Pakistan’s Education Promise:The Gap Between Rights and Reality
Pakistan promises every child a right to education. But what happens when that constitutional promise meets tight budgets, weak accountability, a widening public–private divide, and millions of children outside mainstream
Remembering Dr. Rubina Saigol: Education, Feminism and the Power of the Curriculum
A formal exploration of Saigol’s NC/SNC critique: how curricula shape identity, erase diverse roles, and why reform must empower teachers and broaden history.
Religious Syncretism and Politics of Knowledge
A religion can never be a monotonous doctrine thriving on its own; in fact, its expansionism depends on its absorbent character of taking within its folds varying ideologies that have
Intrusive State Powers of CDA Islamabad and Human Rights Violations
The most intrusive power of the State and a fundamental attribute of its sovereignty is its inherent power to condemn private property…
Unaddressed Concerns: Accountability for Peace
There’s a need to understand where the integrity lies guided by a sense of balance in a volatile world that run on uncontrolled ambitions of influence and of unquestioned dominance
Bhag Bhari
By Dr Aamir Butt Bhag Bhari Towards the end of 1970s Soviet army deployed in Afghanistan. The military intervention was to support a faction of Afghanistan’s dominant political party against the other. This was the time of the Cold
Faith and Fury in Pakistani Populism: Why PTI Isn’t TLP
By Arshad Yousafzai The assertion that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) are political equivalents is both analytically flawed and factually misleading. PTI occupies the centre-right of Pakistan’s political spectrum, while TLP represents the far-right extremist fringe. Though both
Artificial Intelligence and the Weaponization of Honor: Risks for Women in Pakistan
By Fawad Pirzada In Pakistan, women already face layers of discrimination, from social restrictions to the ever-present threat of honor-based violence. Each year, cases of harassment, defamation, and killings in the name of honor remind us how fragile women’s safety
God’s anger doesn’t work on me.
By Zeeba T. Hashmi Said a young child, not more than ten, at the makeshift school for gypsy and slum dwelling children where I signed up as a volunteer. It was my first such exposure of what slum life really
Anarkali, Fact or Fiction
By Dr Amir Butt In the Southern part of Lahore’s old city there is a beautiful little mausoleum. It is a white stone building with eight corner turrets. Inside is a pure marble sarcophagus with one of the finest and