Zubeida Mustafa
IN today`s post`end of history` era, someone demanding an end to the oppression of factory labourers and the ...
Published 02 Jun, 2010 12:00am
THE education sector is for once under the spotlight and is receiving some attention from the higher quarters. We...
Published 26 May, 2010 12:00am
AT the far end of Korangi, much beyond the densely built-up sectors interspersed with wide roads, is a complex of...
Published 19 May, 2010 12:00am
THE much-touted Prime Minister`s Housing Scheme (PMHS) is heading for doom. The housing minister disclosed recently...
Published 12 May, 2010 12:00am
HOW should the media report a war? This is the question journalists should be asking themselves in the changed...
Published 05 May, 2010 12:00am
APRIL 23 was the World Book and Copyright Day. We have to be grateful to DawnNews for taking up the subject of books...
Published 28 Apr, 2010 12:00am
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the...
Published 21 Apr, 2010 12:00am
A NEWS item in this paper datelined Lahore informed us last week that the Punjab government will be allowing online...
Published 14 Apr, 2010 12:00am
THIS was in the days when computers and the Internet did not rule the world of communication and only a few people ...
Published 07 Apr, 2010 12:00am
ON March 23, a day for soul-searching, two professional bodies working for women`s health highlighted an issue that...
Published 31 Mar, 2010 12:00am
Literary activism in Pakistan has not been followed up by activism in the classrooms to bring about social change. —...
Published 24 Mar, 2010 12:00am
TWO months ago I wrote about the grassroots activists whose work, motivation and mobilisation keep Pakistan going. ...
Published 17 Mar, 2010 12:00am
A boy — seemingly healthy — is born to a young couple and there is much rejoicing in the family. But little do the...
Published 14 Mar, 2010 12:00am
THE theme of International Women`s Day observed on Monday was`equal rights, equal opportunities and progress for...
Published 10 Mar, 2010 12:00am
THE US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has urged wealthy Pakistanis to pay a higher share of taxes to reduce ...
Published 03 Mar, 2010 12:00am
ASR finds itself on the backburner as funds for research are drying up. — File Photo Institutions must not be ...
Published 24 Feb, 2010 12:00am
A YEAR ago, on Feb 19, 2009 Christian Zainab Abbas “slipped into the past”, to borrow her own phrase from a poem she...
Published 17 Feb, 2010 12:00am
A testing system should be an inbuilt mechanism to monitor how students and schools are faring. — Photo by APP The...
Published 10 Feb, 2010 12:00am
PAKISTANI society is full of contradictions. While the book reading and purchasing habit has begun to pick up as has...
Published 03 Feb, 2010 12:00am
The fact is that in our society women`s issues continue to be used as pawns by politicians in their power games....
Published 27 Jan, 2010 12:00am
