Maryam Mirza There is a strange melancholy in reminiscing about Zia ul Haq’s era. Strange because I, as a mind and body, have not lived through it – yet the historical memory of the dictatorial regime remains omnipresent in almost every facet of the Pakistani experience – including the country’s artistic evolution. Despite massive wide…
Maryam Shakeel “Yeh Hisaar-e-Sitam Koi Tou Giraye Ga” In the wake of the global pandemic, Balochistan’s educational system is once again under the siege of various catastrophic limitations. Students of Balochistan lack proper internet facilities and are struggling to save their future. On June 23, Progressive Students Collective along with several other student groups organized…
Taqveem Warraich What was once impossible appears to be a new reality today. Man has always been in a state of war against nature and has seemingly evolved and helped in making this world more liveable than before. Pandemics or any other calamity is merely an opportunity for humans to respond and reflect on new…
Usama Malick A pandemic is commonly defined as the worldwide spread of a novel disease. If we look in the hindsight, we will get to have a number of accounts of gory pandemics that ravaged the human lives beyond the ken of many an intellect such as ‘Black Death’—that reportedly wiped out over half of…
Saba Chaudhary Child abuse and corporal punishment is very serious issue that needs to be addressed. Recently, on the plea of celebrity activist Shehzad Roy, the Islamabad High Court banned corporal punishment in schools, but this ruthless practice sadly still exists in some institutions. And it is rampant in small towns and underprivileged areas. Children…
Rehan Toqeer Though the healthcare system is not ideal anywhere in Pakistan, but the situation in its administered territory of AJK paints a very bleak picture. The health care system here has been neglected over the years by successive governments to a point where standards of health care delivery are almost non-existent here. They have…
Sohaib Rehmani “The Khilafat movement in the Indian subcontinent proved to be a great success,” were the exact lines read from our textbook by our Pakistan studies teacher in my second year of FSC. This was in clear cut contrast to what I had studied in the compulsory O level Pakistan Studies subject that everyone…
Mahnoor Bajwa The subcontinent was ruled by the British using a democratic system. Muslims tried hard to attain a separate homeland and succeeded on August 14, 1947. Newly existing state due to lack of proper structure painted their way of governing (democracy) upon themselves. It’s the system in which the majority of the people choose…
Numan Mehsud Whenever someone talks of reducing the defense budget and to increase the other parts of budget like education, health care, economy and agriculture but the pseudo patriots appear to defend the increase in defense budget calling Pakistan a security state through the concept of balance of power with India.
