Beyond the medal
With Arshad Nadeem’s historic and record-breaking win, hearts across Pakistan have swelled with pride. In this time of economic distress, this win offers a ray of hope that, despite all…
What next after enrolment?
Twenty-six million. This figure has been doing the rounds in print and digital media for quite some time now. This is the total number of out-of-school children and adolescents (OOSCA)…
Beyond authoritarian rule: navigating the technological kaleidoscope
The Constitution of Pakistan, in Article 7, provides a definition for “the State,” encompassing the federal government, provincial governments, local authorities, and other entities authorized by law to impose taxes.…
Two trajectories
LAST summer, I had the privilege of joining a Canadian delegation on a field mission to monitor a UNFPA-Canada-supported initiative — the Sihat Mand Khaandaan (SMK) programme — focused on…
Technology needs context
Providing free laptops or tablets to schools or learners won’t address the systemic educational inequalities in the country. Technology, by design, does not alter the fundamentals because its use and…
Invisible women
The recently released UNDP 2023 Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) reveals the shocking persistence of gender biases globally. The index tracks people’s attitudes towards women across four dimensions – political,…
Towards progress
Women form 49.7 per cent of the population of the world. The percentage, with slight variations, has been almost similar throughout history. Ironically, in our journey from the Stone Age…
Developing with a cultural lag
Cultural lag is a condition in a society where one aspect of culture is out of kilter with another to which it is related. As a result, society falls between…
The sky is not the limit
India succeeded in landing Vikram and Pragyan – its lander and rover from its spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 – on the little-explored south polar region of the moon on the late afternoon…
Murder, not honour
Pakistan has been grappling with the issue of gender-related killings on the pretext of ‘honour’ for years. Only recently, a man took his finance’s life on the pretext of ‘honour’…
