Articles with tag: Youth
The Four Year Itch
Ammara Ahmad Sep 16, 2009 interacts: 2The chief minister of Punjab recently announced that 32 universities in Punjab adopt the four years honors system. The rationale being to meet international standards of education.
If Youth is the Future of Our Nation, Should We Be Worried?
Aqsa Hussain Aug 26, 2009 interacts: 3Youngsters of the 21st century seem to be in a hurry; they want success but they don't have much time. Persistence and steadfastness are two words completely unknown to them.
A Tale of Two Pakistanis
Asif Shiraz Aug 11, 2009 interacts: 50This is my version of an attempt to “defend reason” in a useless war of words that seems to have erupted between Nadeem Farooq Paracha and Zaid Hamid.
Messages of Hate, and Sometimes Violence Too
Maliha Aqueel Aug 5, 2009 interacts: 8
SMS has given the youth a new kind of power to get organised fast, and cheap. So, protests are now organised with mass messaging instead of printing flyers or making phone calls.
Militancy, a Product of Fragile Social Fabric
Haider Ali Apr 23, 2009 interacts: 15The major chunk of our youth population is alienated to the extent that they have least trust in state, lack in sense of belonging, alarming level of cynicism.
Save Pakistan!
Usama Khilji Mar 14, 2009 interacts: 186Skeptics will say that there is no future left for Pakistan. They are wrong. Pakistan certainly has a future; it is every single one of us. It is you, and it is me.
Gaza: A New Awakening in the American-Arab Youth
Yasmin Qureshi Jan 21, 2009 interacts: 11During the election campaign many discussions centered on why Muslims have no voice in the campaign. Some analysts concluded it was because Muslims are not part of the ‘American story’.
Diabetes: Wrestling with a Twenty-First Century Monster
Mutaal Mooquin Jul 2, 2008 interacts: 50“Half of world’s population at risk of diabetes by end of next decade.? This disorder is encroaching on the traditional confines of age, ethnicity, and geography—in particular AGE.
Mind the Gap, The Generation Gap That Is
Bhaskar Dasgupta Apr 21, 2008 interacts: 8Between 9/11, Afghanistan, Bush and Iraq, a new generation is forming which will define America for the next thirty years at the least. I call it the angry generation.
Cynicism Amongst Pakistani Youth
Ikramul Haq Feb 3, 2008 interacts: 9Today the most disturbing trend amongst the youth is the growing use of narcotics. This phenomenon cannot be viewed in isolation from the socio-political and economic realities.
Drifting in the World
Saeed Urrehman Dec 21, 2007 interacts: 5“I have to design a website which will host pictures and videos of wet t-shirt competitions. And if I do it well, they’ll give me more projects.?
The Good Monster: Musharraf's Cultural Legacy
Nadeem F Paracha Dec 8, 2007 interacts: 133A leader’s true legacy tends to be more accurately deciphered when studied through the effects his ideas and policies have had on the cultural mindset of the people.
Imran Khan at LUMS
Ammar Rashid Nov 4, 2007 interacts: 145Amidst speculation of the imposition of emergency in the country by the state, Imran was here to speak about the role of the youth in the country’s political future.
Cellular Cancer
Javaria Farooqui Aug 25, 2007 interacts: 8Cell phones have erased distances and brought people closer. But each step in the cellular direction is bringing us closer to physical and mental problems.
Mobile Phone Ideas
Jay Prakash Aug 21, 2007 interacts: 16Philip Koetler, the marketing guru wrote that products that succeed are the ones that meet human needs, definitely not true for mobile phones.
Youth Educating for Peace
Zahid S Ahmed Jan 29, 2007 interacts: 23How to live peacefully in the presence of our individual and group identities?
Re-Imagining Pakistan
Pervez Hoodbhoy Dec 13, 2006 interacts: 496Commencement lecture by Pervez Hoodbhoy at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, 9 December 2006.
Dreams, Hopes, and the Road Ahead
Shaheryar Akbar Nov 5, 2006 interacts: 5We often look to the West for guidance. Let us therefore discover the true meaning of modernity as it historically unfolded within the fabric of Western societies. Bound by the chains of dogma and doctrine; unable to explore their own creativity; and incr
Espresso Junkies
Zainab Mahmood Aug 30, 2006 interacts: 15Conversations overheard bringing to life the thoughts, feelings, aspirations and pseudo-intellectualism of young people living a fast-paced metro life in Karachi.
Australia’s Muslim youth -- A Battle for their Hearts and Minds
Saeed Khan Mar 14, 2006 interacts: 80Young Muslims are misunderstood by their parents and many live two lives - one inside their community and another outside
Children of Dictatorship
Afiya Shehrbano Feb 10, 2005 interacts: 44I have always referred to my contemporaries as Zia’s children... We were socialised in a culture of sectarian and communal hate, drugs, guns, Pajeros, and with a false consciousness based only on abstinence. Not much has changed in this generation o
The Girly-boy
Sher Shah Aug 18, 2004 interacts: 10Mangoes, kulfies and rusmalai. It can never get sweeter than this. The nights, that shroud the city from above, are mesmerized by the jasmine’s spell, clear and open, inciting mystic fantasies. Not gloomy or quiet at all. These nights never are.
Solace
Rozaiba Mar 29, 2004 interacts: 42My eyes fail the fight to remain closed. I can hear the muezzin just finishing the druud-o-salaam before he begins waking those who are faithfully asleep.
