In Faislabad, the police are busy raiding homes of Ahmadi citizens to ensure that they do not make the mistake of celebrating Eid or even of exchanging common Muslim greetings.
In its series on Education Budget 2023, IFE contacted Areeba Shahid, developmental expert and lobbyist for education, to get her initial opinion on the matter.
In a significant revelation, a concerned researcher has drawn attention to a journal listed in the HEC HJRS System, exposing discrepancies and raising suspicions about its legitimacy.
In recent years, a concerning trend has emerged among Pakistani authors who unwittingly find themselves ensnared in the clutches of predatory journals.
On 14th April, National Curriculum Council Secretariat hosted its Curriculum meeting under the chair of Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training, Rana Tanveer. Also, in attendance of the meeting was the Minister for Information, Maryam Aurangzeb along with other …
What can we do to ensure financial enablement of the youth? Problem with youth today is a majority may not have had availed the opportunity for gaining foundational literacy or educational acumen required by our industry/market or agricultural sector or …
A look into Punjab Assembly resolutions passed during the period 2018-2022 has revealed lawmakers expressing very little concern for the educational crisis in the province. The nature of these resolutions and the number of times an educational issue has been …
there is a lack of evidence about the formation of such kind of department. And some the researchers are of the view that no such department was set up by the secular Jinnah. In the article titled ‘Secular Jinnah and the so-called Department of Islamic Reconstruction’ published in 2017, the author Yasser Latif Hamdani claims; “Before fake news there was Orya Maqbool Jan. These are the people who brought you Jinnah’s diary which was discovered in the 1980s by Zia’s government”
Weightage needs to be given to our constitutional fundamental rights, such as article 25-A and article 22(1) over those falling under Principle of policy chapter, such as the much quoted Article 31. This demarcation between chapters is necessary because fundamental rights cannot be compromised at any cost, whereas principles of policy are subjected to availability of resources.
A disaster has hit us hard, and more is expected in the coming years with far more intensity than what we witnessed today. It is now time to sober up and get off with our national obsession with defining religious morals through education. We needed a science-orientated education instead, that could have given us the capacity to deal with calamities that we are today facing. Perhaps it is still not too late to wake up; perhaps a sincere resolve to reform our education in light of current realities can save Pakistan from major disasters in future.