Category : Articles
Copy paste culture
Stealing the ideas of others is a very common practice these days. In other words, it is also called plagiarism. Plagiarism is about reproducing other...
AJK Legislative Assembly Elections and Refugees Settled in Pakistan
People in Pakistani-administered Kashmir or Azad Jammu and Kashmir are going to elect 45 Legislative Assembly members on July 25, 2021 and these lawmakers in...
Habib Tanveer – A Memory Chary
My association with the doyen of Urdu theater, Habib Tanveer, is more than half a century old. I first met him back in 1962, at...
Future of Afghanistan
The democratic future of Afghanistan will bring peace and prosperity in the region. Better health facilities and good living which are inevitable for the existance...
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction or drug abuse is a major social problem in Pakistani society. Health damaging drugs and abusive substances are available everywhere in society. Illegal...
Melody Queen Shamshad Begum
She was a senior to me by 17 years. I was just a lad back in 1955 when I met her for the first time....
Remembering Faiz Ahmed Faiz – Part 1
On a one-to-one basis, my personal contact with Faiz has been fewer than a dozen times. All these get-together meetings for a personal powwow took...
When Faa’iz Comes Home
Written By: Rubina Faisal Translated by: Javed Chaudry Fourteen years ago, the Afzaal family would have thought about leaving Pakistan in the face of the...
The Gentle Mufti
Worry not my child, for thou service shalt be rewarded well. Up, keep the good work up, and twerk, for thou shalt please thy religiously...
Climate Change and Children’s Health
By Murad Muhammad The planet’s climate is changing with the passage of time, with considerable fluctuation in global average temperature. Climate change not affecting our economy...
‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe
By Arundhati Roy Courtesy: The Guardian During a particularly polarising election campaign in the state of Uttar Pradesh in 2017, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi,...
Two Books- Two Great Gifts to English Readers
Written by Gopi Chand Narang & Translated by Surinder Deol Reviewed by: Rahman Abbas Right now when the world is passing through the curse of...
Re-visiting the Idea of God and Existence
Well, whom should we blame for this prevailing atheistic attitude in our youth? To our traditional religious preachers, who in alliance with the ruling classes...
Maternal health : Safe-abortion in Pakistan
Five million women, according to a research, become pregnant in Pakistan annually, and 15% of which (that is, 700,000) usually tend to face obstetrical and...
GHALIB AND 1857 – by Satyapal Anand
(An extract from my forthcoming book ‘Short Notes on Urdu Literature’ —————————————————————————————- As already stated in the previous note, Ghalib took the stoppage of his...
“Girl Child Education, A matter to be discussed, resolved through policy and accessibility to the educational institutions”
So, I met these two little girls by chance while visiting on a field to a far-flung area of Baluchistan. When I looked at them...
Abortion : A right to be given and a practice to be legalized
Worryingly, unsafe abortion occurs in the developing regions of Pakistan such as Balochistan where majority of the women die as a consequence of unsafe abortion...
Author Asma Hassan praised in ‘Mayar-e-Zindagi’ felicitation ceremony
Library Promotion Bureau (LPB), one of the pioneering non-governmental organizations of the country engaged in the field of education and research, befittingly hosted felicitation ceremony...
The victory and challenges for Joe Biden
By Ali Jaffar Zaidi Joe Biden supported past Presidents on many of the disastrous US foreign policies. He backed the occupation of Afghanistan and 2003...
Russia Can Benefit From Azerbaijan’s Strengthened Relations With Iran & Pakistan
This win-win vision of Eurasian connectivity serves Russian, Chinese, Pakistani, Iranian, Turkish, and Azerbaijani interests, which could also lead to the subsequent strengthening of the...
