Stories by Anjum Altaf
The writer has served as dean of the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Choice of vision is crucial at the institutional level.
Published 13 Nov, 2025 07:20am
Individual brilliance can’t make up for uninspired leadership.
Published 17 Oct, 2025 05:20am
Why should we expect students to be different?
Published 21 Sep, 2025 05:39am
We have located the learning window too high in the wall — the vast majority cannot reach it.
Published 16 Aug, 2025 07:13am
Countless lives have been expended in ‘higher’ causes.
Published 01 Jul, 2025 05:00am
The optimists are the worst offenders.
Published 23 Apr, 2025 05:14am
Earned respect is becoming a scarce commodity.
Published 23 Mar, 2025 08:20am
Oppressive rule reinforces popular resentment that cannot be suppressed forever.
Published 25 Jan, 2025 07:03am
The bottom line is that the modern democratic experiment is in deep trouble.
Published 07 Jan, 2025 07:53am
It is naive to appeal to leaders who don’t care.
Published 12 Dec, 2024 07:33am
Elections in Pakistan are like the gladiator contests of Rome.
Updated 10 Nov, 2023 08:57am
If we believe Javed Akhtar to be wrong we can debate and argue as Faiz would have wanted us to.
Published 17 Mar, 2023 07:40am
It is important to take our heads out of the sand before it is too late.
Updated 25 Feb, 2023 09:00am
If citizens are not clamouring for LG, would it work or what might it morph into instead?
Published 13 Feb, 2023 07:13am
The impoverishment of citizens has cascading downstream effects.
Published 03 Feb, 2023 07:56am
Former colonies have been kept economically captive, serving the same purpose in the global economy as they did before...
Published 13 Jan, 2023 07:46am
A failing country cannot expect an external power to take over and reorganise it better.
Updated 24 Dec, 2022 08:39am
Any extension of the status quo will reduce Pakistan to rubble.
Updated 20 Nov, 2022 08:48am
Education in Pakistan continues to hurtle in the direction of morality, contrary to the trend in almost every other country.
Updated 21 Oct, 2022 08:22am
Even if conceded, why should reparations take the form of debt cancellation?
Updated 13 Oct, 2022 09:25am
