Allama Muhmmad Iqbal Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Quaid-e-Azam Expect the best, Prepare for the worst...
In spite of making valuable changes, those who are in power and highly educated go abroad either for higher education or in search of better job opportunities. Most of them do not return and cause a large public loss. Furthermore, the quality of primary and secondary education has a declining trend in the country. It […]
No one can deny the fact that education is the most dynamic factor for the concrete foundation of a society and no society can make progress in the challenge of this scientific era without remarkable progress in this sector. Apart from playing vital role in human capital formation, education raises competence and the level of […]
In the third and last part of the series, we will give brief touch to Family, Diets and Handicrafts of the Pakistani culture. Family The family is the centre of social life and support. Although increased modernisation has brought many women into public life, the male continues to reign as head of the home. It […]
In the second installment of the three-part series, we will l briefly discuss few characteristics of the Pakistani culture including Music, Dances, Traditions and Dressing. Music The variety of Pakistani music ranges from diverse provincial folk music and traditional styles such as Qawwali and Ghazal Gayeki to modern forms fusing traditional and western music, such […]
Having a rich history, Pakistan has a well-off cultural diversity and the society is mainly multilingual, multi-ethnic and multicultural. Pakistani culture is very diverse and this stems from the fact that what is now in the country has in the past been invaded and occupied by many different peoples, including White Huns, Persians, Arabs, Turks, […]
Apparently, the reason for not making public the poverty data is that the country’s abject poverty stood at 24 per cent when the last such report came in 2007-08 and nine per cent more people were pushed below the poverty line during the period the Pakistan People’s Party has been in power. A district-wise study […]
The ‘Feminization of Poverty’ can be defined as the increase in proportion and what an Islamic state is where every day passing is pushing the populace to more disgusting situation than a day earlier. Here, less than one per cent of the people have stashed around $100 billion of their ill-gotten money in foreign banks […]
Polio stood more less reduced to the brinks of total elimination across the world a couple of years ago but some cases used to be occasionally reported in four countries, India, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the virus could not be completely eradicated. Still the number of polio patients never exceeded to the degree of […]
The bloodbath in Karachi has continued almost uninterrupted for more than two years of the present administration. To many, it is the outcome of a war of turfs between the three partners of the ruling coalition. There is a perception that instead of bringing the land mafia, drug mafia and criminal gangs of all sorts […]
The system of the change of the prices of petroleum products has come under severe criticism of late and all the voices raised talk that the system the adjustment of fuel prices on a weekly basis suffers from a severe anomaly in. In the first instance, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum expressed its […]
Several things are taking place in the process of next parliamentary elections for the first time. The voter’s age has been lowered to18 years for the first and this is also the first time that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has prepared electoral rolls in coordination with the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) […]
The various press associations of the country are rather muted when journalists are attacked but they can really heat things up when journalism is attacked. Usually, all attempts that seek to regulate the press should be viewed with suspicion. Governments can never quite feel comfortable with a free press but what of a press that […]
