Hamza Waqas, Balach Khan Puffball studio’s new short animated film, titled Swipe, is being screened in collaboration with universities and schools around the country. The film comes after the massive success of their previous work, Shehr e Tabassum (The city of smiles). Both films mark the rise of an important emerging genre in Pakistani…
Jazeb Ajmal The plant of the fertile homeland of Pakhtunkhwa, which emerged as a flower, has become a beacon for millions of students today. Ajmal Farooqi, He hails from the city of flowers’ Peshawar. Today he graduated from Peshawar Degree College. He writes his comments on his social media page in the following way: By…
Usama Malik Hopes shatter, skyrocketing zeal dashes to the ground and expectations breathe last when a student at the end of every semester during his university life—despite topping the class— has to beseech to The Heavens that his university dues be arranged in some way or the other. This is the story of every second…
In a propitious move, Prime Minister Imran Khan alluded that Student Unions can be revived. Responding to the voice of the youth, manifested in the form of solidarity marches held around the country by Students Prime Minister on 1st December, 2019, just two days after the marches carried out by students on 29th November, 2019,…
Ehtesham Hassan ( Dera Ismail Khan, KPK) The outbreak of a virus, covid19, has brought to fore another virus rarely noticed usually. After complete lockdown, almost every kind of human activity has come to a halt. There has been a fight for resources and healthcare access globally. This fight for resources has exposed some social…
Students of Islamia College University Peshawar held a protest walk on Wednesday inside the campus against sexual harrasment. A large number of female students participated in the protest with considerable number of male students as well. According to the students, many unreported cases of sexual harrasment and a few reported cases provoked the protest. A…
Formal education in this age has merely became a tool for state’s propaganda. Schools, colleges and universities are busy indoctrinating specific narratives into young minds, abstaining them from critical thinking and impartial analysis. Essence of democracy lies in free will of citizens and their freedom to speech and thinking. If any state’s legitimacy lies on…
BY: Hamza Waqas ‘Garam Hawa’ (1973) tells the story of a Muslim family living in Agra, struggling to cope with the changes that have come with the partition of India. It is regarded as the first film that addressed the human cost of partition. Said to have been inspired by Ismat Chughtai’s Marxist short stories,…
Hamza Wyne The nexus between democracy and education is undeniably important. Both of them complement each other. Democracy is used as a means to educate and education, in turn, is utilized to solidify democratic ethos and principles – liberty, freedom of expression and freedom to protest. Not only that, the way these rights should be…
