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Letter of support for the Student Action Committee (SAC) from the Students’ Union of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

July 12, 2020 News DeskEnglish

The Students’ Herald In the Students’ Union of the Faculty of Humanities we support the fight for free and equal education for all, and as such we support the ongoing student protests in Pakistan led by the SAC. We support…

Razing the Fortress of Oppression

July 12, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

Online education is the future, so what holds it back?

July 12, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

Pandemic, Nature and Technology

July 12, 2020 News DeskEnglish

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…

Why the culture of corporal punishment must end

July 12, 2020 News DeskArticles

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…

Healthcare Crises in AJK

July 11, 2020 News DeskArticles

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…

Teach Us Our History

July 11, 2020 News DeskArticles

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…

Flaws in our democratic system

July 11, 2020 News DeskArticles

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…

Misplaced Priorities

July 11, 2020 News DeskArticles

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…

پنجاب یونیورسٹی: اورل امتحان کیخلاف طلبہ کا احتجاج رنگ لے آیا، طریقہ امتحان تبدیل

July 8, 2020 News DeskNews Reports, Urdu & Other local languages

رپورٹ: انضمام میراج طلبہ کی طرف سے طریقہ امتحان کے بائیکاٹ کے بعد گزشتہ روز پنجاب یونیورسٹی کے انسٹیٹیوٹ آف سوشل اینڈ کلچرل سٹڈی کے ڈیپارٹمنٹ نے طلبہ کے مطالبات کو مانتے ہوئے نئے طریقہ امتحان کا اعلان کردیا ہے۔