Month: June 2024

Society

How Do We Achieve Good Quality Education in Our Universities?

The world’s top-ranked universities align research work with industries, where they give financial support to the researchers and facilitate them in many ways. Unfortunately, in Pakistan, there is a chasm between the universities and the industries, and the research work…

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Society

Breaking Boundaries: Shedding Light on Mental Health Stigmatization in Pakistan

Currently, the stigma against mental illness is rampant in Pakistan. It is sustained by popular belief in spiritual cures, exorcising evil spirits, experimenting with herbal cures and reciting verses from the Quran, and a lack of awareness about the phenomenon…

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Editorials

Surging Social Unrests in Chaman

Protesters, however, are of the view that the former regulations were more convenient as they only required computerized identity card issued by NADRA. The new restrictions are bitterly affecting their trade and business activities, as most of the people do…

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Books and Authors

Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice

In tracing the origins of climate change and injustice, Williams analyses history in retrospect and asserts that environmental racism has a long-standing legacy dating back to the colonial misadventures of exploitation and dispossession, further extrapolating how these historical injustices still…

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Editorials

India: a Secular Democracy

The defeat of BJP in Utter Pradesh, particularly in Ayodhya, despite the inauguration of Ram Mender is a clear and loud message for Modi to revamp his policies from Hindutva to human security; otherwise BJP will have to face the…

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Editorials

All is not Good for Pakistan

Political stakeholders have to sit together to develop a political consensus by overlooking their interests, considering that the direction of the wind can be changed in no time.

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Society

To the Mothers’ of Gaza

It's more than a story of bravery, more than any random dastan for any upcoming generations to take notes from, it's a legacy of resilience and an art of stubbornness that these mothers of Gaza have been exhibiting for the…

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Society

The art of Smile: Contagious or Viral?

A genuine smile tends to be slower to develop and slower to fade, whereas a fake smile will often appear and disappear quickly. By looking for these subtle cues, you can usually tell if someone's smile is authentic or not.

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Climate

Global Warming: A National Security Threat

In 2022, heatwave has further worsened food insecurity, damaging orchards and reducing wheat production by 10%, impacting small farmers' livelihoods and rendering formerly arable land unusable. Already facing wheat shortages due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, Pakistan's food insecurity undermines…

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Politics

Healing Wounds: Addressing the Long-Standing Grievances of Baluchistan

Balochistan has endured significant marginalization over the years, with a pervasive sense of exploitation and neglect replacing its former prosperity. It is often believed that the federal government disproportionately benefits from the province's rich resources, leaving the local population impoverished…

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