The Third Pasture
Nadeem F Paracha Feb 4, 2004 interacts: 43The play land today, nothing more than an apolitical wasteland of aimless youth. A youth that refuse. Refuse to understand. Understand the political and economic forces driving them. Driving them towards professional and social aspirations and goals. Goal
What Cats Dream
Shandana Minhas Jan 21, 2004 interacts: 37Inspector Duffy-u-Din Bangash of the FIA (Feline Investigation Agency) versus Bhooki Aloo (It was her passion for crime, that made her a household name.)
Osama Biradari
ciret fatima Oct 2, 2003 interacts: 8He was hardly 6 or 7 and knew international politics from alpha to omega. US backed and non-US (Osama biradari, as he called it) are the two groups our world is divided into!
I Recall
Zeeshan Mahmud Aug 31, 2003 interacts: 47It’s not just that you can’t revisit the past outside your head. The people, the things, the naivet is lost. You don’t have a telephone diary for all those unnamed names, no database to find it all again, and your heart’s a colder
Youth Without Borders
Hira Nabi Aug 12, 2003 interacts: 390Being with people who I was meeting for the first time in my life and will probably never meet again was and still is scary. ‘Was,’ because despite all else they were still ‘Indians,’ and we are all familiar with the oil and water
How Muslims Can Win The Coming Wars!
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 15, 2003 interacts: 117The most important war of all
The Tyson Who Didn't Fight Lewis
Dilip DSouza Mar 10, 2003 interacts: 103Why were you insulting Hinduism in there?
Saveray Jo Kal Aankh Meri Khuli
Mohammad Gill Dec 14, 2002 interacts: 18When a jackal is hounded by death, he heads towards the city...
Closet
N J Nov 18, 2002 interacts: 122obviously there are thousands of Khurram out there with their conflicting mind sitting in the darkness of the closet looking for the light
All The Way To Maine
Dilip DSouza Sep 12, 2002 interacts: 30How some Pakistani and Indian kids found out that the enemy has a face.
ISNA 39th Annual Conference
Naeem Randhawa Sep 5, 2002 interacts: 37More than 32,000 attended the 39th ISNA conference in Washington.
The Riverbank
Hamid Mahmood Jul 22, 2002 interacts: 63Mahmood felt as if he was choking. Choking in the polluted environment of our society.
The Red Dress
Zafar Anjum Mar 29, 2002 interacts: 70With the mountainous weight of forty-three years
From Across The Border
Irfan Muzaffar Mar 14, 2002 interacts: 65full of the likes of us who grow up in an ideology laden environments
Top Ten South Asian Pieces of Music
A J Nabi Aug 25, 2001 interacts: 214What to take in the event of natural disaster
Is IT the Panacea?
Q Isa Daudpota Mar 23, 2001 interacts: 129most high-end technologists in areas such as computer science will leave for better opportunities in the West
Brocade
Jawahara Saidullah Feb 3, 2001 interacts: 74Like a worm they have crept inside my perfect daughter’s heart and mind
The Islamist and Hindutva Politics: Identities of Outlook and Objectives
Hassan Gardezi Dec 30, 2000 interacts: 430Pakistan’s Islamists and Sangh Parivar have similar goals?
Desi Fate
Ras Siddiqui Nov 30, 2000 interacts: 21Why is it that all Indians are so smart and well behaved?
India-Pakistan Reconciliation School
Udayakumar Aug 4, 2000 interacts: 174As a pilot project, twenty-five high school seniors (+2 level) each from India and Pakistan would be brought together to live and study together for three weeks.
The Louder Echo
Nauman Khalid May 14, 2000 interacts: 2children are more comfortable, knowledgeable, and literate than their parents
Lahore Diaries V: Twilight in Lahore
Rehan Ansari Mar 27, 2000 interacts: 28What they have done is build the roads of Gulberg, the financial district and the center of shopping
Of Boylove and Boylovers
Sabia Ahmed Aug 31, 1999 interacts: 223We (even in the oh-so-liberal West) live in a more conformist society that we are led to believe
Talha el Ghafoor
Peter Damji Nov 5, 1998 interacts: 14The redutio ad absurdum of an average man’s life in the best of all possible worlds.
Lata Mangeshkar & Noor Jahan Chalte Chalte
Ras Siddiqui Oct 21, 1998 interacts: 6The nightingale of India and the other great voice of the sub-continent.
The Life Hereafter
A Sheraz Jun 3, 1998 interacts: 5And just when we shelter under death, life comes at us sideways
Of Vista Points and Immortality
Monis Rahman Apr 7, 1998 interacts: 15The cane slipped several times on the wet pavement before it finally caught grip and he was able to support himself
Azadi
Sheldon Pacotti Mar 24, 1998 interacts: 5A woman in Tehran intervenes when her husband becomes a smuggler of alcohol
Fifty Years of Pakistan Cricket: A Look Back
Abdul Hussain Aug 14, 1997 interacts: 2Take a long, relishing look back at Pakistan Cricket.
The Present Age
Kierkegaard Aug 12, 1997 interacts: 1A Revolutionary Age is an age of action; the present age is an age of advertisement, or an age of publicity: nothing happens, but there is instant publicity about it.
The Stop Sign
Kenyan Aug 12, 1997 interacts: 2If you have never seen this road sign, are you sure you are awake?
Reminisce
Kenyan Aug 8, 1997 interacts: 1Our first entry in The Leafy Glade Inn’s Victorian Study, is one in which the author softly remembers people in a place far, far away in the past.
