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Support for boys

NO, the article is not about the ‘boys’ often referred to in Pakistan. It is actually about schooling and the need to think about the support that...

29.03.2024 100

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Punjabi in schools

THE chief minister of Punjab, Ms Maryam Nawaz, has said that Punjabi will be taught across schools in the province. This was announced at the Punjab...

15.03.2024 100

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NON-FICTION: HOW WE GOT HERE

Development Pathways: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 1947-2022 By Ishrat Husain with Sarah Nizamani, Shagufta Shabbar and Masood Ahmed Siddiqui...

03.03.2024 40

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Karachi diary

FOR a city this dynamic — it is the hub of commercial and business activity in the country — and for a city this size, Karachi’s infrastructure...

01.03.2024 70

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New realities

THE state or powerful institutions or people within the state using the law to target individuals and social media to undermine, destabilise and...

16.02.2024 100

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Education and manifestos

DO party manifestos show intentions? Going by past record, they do not. Hardly ever have parties adhered to manifestos. But manifestos do show what...

02.02.2024 100

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NON-FICTION: INTERSECTIONS OF POWER AND TECHNOLOGY

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson Basic Books ISBN: 9781399804455...

21.01.2024 50

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AI in education

INVESTMENTS in artificial intelligence are massive ($94 billion in 2021 alone). They will continue as people see profit-making potential in them. We...

19.01.2024 200

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State-backed impunity

ALL of us must have seen at some point or the other, a man in police uniform driving his motorcycle the wrong way on a one-way street and not wearing...

05.01.2024 100

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Tourism and mindset

PAKISTAN has deserts, beaches and some of the world’s highest, most stunning mountains. We have plenty of religious, cultural and heritage sites...

22.12.2023 100

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Mathematics and science

OVER recent years, a lot of organisations have come up — private and mostly in the not-for-profit sector — that are working for the larger...

08.12.2023 100

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Facing the abyss

THE 2023 census puts our population at 241.499 million and our growth rate at 2.55 per cent. This means we are adding some 6m people to the population...

24.11.2023 200

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The tuition market

A FRIEND wanted some advice. His son, studying for his ‘A’-Levels, wanted to stop going to school, and instead, appear as a private candidate. The...

10.11.2023 100

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Taxing times

A FRIEND from the banking sector recently told me that he had resigned from his job. He was a pretty senior executive at a local bank. I asked him why...

27.10.2023 100

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Teaching and gender

RECENTLY, a friend told me that his driver Sadiq quit his job, saying his salary wasn’t enough and he wanted to look for a better job. My friend was...

13.10.2023 100

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NON-FICTION: HOW WE GOT HERE AND HOW DO WE GET OUT?

Pakistan: Economic Challenges and Solutions By Ishrat Husain Vanguard Books (Pvt) Ltd ISBN: 9789694026565 441pp. “The experience of Pakistan shows...

01.10.2023 40

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Who to vote for?

ELECTIONS should happen, and happen on time. There is no excuse for delays. And there is no reason not to give a ‘level playing field’ to all...

29.09.2023 100

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How does this make sense?

WHY do we put so much academic pressure on our children? Why can we not lighten up a bit? We have too many academic subjects that we teach our...

15.09.2023 100

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