCE an education emergency was declared in Pakistan — for the second time — education has entered the public discourse with a bang. Seminars are...

01.11.2024 90

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Teenage blues

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...

18.10.2024 100

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Act of conscience

“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...

04.10.2024 200

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Father of man

AUG 31 was Dr Maria Montessori’s birthday. The Pakistan Montessori Association had planned to honour its icons that day, starting with its legendary...

20.09.2024 100

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Sorry syndrome

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...

06.09.2024 200

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Babies galore

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...

23.08.2024 100

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Story of a hari

PAKISTAN: A Hard Country, by Anatole Lieven, was published in 2011. Thirteen years later, Pakistan is a ‘harder’ country still. But not everyone...

09.08.2024 200

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An unsafe country

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...

26.07.2024 200

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Parents’ concern

HERE comes yet another attempt at kick-starting a public discourse on the most neglected issue in Pakistan: public sector education. This time the...

12.07.2024 100

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Defying nature

IT seems that the guardians of our morality believe a major threat to Pakistan’s existence comes from its transgender citizens. A considerable...

28.06.2024 100

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A helping hand

IN a country without institutionalised social security, how do people of limited means survive in an emergency? A wage earner might lose his job...

14.06.2024 100

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Youth and longevity

MUNA Khan’s interesting column titled ‘Forego the FOGO’ (fear of getting old) published recently on these pages was food for thought. She is...

31.05.2024 100

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New way to learn

PAKISTAN is not famous for its reading culture. Few people read books and the publishing industry has never flourished here as in other countries...

17.05.2024 100

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Crisis to crisis

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...

03.05.2024 200

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Why insecure?

IN his memoirs, Foundations and Form, Mukhtar Husain writes about his first school experience: “In 1955, I started attending Mrs Corks’ Private...

19.04.2024 90

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ASER’s verdict

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...

05.04.2024 100

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The true hero

PAKISTAN enjoys the dubious distinction of being the fifth most populous state in the world. But unlike the four countries that precede it in...

22.03.2024 100

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Pakistan’s women

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...

08.03.2024 200

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War and peace

IN his well-researched and comprehensively documented book Pakistan’s Wars: An Alternative History, Dr Tariq Rahman pleads the case for peace. The...

23.02.2024 100

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Whither Karachi?

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...

09.02.2024 50

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She knew best

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...

26.01.2024 90

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A pioneer

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...

12.01.2024 100

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Why the silence?

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...

29.12.2023 100

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Separation

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...

15.12.2023 200

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