Single National Curriculum and National Priorities
Single National Curriculum has been acknowledged as one of the major area of interest by the current government. There are many institutions working on this policy areas in private domain…
Uniformity in education emphasised
Federal education minister Shafqat Mehmood has said that uniformity in our educational system is a dire need and we must remain united to foil the negative plans of the enemies…
Uniform education?
THE prime minister has said that having a uniform education system, across the country, is a priority. And this has been added as a key point, one of four, in…
Business environment: There is more to it than EODB
"Who will make investment in the country if businessmen face harassment?" questioned Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan of Lahore High Court while ordering removal of Shahzad Saleem (CEO Nishat Chunian Power)…
Budget Speech 2020-21
Mr. Speaker, 1. I start my submissions with the name of Allah Almighty, the most gracious, the most merciful. It is a matter of great honour and pleasure for me…
Education crisis
WE are already into the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Delta variant has been declared by leading medical experts as the fastest, the fittest and the most formidable…
The JI’s struggle
The Jamaat-e-Islami -- founded on August 26, 1941 -- is the only politico-religious party of Pakistan which stands above sectarian, ethnic, cultural and lingual biases. Opening its doors for every…
SNC and shrinking provincial policy space
While the PTI’s education policy boasted of a six-point ‘Education Emergency Plan’ which included an increase in education funding from 2.1 percent of GDP to 5 percent, investment in teacher…
Getting out of the grey list
In its plenary session in October 2019, the FATF – while noting that Pakistan had made progress on 21 action plans out of 27 given by the agency – decided…
Bias in textbooks
GENDER bias in textbooks is an important but overlooked problem. Content analyses of textbooks have shown that women occupy a subordinate status in society; their roles are insignificant and mostly…
