By Ehtesham Hassan In Pakistan, it doesn’t take much before you can be labelled an infidel or traitor. Unfortunately, the very social media, which is supposed to be the bastion of democratic voices, is contributing to this ‘noise’. And how.…
Category: English
Editorial: Why students march?
Every year students across the country unite and march on the roads in the name of “students solidarity march”. This year they’ll march on 27th November. What makes them go out on the roads? Why don’t they focus on their…
What about Student Unions?
Arooj Aurangzeb The word union is borrowed from old French and late Latin, meaning ‘one, unity/the state of being united or being undivided, uniting/action of uniting into one political body.’ If we are to remain true to the essence of…
Importance of Student Unions
Hamza Wyne Bertolt Brecht once said “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participate in the political events. The imbecile doesn’t know that from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child,…
Are We Out of Our Minds?
Raza Gillani Why have we spent the last four years, presumably the most crucial time of our lives, organising at various campuses across the country and its administered areas on issues pertaining to student life, gender, education, class, ethnicity, race,…
Students Suffering In Silence
Salman Rasool Owing to the last student’s March led by progressive students collective and other students organizations all over Pakistan for reanimation of student unions, 27th Nov is celebrated as students day in Pakistan. Student unions are wrongly associated with…
A Crisis in the Muslim World
Naveed Abbas Maitlo It is an evident fact that development at any phase is inherently linked with science and technology. Therefore, these two are proportional to each other. In a nutshell, science is the study of knowledge which is made…
Libraries in the peripheries
Moeen Khan Libraries serve as the depository of the written historical record of the knowledge of religion’s, cultures and civilizations. Libraries have been the symbols of learning as mosques and churches are the symbols of religions. Beyond all libraries play…
Jirga System and Pashtun Women
Umar Mehsud Political, legal, and social exploitation of women is nothing that is unheard of, but in the Pashtun society, it is more rampant. Whether during the British colonial rule or after the Afghan war, women’s exploitation continued throughout. Social…
Film Review: Swipe
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…