It has been almost two years since Pakistan renewed its commitment to providing free and compulsory education to its...
Published 09 Mar, 2014 08:54am
This decision to make all schools English medium has primarily been taken to bring uniformity in the education ...
Published 23 Feb, 2014 08:18am
The current year has been ushered in with another girl’s school being blown up in Charsadda. Over the past few...
Published 12 Jan, 2014 07:31am
Historically, the area covered by Pakistan has been home to at least one highly urban civilisation nearly 4,000 to...
Updated 24 Nov, 2013 06:00pm
Pakistan, like other countries, celebrated World Teachers’ Day last month, sporadically and without much fanfare. ...
Published 03 Nov, 2013 07:49am
The recent controversy sparked by the teaching of comparative religions (included in the curriculum of a private...
Published 13 Oct, 2013 07:37am
A few years back, the United States of America came up with the catch phrase “No child left behind” and the...
Published 22 Sep, 2013 09:24am
This year Eid-ul-Fitr prayers at the largest mosque in Chicago, USA, had nearly a thousand people who turned up in...
Updated 08 Sep, 2013 08:34am
“Only the teacher and, perhaps, a blackboard and writing materials are found as universally as the textbook in our...
Updated 25 Aug, 2013 08:10am
“War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an...
Updated 04 Aug, 2013 09:18am
