Zubeida Mustafa
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
THE event organised in Karachi on Jan 9 by the family of Dr Sarwar to commemorate the legacy of the 1950s` student...
Published 20 Jan, 2010 12:00am
THERE is good news about books. The Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association`s fourth international book fair...
Published 13 Jan, 2010 12:00am
THE government has, after much thought I presume, decided to erect a monument in Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi, to honour...
Published 06 Jan, 2010 12:00am
WHAT keeps Pakistan afloat? How, despite its seemingly precarious political existence and the gloom and doom spread...
Published 30 Dec, 2009 12:00am
THERE was a time when the physician was like a god to his patient. His word was gospel not to be flouted. No longer...
Published 23 Dec, 2009 12:00am
ON Jan 9, Karachiites will take a trip down memory lane to honour the legacy of those who launched the student...
Published 16 Dec, 2009 12:00am
WHY do we write? Because we want to communicate, says Steven Roger Fischer in his book A History of Writing. Terry...
Published 09 Dec, 2009 12:00am
WHY do we write? Because we want to communicate, says Steven Roger Fischer in his book A History of Writing. Terry...
Published 09 Dec, 2009 12:00am
ACCORDING to the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2006-07, the country`s population growth rate has fallen to...
Published 02 Dec, 2009 12:00am
PUBLIC memory is proverbially short. But the bills passed on women are too recent an event to be consigned to...
Published 25 Nov, 2009 12:00am
Human rights activists hold candles during a rally in Lahore on November 24, 2009, to mark the International Day for...
Published 25 Nov, 2009 12:00am
WHILE validating the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Ordinance 2007 in the form of a bill, the National...
Published 18 Nov, 2009 12:00am
A REPORT recently released by Fafen (Free and Fair Election Network), an umbrella organisation of 30 civil society...
Published 11 Nov, 2009 12:00am
AT a time when the very future of our schools is so bleak, it appears almost crass to write about the need for...
Published 04 Nov, 2009 12:00am
WE are constantly being exhorted to treat the war on terror as our own war and not theirs (the Americans`). We are...
Published 28 Oct, 2009 12:00am
AT the South Asian Women in Media`s (SAWM) first regional conference in Lahore (Oct 10-11) the keynote speaker...
Published 21 Oct, 2009 12:00am
OCTOBER 10 was World Mental Health Day and the occasion provided health professionals with an opportunity to draw...
Published 14 Oct, 2009 12:00am
OCTOBER 10 was World Mental Health Day and the occasion provided health professionals with an opportunity to draw...
Published 14 Oct, 2009 12:00am
NEW thinking in the last century has radically changed political concepts that determine relations between the state...
Published 07 Oct, 2009 12:00am