Lifelong learning
The global community, a vast majority of national societies and experts from multiple disciplines are more aligned on the beneficial and transformative effect of education on the lives of individuals…
Need for investment
Investment occupies pivotal position in the economic growth (GDP) equation [GDP = consumption + investment + government expenditure + (exports-imports)]. Keeping other variables constant in this equation, increase or decrease…
Bombs, grenades, guns – and the mind
The spate of terrorism attacks witnessed in the run up to Eid is a reminder to all of us of how deeply extremism and hatred is now embedded in our…
The never-ending battle
Afshan Ahmed, a teacher at the Army Public School in Peshawar, bravely stood between her students and the Taliban gunmen that invaded the school on December 16, 2014 and entered…
Military courts – eight areas of oversight
The decision to set up military courts has been criticised by human rights bodies as a ‘political blunder’, the harmful consequences of which will be felt for a very long…
Averting another Peshawar
The answer to this question may lie in the half-hearted, knee-jerk and ‘for public- consumption’ measures taken by the government in the last few days. The post-trauma stress has squeezed…
A different war on education
Going to school is a hugely risky proposition for children and teachers across the world. We don’t realise how difficult and hazardous getting an education is till it hits us…
Urdu is not going anywhere
That in my humble view is the conclusion of the conference in Karachi on the state of Urdu language, literature, journalism and performing arts held last week. Urdu is not…
The only way forward
I don’t know where and how he articulated it exactly, but Milan Kundera has described the singularly human capacity to overcome grief as the art of forgetting and living. It…
Teaching Islamiat
In the British era, schools of the Indian subcontinent did not have the formal subject of Islamiat for their Muslim students. The senior members of a family were supposed to…
