It is not a “western agenda” when the people of Pakistan call for a local solution to inspire more solidarity with our persecuted fellow citizens. The least that Pakistan could do here was make the age of the girl-child uniform across all the boards and implement existing laws against “forced marriages” more realistically. At present, a girl aged 16 is legally treated as an adult whereas a boy under 18 is still a child. The parallel Shariah law further complicates the matter where it states that a girl becomes of marriageable age as soon as she hits her puberty.
Dr. Chaudhri strongly believed in the importance of education-inclusiveness and understood well the the systematic barriers that people from underprivileged groups suffer from. The barriers to education come in all shapes and forms, whether in Pakistan or a developed country, which fail to acknowledge, include and encourage those having a genuine potential for research, science or arts.
The justice system cannot be reformed unless we realized that human value of education and means and modes of transferring it to others in prisons. We never know the potential every life carries in spreading light of knowledge and hope for all humanity.
The Ehsas School Stipends scheme announced in September seems promising, but fundamental policy questions remain unanswered. Will this intervention be able to utilize its allocated resources without the risk of the funds remaining underspent? While the resources on education …
Self-improvement is one of the most effective systems – especially in mature age and in these troubled times in which the pandemic has imposed social and scholastic distancing – to deepen one’s cultural biases and the education that has suffered due to the lockdown.
I remember Arifa, a lively 8-year-old girl who would come to help her mother keep the hostel rooms clean for the residents of college where I was residing in Lahore.
The problems with SNC are not just limited to how it is being adopted by textbook publishers and its corresponding visual and textual integration into the books that are ultimately going get consumed by our children during their formative years.