Jehad and The Curriculum
Beena Sarwar Apr 2, 2004 interacts: 182Pakistan’s so-called religious parties are up in arms at the rumour that references to Jehad are to be removed from Pakistani textbooks – biology, for
Universities As Brand Names
Anila Zainub Mar 17, 2004 interacts: 39Like all things ‘foreign’ we buy into the high standard of foreign education as well.
Metaphysical Obfuscation in the Islamic World
Mohammad Gill Mar 16, 2004 interacts: 34The more meaningless a metaphysical description is, truer it seems.
Mainstream Textbooks and What They Teach
Omar R Quraishi Mar 13, 2004 interacts: 43Doesn’t the ministry of education and its curriculum wing have a responsibility to ensure that students in the country’s mainstream primary and secondary system of
UC Berkley’s 19th South Asia Conference
Ras Siddiqui Feb 29, 2004 interacts: 10The selective nature here becomes all the more important because out of all South Asian countries, it was certainly Pakistan that happened to be
Cosmetic Surgery
Quartulain Siddiqui Feb 24, 2004 interacts: 11
Karachi University Students must now wear black gowns while they’re inside the campus ...the decision was taken so that teachers
Moving Beyond Talk: A Roadmap for Quality Education
tayyab rashid Feb 17, 2004 interacts: 45This proposal provides a pragmatic mechanism aligned with the role of HEC (Higher Education Commission) as a supportive watchdog - providing reason, resources, and recognition
What Was There Before the Big Bang?
Mohammad Gill Jan 29, 2004 interacts: 48The essence of new developments in cosmology is hard to describe comprehensibly in non-technical language. Much of it sounds like stories from the fairy land....
Teach Students to Think
Saroop Gul Jan 2, 2004 interacts: 17We are forced to learn the dates Wars were fought by heart, but the reason why they started in the first place are never discussed.
Bald Angel
Mohammad Gill Dec 8, 2003 interacts: 26So manto despite being brash, outspoken, and intellectually honest and unihibited, did respect implicitly certain values, certain personalities, and certain traditions.
Founding Mothers
Yasser Latif Hamdani Nov 24, 2003 interacts: 67
The most famous image of the Pakistan Movement is when a young woman climbed up atop the civil secretariat building
What time is it? Marriage time
Teju Prasad Oct 20, 2003 interacts: 17In comparing these two systems (East & West), many people point to India’s low divorce rate and therefore claim innate superiority. However, the analysis is
Low Intensity Conflict
Tariq Aqil Oct 17, 2003 interacts: 45The two-nation theory, the very foundation of Pakistan was a revolutionary and radical theory during the period of low intensity conflict with the British Raj
The In-Security Council: Dump it or Grow it?
Chithra Karunakaran Oct 8, 2003 interacts: 66Is the UN Charter just a piece of paper to be stored on a musty shelf, or is it supposed to safeguard the “rights
The New Generation of Pakistani Architects
Hammad Husain Sep 22, 2003 interacts: 40An essay on the state of architectural schools in Pakistan and the fresh architects they are churning out...
South and Central Asia are creators of Major Civilizations
K G Singh Sep 18, 2003 interacts: 19Since 5 millennia civilisations evolved and flourished in desert oasis and river valleys south of the Eurasian steppes, which were dominated first by charioteers and
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