Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has decided to move court against Higher Education Commission`s (HEC) step to degrade three indexed medical journals. Last month, the HEC degraded all three indexed medical…
On the side streets of Pyongyang, small traders sell vegetables from impromptu stalls. At markets, dealers offer imported household goods - even Coca-Cola - and in state-owned department stores hard…
The liberal arts programmes emerging on the horizon of higher education in Pakistan are an unusual addition. A curriculum that emphasises both the arts and sciences does not fit in…
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has announced scholarships opportunities of Fall-2020 for PhD studies in top-ranked US Universities under US-Pakistan Knowledge Corridor Project. The HEC has invited applications from Pakistani,…
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has announced as many as 1000 ‘Allama Iqbal Scholarships’ for Sri Lankan students under the Pak-Sri Lanka Higher Education Cooperation Programme. According to the sources…
In the early hours of January 1, 2020, a Twitter handle, @hindsightfiles, allegedly run by Brittany Kaiser, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, shared confidential documentation regarding the involvement of…
In the past, the repeated claims by Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, influential ministers of the cabinet of Nawaz Sharif that “Pakistan will be the next Asian Tiger” were…
PAKISTAN has lurched like a rudderless ship from one political mess to another recently, with the JUI-F dharna and the Bajwa extension fiasco being the latest ones. This has sidelined PTI’s already anaemic progress…
There are not many institutes of higher education (IHEs) in Pakistan, especially in Islamabad, where you can talk about human rights, enforced disappearances, manipulated elections, and question the state narrative…
Recently, I was invited as chief guest to the 14th Convocation of Riphah International University, which was held at the Convention Centre, Islamabad. This university is considered to be one…
