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, etc.? Why have we wasted our time in searching for those who share our principles,…
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 violence and are often seen as an obstacle for maintaining discipline and management. Decent activities…
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 into a system for enhancing analysis and understanding facts. Technology is the application of this…
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 an important role in providing the opportunity and it stores the energy that fuels the…
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 attitudes towards women such as gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, dowry, domestic violence, honor killings, and…