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Editor’s Note: Another Anti-Poor Budget

June 14, 2020 News DeskEnglish

There is nothing new in the second budget presented by the PTI government to the people of Pakistan. Despite a global pandemic and the party’s own commitments towards welfare of the people, the budget presented in the second year of…

Understanding Budget 2020

June 14, 2020 News DeskNews and Analysis

Fahd Ali Nobody really expected a radically progressive budget from the PTI government for the financial year (FY) 2021. Yet, nobody also expected what was presented on June 13 by Federal Minister for Industries and Production Hammad Azhar. Dubbed as…

Our Struggle: ‘My parents sacrificed everything so that I could go to university’

June 14, 2020 News DeskFeatures

Haider Butt I was born in a poor household in a working class neighbourhood. It is adjacent to an industrial area so our neighbours were mostly factory workers and their families. My father was a trade unionist and a labour…

Commemorating Hobsbawm

June 14, 2020 News DeskFeatures

Fatima Shahzad On June 9, 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, Eric J. Hobsbawm was born and he went on to contribute more to the study of the 20th century than perhaps any other historian. The main feature of his…

Book Review: A Case of Exploding Mangoes

June 14, 2020September 4, 2021 News DeskCultural Desk, English, Features

Hamza Waqas Mohammad Hannif is a critically acclaimed Pakistani author and journalist. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008), was followed by Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2011) and Red Birds (2018). All three novels were well received…

Guns versus Butter

June 14, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Masab Ahmed Born out of a catastrophic Partition of the subcontinent, Pakistan immersed became an ideological state with an existential crisis. The argument was that with a colossal neighbour was ready to obliterate Pakistan’s very fabric and that in the…

Online-Isation of Education

June 14, 2020 News DeskArticles

Uzair Salman Online education may for now be the only option at the disposal of governments across the globe given the near-global lockdown, but it comes with a cost no government, especially one governing a developing nation, is ready to…

COVID-19 and Education for Students in Peripheries

June 14, 2020 News DeskArticles

Muhammad Bezinjo The outbreak of the contagious COVID-19 virus in Pakistan has disrupted social life and the economy of the country. The pandemic has also affected the education sector and universities were forced to adopt the online lecture system. This…

آزاد جموں و کشمیر: انٹر نیٹ مسائل حل کئے بغیر آن لائن کلاسوں کے اجراء کے خلاف جامعہ کوٹلی کے طلباء کا احتجاج

June 10, 2020January 25, 2022 News DeskNews Reports, Urdu & Other local languages

امجد مہدی جامعہ کوٹلی کے طلبہ کی جانب سے کل بروز منگل پاکستان کے زیر انتظام کشمیر کی جامعات میں آن لائن کلاسوں کیلئے ضروری انتظامات کی عدم دستیابی کے خلاف احتجاجی مظاہرہ کیا گیا۔جس میں طلبہ کی بڑی تعداد…

Editor’s Note: ‘I Can’t Breathe’

June 7, 2020 News DeskEnglish

The last words spoken by George Floyd in his final moments – as life was being squeezed out of him in a naked show of brutality and power – contained the essence of billions of voices of the oppressed peoples…