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جشن آزادی مبارک

August 18, 2020August 20, 2020 News DeskUrdu & Other local languages

Sayyedaah Jabeen e Hussyn نعرہ گونجا تو دیکھا کہ ٹی وی کی اسکرین پر سبز دوپٹہ اوڑھے اور سفید لباس پہنے ایک عورت لوگوں کے ہجوم سے گھری ہوئی ان سے جشن آزادی کے موقع پر کی جانے والی تقریبات…

Struggle for Social and Economic Freedom in India and Pakistan

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Debojit Banerjee In 1945, just after World War II ended, the police opened fire upon protesters gathered to protest the incarceration and trial of three Indian National Army (INA) officers who were facing unjust trial at the hands of the…

Women and the Independence Movement

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Maleeha Basharat The Islamabad police just arrested trans-activist Julie Khan. She is known for her viral social media series “The Naked Truth”. She often talks about the problems that transwomen face including sexual abuse, harassment, poverty. A month earlier, a…

The Idea of Democracy in India

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Shikha Mishra Preamble of the Indian Constitution “We, the people of India having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a [Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic] and to secure to all its citizens: Justice, social, economic and political; Liberty of thought,…

Are we Azaad?

August 18, 2020August 27, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Maryam Mirza It is immensely ironic that around the world the former colonies of the European imperialists celebrate their independence every year. Nations rejoice their purported freedoms while they govern themselves within the very state machinery they have inherited from…

روح قائد سے

August 18, 2020August 19, 2020 News DeskPoetry, Urdu & Other local languages

عمار یاسر میری ایک نظم….. کہاں گئے میرے خواب و خیال کے موسم وہ جن کی خاطر میری روح و جسم چاک ہوئے ہے یادگار تو باقی مگر اے میرے قائد تیرے سخن تیرے افکار زیر خاک ہوئے فسانہ ہو…

Ensuring Freedom?

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Rabia Wali Are we free or still entangled in some colonial myth of Law and order which helped to detain people for as long as one fell in the broad spectrum of preventive laws? No, we are not, which further…

A Modest Proposal

August 13, 2020August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

By: Ali Mehdi Zaidi Inequality of education is a process on a spectrum. There are the entirely excluded. Individuals who, either because the vile uncle does not like women educated or because even the desire for education struggles to survive…

لائبریریوں کی بندش کے خلاف سندھ بھر میں احتجاج جاری

August 13, 2020 News DeskUrdu & Other local languages

رپورٹ: انضمام میراج آل سندھ ریڈرز فورم کی جانب سے سندھ بھر کی تمام پبلک لائبریریاں کھلوانے کے لیے سندھ کے بیشتر علاقوں میں مسلسل احتجاج کیا جا رہا ہے۔ اس حوالے سے آخری احتجاج بروز اتوار دس بجے لاڑکانہ…

Editor’s Note: Digital Divide

August 10, 2020August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

The huge divide in our education system is known to everyone in Pakistan, so this edition of The Students’ Herald aims to highlight another serious aspect of this divide. This aspect became magnified in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdowns: the immense…