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Raising National Conscience

Raising national conscience

What will it take to raise our conscience and our understanding that there are things that need to be remedied urgently in our country? There is no sign that this…

National College And The British Raj

National College and the British Raj

The story of educational resistance to the Raj is not complete without the mention of the National College, which was set up in Lahore by Lala Lajpat Rai in 1921.…

Whither National Action Plan?

Whither National Action Plan?

The National Action Plan was a hasty reaction to a national emergency that forced a sleeping state to finally shake off its ambivalence to talk or fight. There was a…

The Curriculum Conundrum

The curriculum conundrum

The latest flurry of efforts to make changes in the curricula for the various categories of students offers little hope for the emergence of a rational outlook on the subject.…

US Curriculum Aid?

US curriculum aid?

THE enterprise for which some Pakistani officials and religious scholars are reported to have joined hands with US experts, namely, production of a model curriculum for madressahs, is unlikely to…

Faith, forgiveness and the future

May 6 is etched in my memory – not because it ended in tragedy, but because it nearly did. That afternoon in 2018, as I stepped out from a routine…

HEC notifies revised curricula

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has notified four revised curricula in the disciplines of Political Science, Islamic Studies, Remote Sensing & GIS and Architecture. The curricula have been revised…

Policies to prevent extremism

THE government has announced another policy related to countering extremism; it contains the same flowery words, borrowed jargon, hollow phrases, and unfeasible implementation plans as several policies before it. One…